Most believers haven't been taught about God's Original Intent, when He created man in the beginning. Most of us have never thought about the condition man lived in, before Adam's fall in the Garden. Jesus came into a fallen planet that was full of sin, in order to redeem it back into God's intention from the beginning. Romans 8:19 (Amplified) says, "For even the whole creation (all nature), waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known (waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship)." We witness Jesus' walking in the authority that was God's Intention for mankind. We saw Jesus take authority over all things that God had given Adam authority over, at the beginning. Jesus took authority over the fish of the sea, the storms, lack and the Curse. This was God's Original Intent for all of His family, from the beginning.
Many have only studied mankind, from the first two chapters of Genesis, before the sin in the Garden. We don't know how long Adam lived and walked in fellowship with God, before sinning. Most of what we know and understand about God and His people, comes from the viewpoint of fallen man and his sin. Sin and death weren't part of God's Original Intent for His family. We see how God brought His family home again, but not how they were before Adam's transgression. If the things we see happening in today's world are God's Intention for mankind, then God could have spared Jesus' death and just left mankind in the mess.
We'll probably never know how long Adam lived before sinning, until we ask him in Heaven. There's no written record of how long he and Eve lived before sinning, but we can know for certain, that there was no failure, sickness, lack, hunger, despair or hopelessness. Our Last Adam Jesus, brought us back into what God intended us to be and He gave us all (and more than all) He gave to the First Adam.
We've failed to understand that "It is finished," because of religious, carnal teachings and we're still waiting for God to do something. We've not understood that, in Jesus, it is already done. We see the past tense of what we're still seeing in the future tense, in Colossians 2:9-10 (Amplified), where Paul writes, "For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the God Head), continues to dwell in Bodily Form (giving complete expression of the Divine Nature), and you are in Him; made full and having come to fullness of Life, in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead-Father, Son and Holy Spirit-and reach full Spiritual stature; And He is the Head of all rule and authority of every angelic principality and power."
Paul writes in Romans 10:17 (Amplified), "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God," but then Paul asks, "But how can they hear without a preacher?" Many things that God has Promised and has already made good on, even for while we're in this world, haven't been preached, so our faith has never risen to receive them. We've believed the Promise that, "If you believe in your hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, then you shall be saved" and were saved. We believed this, because we heard it preached. We could and would, the rest of the Promises we have in Jesus, if only they were preached and we heard it.
2Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) says, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes Answer in Him (Christ). For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency to the Glory of God." All God's Promises are True in Jesus, just like the Promise of Salvation in Romans 10:9 is True. We just haven't heard them preached, so faith hasn't come for them. Romans 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith, as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith."
Righteousness is a fulfilled Promise of God, to those who are born-again, but many in today's Church continue to struggle with our being Righteous in Jesus. They continue saying, "None are Righteous," not understanding that the Righteousness they're speaking about was under the Law, and no one could fulfill it. The Church doesn't need to perform sacrifices or labor to receive it, because it's "a Gift of Righteousness that is ascribed by God, in Christ Jesus." Romans 3:24 (Amplified) says, "(All) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His Grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the Redemption which is provided in Christ Jesus."
Righteousness is a Promise, that is to be received by faith in the Finished Work of Christ Jesus and which will lead to more faith. We're "trying to get" things from our Father, that He's already freely given by and through Christ Jesus, our Last Adam. All has already been provided, in this new creation, just like it was in the previous creation. One reason we haven't been taught these Promises, is because the teachers didn't believe them. They transferred their unbelief over to us, like the ten spies did to those in the Wilderness (Numbers 13). Twelve spies went into Canaan, but ten of them returned to tell the people, "There are giants there, and we can't go in." Joshua and Caleb were the only two who trusted God's Promise and in His ability to do what He said. The people's unbelief didn't make God's Promise "untrue," but their unbelief stopped them from entering the Promised Land.
We just read that, "All God's Promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, to the Glory of God." How many will say, though, that, "All God's Promises are mine, when I get to Heaven?" This is True, but what good is the Promise that, "By His stripes we were healed," when we're in Heaven and there is no sick persons there? This Promise is for us, here and now. God's Word speaks about many things that He's already done, but we read them as "they will be done someday?"
"Someday it will be so" is a Promise that is to come, to all who believe, but these Promises are already Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, for us here and now, by faith in God's Grace. Ephesians 2:8 (Amplified) says, "For it is by free Grace (God's unmerited favor), that you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation through your faith." The Promise of Salvation is by God's Grace, but it doesn't come into our lives, without our putting faith in His Promise. We are saved by Grace, through faith. How long did we walk "unsaved," before we accepted God's Promise by faith and become God's children?
The rest of God's Promises are also based on our having faith in the Finished Word of Jesus. These won't be manifested in our lives, without our faith, even though they're already ours by God's Grace and even though God's will and Intention is for us to have them here and now.
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