Genesis 1:26 (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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth."
God made mankind to be His family and to have complete authority over the earth and everything in and on it. The authority God gave to mankind, was to continue for all of time and eternity. Adam surrendered this authority over into satan's hands, when he transgressed in the Garden, which resulted in mankind being lost from God. Mankind fell into a place of bondage and he could never deliver himself from this bondage by using his own hands. We had no way out and still have no way out of this bondage, through our own abilities. God gave authority and dominion over the earth and everything in it, but Adam violated it by his own actions. Only God could bring things back into order. But, since a man gave it away, only a Man could take it back.
Adam's surrender caused mankind to be in sin and death and only a Man Who was without sin and death, could deliver it back and restore order. Man couldn't stop this Spiritual Law of Sin and of Death. God took it upon Himself to bring a Man into this earth, Who was without sin and death in Him, by the corruptible seed of fallen man. God's Word, Jesus, became a flesh and Blood Man, Who was born with the Incorruptible Seed of God, thus beginning a new Blood line.
Through faith in the Sacrifice of Jesus, God once again has a family born in His Image and Likeness, by the Blood and Spirit of the Living God. The authority in the Name and Power of Jesus Christ, has delivered us from the Curse of the Law of Sin and of Death and has restored back God's Original Intent for His family, in authority and dominion. The Original Blessing God pronounced on Adam, has now been restored to mankind through Jesus. We're not only Blessed of the Lord, but we're the very family of God. We're not only mankind in His Image and Likeness, but we're actually made one with Him, in Jesus.
We've lost sight of the fullness of what actually happened on Calvary. We acknowledge the forgiveness of sin resulted from Jesus' Sacrifice, but we've mostly overlooked the rest of our deliverance He brought us. We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're completely new creations, in Christ. In this new creation, we were actually created into a new species of being, without a trace of the old fallen man/woman or even a stain of sin. We were created in Righteousness and are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Satan has worked diligently, to keep this Truth from God's family, so we wouldn't begin walking in what we've inherited through Jesus. If God's family walked in the complete authority over the earth and everything that creeps upon it, then it would destroy everything satan has stolen from us. One Man, Jesus, restored it all back, but the Body of Christ has been so divided that we've failed to establish this authority over the earth.
There have been some who've taken this authority in and over their lives and over portions of this earth, but as a whole, the Body of Christ has failed to establish this authority in general, over everything else. My authority can only cover the area where I am and not over your portion or jurisdiction of living. We don't have authority over the lives of other people. Man wasn't meant to rule over other men, but over the things God delegated authority over. The decisions you make, will determine the authority that you can enforce in your own life.
Your faith in the Finished Work of Jesus, will determine the degree of your authority, even though you have been given authority over all things. If you've been deceived by the enemy and you don't know about this authority, then you'll never exercise it over your life, household and family. Jesus couldn't do the things that He came to do, if the people wouldn't believe and He still can't do so today. If we fail to believe in the authority He has delegated to us, then we won't exercise it for the deliverance He gave us. Even though we're the Redeemed of the Lord, we'll continue walking in captivity, if we don't know the Truth of who and what Jesus has made us to be.
Satan is "the father of lies," and has talked the Church into believing his lies, so we deny the Super-natural ability of our deliverance in Jesus. We continue walking as mere men/women, without the ability of the Holy Spirit to move us into the authority Jesus gave to us, even after we're born-again. The laying on of hands, the Gifts of the Spirit, the casting out of demons, the authority over satan and the acceptance of our righteous stand before God, have all but been lost to God's children.
These Super-natural things of the Father, are the same abilities God gave to the First Adam and the Last Adam. They were the nature of the children of God, because the Law of Genesis says that, "Everything produces after kind." You can't be born of the Seed of God and not be produced after kind. This Law is true for everything we see. An apple seed will always and only produce apple trees. A kernel of corn will always and only produce corn. A child who is born of the Seed of God, will always and only produce one Like God. This Law never fails.
We need to understand the Seed that has produced this new creation, like we understand the seeds we plant in our home gardens. The seed we plant can and will only produce after kind. You are already what the Seed produced, but you just don't know it.
1John 3:2 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children; it is not yet disclosed and made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall, as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is." This scripture reminds of what Paul wrote in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified), which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a purely human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). No, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now we have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer in terms of the flesh."
This is an awesome statement for the Church! After we're born-again, do we see and think of Jesus as a man or as the Risen Lord of All and as living in our lives? Most of us identify with Him as the Man of Galilee and not as the Seed that produced the entire family of God into God's Original Intent for His family. You were born of Incorruptible Seed, the Seed of God, Who is Jesus. An acorn will always produce and Oak tree. You might not be the same tree, but you'll be just like the One Who produced you. You'll never be the Lord Jesus, but you'll be like Him, in nature and ability as He is. Although my children aren't all the same, they're all like me.
We are the produce of the Word that produced Jesus. The very Seed that God produced Adam and Jesus from, is the Same Seed (God's Word) that produced us. The difference between the First Adam and the Last Adam is that that one produced the natural man, while the other, a Life Giving Spirit, produced the new creation man/woman, who was a spirit man/woman just like Jesus. Our spirit man/woman is living in a flesh and blood body, so we can maneuver in this natural realm and be used by God to sow and produce more children for God's family, after kind.
When we sow the Word, Jesus or Seed of Life, it still produces a new creation child of the Living God. When we plant the Seed of God into the lives of others, then it will produce after kind, but we haven't understood what "that kind" really is. We've thought it just produced persons who stop drinking, cussing and sinning, but in reality it killed the old man/woman and produced a new creature who lives in the old house of flesh and has the authority over the works of the flesh. The ability to control the flesh, comes from the new creation man/woman who now lives in that house of flesh. We must feed the new creation being on God's Word and His Spirit, which will cause the old man/woman to stop rebelling and lining up with your new authority in Jesus.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Lesson 72 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, 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. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
The "Blessing" and mandate of dominion and authority that God gave, was Love's way of providing and caring for His children. God wanted a family and children, to fellowship with and lavish His Love upon. We're in God's family and He sees us as the most important part of His creation. We're so special in God's heart, that when Adam sinned in the Garden, our Father forfeited His Own Blood and Body as a Ransom, in order to gain us back. The new covenant and family relationship we have now through Jesus, cannot be broken like it was before. This one is eternal, by the very Blood of our Eternal Savior.
God didn't make this new covenant with man, because man couldn't keep his end of the covenant. This time God cut covenant with the Blood of Jesus, Who was Man and God in One. The Father can't break this covenant and Jesus wouldn't break it. It's eternal in the Heavens, because God cut this covenant with His Own Blood, that was breathed into the Christ child by the Holy Spirit. Jesus wasn't born by the seed or sperm of man, but by the Seed of God, which was without the stain of sin in or on Him. God produced a family incorruptible in God Himself, by the Quickening Spirit carrying the Seed into mankind through the birth of Jesus Christ.
The Blessing could flow unrestricted, back into the family of God by His Word and His Spirit, because the sin problem had been dealt with. Everything that was in the Spirit world, is now manifested into the new creation spirit man/woman who is produced by faith in Jesus, as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. Everything we can see, feel, smell, hear, and taste in the carnal realm, was created and produced from the Spirit realm. We've been slow to understand this, after being ruled by our senses for so long. It is nonetheless, Truth. The miracles of the loaves and the fishes, finding gold in the fish's mouth and Jesus' speaking to the Fig tree, were all manifestations of the provision in the Spirit.
This was and is, God's source of providing for His family. He and He alone, was to be our Source of Life and Provision. Adam and Eve never needed anything that God had not provided, before Adam's fall. Even today, we're watching, protecting and providing for our own children, like we learned from our Heavenly Father, because we were made in His Image and Likeness.
Today's Church has missed so much of what the Father did in our lives, by the Sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus paid the Price for our sins, in His Own Body, but many are still struggling to pay for their sins in their own flesh. We struggle with self-abasing, guilt and condemnation, as we try becoming worthy enough to inherit the Promises of God. We're new creation people, but we carry the baggage of the old man and bring the past into our new life in Christ. When we received Jesus as our Lord and savior, our sins were wiped clean, but we're still weighed down by things that are no longer part of us.
We're constantly trying to qualify and be what Jesus has already made us to be, in His Own Redemption for us. God's Original Intent for His family, has been restored to us, by the Very Blood of Jesus. We keep wondering what we must do to inherit God's Promises, because we don't understand that we've already inherited them, in Jesus. Many believe that these things are only for after we die and go to Heaven, but we can read Jesus' Last Will and Testament in Galatians 3:15-16,22 (Amplified). Thus it says, "To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, if even a man makes a Last Will and Testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it voice or adds to it once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed). Now the Promises (covenants, agreements), were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heirs). He, God, does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons but And to your Seed (Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to One Individual, Who is none other than Christ the Messiah."
These Promises of inheritance, were made to Jesus, as the Seed of Abraham, the Seed of Promise. Verse 22 goes on, "But the scriptures picture all mankind as sinners, shut up and imprisoned by sin; so that the inheritance (Blessing), which was Promised through faith in Jesus Christ (the Messiah), might be given (released, delivered, and committed), to all those who believe (who adhere to, and trust in, and rely on) Him." When we, by faith, trusted and received Jesus as our Lord, we not only qualified for the Promise, but we've become joint heirs with Christ. Romans 8:17 (Amplified) says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs, joint heirs, with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him."
Jesus qualified and joined us back into God's Original Intent for His family. The things we do in the flesh, in order to "qualify" for His Blessings, are just wasted rituals and actually a show of distrust in what Jesus did for us. We've been taught things about who and what we really are in Christ, that are not true. We hold onto the old sinner reputation, along with the unworthiness it brings, thinking we're being humble. We become unwilling to receive by Grace, the Sacrifice Jesus made for our total liberty.
We've been trained to learn and not to think. We've learned from traditions of men, instead of taking responsibility for ourselves and going to God's Word and His Spirit for ourselves. Isaiah 1;18 (Amplified) says, "Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet; they shall be white as snow; though they are read like crimson, they shall be like wool." God tells us in Isaiah 55:8-9 (Amplified), "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts."
God never told us, "Don't think," but He told us to think with His thoughts and reason with His reasonings. We live so far below what Jesus delivered us into, believing it's surely the right way. God told us that, "Your ways are not My ways." We've been given a list of things we must do, in order to walk in and inherit in God's Blessings. There is nothing for us to do, but believe in Him. He has already done everything that needed to be done. It's not what we need to do, but what we need to know.
We must strengthen the spirit man/woman, with the Truth of the Finished Word of Jesus, in order to bring the flesh into subjection. We spend much of our lives, trying to "fix" the old man, instead of burying him/her with Christ and allowing the Spirit of God to raise him/her a new creation child of God. Let's allow God's Word and His Spirit to teach and lead us into the Truth of His liberty. Let's allow the Lord to bring us into His Truth of who we are now, instead of who we used to be. Jesus took care of who you used to be, at His death and Resurrection. We need to bring the flesh into line with the Spirit, but we do this by the spirit and not just the flesh. God's Word tells us to renew our minds, to the things of God. He instructs us to "Use the mind of Christ" and "don't allow yourselves to be adapted to or transfigured into the world's image, but into the Image of Christ." We must accept by faith, what Jesus has made us to be and stop "trying to become" what we are already born to be.
The "Blessing" and mandate of dominion and authority that God gave, was Love's way of providing and caring for His children. God wanted a family and children, to fellowship with and lavish His Love upon. We're in God's family and He sees us as the most important part of His creation. We're so special in God's heart, that when Adam sinned in the Garden, our Father forfeited His Own Blood and Body as a Ransom, in order to gain us back. The new covenant and family relationship we have now through Jesus, cannot be broken like it was before. This one is eternal, by the very Blood of our Eternal Savior.
God didn't make this new covenant with man, because man couldn't keep his end of the covenant. This time God cut covenant with the Blood of Jesus, Who was Man and God in One. The Father can't break this covenant and Jesus wouldn't break it. It's eternal in the Heavens, because God cut this covenant with His Own Blood, that was breathed into the Christ child by the Holy Spirit. Jesus wasn't born by the seed or sperm of man, but by the Seed of God, which was without the stain of sin in or on Him. God produced a family incorruptible in God Himself, by the Quickening Spirit carrying the Seed into mankind through the birth of Jesus Christ.
The Blessing could flow unrestricted, back into the family of God by His Word and His Spirit, because the sin problem had been dealt with. Everything that was in the Spirit world, is now manifested into the new creation spirit man/woman who is produced by faith in Jesus, as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. Everything we can see, feel, smell, hear, and taste in the carnal realm, was created and produced from the Spirit realm. We've been slow to understand this, after being ruled by our senses for so long. It is nonetheless, Truth. The miracles of the loaves and the fishes, finding gold in the fish's mouth and Jesus' speaking to the Fig tree, were all manifestations of the provision in the Spirit.
This was and is, God's source of providing for His family. He and He alone, was to be our Source of Life and Provision. Adam and Eve never needed anything that God had not provided, before Adam's fall. Even today, we're watching, protecting and providing for our own children, like we learned from our Heavenly Father, because we were made in His Image and Likeness.
Today's Church has missed so much of what the Father did in our lives, by the Sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus paid the Price for our sins, in His Own Body, but many are still struggling to pay for their sins in their own flesh. We struggle with self-abasing, guilt and condemnation, as we try becoming worthy enough to inherit the Promises of God. We're new creation people, but we carry the baggage of the old man and bring the past into our new life in Christ. When we received Jesus as our Lord and savior, our sins were wiped clean, but we're still weighed down by things that are no longer part of us.
We're constantly trying to qualify and be what Jesus has already made us to be, in His Own Redemption for us. God's Original Intent for His family, has been restored to us, by the Very Blood of Jesus. We keep wondering what we must do to inherit God's Promises, because we don't understand that we've already inherited them, in Jesus. Many believe that these things are only for after we die and go to Heaven, but we can read Jesus' Last Will and Testament in Galatians 3:15-16,22 (Amplified). Thus it says, "To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, if even a man makes a Last Will and Testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it voice or adds to it once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed). Now the Promises (covenants, agreements), were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heirs). He, God, does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons but And to your Seed (Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to One Individual, Who is none other than Christ the Messiah."
These Promises of inheritance, were made to Jesus, as the Seed of Abraham, the Seed of Promise. Verse 22 goes on, "But the scriptures picture all mankind as sinners, shut up and imprisoned by sin; so that the inheritance (Blessing), which was Promised through faith in Jesus Christ (the Messiah), might be given (released, delivered, and committed), to all those who believe (who adhere to, and trust in, and rely on) Him." When we, by faith, trusted and received Jesus as our Lord, we not only qualified for the Promise, but we've become joint heirs with Christ. Romans 8:17 (Amplified) says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs, joint heirs, with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him."
Jesus qualified and joined us back into God's Original Intent for His family. The things we do in the flesh, in order to "qualify" for His Blessings, are just wasted rituals and actually a show of distrust in what Jesus did for us. We've been taught things about who and what we really are in Christ, that are not true. We hold onto the old sinner reputation, along with the unworthiness it brings, thinking we're being humble. We become unwilling to receive by Grace, the Sacrifice Jesus made for our total liberty.
We've been trained to learn and not to think. We've learned from traditions of men, instead of taking responsibility for ourselves and going to God's Word and His Spirit for ourselves. Isaiah 1;18 (Amplified) says, "Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet; they shall be white as snow; though they are read like crimson, they shall be like wool." God tells us in Isaiah 55:8-9 (Amplified), "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts."
God never told us, "Don't think," but He told us to think with His thoughts and reason with His reasonings. We live so far below what Jesus delivered us into, believing it's surely the right way. God told us that, "Your ways are not My ways." We've been given a list of things we must do, in order to walk in and inherit in God's Blessings. There is nothing for us to do, but believe in Him. He has already done everything that needed to be done. It's not what we need to do, but what we need to know.
We must strengthen the spirit man/woman, with the Truth of the Finished Word of Jesus, in order to bring the flesh into subjection. We spend much of our lives, trying to "fix" the old man, instead of burying him/her with Christ and allowing the Spirit of God to raise him/her a new creation child of God. Let's allow God's Word and His Spirit to teach and lead us into the Truth of His liberty. Let's allow the Lord to bring us into His Truth of who we are now, instead of who we used to be. Jesus took care of who you used to be, at His death and Resurrection. We need to bring the flesh into line with the Spirit, but we do this by the spirit and not just the flesh. God's Word tells us to renew our minds, to the things of God. He instructs us to "Use the mind of Christ" and "don't allow yourselves to be adapted to or transfigured into the world's image, but into the Image of Christ." We must accept by faith, what Jesus has made us to be and stop "trying to become" what we are already born to be.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Lesson 71 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, 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. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful (multiply and fill the earth), and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the aid, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
The Father intended for His children to live in His Presence and have His Blessing in their lives, so they could grow and flourish upon the earth He created for them. The Father would walk with, teach, Love, and be in constant fellowship with His children, as He watched them grow and increase. Mankind had no way of knowing how to function in this earth or even in the spirit, so God formed a body for the spirit being of mankind to live in, as they took authority and dominion over this natural environment which was their home. As mankind grew in knowledge and understanding, they would know God as closely as they knew one another. God was to be their Father and mankind was to live in intimate relationship with Him, as His family.
Through Jesus and our faith in Him, we've become new creation family and have been returned to God's Original Intention. God has a family to love, provide for and have the same relationship with, that He had with Adam and Jesus. We're to know, understand, talk with, hear from, and be taught and led by God's Holy spirit and His Presence in our lives. He isn't just someone to be aware of in our lives, but He is Someone to love and appreciate as our Father.
Having "the fear of the Lord," doesn't mean being afraid of or dreading His punishment, but is honoring, learning from and being in perfect fellowship with Him at all times. The world and man's religion, have made the relationship so difficult, causing us to lose the joy in the relationship, not only for us, but for Him too. Sadly, it's seemingly come to the point where we think it miraculous if we hear God's Voice. This isn't the family relationship that God Intended from the beginning. It's not the family God desired when He decided to have family. We were and are, to have perfect fellowship, understanding and the authority God gave to us from the start.
Adam never had a problem hearing from or knowing his Father's Voice or His instructions. Jesus never had a problem hearing or knowing His Father's Voice, in His earthly ministry. We've never spent the time to know and be able to distinguish the Father's Voice from other voices that are constantly speaking in today's world.
The Father has never tried disguising His Voice or Presence from us. Through Jesus, Grace has granted us the very entry into God's Very Presence, just like Jesus did. Jesus declared that He was "the Door into God's Presence" and that we can "Come boldly into His Throne of Grace" at any time, in order to find Grace and mercy to help in our time of need. I don't believe that God only wants us to come into His Throne of Grace just when we need something, but to come in to fellowship with Him too.
No father wishes to only talk to or hear from his children, only when they're in trouble or need something. God's children are His delight and He went to a lot of trouble, in order to restore this place for us and for Himself. It wasn't pity, but God's Love that has brought us back for His Own pleasure and our's too. We never knew Him before sin and death separated us from Him. We've only known the separation and being without Him. Jesus opened the way back into family relationship for us and God.
The state of separation caused us to believe that God only tolerates us, because of Jesus. Man's religion has taught us to fear God's punishment, instead of believing He Loves us as His family. Many believe God is waiting for us to mess up, so that He can set us straight. Do you think God doesn't know that the years of mankind's being separated from Him, has made it difficult for us to communicate and walk with Him? God has sent His Own Holy Spirit to live in us, to guide us and to restore His family back to unity with Him at all times.
Many believers only spend short amounts of time praying for help, instead of enjoying being in His Presence. We've been taught that we can never know God's will for us or that we can never know Him. We see God sitting on a Throne. He is seated on the Throne of Power, but that doesn't mean He is always in the place of all power, at all times. We've been invited to come in, learn, and talk with God about the way things are done in the Kingdom.
God doesn't just sit on the Throne, barking orders, but He is active in the Universe He created, keeping it in perfect order for us to inhabit. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of His and our Father. He isn't stationary, but is directing things on earth, from the Kingdom. When Jesus came to Paul on the Road to Damascus, He wasn't sitting on a throne, but was representing the Power of His Throne, here on earth.
We've known about God, but Jesus "knew Him." The people asked Jesus in John 8:19 (Amplified), "Where is this Father of Your's? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also." We've accused God of doing things that we would never think of Jesus doing. We only see Jesus doing good and helping those in trouble, during His earthly walk. Jesus never put sickness on anyone, but only took the sickness off of them. We never read about Jesus' refusing to help the people. We only see Jesus helping those who needed Him.
The people were astonished at Jesus' Wisdom and teachings, in John 7:16-17 (Amplified), which says, "Jesus answered them by saying, My teaching is not My Own but His Who sent Me. If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have needed illumination to recognize and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My Own accord and on My Own authority." We've been Blessed with the ability to know what is from God and what is from man's authority and carnal mind.
1John 2:27 (Amplified) says, "But as for you, the anointing (the Sacred appointment, the unction), which you received from Him abides permanently in you so then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart) from Him, being rooted in Him (knit to Him) just as His anointing has taught you to do."
Paul writes about the believers in Colossians 1:9,10-11 (Amplified), "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it (their love for God and the brethren) have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep, and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom (in comprehensive insight) into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things." Paul tells us why this is so important to the believer, in Verses 10-11, saying, "That you may walk, live and conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God with fuller and clearer and deeper insight acquaintance and recognition. We pray that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the Might of His Glory, to exercise every kind of endurance and patience, perseverance, and forbearing WITH JOY."
The trials come from the enemy and the world. The Might of God's Glory and the knowledge to persevere, come from our knowing Him, His will, and His Person in the Holy Spirit. If God is the Problem, then we have no answer. If God is your Answer, then you have no problem. James writes about being double-minded, in James 1:8 (Amplified) saying, "For being as he is, a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides."
We must learn to "know the Father" Jesus taught about and stop being double-minded about some of the things men say about Him. We must know God for ourselves, instead of from hearsay and the opinion of others. The relationship others have with the Father, might be slanted by the opinions of carnally minded men/women. They might not know Him for themselves. Religion has left us to being unable to trust Him or know Him. I heard someone say once, "Faith begins where the will of God is known." If you don't know God's will, then pray what Paul prayed in Colossians 1:9-11. Ask to know God in the "clear, full, knowledge of His will, in all Spiritual insight and understanding that then you can walk worthy of the Lord, filled with Spiritual Wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."
The Father intended for His children to live in His Presence and have His Blessing in their lives, so they could grow and flourish upon the earth He created for them. The Father would walk with, teach, Love, and be in constant fellowship with His children, as He watched them grow and increase. Mankind had no way of knowing how to function in this earth or even in the spirit, so God formed a body for the spirit being of mankind to live in, as they took authority and dominion over this natural environment which was their home. As mankind grew in knowledge and understanding, they would know God as closely as they knew one another. God was to be their Father and mankind was to live in intimate relationship with Him, as His family.
Through Jesus and our faith in Him, we've become new creation family and have been returned to God's Original Intention. God has a family to love, provide for and have the same relationship with, that He had with Adam and Jesus. We're to know, understand, talk with, hear from, and be taught and led by God's Holy spirit and His Presence in our lives. He isn't just someone to be aware of in our lives, but He is Someone to love and appreciate as our Father.
Having "the fear of the Lord," doesn't mean being afraid of or dreading His punishment, but is honoring, learning from and being in perfect fellowship with Him at all times. The world and man's religion, have made the relationship so difficult, causing us to lose the joy in the relationship, not only for us, but for Him too. Sadly, it's seemingly come to the point where we think it miraculous if we hear God's Voice. This isn't the family relationship that God Intended from the beginning. It's not the family God desired when He decided to have family. We were and are, to have perfect fellowship, understanding and the authority God gave to us from the start.
Adam never had a problem hearing from or knowing his Father's Voice or His instructions. Jesus never had a problem hearing or knowing His Father's Voice, in His earthly ministry. We've never spent the time to know and be able to distinguish the Father's Voice from other voices that are constantly speaking in today's world.
The Father has never tried disguising His Voice or Presence from us. Through Jesus, Grace has granted us the very entry into God's Very Presence, just like Jesus did. Jesus declared that He was "the Door into God's Presence" and that we can "Come boldly into His Throne of Grace" at any time, in order to find Grace and mercy to help in our time of need. I don't believe that God only wants us to come into His Throne of Grace just when we need something, but to come in to fellowship with Him too.
No father wishes to only talk to or hear from his children, only when they're in trouble or need something. God's children are His delight and He went to a lot of trouble, in order to restore this place for us and for Himself. It wasn't pity, but God's Love that has brought us back for His Own pleasure and our's too. We never knew Him before sin and death separated us from Him. We've only known the separation and being without Him. Jesus opened the way back into family relationship for us and God.
The state of separation caused us to believe that God only tolerates us, because of Jesus. Man's religion has taught us to fear God's punishment, instead of believing He Loves us as His family. Many believe God is waiting for us to mess up, so that He can set us straight. Do you think God doesn't know that the years of mankind's being separated from Him, has made it difficult for us to communicate and walk with Him? God has sent His Own Holy Spirit to live in us, to guide us and to restore His family back to unity with Him at all times.
Many believers only spend short amounts of time praying for help, instead of enjoying being in His Presence. We've been taught that we can never know God's will for us or that we can never know Him. We see God sitting on a Throne. He is seated on the Throne of Power, but that doesn't mean He is always in the place of all power, at all times. We've been invited to come in, learn, and talk with God about the way things are done in the Kingdom.
God doesn't just sit on the Throne, barking orders, but He is active in the Universe He created, keeping it in perfect order for us to inhabit. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of His and our Father. He isn't stationary, but is directing things on earth, from the Kingdom. When Jesus came to Paul on the Road to Damascus, He wasn't sitting on a throne, but was representing the Power of His Throne, here on earth.
We've known about God, but Jesus "knew Him." The people asked Jesus in John 8:19 (Amplified), "Where is this Father of Your's? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also." We've accused God of doing things that we would never think of Jesus doing. We only see Jesus doing good and helping those in trouble, during His earthly walk. Jesus never put sickness on anyone, but only took the sickness off of them. We never read about Jesus' refusing to help the people. We only see Jesus helping those who needed Him.
The people were astonished at Jesus' Wisdom and teachings, in John 7:16-17 (Amplified), which says, "Jesus answered them by saying, My teaching is not My Own but His Who sent Me. If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have needed illumination to recognize and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My Own accord and on My Own authority." We've been Blessed with the ability to know what is from God and what is from man's authority and carnal mind.
1John 2:27 (Amplified) says, "But as for you, the anointing (the Sacred appointment, the unction), which you received from Him abides permanently in you so then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart) from Him, being rooted in Him (knit to Him) just as His anointing has taught you to do."
Paul writes about the believers in Colossians 1:9,10-11 (Amplified), "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it (their love for God and the brethren) have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep, and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom (in comprehensive insight) into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things." Paul tells us why this is so important to the believer, in Verses 10-11, saying, "That you may walk, live and conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God with fuller and clearer and deeper insight acquaintance and recognition. We pray that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the Might of His Glory, to exercise every kind of endurance and patience, perseverance, and forbearing WITH JOY."
The trials come from the enemy and the world. The Might of God's Glory and the knowledge to persevere, come from our knowing Him, His will, and His Person in the Holy Spirit. If God is the Problem, then we have no answer. If God is your Answer, then you have no problem. James writes about being double-minded, in James 1:8 (Amplified) saying, "For being as he is, a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides."
We must learn to "know the Father" Jesus taught about and stop being double-minded about some of the things men say about Him. We must know God for ourselves, instead of from hearsay and the opinion of others. The relationship others have with the Father, might be slanted by the opinions of carnally minded men/women. They might not know Him for themselves. Religion has left us to being unable to trust Him or know Him. I heard someone say once, "Faith begins where the will of God is known." If you don't know God's will, then pray what Paul prayed in Colossians 1:9-11. Ask to know God in the "clear, full, knowledge of His will, in all Spiritual insight and understanding that then you can walk worthy of the Lord, filled with Spiritual Wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Lesson 70 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have compete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, 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. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all of its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This is an awesome mandate and ability, placed into the lives of God's first man. We don't really know how long Adam lived upon the earth, before we see the results of his high treason. We don't have any idea of the power and authority Adam walked in, at the beginning. The closest thing we have to see this authority, is the Last Adam Jesus. Jesus was conceived without sin, so the Law of Sin and of Death didn't affect His earthly walk. The Law was based on obedience to God's Word and commandments. If someone would walk in these commandments, without transgressing, then all the Blessing would come upon him/her.
Jesus said in Mathew 5:17 (Amplified), "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law of prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them." By stating this, Jesus put Himself in a place of the Original mandate God gave to the First Adam, before his fall in the Garden. We can see this authority and dominion mandate working in and through Jesus, but we still can't see the fullness of what the First Adam walked.
In the First Adam's walk with the Father, he wouldn't have used or needed much of the authority Jesus walked in. Jesus spent much of His earthly walk with the Father, healing and freeing mankind from sickness and disease. Adam didn't have any need to utilize this sort of authority, because there was no sickness, disease or death. The Curse brought these things into the earth, upon Adam's transgression and the Curse brought these things.
Adam's mandate of authority and dominion, was to "Keep the Garden and subdue the earth." If anything got out of place or order, then Adam was to subdue it, fix it and put it back into place. Nothing was to occur in this earth, without Adam's permission, his will and his authority. This earth ran like God and man intended, for eons maybe. When the serpent tempted Eve, she was deceived, but Adam wasn't, according to 1Timothy 2:13-14 (Amplified) which says, "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived; but the woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression." Adam was given complete authority over everything that crept upon the earth, so he could and should have, dismissed the serpent, prior to Eve's eating the forbidden fruit. The worst part of Adam's transgression was, that even though Eve was deceived, Adam wasn't. It was an act of his will that, Adam intentionally surrendered to the enemy.
I personally believe that Adam loved Eve so greatly, that he gave over everything God had given him, in order to save his wife. Adam tried becoming his own Redeemer and Eve's Redeemer. He tried trading the authority and dominion God had given him, for Eve. God gave Adam authority and dominion over all the earth and it was by a legal transaction that God had to honor His Word. Satan legally became the god of this world and he ruled by the Curse and his ability to deceive mankind. Adam's sin caused the spirit of man to be cut-off from God, Who is Spirit and Life. Satan began to develop man's soul or his senses, causing man's spirit to be dominated by the senses. The senses and souls controlled the entire man, because they dominated the spirit.
Satan's lie began to increase as mankind developed and multiplied on the earth, until man became nothing more than a puppet whose strings were in the hands of this outlaw spirit, who hated God. Satan had obtained the authority God gave to mankind, by legal means and he used this authority to build his own idea of the Garden of Eden. God had initially given mankind this authority and the only way to bring it back to it's rightful place, was to find a Man Who wasn't born of corruptible seed, but Who was born without sin. Jesus was to become the Sacrifice for sin and restore mankind back into authority over satan his his usurped place of power.
The legalities of this transaction must be done so precisely, that it could legally fulfill the demands of Justice in the Heavenly Court of God. God couldn't revoke the mandate He gave to Adam. It needed to be restored by legal authority. Since "All had sinned and through sin died," God needed to bring a Man Who was without sin, into this earth. The Law of Genesis tells us that, "Everything produces after kind and it's seed is in it," so every person born after Adam's fall was produced from a polluted seed of sin. Jesus was born of a woman, which gave Him authority of the man, but His Seed wasn't of man, but of God. Now God had a Man, to Whom He could transfer authority to again. Jesus was a Man born without sin. He was the Perfect Man, uncontaminated by sin as the Last Adam.
We see the legal outcome of God's Plan and how God didn't violate His Word, in Colossians 2:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond), with it's legal decrees and demands which was in force against us (hostile to us). This note with it's regulations, decrees and demands, He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to His cross. God disarmed the principalities and powers that were arranged against us and made a bold display and a public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it (the cross)."
We have't understood the fact of the legal decrees that needed to be met, in God's Justice. God is Just and Righteous, so He couldn't simply ignore the legal authority He had given the First Adam. God restored this dominion and authority to the Last Adam Jesus and to mankind as heirs of God and joint heirs of Jesus. Jesus restored God's family back to His Original Intent, without sin.
Colossians 3:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old regenerate self with its evil practices And have clothed yourselves with the new Spiritual self, which is ever in the process of being renewed and remolded into fuller and more perfect knowledge upon knowledge after the Image, the Likeness of Him Who created it (Gen.1:26)."
This is an awesome mandate and ability, placed into the lives of God's first man. We don't really know how long Adam lived upon the earth, before we see the results of his high treason. We don't have any idea of the power and authority Adam walked in, at the beginning. The closest thing we have to see this authority, is the Last Adam Jesus. Jesus was conceived without sin, so the Law of Sin and of Death didn't affect His earthly walk. The Law was based on obedience to God's Word and commandments. If someone would walk in these commandments, without transgressing, then all the Blessing would come upon him/her.
Jesus said in Mathew 5:17 (Amplified), "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law of prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them." By stating this, Jesus put Himself in a place of the Original mandate God gave to the First Adam, before his fall in the Garden. We can see this authority and dominion mandate working in and through Jesus, but we still can't see the fullness of what the First Adam walked.
In the First Adam's walk with the Father, he wouldn't have used or needed much of the authority Jesus walked in. Jesus spent much of His earthly walk with the Father, healing and freeing mankind from sickness and disease. Adam didn't have any need to utilize this sort of authority, because there was no sickness, disease or death. The Curse brought these things into the earth, upon Adam's transgression and the Curse brought these things.
Adam's mandate of authority and dominion, was to "Keep the Garden and subdue the earth." If anything got out of place or order, then Adam was to subdue it, fix it and put it back into place. Nothing was to occur in this earth, without Adam's permission, his will and his authority. This earth ran like God and man intended, for eons maybe. When the serpent tempted Eve, she was deceived, but Adam wasn't, according to 1Timothy 2:13-14 (Amplified) which says, "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived; but the woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression." Adam was given complete authority over everything that crept upon the earth, so he could and should have, dismissed the serpent, prior to Eve's eating the forbidden fruit. The worst part of Adam's transgression was, that even though Eve was deceived, Adam wasn't. It was an act of his will that, Adam intentionally surrendered to the enemy.
I personally believe that Adam loved Eve so greatly, that he gave over everything God had given him, in order to save his wife. Adam tried becoming his own Redeemer and Eve's Redeemer. He tried trading the authority and dominion God had given him, for Eve. God gave Adam authority and dominion over all the earth and it was by a legal transaction that God had to honor His Word. Satan legally became the god of this world and he ruled by the Curse and his ability to deceive mankind. Adam's sin caused the spirit of man to be cut-off from God, Who is Spirit and Life. Satan began to develop man's soul or his senses, causing man's spirit to be dominated by the senses. The senses and souls controlled the entire man, because they dominated the spirit.
Satan's lie began to increase as mankind developed and multiplied on the earth, until man became nothing more than a puppet whose strings were in the hands of this outlaw spirit, who hated God. Satan had obtained the authority God gave to mankind, by legal means and he used this authority to build his own idea of the Garden of Eden. God had initially given mankind this authority and the only way to bring it back to it's rightful place, was to find a Man Who wasn't born of corruptible seed, but Who was born without sin. Jesus was to become the Sacrifice for sin and restore mankind back into authority over satan his his usurped place of power.
The legalities of this transaction must be done so precisely, that it could legally fulfill the demands of Justice in the Heavenly Court of God. God couldn't revoke the mandate He gave to Adam. It needed to be restored by legal authority. Since "All had sinned and through sin died," God needed to bring a Man Who was without sin, into this earth. The Law of Genesis tells us that, "Everything produces after kind and it's seed is in it," so every person born after Adam's fall was produced from a polluted seed of sin. Jesus was born of a woman, which gave Him authority of the man, but His Seed wasn't of man, but of God. Now God had a Man, to Whom He could transfer authority to again. Jesus was a Man born without sin. He was the Perfect Man, uncontaminated by sin as the Last Adam.
We see the legal outcome of God's Plan and how God didn't violate His Word, in Colossians 2:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond), with it's legal decrees and demands which was in force against us (hostile to us). This note with it's regulations, decrees and demands, He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to His cross. God disarmed the principalities and powers that were arranged against us and made a bold display and a public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it (the cross)."
We have't understood the fact of the legal decrees that needed to be met, in God's Justice. God is Just and Righteous, so He couldn't simply ignore the legal authority He had given the First Adam. God restored this dominion and authority to the Last Adam Jesus and to mankind as heirs of God and joint heirs of Jesus. Jesus restored God's family back to His Original Intent, without sin.
Colossians 3:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old regenerate self with its evil practices And have clothed yourselves with the new Spiritual self, which is ever in the process of being renewed and remolded into fuller and more perfect knowledge upon knowledge after the Image, the Likeness of Him Who created it (Gen.1:26)."
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Lesson 69 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Own Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, 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. And God Blessed them and said to them; Be fruitful (multiply) and fill the earth and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 3:12 (Amplified) says, "And the man (Adam) said, The woman You gave to be with me-she gave me fruit from the Tree, and I ate." The above scripture tells us that, "God gave Adam complete authority over the earth and everything upon it," so we know that Adam had the authority to dismiss satan and retain authority over all the earth and everything upon it. The Curse of Sin and of Death, was never God's idea or His Intention for mankind, but was the result of Adam's transgression. The new covenant we live in, was ratified by the Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus put us back into a position of authority over satan and his plan for us.
James 4:7 (Amplified) says, "So be subject to God, Resist the devil (stand firm against him), and he will flee from you." 1Peter 5:8-9 (Amplified) says, "Be well-balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours (the devil), roams around like a lion roaring in fierce hunger seeking someone to seize and devour. Withstand him; be firm in faith against his onset-rooted and established (strong, immovable, and determined), knowing that the same identical sufferings are appointed to your brotherhood (the whole Body of Christians around the world)."
This same roaring lion, who talked Adam and Eve out of the authority and dominion God gave them, will try every believer and try talking us out of the authority we have in the Name of Jesus. You might not have the authority to stop satan's onset over the entire Body of Christ, but this is left to the individual to do so in our own lives and affairs. Don't judge Adam so harshly, because we've all yielded to the enemy's lies at one time or another. Now though, is the time to stand firm in faith and submit to God, and the enemy will flee from you.
We've accepted satan's lie because of our passive, old carnal thoughts and actions and then blamed someone or something else, just like Adam did. Adam blamed Eve, saying, "It was the woman You gave me." He was basically saying, "It's not my fault." We've blamed God for things that happen in our lives, saying, "It must have been His will" or "God allowed the devil to do it."
God warned us that the devil was still here and that he is the tempter and deceiver, but God has given us back the authority to shut him down in the Power of the Name of Jesus Christ. Whether he likes it or not, satan is under the authority of the Name of Jesus, when it's used in faith. Many believers have lost faith in that Name and have accepted the lie satan has placed in our lives, by men. Ephesians 4:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a fresh mental and Spiritual attitude. And put on the new nature, the regenerate self created in God's Image (God-like in True Righteousness and holiness)."
Satan knows the Power and Authority in the Name of Jesus, even more than the Church does. He understands this authority from the Father and he fears it more than anything. Satan's greatest weapon against the believer, is our lack of understanding and denial of the authority of the Name of Jesus. Religious teachings tell us that, "It's God's will," "God's using this sickness to teach you something," and even, "God Himself is doing this for your own good." All of these things are the same lie Adam told God, when he said, "It was this woman that YOU GAVE ME." In other words, "It's Your fault God."
This sort of deception isn't only tolerated in today's Church, but is encouraged by our "modern" teachings. Luke 4:13 (Amplified) tells about satan's trying to tempt Jesus, saying, "And when the devil had ended every (the complete cycle of) temptations, he temporarily left [Jesus], that is, he stood off from Him, until a more opportune and favorable time." It didn't say that satan quit his attempts at trying to deceive Jesus, but that "he waited for another attempt and a better time." Satan tried and failed to tempt Jesus, throughout His entire earthly ministry. Jesus stood on God's Word of authority, which was the same authority God gave to the First Adam and He has restored it back to the new creation people.
We can't "cut a deal with" or compromise with the devil, because he is a liar and the father of lies. We can never trust satan to keep his word. Compromise is the language of the devil and it will kill you and it will kill your faith in God's Word. Many Christians don't trust God's Word, so how can we expect to trust satan's word? A Christian's greatest fear, is not trusting God to do what He Promised. When we don't see immediate results to our prayers, then we stop believing and making excuses why it didn't work. How long does it take to stop believing and start finding an excuse for why it isn't working? Not long for many. This isn't magic. It's faith. Faith holds on, until we see and have the manifestation, no matter what.
We've been trained over the years, to believe the lies of the adversary, instead of the Truth of God's Word. We need the Holy Spirit to disclose Truth to us, after all, He is the Spirit of Truth. Don't be quick to grab hold of every teaching you hear, but always check it out by the Holy Spirit and God's Word first.
This kind of authority and faith doesn't come without trials and the temptation to quit walking in this authority. Satan has no defense against this authority, because "It is forever settled in Heaven." The Name of Jesus is Above every name, both in Heaven, in earth, and under the earth. Faith in His Name is above all else, both in this realm and in the heavenly realm too. No one knows this more than the devil, who is under the authority of the Name, when it's spoken from the lips and spirit of any believer, in faith.
Jesus has restored us back to all authority over the earth and everything on it, so let's step out in this authority in our own lives, homes and families. God's Word tells us, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." We must bring our senses and emotions into the control of our new creation man/woman. We must use the authority against the enemy in our own lives first and then take it into the lives of others, like Jesus commanded.
Genesis 3:12 (Amplified) says, "And the man (Adam) said, The woman You gave to be with me-she gave me fruit from the Tree, and I ate." The above scripture tells us that, "God gave Adam complete authority over the earth and everything upon it," so we know that Adam had the authority to dismiss satan and retain authority over all the earth and everything upon it. The Curse of Sin and of Death, was never God's idea or His Intention for mankind, but was the result of Adam's transgression. The new covenant we live in, was ratified by the Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus put us back into a position of authority over satan and his plan for us.
James 4:7 (Amplified) says, "So be subject to God, Resist the devil (stand firm against him), and he will flee from you." 1Peter 5:8-9 (Amplified) says, "Be well-balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours (the devil), roams around like a lion roaring in fierce hunger seeking someone to seize and devour. Withstand him; be firm in faith against his onset-rooted and established (strong, immovable, and determined), knowing that the same identical sufferings are appointed to your brotherhood (the whole Body of Christians around the world)."
This same roaring lion, who talked Adam and Eve out of the authority and dominion God gave them, will try every believer and try talking us out of the authority we have in the Name of Jesus. You might not have the authority to stop satan's onset over the entire Body of Christ, but this is left to the individual to do so in our own lives and affairs. Don't judge Adam so harshly, because we've all yielded to the enemy's lies at one time or another. Now though, is the time to stand firm in faith and submit to God, and the enemy will flee from you.
We've accepted satan's lie because of our passive, old carnal thoughts and actions and then blamed someone or something else, just like Adam did. Adam blamed Eve, saying, "It was the woman You gave me." He was basically saying, "It's not my fault." We've blamed God for things that happen in our lives, saying, "It must have been His will" or "God allowed the devil to do it."
God warned us that the devil was still here and that he is the tempter and deceiver, but God has given us back the authority to shut him down in the Power of the Name of Jesus Christ. Whether he likes it or not, satan is under the authority of the Name of Jesus, when it's used in faith. Many believers have lost faith in that Name and have accepted the lie satan has placed in our lives, by men. Ephesians 4:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a fresh mental and Spiritual attitude. And put on the new nature, the regenerate self created in God's Image (God-like in True Righteousness and holiness)."
Satan knows the Power and Authority in the Name of Jesus, even more than the Church does. He understands this authority from the Father and he fears it more than anything. Satan's greatest weapon against the believer, is our lack of understanding and denial of the authority of the Name of Jesus. Religious teachings tell us that, "It's God's will," "God's using this sickness to teach you something," and even, "God Himself is doing this for your own good." All of these things are the same lie Adam told God, when he said, "It was this woman that YOU GAVE ME." In other words, "It's Your fault God."
This sort of deception isn't only tolerated in today's Church, but is encouraged by our "modern" teachings. Luke 4:13 (Amplified) tells about satan's trying to tempt Jesus, saying, "And when the devil had ended every (the complete cycle of) temptations, he temporarily left [Jesus], that is, he stood off from Him, until a more opportune and favorable time." It didn't say that satan quit his attempts at trying to deceive Jesus, but that "he waited for another attempt and a better time." Satan tried and failed to tempt Jesus, throughout His entire earthly ministry. Jesus stood on God's Word of authority, which was the same authority God gave to the First Adam and He has restored it back to the new creation people.
We can't "cut a deal with" or compromise with the devil, because he is a liar and the father of lies. We can never trust satan to keep his word. Compromise is the language of the devil and it will kill you and it will kill your faith in God's Word. Many Christians don't trust God's Word, so how can we expect to trust satan's word? A Christian's greatest fear, is not trusting God to do what He Promised. When we don't see immediate results to our prayers, then we stop believing and making excuses why it didn't work. How long does it take to stop believing and start finding an excuse for why it isn't working? Not long for many. This isn't magic. It's faith. Faith holds on, until we see and have the manifestation, no matter what.
We've been trained over the years, to believe the lies of the adversary, instead of the Truth of God's Word. We need the Holy Spirit to disclose Truth to us, after all, He is the Spirit of Truth. Don't be quick to grab hold of every teaching you hear, but always check it out by the Holy Spirit and God's Word first.
This kind of authority and faith doesn't come without trials and the temptation to quit walking in this authority. Satan has no defense against this authority, because "It is forever settled in Heaven." The Name of Jesus is Above every name, both in Heaven, in earth, and under the earth. Faith in His Name is above all else, both in this realm and in the heavenly realm too. No one knows this more than the devil, who is under the authority of the Name, when it's spoken from the lips and spirit of any believer, in faith.
Jesus has restored us back to all authority over the earth and everything on it, so let's step out in this authority in our own lives, homes and families. God's Word tells us, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." We must bring our senses and emotions into the control of our new creation man/woman. We must use the authority against the enemy in our own lives first and then take it into the lives of others, like Jesus commanded.
Friday, February 14, 2020
Lesson 68 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Own Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, 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. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful (multiply) and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This is the Original Intent and Plan, God had for His family. This Plan is still being carried out for all who receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. When we were born-again, we became new creatures, according to 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified), which says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" We've only understood the new creation by our carnal minds, instead of the mind of Christ, so we've missed the Truth that we're already being made in the Image of the Last Adam, Jesus.
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to reveals that our natural bodies are already dead by our association with Jesus' death on the cross, fulfilling the Law of Sin and of Death in those who accept Jesus. The entire penalty for sin has already been paid in full and God's Blessing and Intent for His family, is as though Adam had never failed. Thus, Paul writes in Romans 6:3-5 (Amplified), "Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the Baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glorious Power of the Father, so we too might habitually live and behave in newness of Life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be one with Him sharing His Resurrection by a new life lived for God."
The wages of sin is death and even in our natural bodies, we are dead by His crucifixion and are raised with Him in Resurrection into this new creation. Hebrews 9:27 (Amplified) says, "And just as it is appointed for all men once to die, and after that the judgment. EVEN SO it is that Christ, having been Offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and once for all, will appear a second time, not to carry any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who eagerly (constantly and patiently), waiting for and expecting Him."
By the Law of Sin and of Death, our "time to die" is the death Jesus suffered on our behalf and we died with Him when we accepted Jesus as our Lord. As far as the Father is concerned, our natural bodies are now already dead by our union with Christ and have been dealt with legally in the court of God's Justice. These bodies that were once alive to sin, but dead to Righteousness, have become a new creation and the temple of the Holy Spirit. 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the Temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received as a Gift from God? You are not your own."
Our "appointed time to die" came when we made Jesus Lord of our lives. We died with Him, were buried with Him, were raised a new creation with Him and we are judged with Him. Sin was adjudged, death was judged, our trespasses were judged, and since Jesus was justified in the Spirit and found to be without fault and righteous, we received the same judgment that He did, because we are created in Him. God can now bring us back to Himself, as new creations who are without sin or death, in Jesus. This is God's Grace, mercy, Love and heartbeat for His children.
We've made the same mistake as those Jesus spoke to in John 8:18-19 (Amplified). They asked Jesus, "Where is this Father of Your's?" Jesus answered in Verses 18-19, "I am One of the two bearing testimony concerning Myself, and My Father, Who sent Me, He also testifies about Me. Then they said to Him; Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me. If you knew Me, you would know My Father also." The men who questioned Jesus, had been in covenant with God for many years. They knew the Law of Moses and had heard about God, for many years. They "knew" God, but they did not "know" the Father. Jesus portrayed God in a Light they had never seen or heard of God doing or being. God hadn't changed and it had always been His Intent to Bless and keep His covenant. Man had changed and forgotten the prophets and the Promises God made about sending the Messiah to restore His family back to Himself.
Many in today's Church "know" God, but have forgotten that He is now "Father." God doesn't deal with us like He did in the old covenant. He doesn't deal with us from the outside-in, like those under the Law, but He deals with us from the inside-out as new creation family under Grace. He is the Same God, but has a different relationship with His people. Most of us have been taught or heard, all sorts of mixed doctrines about the Father and His family. As far as God is concerned, all the judgments that followed sin and death, have now been met in Jesus. God doesn't deal with the new creation people as sinners, but as those who are now pure, righteous, holy, and just, in Jesus. Our natural bodies are His temple and our spirits have been resurrected in Jesus now and we're back in God's Original Intent for His family. He is potent in our growing, merciful in our mistakes and ever Loving in our relationship with Him.
We sinned, we died, were judged and now our judgement is the cleansing of the Blood of the One Who died, was judged and found to be without sin and is Righteous before God, on our behalf. The sin, death, judgment, unrighteousness and fallen natures were put on Him, so we might be the Original Intent of God's heart and be His family again. We are "in Him and what He is, we are also," according to 1John 4:17-18 (Amplified), which says, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us; that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world." John writes to those who are fearful of God's punishment in Verse 18, saying, "There is no fear in Love, dread does not exist; but full grown, complete, perfect Love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! for fear brings with it the thought of punishment and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love, is not yet grown into Love's complete perfection."
Jesus told those around Him in the above scripture that, "If You knew Me, you would know My Father also." Many have failed to see God, through Jesus' earthly ministry. We struggle with "knowing" God's will, His healing, His forgiveness, His Love and His way of dealing with us today. If Jesus didn't do it, then God doesn't do it. Jesus never put sickness on a person, in order to teach them something. He taught them by His Word and His deeds of Love. Sickness was a product of the Curse and Jesus taught the Blessing. This is the Father.
so."
This is the Original Intent and Plan, God had for His family. This Plan is still being carried out for all who receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. When we were born-again, we became new creatures, according to 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified), which says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" We've only understood the new creation by our carnal minds, instead of the mind of Christ, so we've missed the Truth that we're already being made in the Image of the Last Adam, Jesus.
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to reveals that our natural bodies are already dead by our association with Jesus' death on the cross, fulfilling the Law of Sin and of Death in those who accept Jesus. The entire penalty for sin has already been paid in full and God's Blessing and Intent for His family, is as though Adam had never failed. Thus, Paul writes in Romans 6:3-5 (Amplified), "Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the Baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glorious Power of the Father, so we too might habitually live and behave in newness of Life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be one with Him sharing His Resurrection by a new life lived for God."
The wages of sin is death and even in our natural bodies, we are dead by His crucifixion and are raised with Him in Resurrection into this new creation. Hebrews 9:27 (Amplified) says, "And just as it is appointed for all men once to die, and after that the judgment. EVEN SO it is that Christ, having been Offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and once for all, will appear a second time, not to carry any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who eagerly (constantly and patiently), waiting for and expecting Him."
By the Law of Sin and of Death, our "time to die" is the death Jesus suffered on our behalf and we died with Him when we accepted Jesus as our Lord. As far as the Father is concerned, our natural bodies are now already dead by our union with Christ and have been dealt with legally in the court of God's Justice. These bodies that were once alive to sin, but dead to Righteousness, have become a new creation and the temple of the Holy Spirit. 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the Temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received as a Gift from God? You are not your own."
Our "appointed time to die" came when we made Jesus Lord of our lives. We died with Him, were buried with Him, were raised a new creation with Him and we are judged with Him. Sin was adjudged, death was judged, our trespasses were judged, and since Jesus was justified in the Spirit and found to be without fault and righteous, we received the same judgment that He did, because we are created in Him. God can now bring us back to Himself, as new creations who are without sin or death, in Jesus. This is God's Grace, mercy, Love and heartbeat for His children.
We've made the same mistake as those Jesus spoke to in John 8:18-19 (Amplified). They asked Jesus, "Where is this Father of Your's?" Jesus answered in Verses 18-19, "I am One of the two bearing testimony concerning Myself, and My Father, Who sent Me, He also testifies about Me. Then they said to Him; Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me. If you knew Me, you would know My Father also." The men who questioned Jesus, had been in covenant with God for many years. They knew the Law of Moses and had heard about God, for many years. They "knew" God, but they did not "know" the Father. Jesus portrayed God in a Light they had never seen or heard of God doing or being. God hadn't changed and it had always been His Intent to Bless and keep His covenant. Man had changed and forgotten the prophets and the Promises God made about sending the Messiah to restore His family back to Himself.
Many in today's Church "know" God, but have forgotten that He is now "Father." God doesn't deal with us like He did in the old covenant. He doesn't deal with us from the outside-in, like those under the Law, but He deals with us from the inside-out as new creation family under Grace. He is the Same God, but has a different relationship with His people. Most of us have been taught or heard, all sorts of mixed doctrines about the Father and His family. As far as God is concerned, all the judgments that followed sin and death, have now been met in Jesus. God doesn't deal with the new creation people as sinners, but as those who are now pure, righteous, holy, and just, in Jesus. Our natural bodies are His temple and our spirits have been resurrected in Jesus now and we're back in God's Original Intent for His family. He is potent in our growing, merciful in our mistakes and ever Loving in our relationship with Him.
We sinned, we died, were judged and now our judgement is the cleansing of the Blood of the One Who died, was judged and found to be without sin and is Righteous before God, on our behalf. The sin, death, judgment, unrighteousness and fallen natures were put on Him, so we might be the Original Intent of God's heart and be His family again. We are "in Him and what He is, we are also," according to 1John 4:17-18 (Amplified), which says, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us; that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world." John writes to those who are fearful of God's punishment in Verse 18, saying, "There is no fear in Love, dread does not exist; but full grown, complete, perfect Love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! for fear brings with it the thought of punishment and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love, is not yet grown into Love's complete perfection."
Jesus told those around Him in the above scripture that, "If You knew Me, you would know My Father also." Many have failed to see God, through Jesus' earthly ministry. We struggle with "knowing" God's will, His healing, His forgiveness, His Love and His way of dealing with us today. If Jesus didn't do it, then God doesn't do it. Jesus never put sickness on a person, in order to teach them something. He taught them by His Word and His deeds of Love. Sickness was a product of the Curse and Jesus taught the Blessing. This is the Father.
so."
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Lesson 67 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This was God's Original Intention for His family on earth. Adam's transgression in the Garden, delivered that which God gave to man and His family, over to the hands of satan. God's intention and desire for His family, has never changed. God's Plan and Purpose in creating man and all creation, was to have a family. God didn't need the earth and everything on it, but only created them for His family. God wanted His family to grow up before Him and have a home in which to grow and be in a place of His Blessing. Adam's fall resulted in God's not only losing the earth into the hands of His enemy, but much more. God lost His family.
All the while, God was bringing a legal way in which to bring things back into His Order. He was in the process of finding a way to still Bless and be in the presence of His children. He set up a way to bring a man into the place, where man would be returned into His Presence, without Law or the sacrifice of animals. The blood of animals would cover man's sins, but it could never remove the sin from man. The blood of man could blot out man's sin and return man to God's Original Intention for them.
We know that "All have sinned," because of the seed of fallen man, so God needed to bring a Man into this earth, Who wasn't born of man's original seed. He needed One Who was born without the original sin and the original seed. Jesus was born of a woman, but He was born of the Word and was the Seed of God Himself. Jesus was without sin and would produce God's family in it's fullness. Through Jesus, we're born-again and are new creations, born not of corruptible seed, but that which is incorruptible, the Seed of God, His Word. We no longer need the blood of animals to cover our sins, because Jesus shed His Blood as a Man and removed the original sin. He restored Righteousness again, between God and His family.
Sin no longer holds us back from the Father and it no longer holds the Father back from us. The only barrier between us and our Heavenly Father, is the deception from the enemy, who keeps us from approaching the Father in Spirit and Truth. So long as satan can bring these lies into man's lives, he can keep us in a place of separation from God.
Satan's been a master at keeping God's people from the Father, using guilt and condemnation over the things we did before receiving Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) tells us, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. for the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death." If satan can hold God's people in shame and condemnation, then we will not walk in the total Presence of God and we will remain in bondage. We must allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the Completeness of Jesus' Sacrifice to us, so we can walk in the full Liberty that He paid for by His Blood. We must renew our minds with the Word and walk in this Liberty. This is satan's greatest area of battle with God's new creation people.
We're not just forgiven, but we're created into new creations, without sin in God's eyes. The Church isn't just forgiven, but is created brand new, without sin and made into righteousness by God's Own Seed, His Word Jesus Christ. Adam became dead in the spirit the moment he sinned, but his body died 930 years later. We were born into spiritual death by the seed of Adam. The death of our mortal bodies was a product of our being separated in our spirit, from God, Who is Life. Our spirits were born-again, when we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Our bodies were dead, because we were crucified with Christ and were buried in Baptism and raised into new creation people by the Holy Spirit. Our bodies will become glorified and immortal, when we die and leave this earth. Our spirit will be united with and in the Holy Spirit. We were created brand new, by the Power of God Himself and have returned to God's Original Intent for His children. We are pure, holy, just, and righteous by faith in the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God, on our behalf.
Jesus bore our sickness, disease, sins, unrighteousness, death and separation from the Father, with His Sacrifice. He has restored us back to what God intended us to be in the beginning. Nothing has been left out of Jesus' Sacrifice, but we've been unable to fully believe in what His Sacrifice accomplished on our behalf. We're new creations living in this body and soul of flesh, so we're still more in touch with the senses, than we are in the Spirit. We're still moved more by what we feel, hear, see and touch, instead of the Power of the Truth of God's Word and Spirit. The body is more subject to the spirit than we realize, but the body has been in control for so long, that we don't know any other way to live. We struggle to believe that these things are for us here and now, on earth and not just for after we die and go to Heaven.
It's difficult to convey this Truth to God's people, without the total renewing of their minds with God's Word and His Spirit. Many are content with attending church weekly and staying out of sin. These are good and needful, but we need the Revelation of the Redemption Jesus gave us, so we can walk in God's Plan for our lives. Jesus said in John 14:11-12 (Amplified), "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the sake of the very works themselves, If you cannot trust Me, at least let these works that I do in My Father's Name convince you. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." Many believe it's "blasphemous," that we can do what Jesus did, but Jesus Himself is the One Who relayed this Truth.
The First Adam's family would have had the same ability that God Blessed Adam with. As the seed of God, he would have produced after kind, like Genesis 1:12 (Amplified) says, "The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it."
The Law of Genesis works in everything on this planet today, including people, plants and animals. After Adam fell into sin and death, his seed produced sin and death into every human being on this planet. When the Last Adam was born from the dead and raised into the Glory of God, then the Seed of Promise has produced after kind and His Righteousness, holiness, justification and redemption from sin, was imported to everyone born of that Seed.
Before going to the cross for us, Jesus prayed in John 17:22, 18-19 (Amplified), "I have given to them the Glory and honor which You have given Me; that they may be one even as We are One." Jesus prayed in Verses 18-19, "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And so for their sake and on their behalf I sanctify, dedicate, consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified, dedicated, consecrated, made holy, in the Truth."
This is why satan works so hard to keep us from knowing the Truth about our true identity in Christ and keep us carnal in our walk with the Father. The seed of the First Adam made all men in sin and death. The Seed of the last Adam has produced in Himself, righteousness, holy, consecrated, and pure children, by the incorruptible Seed of God.
This was God's Original Intention for His family on earth. Adam's transgression in the Garden, delivered that which God gave to man and His family, over to the hands of satan. God's intention and desire for His family, has never changed. God's Plan and Purpose in creating man and all creation, was to have a family. God didn't need the earth and everything on it, but only created them for His family. God wanted His family to grow up before Him and have a home in which to grow and be in a place of His Blessing. Adam's fall resulted in God's not only losing the earth into the hands of His enemy, but much more. God lost His family.
All the while, God was bringing a legal way in which to bring things back into His Order. He was in the process of finding a way to still Bless and be in the presence of His children. He set up a way to bring a man into the place, where man would be returned into His Presence, without Law or the sacrifice of animals. The blood of animals would cover man's sins, but it could never remove the sin from man. The blood of man could blot out man's sin and return man to God's Original Intention for them.
We know that "All have sinned," because of the seed of fallen man, so God needed to bring a Man into this earth, Who wasn't born of man's original seed. He needed One Who was born without the original sin and the original seed. Jesus was born of a woman, but He was born of the Word and was the Seed of God Himself. Jesus was without sin and would produce God's family in it's fullness. Through Jesus, we're born-again and are new creations, born not of corruptible seed, but that which is incorruptible, the Seed of God, His Word. We no longer need the blood of animals to cover our sins, because Jesus shed His Blood as a Man and removed the original sin. He restored Righteousness again, between God and His family.
Sin no longer holds us back from the Father and it no longer holds the Father back from us. The only barrier between us and our Heavenly Father, is the deception from the enemy, who keeps us from approaching the Father in Spirit and Truth. So long as satan can bring these lies into man's lives, he can keep us in a place of separation from God.
Satan's been a master at keeping God's people from the Father, using guilt and condemnation over the things we did before receiving Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) tells us, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. for the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death." If satan can hold God's people in shame and condemnation, then we will not walk in the total Presence of God and we will remain in bondage. We must allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the Completeness of Jesus' Sacrifice to us, so we can walk in the full Liberty that He paid for by His Blood. We must renew our minds with the Word and walk in this Liberty. This is satan's greatest area of battle with God's new creation people.
We're not just forgiven, but we're created into new creations, without sin in God's eyes. The Church isn't just forgiven, but is created brand new, without sin and made into righteousness by God's Own Seed, His Word Jesus Christ. Adam became dead in the spirit the moment he sinned, but his body died 930 years later. We were born into spiritual death by the seed of Adam. The death of our mortal bodies was a product of our being separated in our spirit, from God, Who is Life. Our spirits were born-again, when we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Our bodies were dead, because we were crucified with Christ and were buried in Baptism and raised into new creation people by the Holy Spirit. Our bodies will become glorified and immortal, when we die and leave this earth. Our spirit will be united with and in the Holy Spirit. We were created brand new, by the Power of God Himself and have returned to God's Original Intent for His children. We are pure, holy, just, and righteous by faith in the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God, on our behalf.
Jesus bore our sickness, disease, sins, unrighteousness, death and separation from the Father, with His Sacrifice. He has restored us back to what God intended us to be in the beginning. Nothing has been left out of Jesus' Sacrifice, but we've been unable to fully believe in what His Sacrifice accomplished on our behalf. We're new creations living in this body and soul of flesh, so we're still more in touch with the senses, than we are in the Spirit. We're still moved more by what we feel, hear, see and touch, instead of the Power of the Truth of God's Word and Spirit. The body is more subject to the spirit than we realize, but the body has been in control for so long, that we don't know any other way to live. We struggle to believe that these things are for us here and now, on earth and not just for after we die and go to Heaven.
It's difficult to convey this Truth to God's people, without the total renewing of their minds with God's Word and His Spirit. Many are content with attending church weekly and staying out of sin. These are good and needful, but we need the Revelation of the Redemption Jesus gave us, so we can walk in God's Plan for our lives. Jesus said in John 14:11-12 (Amplified), "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the sake of the very works themselves, If you cannot trust Me, at least let these works that I do in My Father's Name convince you. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." Many believe it's "blasphemous," that we can do what Jesus did, but Jesus Himself is the One Who relayed this Truth.
The First Adam's family would have had the same ability that God Blessed Adam with. As the seed of God, he would have produced after kind, like Genesis 1:12 (Amplified) says, "The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it."
The Law of Genesis works in everything on this planet today, including people, plants and animals. After Adam fell into sin and death, his seed produced sin and death into every human being on this planet. When the Last Adam was born from the dead and raised into the Glory of God, then the Seed of Promise has produced after kind and His Righteousness, holiness, justification and redemption from sin, was imported to everyone born of that Seed.
Before going to the cross for us, Jesus prayed in John 17:22, 18-19 (Amplified), "I have given to them the Glory and honor which You have given Me; that they may be one even as We are One." Jesus prayed in Verses 18-19, "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And so for their sake and on their behalf I sanctify, dedicate, consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified, dedicated, consecrated, made holy, in the Truth."
This is why satan works so hard to keep us from knowing the Truth about our true identity in Christ and keep us carnal in our walk with the Father. The seed of the First Adam made all men in sin and death. The Seed of the last Adam has produced in Himself, righteousness, holy, consecrated, and pure children, by the incorruptible Seed of God.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Lesson 66 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-27,28 (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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth 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." Verse 28 goes on, "And God Blessed them and said to them; Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man. And have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This mandate and Blessing was God's Original Intent for His family, from before time. It was lost through Adam and God had to restart different means, in order to Bless and keep mankind, until He could bring Jesus into this earth. Those who've accepted Jesus as our Lord, have been redeemed or brought back to God's Original Intent. Jesus has given us the Power of Attorney to use His Name, restoring the authority and dominion over all the works of God's Hands to us. This is True, for all who will believe and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
The Last Adam Jesus, walked in the same Blessing and authority during His earthly ministry. Jesus was brought into the earth as a Man without sin, so the Law of Sin and of Death couldn't hold Him. Through Jesus' Sacrifice, we've been born-again into this mandate and Blessing, because we've been born without sin, according to Romans 8:1-2,3 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
God's Original Intent is made visible to us today in Verse 3, which says, "For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit), Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh, subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that Sacrifice." We became new creations in Christ, when we were born-again. God now sees us like He sees the Last Adam Jesus and how He saw the First Adam, before his fall in the Garden. The fullness of God's Blessing and mandate for Adam, is now ours in Jesus. God sees us pure, holy, blameless, whole and righteous in Christ Jesus. Jesus is our Justification and our Life.
The "dictates of our flesh," continue magnifying our failures and faults, while the dictates of the Spirit will always magnify the victory of Jesus in our lives. Do we still make mistakes, even after we're saved? Of course. But, God no longer takes them into our account, because of Jesus. His Sacrifice has dealt with them forever. This doesn't mean that we go on sinning and allowing the flesh to live it's old life, but that we're to take God's Word and His Holy Spirit and overcome them. We're to mature and grow in our new creation man, in Him.
If we would learn to see ourselves as God sees us now, then our faith and prayer lives would dramatically change. James says that God's Word is "The Perfect Law of Liberty" for believers, in James 1:22-25 (Amplified), saying, "But be doers of the Word (obey the Message), and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in a mirror. For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the Faultless Law (the Law of Liberty) and is faithful to it, and perseveres in looking into it, but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in doing his life of obedience."
The Faultless Law of Liberty will always reflect back to you, the Truth of the Power of your deliverance and the reality of who you have now become in Christ Jesus. The world and some around you, will always remind you of who you once were, but God's Word and His Spirit will always show you who you now are in Him. Many haven't dared to believe that a Holy God sees them as being righteous and just. When you look into the mirror of God's Word, it will always reflect the image of the new creation and not the old man/woman we once were. A mirror never reflects what isn't there. We can't allow the enemy to distort the image we see, so that we seem who we were before being born-again in Christ. We've allowed ourselves to be molded after the First Adam, instead of the Last Adam.
1John 3:20-21 (Amplified) tells us, "Whenever our hearts in (tormenting) self accusations makes us feel guilty and condemns us. For we are in God's Hands, He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives, understands) everything, nothing is hidden from Him And beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us, if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us, we have confidence, complete assurance and boldness before God." 1John 5:14-15 (Amplified) continues, "And this is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness which we have in Him, WE ARE SURE that if we ask anything, make any request according to His will (in agreement with His Own Plan), He listens to and hears us. And if since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settles and absolute knowledge, that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."
It's one thing to read and believe God's Word that says, "We've been made the Righteousness of God in Jesus" and that we've become new creations in Christ. It's another thing altogether, to believe and accept it as Love and Grace and to walk it out. We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're new creations made in the Image and Likeness of God. 1John 4:17 (Amplified) says, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to a completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world."
This Truth becomes a reality in your life, only by the Faultless Law of Liberty. Our carnal minds cannot fathom this Truth and will constantly condemn and accuse us of the flesh we dwell in, instead of the one who dwells in that flesh. When this Truth becomes reality in our lives, the it changes everything about us and we can take our place in the family of God. We will have more confidence in our prayer lives and fellowship with God. It sounds funny to say that denying His Righteousness is confidence in yourself, but this is a form of pride that we've been taught is "humility." The difference between arrogance and confidence is Truth in God's Word. We know that in ourselves, we're not what we should be. But, by truth, we'll recognize that we're in Him and not in ourselves.
This is and always will be, Truth. Stay in the mirror of God's Word, until you see yourselves and can remember what you look like in Christ Jesus and not in the flesh. This will completely change your life.
This mandate and Blessing was God's Original Intent for His family, from before time. It was lost through Adam and God had to restart different means, in order to Bless and keep mankind, until He could bring Jesus into this earth. Those who've accepted Jesus as our Lord, have been redeemed or brought back to God's Original Intent. Jesus has given us the Power of Attorney to use His Name, restoring the authority and dominion over all the works of God's Hands to us. This is True, for all who will believe and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
The Last Adam Jesus, walked in the same Blessing and authority during His earthly ministry. Jesus was brought into the earth as a Man without sin, so the Law of Sin and of Death couldn't hold Him. Through Jesus' Sacrifice, we've been born-again into this mandate and Blessing, because we've been born without sin, according to Romans 8:1-2,3 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
God's Original Intent is made visible to us today in Verse 3, which says, "For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit), Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh, subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that Sacrifice." We became new creations in Christ, when we were born-again. God now sees us like He sees the Last Adam Jesus and how He saw the First Adam, before his fall in the Garden. The fullness of God's Blessing and mandate for Adam, is now ours in Jesus. God sees us pure, holy, blameless, whole and righteous in Christ Jesus. Jesus is our Justification and our Life.
The "dictates of our flesh," continue magnifying our failures and faults, while the dictates of the Spirit will always magnify the victory of Jesus in our lives. Do we still make mistakes, even after we're saved? Of course. But, God no longer takes them into our account, because of Jesus. His Sacrifice has dealt with them forever. This doesn't mean that we go on sinning and allowing the flesh to live it's old life, but that we're to take God's Word and His Holy Spirit and overcome them. We're to mature and grow in our new creation man, in Him.
If we would learn to see ourselves as God sees us now, then our faith and prayer lives would dramatically change. James says that God's Word is "The Perfect Law of Liberty" for believers, in James 1:22-25 (Amplified), saying, "But be doers of the Word (obey the Message), and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in a mirror. For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the Faultless Law (the Law of Liberty) and is faithful to it, and perseveres in looking into it, but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in doing his life of obedience."
The Faultless Law of Liberty will always reflect back to you, the Truth of the Power of your deliverance and the reality of who you have now become in Christ Jesus. The world and some around you, will always remind you of who you once were, but God's Word and His Spirit will always show you who you now are in Him. Many haven't dared to believe that a Holy God sees them as being righteous and just. When you look into the mirror of God's Word, it will always reflect the image of the new creation and not the old man/woman we once were. A mirror never reflects what isn't there. We can't allow the enemy to distort the image we see, so that we seem who we were before being born-again in Christ. We've allowed ourselves to be molded after the First Adam, instead of the Last Adam.
1John 3:20-21 (Amplified) tells us, "Whenever our hearts in (tormenting) self accusations makes us feel guilty and condemns us. For we are in God's Hands, He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives, understands) everything, nothing is hidden from Him And beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us, if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us, we have confidence, complete assurance and boldness before God." 1John 5:14-15 (Amplified) continues, "And this is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness which we have in Him, WE ARE SURE that if we ask anything, make any request according to His will (in agreement with His Own Plan), He listens to and hears us. And if since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settles and absolute knowledge, that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."
It's one thing to read and believe God's Word that says, "We've been made the Righteousness of God in Jesus" and that we've become new creations in Christ. It's another thing altogether, to believe and accept it as Love and Grace and to walk it out. We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're new creations made in the Image and Likeness of God. 1John 4:17 (Amplified) says, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to a completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world."
This Truth becomes a reality in your life, only by the Faultless Law of Liberty. Our carnal minds cannot fathom this Truth and will constantly condemn and accuse us of the flesh we dwell in, instead of the one who dwells in that flesh. When this Truth becomes reality in our lives, the it changes everything about us and we can take our place in the family of God. We will have more confidence in our prayer lives and fellowship with God. It sounds funny to say that denying His Righteousness is confidence in yourself, but this is a form of pride that we've been taught is "humility." The difference between arrogance and confidence is Truth in God's Word. We know that in ourselves, we're not what we should be. But, by truth, we'll recognize that we're in Him and not in ourselves.
This is and always will be, Truth. Stay in the mirror of God's Word, until you see yourselves and can remember what you look like in Christ Jesus and not in the flesh. This will completely change your life.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Lesson 65 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over everything that creeps upon the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth, 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."
The Original Intent from the Father's heart was to have a family, made in His Own Image and Likeness. There was no class of beings among the creatures of the heavenlies, made in God's Image and able to fellowship with Him, so He created mankind to do so. Now, God could share His Great Love with mankind, like He desired. Being a parent myself, I recognize the difference between friends and my family who shares my blood ties. Adam had a blood tie with the Almighty God, which placed him in a different place in God's heart. Adam was to be the very seed of plenty, for the future of God's desire.
The Law of Genesis or "seed producing after it's kind," is found in Genesis 1:11-12,14 (Amplified), which says, "And God said, Let the earth put forth (tender) vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the earth. And it was so." The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable), and He approved it."
John 1:1 (Amplified) tells us, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word, Christ, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself." Verse 14 goes on, "And the Word, Christ, became flesh (human, incarnate)."
1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." The Law of Genesis tells us that, "Every Seed produces after kind" and we've been born of HIS SEED, made in God's Own Image and Likeness.
It's not prideful to believe and accept it, but it's confidence in God's Truth. Jesus wasn't being arrogant and prideful, when He said that, "The Father and I are One." He was speaking Truth. Jesus also spoke Truth in John 17:21 (Amplified), when He prayed, "That they may be one, just as You Father are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us. So that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me." We've become one, by the Seed of God Himself. We're made in His Own Image and Likeness, because every seed bears fruit of itself.
The Law of Genesis is true for every species of creature and plant, on this planet. A kernel of corn will never produce a pear tree, just like a pear seed will never produce corn. We're made the righteousness of God, in Christ Jesus, according to the Law of Genesis. The Seed of Righteousness can never produce anything, except after kind. This is the Power and Truth of God's Word, which is His Seed.
Carnal minded men try complicating and dismissing this basic Truth, but apple seed continue bearing apple trees despite what they think. Jesus spoke about the Law of Genesis, in His "Parable of the Sower," saying in Mark 4, "The Sower sows the Word; the Word produces after kind for all that have ears to hear and receive the Seed into their hearts." If there is no Seed, then there will be no harvest. When one says, "I'm not righteous by my new birth," then they're really saying that, "Jesus, the Seed, isn't Righteous and doesn't produce righteous creatures after Himself."
Through Jesus, we share in every victory He accomplished by Himself for us. Jesus didn't need to debase Himself, in order to become Lord, because He was already Lord. Jesus did everything He did, in order to bring us back to the Father's Plan. Jesus' death and Resurrection broke the power of sin from those who would believe. Now with sin removed, the Door was opened for mankind to return to God's Original Intent, from the beginning. Sin was remitted, removed and replaced by righteousness, in Jesus.
Jesus has redeemed mankind from sin and death. The authority of the Adamic mandate, has been returned to mankind again, in the Name of Jesus Christ. This doesn't mean that any man or woman has authority over everything that happens, but we do have authority over our own lives and the lives of our families. Jesus didn't stop every storm happening on the planet, while He was on earth. He only stopped those in His realm at the time. The Body of Christ, as a whole, can exercise authority together, over all areas of this planet, using the same authority Jesus delegated to His Body.
From the moment of Jesus' Resurrection, satan set out to destroy the validity of this awesome Truth and he has nearly removed the Truth of it from the eyes of God's people. We keep separating flesh from Spirit, removing most of the Spiritual Life of God in our lives and believing it's for after we die and go to Heaven. God has chosen to place this awesome Spiritual Power in our house of flesh, in order to bring this world into order by His Spirit.
Sin is eradicated from those who accepted Jesus as their Lord and the Blessing and Original Intent of the Father is restored to us, as His family. We still live in a house of flesh, so satan tries using our carnal emotions to turn us from the Spiritual Life to the carnal life. We must learn that the Spirit is in us and we have dominion over this house of flesh that we're now living in.
The Original Intent from the Father's heart was to have a family, made in His Own Image and Likeness. There was no class of beings among the creatures of the heavenlies, made in God's Image and able to fellowship with Him, so He created mankind to do so. Now, God could share His Great Love with mankind, like He desired. Being a parent myself, I recognize the difference between friends and my family who shares my blood ties. Adam had a blood tie with the Almighty God, which placed him in a different place in God's heart. Adam was to be the very seed of plenty, for the future of God's desire.
The Law of Genesis or "seed producing after it's kind," is found in Genesis 1:11-12,14 (Amplified), which says, "And God said, Let the earth put forth (tender) vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the earth. And it was so." The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable), and He approved it."
John 1:1 (Amplified) tells us, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word, Christ, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself." Verse 14 goes on, "And the Word, Christ, became flesh (human, incarnate)."
1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." The Law of Genesis tells us that, "Every Seed produces after kind" and we've been born of HIS SEED, made in God's Own Image and Likeness.
It's not prideful to believe and accept it, but it's confidence in God's Truth. Jesus wasn't being arrogant and prideful, when He said that, "The Father and I are One." He was speaking Truth. Jesus also spoke Truth in John 17:21 (Amplified), when He prayed, "That they may be one, just as You Father are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us. So that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me." We've become one, by the Seed of God Himself. We're made in His Own Image and Likeness, because every seed bears fruit of itself.
The Law of Genesis is true for every species of creature and plant, on this planet. A kernel of corn will never produce a pear tree, just like a pear seed will never produce corn. We're made the righteousness of God, in Christ Jesus, according to the Law of Genesis. The Seed of Righteousness can never produce anything, except after kind. This is the Power and Truth of God's Word, which is His Seed.
Carnal minded men try complicating and dismissing this basic Truth, but apple seed continue bearing apple trees despite what they think. Jesus spoke about the Law of Genesis, in His "Parable of the Sower," saying in Mark 4, "The Sower sows the Word; the Word produces after kind for all that have ears to hear and receive the Seed into their hearts." If there is no Seed, then there will be no harvest. When one says, "I'm not righteous by my new birth," then they're really saying that, "Jesus, the Seed, isn't Righteous and doesn't produce righteous creatures after Himself."
Through Jesus, we share in every victory He accomplished by Himself for us. Jesus didn't need to debase Himself, in order to become Lord, because He was already Lord. Jesus did everything He did, in order to bring us back to the Father's Plan. Jesus' death and Resurrection broke the power of sin from those who would believe. Now with sin removed, the Door was opened for mankind to return to God's Original Intent, from the beginning. Sin was remitted, removed and replaced by righteousness, in Jesus.
Jesus has redeemed mankind from sin and death. The authority of the Adamic mandate, has been returned to mankind again, in the Name of Jesus Christ. This doesn't mean that any man or woman has authority over everything that happens, but we do have authority over our own lives and the lives of our families. Jesus didn't stop every storm happening on the planet, while He was on earth. He only stopped those in His realm at the time. The Body of Christ, as a whole, can exercise authority together, over all areas of this planet, using the same authority Jesus delegated to His Body.
From the moment of Jesus' Resurrection, satan set out to destroy the validity of this awesome Truth and he has nearly removed the Truth of it from the eyes of God's people. We keep separating flesh from Spirit, removing most of the Spiritual Life of God in our lives and believing it's for after we die and go to Heaven. God has chosen to place this awesome Spiritual Power in our house of flesh, in order to bring this world into order by His Spirit.
Sin is eradicated from those who accepted Jesus as their Lord and the Blessing and Original Intent of the Father is restored to us, as His family. We still live in a house of flesh, so satan tries using our carnal emotions to turn us from the Spiritual Life to the carnal life. We must learn that the Spirit is in us and we have dominion over this house of flesh that we're now living in.
Monday, February 3, 2020
Lesson 64 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
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 air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and 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."
Very few believers understand the majesty that God did through Jesus, when He raised Him from the dead. We've developed faith in the remission of sin, but haven't reached much further, in our walk as God's sons and daughters. The Curse, death and separation from God, didn't occur until Adam's sinning. It was the sin that brought about misery and separation from God and the Intention He had for His family. Sin wasn't just sexual, thievery or the things we look upon in life. These things are only the fruit of the seed of sin. The real sin was what Adam did, which resulted in mankind's being separated from God in his spirit. God is our Life and through Adam, we entered spiritual death.
Spiritual death doesn't mean that we no longer exist, but that we exist without God, Who is Life. A dead spirit can't be righteous or holy, because death had removed that spirit from God's Presence. Ephesians 2:12,13 (Amplified) says, "Remember, that you were at that time, separated, living apart from Christ (excluded from all part of Him), utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and stranger with no share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic Promise, with no knowledge of or right in God's agreements (His covenants); And you had no hope (no Promise), you were in the world without God."
Paul continues in Verse 13, saying, "But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once so far away, through and by and in the Blood of Christ have been brought near." When we have faith the Blood and Sacrifice of Christ, our sins have been removed and we "become near." We've been restored as God's family once again. Isaiah 59:2 (Amplified) tells us, "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear." It was the sin in the Garden, that caused the separation between God and us. Jesus removed the original sin of Adam and has placed us back into the place where God made us to be, in the beginning.
When we have faith in the total remission of sin, we're able to develop our faith again, in the covenant and Promise God made to Adam, prior to his sinning. Through Jesus, we have a better place in our Father, as heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Himself. As Gentiles, we never had the covenant of the Law, where we could offer sacrifice animals and be temporarily covered, like the Hebrews had. We were without hope, without covenant and without God, until we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Through Jesus, we are a new creation, a people God has cleansed by His Own Blood. He has declared us and made us righteous and has restored us back in family relations with Himself. We could never obtain the Promises of healing, peace, Blessings, fellowship, Wisdom and sanctification on our own, but they've been restored back to us, in Jesus.
God has restored His Original Intent of family back to us, in our new creation man/woman. Everything God gave to Adam, has been restored back to us. Adam's Blessing wasn't for when he got to Heaven, because he walked by Heaven's Blessing in this natural realm. Adam walked with God as his instructor and Guide, just like the Last Adam, Jesus did. Jesus showed us how we not only can walk, but are expected to walk, which is naturally Super-natural. We were to be a Super-natural people, who are living in a natural body and who have Heaven's authority here on this earth. This is what Jesus demonstrated, when He walked in a natural Body here with God.
Through Jesus, God reckoned our old sinful body to be already dead, because the wages of sin is death. We were crucified with Christ, so that we can now live a sin free life with Him, in God's Presence. We've never fully appreciated the fullness of what Jesus has done, because of the blindness that has come upon us, by the god of this world. Satan has worked overtime, to keep Truth hidden from God's family.
God's full Revelation is being seen by more and more of His children, in this Year of Understanding. The time of restoration is at hand. The entrance of His Word brings Light and now the time of Light has come into the spirits of God's people and the Blessing in all it's power, is taking hold in the Church. We're no longer depending upon our own right standing with God, but in faith, we're fully depending upon the righteousness we've obtained through our union with Jesus. And, He is Righteous all the time!
We shouldn't be offended when someone is more developed in their faith, than we are. This should be a challenge for us to develop more too. I don't believe we can have too much faith in God, like some say. We have faith to the place of our understanding and only that far. The more we understand our right standing with God, the stronger our faith is in His Promises and covenant, through Jesus.
Many believe these Spiritual Blessings will only come upon us, when we die and go to Heaven. Adam and Jesus, both walked in nothing except the Spiritual Blessing. Everything Adam and Eve had and everything they were, was from the Spirit, including his natural body. We're now like Adam was before his transgression, because of the Spirit. We've received the same Spiritual Blessing in every aspect of our lives.
We've walked for so long in the same natural concepts the world has, so we know very little about our spiritual existence. We've been taught that our new birth is determined by rules and man-made laws, which have governed Christianity for years. The new covenant family of God has rewritten the Law to include them. All of the Laws and Blessings are fulfilled through Jesus Christ, and we've been made free from the Law of Sin and of Death. We're under the "New Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus," according to Romans 8:2.
We live in the flesh, but our Life isn't in the flesh, but is in the Spirit. Everything we'll ever need is in the Spirit and all we have is from the Spirit. Jesus has brought us back to God's Original Intent for His family and "He has supplied our every need by His riches in Glory in and through Christ Jesus." This isn't wishful thinking, but is exactly what it says. Every need that can come upon us in this world, is now being supplied by His riches in Glory. After Adam's fall, the flow of these riches was all but stopped in the earth, but now we've received Jesus, these riches have been released in the Spirit realm for us.
God found men of faith, in order to begin a new seed of family and Blessing into the earth. This Blessing was in the Spirit and was transferred again, bringing life into the earth for God's covenant people. All natural Blessings came to them from God's Spirit and this is True today, for those who are in Jesus. The world can't stop God's Blessing and Provision for His family, now that we've become born-again and new creations in Christ. This is how Adam walked in the Garden, before being deceived by the serpent. Everything Adam had, both natural and spiritual, was from the Spirit. The earth was from the Spirit, the food Adam and Eve ate was from the Spirit and the bodies they lived in were from the Spirit. The Spirit provided every need.
The Father wants to do for us, like He did for Adam and Jesus. As our Father, He wants to provide for and take responsibility for His Own family, like any other father would do. God never intended for the world to provide for us. By His Spirit and Promise, God would meet our every need according to His riches in Glory. This Glory, is the same glory Jesus spoke about in John 17:22 (Amplified), where He prayed, "I have given to them the Glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One."
This is the same glory the Psalmist writes about in Psalm 8:4-5 (Amplified), saying, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of earth born man that You care for him. Yet You have made him a little lower than God, or Heavenly beings, and You have crowned him with Glory and honor." Paul writes about this glory in Philippians 4:18 (Amplified). It's the riches of the Blessing before Adam's fall and these riches are in and from the Glory of the Presence of God in His people again, in Jesus.
Very few believers understand the majesty that God did through Jesus, when He raised Him from the dead. We've developed faith in the remission of sin, but haven't reached much further, in our walk as God's sons and daughters. The Curse, death and separation from God, didn't occur until Adam's sinning. It was the sin that brought about misery and separation from God and the Intention He had for His family. Sin wasn't just sexual, thievery or the things we look upon in life. These things are only the fruit of the seed of sin. The real sin was what Adam did, which resulted in mankind's being separated from God in his spirit. God is our Life and through Adam, we entered spiritual death.
Spiritual death doesn't mean that we no longer exist, but that we exist without God, Who is Life. A dead spirit can't be righteous or holy, because death had removed that spirit from God's Presence. Ephesians 2:12,13 (Amplified) says, "Remember, that you were at that time, separated, living apart from Christ (excluded from all part of Him), utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and stranger with no share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic Promise, with no knowledge of or right in God's agreements (His covenants); And you had no hope (no Promise), you were in the world without God."
Paul continues in Verse 13, saying, "But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once so far away, through and by and in the Blood of Christ have been brought near." When we have faith the Blood and Sacrifice of Christ, our sins have been removed and we "become near." We've been restored as God's family once again. Isaiah 59:2 (Amplified) tells us, "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear." It was the sin in the Garden, that caused the separation between God and us. Jesus removed the original sin of Adam and has placed us back into the place where God made us to be, in the beginning.
When we have faith in the total remission of sin, we're able to develop our faith again, in the covenant and Promise God made to Adam, prior to his sinning. Through Jesus, we have a better place in our Father, as heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Himself. As Gentiles, we never had the covenant of the Law, where we could offer sacrifice animals and be temporarily covered, like the Hebrews had. We were without hope, without covenant and without God, until we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Through Jesus, we are a new creation, a people God has cleansed by His Own Blood. He has declared us and made us righteous and has restored us back in family relations with Himself. We could never obtain the Promises of healing, peace, Blessings, fellowship, Wisdom and sanctification on our own, but they've been restored back to us, in Jesus.
God has restored His Original Intent of family back to us, in our new creation man/woman. Everything God gave to Adam, has been restored back to us. Adam's Blessing wasn't for when he got to Heaven, because he walked by Heaven's Blessing in this natural realm. Adam walked with God as his instructor and Guide, just like the Last Adam, Jesus did. Jesus showed us how we not only can walk, but are expected to walk, which is naturally Super-natural. We were to be a Super-natural people, who are living in a natural body and who have Heaven's authority here on this earth. This is what Jesus demonstrated, when He walked in a natural Body here with God.
Through Jesus, God reckoned our old sinful body to be already dead, because the wages of sin is death. We were crucified with Christ, so that we can now live a sin free life with Him, in God's Presence. We've never fully appreciated the fullness of what Jesus has done, because of the blindness that has come upon us, by the god of this world. Satan has worked overtime, to keep Truth hidden from God's family.
God's full Revelation is being seen by more and more of His children, in this Year of Understanding. The time of restoration is at hand. The entrance of His Word brings Light and now the time of Light has come into the spirits of God's people and the Blessing in all it's power, is taking hold in the Church. We're no longer depending upon our own right standing with God, but in faith, we're fully depending upon the righteousness we've obtained through our union with Jesus. And, He is Righteous all the time!
We shouldn't be offended when someone is more developed in their faith, than we are. This should be a challenge for us to develop more too. I don't believe we can have too much faith in God, like some say. We have faith to the place of our understanding and only that far. The more we understand our right standing with God, the stronger our faith is in His Promises and covenant, through Jesus.
Many believe these Spiritual Blessings will only come upon us, when we die and go to Heaven. Adam and Jesus, both walked in nothing except the Spiritual Blessing. Everything Adam and Eve had and everything they were, was from the Spirit, including his natural body. We're now like Adam was before his transgression, because of the Spirit. We've received the same Spiritual Blessing in every aspect of our lives.
We've walked for so long in the same natural concepts the world has, so we know very little about our spiritual existence. We've been taught that our new birth is determined by rules and man-made laws, which have governed Christianity for years. The new covenant family of God has rewritten the Law to include them. All of the Laws and Blessings are fulfilled through Jesus Christ, and we've been made free from the Law of Sin and of Death. We're under the "New Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus," according to Romans 8:2.
We live in the flesh, but our Life isn't in the flesh, but is in the Spirit. Everything we'll ever need is in the Spirit and all we have is from the Spirit. Jesus has brought us back to God's Original Intent for His family and "He has supplied our every need by His riches in Glory in and through Christ Jesus." This isn't wishful thinking, but is exactly what it says. Every need that can come upon us in this world, is now being supplied by His riches in Glory. After Adam's fall, the flow of these riches was all but stopped in the earth, but now we've received Jesus, these riches have been released in the Spirit realm for us.
God found men of faith, in order to begin a new seed of family and Blessing into the earth. This Blessing was in the Spirit and was transferred again, bringing life into the earth for God's covenant people. All natural Blessings came to them from God's Spirit and this is True today, for those who are in Jesus. The world can't stop God's Blessing and Provision for His family, now that we've become born-again and new creations in Christ. This is how Adam walked in the Garden, before being deceived by the serpent. Everything Adam had, both natural and spiritual, was from the Spirit. The earth was from the Spirit, the food Adam and Eve ate was from the Spirit and the bodies they lived in were from the Spirit. The Spirit provided every need.
The Father wants to do for us, like He did for Adam and Jesus. As our Father, He wants to provide for and take responsibility for His Own family, like any other father would do. God never intended for the world to provide for us. By His Spirit and Promise, God would meet our every need according to His riches in Glory. This Glory, is the same glory Jesus spoke about in John 17:22 (Amplified), where He prayed, "I have given to them the Glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One."
This is the same glory the Psalmist writes about in Psalm 8:4-5 (Amplified), saying, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of earth born man that You care for him. Yet You have made him a little lower than God, or Heavenly beings, and You have crowned him with Glory and honor." Paul writes about this glory in Philippians 4:18 (Amplified). It's the riches of the Blessing before Adam's fall and these riches are in and from the Glory of the Presence of God in His people again, in Jesus.
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