Genesis 1:26-27 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the aid, the (tame) beasts, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
We've misunderstood God's heart and His Intention for mankind, when He created mankind in His Own Image. Many believe that it was God's will for Adam to fall, in the Garden of Eden. God, though, had prepared everything mankind would ever need, for eternity. It was never God's Intention or His Plan, for His family to suffer sin, sickness, heartache, sorrow and be separated from Him. So many believers have attributed all this misery and heartache to God, as being His Plan for mankind. God has a much better way for us to learn, than using misery and heartache.
Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified) says, "Where there is no vision (no redemptive Revelation of God), the people perish, but he who keeps the Law of God which includes that of man, Blessed (happy, fortunate and enviable) is he." The Law of God here, isn't the Law of Moses from the old covenant. No man could ever keep the whole Law, but our Lord Jesus did. If you are born-again, then you have kept the whole Law, in Christ Jesus. Those around Jesus asked Him about His teachings of Grace and Blessing, in Matthew 5:17-18 (Amplified). Jesus said, "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo, but to complete and fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until the sky and earth pass away and perish, not one smallest letter nor one little hook (identifying certain Hebrew letters), will pass from the Law until all things it foreshadowed are accomplished."
Everything God has said, is established by the Divine integrity of God Himself. He can't simply say, "I didn't mean it," and undo His authority. God sent Jesus to complete the Law and the penalty and Curse of the Law, because no man could ever fulfill the Law and be redeemed from it's Curse. Those who are in Christ Jesus have received the Blessing and been redeemed from the Curse. God sees you as never breaking one part of the Law, in Jesus. You're qualified to all of the Blessing of the Law, as the Promise to Abraham and his seed.
We continue seeing our failures, instead of seeing that in Jesus, our slates have been wiped clean and done away with. Jesus has bought and brought us back to God's Original Intention for His family. Like the First man was, we are Blessed. The Curse is still in the earth, because of Adam, but the Last Adam has redeemed us from that Curse and has returned us to the Promise of Abraham.
We are in Christ Jesus and are the product and descendants of The Seed, Who is Jesus. The Promise was made to "Abraham and his Seed," Who is Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:16,29 (Amplified) says, "Now the Promise (covenants, agreements), were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir)." God didn't make the Promise to Abraham and "his seeds, descendants," as if referring to many persons. He made the Promise to Abraham and "his Seed, Descendant, his Heir." He is obviously referring to one individual, Who is none other than Christ, the Messiah. Verse 29 goes on, "And if you belong to Christ, are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and spiritual heirs according to Promise."
Paul continues in Galatians 4:5 (Amplified) saying, "To purchase the freedom of (the Ransom), to redeem those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have son-ship conferred upon us and be recognized as God's sons." Those who continued in the Law, instead of accepting Jesus as Messiah, were still outside of Grace and were obligated to fulfill the Law on their own. They were outside of the conferred son-ship rights in Jesus.
As Gentiles, we were born into son-ship with our acceptance of Jesus, at the new creation family. We've misunderstood the family agreement Jesus brought us into and have allowed ourselves to be brought back under the Law, like the Hebrew people did. We've subjected ourselves to fulfilling it on our own. Paul writes about the Gentile people who were born-again, but have allowed themselves to be brought into the subjection of the Law, in Galatians 5:4 (Amplified). Thus, he says, "If you seek to be justified and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ; You have fallen away from Grace, from God's Gracious favor and unmerited Blessing."
It's serious for believers to think we can "earn" God's favor and Blessing, through our own deeds, instead of believing in the Finished Work of Jesus. When we don't understand the difference between the old and new covenants, we don't understand the Truth of what Jesus has truly done our behalf. We've lost the Revelation of Redemption and have returned to our own endeavors, in order to qualify for God's Blessing and Grace. Jesus has paid the entire bill and Ransom that we were under, by His Own Blood. Jesus has brought God's family back to the Original Intention God had for His family, at the beginning.
Through Jesus, our every need has already been met, just like in the Garden of Eden in the beginning. We keep trying to "get God" to do, what He has already made ours in Jesus. We've listened more to carnal man's testimonies and teachings, instead of believing the Truth of God's Word for our lives. When someone tells us that, "God doesn't do these things any longer. God doesn't heal any longer. He Blesses us, according to our performance, just like in the Law." In Jesus, though, it has already been done and is forever settled in Heaven.
Jesus bore our sin and He has bore the Curse of the Law. Jesus has already provided healing, peace and righteousness for us, by His Own Sacrifice. We've been taught to doubt God's Word, in certain areas of our lives and have allowed satan to continue ruling over us, instead of us ruling over him. Even after Jesus has bore our sickness and disease by His stripes, we believe that God is disciplining us, like He did those under the Law. We have no vision of Redemption, just like Proverbs 29:18 said.
This has nothing to do with whether you are saved, but to what extent you enjoy your salvation in Him. Your Eternal destination is already provided and your temporal salvation was provided by the Same Lord and Savior. We've been led to accept that everything Jesus provided is for after we die and leave this earth. This is a lie that satan introduced into Christian theology, so he could still have control over God's people and inflict us at God's expense. It's sad that we still hold God accountable for all the hell and heartache we endure, as though He gets pleasure seeing us struggle. It's even sadder that He inflicted it on Jesus for us, so we could be free from those things.
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