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. 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."
God created or birthed a family, when He made mankind. He didn't make a Test Dummy, in order to see if mankind could measure up to His Greatness. God created a family, who knew neither good or bad. God would teach His children, by His Word and His very Presence. Every child makes mistakes while growing up, but we eventually do grow up. The parent's job is to love and teach their children the right way to be. Our Heavenly Father was and is, no different. Adam and Eve weren't made "all knowing," but had the ability to come to know all things, because they were made in God's Image and Likeness.
God planned to walk with and teach His family for eternity, but then sin and death entered the Garden, as a result of Adam's transgression. Genesis 2:19-20 (Amplified) says, "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every wild beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was it's name. And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air, and to every wild beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper (meet, suitable, adapted), complimentary for him."
God was raising His family and teaching them how to see the differences in all the creation He had made for them. God allowed His son, Adam to name all of the things He had made. God accepted whatever title Adam gave them. This is the loving, raising and training of a Loving Parent towards His children. I'm not sure that anyone today, could name all the beasts of the field or the birds of the air, but Adam had the mind and wisdom of His Father, because He was made in God's Image and Likeness.
We've been taught that God uses sickness, hardship, disease, and the death of a loved one, to teach us and to try our faith. This deception comes in part, from the way God had to deal with the old covenant people, who were spiritually dead and ruled by sin and death. God had to teach or deal with mankind from the outside (the flesh), because man was spiritually dead and separated from God in the spirit. God established a way to still Bless and provide for mankind, but it needed to be based on man's ability to keep certain Laws that God provided. If someone broke the Law, then the Blessing wouldn't work for them. God made sacrifices available for them to return to the place of His Blessing. All of the old covenant was based on man's ability and performance, in order to be Blessed.
We're no longer separated from God in the spirit, but have been to be one spirit, in and with Jesus. This is the new covenant we enjoy through Jesus. We have become one in Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, according to Ephesians 5:1 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow His Example, as well-beloved children imitate their father." Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's Own handiwork, His workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus, born anew that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us taking paths which He prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live."
This scripture show us what God's Original Intent truly was and still is, for His children to be and live in. Through Jesus' Sacrifice, the Father brought us back to the place He intended for His children, as though Adam had never sinned. God can now walk with, talk with, fellowship with and teach His family, like He did before the fall of Adam.
God was teaching and training Adam how to live his new life, before Adam sinned. Adam didn't know how to walk or how to be God's son. Adam was made fully grown, but he was still unlearned and untaught about how to live and walk with God, as His son. Adam had God's Word (Jesus) and His Spirit to teach him.
We're new creations in Christ and must learn how to walk with God too, just like Adam did. We have God's Word and His Spirit to lead, guide and teach us "God's way of doing and being right." We haven't learned what God's Original Intent for His family is. We've been taught from man's ideas, the world's ideas and religion, which put us in the place where God governs us like He did those who aren't new creations, but are still fallen men/women. We've been learning by the flesh, instead of the Spirit and have accepted sickness and hardship, as being "God teaching us."
This is contrary to what Jesus taught or said, about our growing and learning from the Father in John 16:13-15 (Amplified), where Jesus says, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father; He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future). He will honor and Glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He, the Spirit, will take the things that are Mine, and will reveal (declare disclose, transmit), it to you."
When Jesus spoke about "the things that are to come and will happen in the future," He wasn't just speaking about The Book of Revelation and the End Times. The Holy Spirit hadn't come yet, because Jesus hadn't died yet. The new creation man/woman and the Church weren't present in the world yet. The Holy Spirit is to be our Teacher. He is the One Who will teach us who we have become now, in Jesus. He came to reveal the Father and bring us back to the place where God had prepared for us, in the beginning.
We can only know our Heavenly Father, through God's Word and His Spirit. The world has distorted His Image in the minds of God's children, so we don't really know Him at all. We don't know God's will, His intent, His Voice or His teachings for us. We haven't differentiated between how God dealt with the old covenant people who were spiritually dead and separated from His Spirit, and how He deals with the new creatures in Christ Jesus, who've been made Righteous by the Blood of Jesus and restored by Grace as God's family. We're not under Law, but live by faith in what Jesus did for us and not by our own works.
Satan tries to stop the Church from walking in faith. James 1:5-8 (Amplified) says, "If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God, Who gives to all men liberally and ungrudgingly without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given to him. Only it must be in faith that he asks, with no wavering ( no hesitation, no doubting), For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts), is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord. 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 and decides."
If we don't know the difference between the God of the old covenant and the Father of the new covenant, then you are double-minded and uncertain about everything you know about Him.
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