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.
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