Believers must by faith, accept what God's Word says about us, in order to know who we've become in Christ Jesus. We've become new creations by God's Grace. The Father's Grace has birthed us into the new creation, by His Word. There has never before been a people, like the Church. God created everything on the earth and in the earth, giving dominion and authority over them to the First Adam and God didn't create again, until sending Jesus into the earth. By His Grace and His Great Love, God created again new creation people, who are just as new as Light was in the beginning. God created the new creation people, just like He created the Heavens and earth in the beginning. We are the new creation family of God and are a product of His Love and His Grace.
Paul explains where mankind was after Adam's transgression and before the new creation was brought forth by our Heavenly Father. Thus, he writes in Ephesians 2:12 (Amplified), "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 strangers 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."
Because the Church doesn't know who we really are, we have accepted the age-old attitude, saying, "You never know what God will do" and "It may not be God's will." The Church has split into many different camps, where some believe "we are all covered no matter what we do, because of God's Grace." Another camp believes that faith means we can "make things happen on our own." The simple Truth is that faith will not produce anything, that Grace has not already provided.
The Father gave me several things to minister, concerning His children. He told me, "My Grace has provided much more than their faith has ever obtained." I entitled the Message, "The Unclaimed Riches of Grace." Faith doesn't "make" God do anything. Faith only allows God to do what He has already made available, by His Grace. God has already provided everything we'll ever need, by the Sacrifice and Resurrection of Jesus. We don't need to rely on sacrifices, rituals, tradition or works, but only have faith in Jesus' Sacrifice.
We must simply accept in faith, what Jesus' Sacrifice has already provided by Grace or God's unmerited favor. This means that we don't need to ask the Father for so many things, because He's already provided them. We've done nothing to earn God's Grace and we don't need to follow the Law, to obtain them. We must only believe.
We've used man's Wisdom and the world system, creating our own set of laws to follow, in order to obtain and receive from the Father. We've created many reasons for why things don't work the way we thought they should. We make excuses saying, "According to His will," when God's will was made perfectly clear in the Life and ministry of Jesus. If Jesus did it, then it was God's will. If Jesus didn't do it, then it wasn't God's will. Jesus said, "When you see Me, you see My Father. It's not Me but the Father in Me, Who does the work." How much more clearly can the Father's will be, than that?
If Jesus was healing the sick, then it was the Father in Him Who did the work. That means that healing is the will of God. If Jesus taught the Blessing, instead of the Curse, then it was the Father in Jesus Who was preaching the Blessing. If Jesus provided bread and fish for those who were without, then it was the Father providing for the people's needs, through Jesus. We think that God deals with the new covenant people, like He did the old covenant people. When we don't know the difference between the Law and Grace, we don't receive what God intended for us, in the new creation covenant.
Matthew 5:17 tells us that, "Jesus fulfilled the Law." This means that those who are in Christ Jesus, have fulfilled the Law too. Grace provided a way to fulfill the Law, that only Jesus could do. When we have faith in Jesus' doing what we could never do, then we've been redeemed from the Curse of the Law, by fulfilling it. Those who are under the new covenant in the Blood of Jesus, have only two Laws to keep. They are, "Love the Lord" and "Love your neighbor as yourself." By Grace, the Father has shed His Love in our hearts and the Holy Spirit fulfills this and demonstrates the Father's Love to the world.
Grace doesn't give as license to live any way we wish. Grace has provided the covering while we grow in Christ. We still make mistakes when we first come to Christ, because we lived our entire lives in the carnal realm before knowing Him. We still have the habits that need changing. Grace covers our entire former lives and faith in this Grace, gives us confidence to hold onto the Father's Righteousness, while we learn how to walk in His Kingdom. If we were to live in our righteousness, then we are always wrong.
We read about Grace through faith, in John 1:16-17 (Amplified), which says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
When you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you received the entire package of Grace and Blessing. It's His Righteousness, His Grace, His justification and His sanctification. The Blessing of Abraham came upon us through Jesus, the Seed. Through Jesus' stripes, we received healing. Jesus became the Curse for us, so that we could receive the Blessing. His Blood paid for our sins and iniquities. Through His Resurrection from death, we were made new creations and became heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. We became sons and daughters of the Household of the family of faith and are "Called by His Name."
The only thing believers must do to receive these things, is put faith in the Finished Work of Christ Jesus. Pride keeps us from accepting the Free Gift of Righteousness, so we continue trying to earn it by our works. We know that we don't deserve all the things that Jesus gave us. Our natural pride makes us try to earn it, before we can accept it. The harder we try though, the more we miss it, because we're putting more faith in our own ability, instead of His ability. It's hard to accept the Truth of what He has done for us. We still don't understand that our sins have been removed and still deal with the condemnation and guilt of our old man/woman who died with Jesus and was raised a new creation.
There was nothing left undone, in the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God. Not one thing was left to point to, for anyone who receives Jesus has our Substitute and puts faith in His Sacrifice. The only thing holding us back from entering the Father's Presence, is our own natural mind of guilt. Paul instructed us to "renew our minds with God's Word and His Spirit." Paul said we're to learn to see and speak and think, like new creation people and not be continually looking at our past.
Paul tells us to see ourselves "In the Light of Jesus," in 2Corinthians 3:17-18 (Amplified), saying, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, There is Liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). And all of us, as with unveiled faces, because we continue to behold in the Word of God as in a mirror, the Glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His Very Own Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of Glory to another, for this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit."
We change into His Image, by faith in His Grace!
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