Genesis 1:16 (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 birds of the air, the fish of the sea, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth."
Whether you know it or not, we've been created new creations through Jesus and have been restored to God's Original Intent. We're now living in a fallen world and a place that's still under the Curse that befell this planet at Adam's transgression, but God has elevated those who accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, above this fallen planet. Many today, read the Truth of what God has done for us in Jesus and find it hard to believe it.
Many believe these are for when they die and go to Heaven, even though the things Jesus has done for us, is for while we're still here on earth. We won't need healing, Blessing or redemption, after we're home with the Father, because there's no Curse there. Their not accepting this Truth, doesn't mean it's not True for us today. What good would healing be, in a Kingdom where there's no sickness?
The world has been taught by the fallen nature of man for so long and has influenced the Church to think in the same manner. This doesn't mean that the Church isn't God's children or don't love the Lord, but that deception has permeated the Church too. Those who dare believe God's Word is for today, are still looked on by some, as being "extreme."
Those found in the "Faith Hall of Fame" in Hebrews 11, were probably also viewed as being "extreme" and maybe "crazy." Jesus was looked upon as being "of the devil," in the Gospels. We've lived below the place that God has elevated us to, causing it to become the norm for the Church. God never saw His Church as being "normal," but as being in His Image and Likeness. We're not like the old covenant children who could only stand in the outer court of the Temple. Through Jesus, we've become the very living Ark of the Covenant and have the Glory and Presence of God Himself living in us. We've become the Temple of the Holy Spirit, according to 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified), which 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."
It's easy to apply man's wisdom to the above scripture and believe it doesn't apply to us today, but that doesn't change the Truth of it. These might sound strange to today's Church, but they are God's Word to us. Paul wrote about the renewing of our minds in Romans 12:2 and warned the Church to "Not be conformed to this age and the world's way of thinking." Most of us would never consider that we'd begun to think in the way of the world. After all, we stopped sinning, drinking, cussing and doing the external things of the world. We didn't though, renew our minds with God's Word.
The Church has learned to think about God's Word, like the world thinks about it and have decided it's not for us today. We've clung to the Truth of being with the Lord when we die in this body, but have overlooked the Truth that He is living in us now. The Plagues of Egypt didn't befall the children of God. Was this greater than what God has done for His people through Jesus? Is the Blood of Jesus less than the blood of the lambs that shed their blood for the Passover?
These Truths have become more like stories rather than Truth, for us today. Has the God Who created man in the beginning, less than the Father Who has brought forth the new creation? The new creation has more need of God than the first man, Adam, did. Before his fall, Adam lived in a world without the Curse, but we live in a fallen world. Everything that Adam had (and more), has come upon us by the Last Adam Jesus. We don't only have authority over all the earth and everything that creeps upon it, but we have authority over all the enemy who has ruled it by lies and corruption, since the fall. Adam lost this authority, but Jesus has restored it in even a greater way, through His Name and our new creation identity.
The Church has been elevated into a new place as God's family, as Heirs of God and as Joint heirs with Jesus. We've been given a Name above every name to us, in order to walk as a Light to this world and to set things back into order on this planet. Most of the world is unimpressed and could care less that we've stopped drinking, cussing and outwardly sinning. We suffer the same things they suffer, endure the same things they endure and our children go into bondage, just like their children do. They see little difference between the Church and the world.
The world feared the men and women of the early Church, because of the Power and Calling of God that was on them. Satan saw the believers in the Book of Acts as threats to his world and control, but not so much any longer. This change isn't how God's Church was born into this earth. We hear such statements as, "These things were only for the early Church and the Apostles" and "We no longer need these things in the modern age."
God's Original Intent was that His family was to have complete authority over all the earth and everything in it and everything that creeps upon it. God's Intent for His family hasn't changed. God's family was never to be ruled over or kept under, anything or anyone but the Father Himself. We are children of the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and earth. We were born of His Spirit, made in His Image and Likeness. We are to be ambassadors of the Kingdom, bringing the Father's will to pass on this planet, which is ruled by an outlaw spirit who's opposed to God's Kingdom. We're to bring God's liberty and Blessing upon those who are in bondage to fear, sin, death, and a spirit that has no Truth in him. This was and still is, God's Plan for His family and His planet.
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