The Church hasn't understood who we are in Christ Jesus, because we've been taught from carnal minds. We've looked at the early Church's struggles and have concluded that this is to be our new place in the world and in God. At it's inception, the early Church was small and had little knowledge of the Father and His Grace. Satan tried stamping out the Church, before it could become strong and increase.
The enemy used Saul, before becoming Paul, to throw believers into prison, persecute them, and kill them. This wasn't God's Plan for the new creation people or Saul. The Lord changed Saul's name to Paul and changed his entire nature. The Lord raised Saul up into Heaven and gave him the True Revelation of the Church. The Church only knew this Revelation, by Paul's letters and his preaching. Paul preached and wrote a letter to those in Rome, but the Church in Galatia hadn't received Paul's letter yet, so they only had a partial Truth of who they were and what they were in Christ Jesus.
Some in the early Church only knew a portion of the Revelation Jesus gave to Paul, while others didn't know any of it. The Church was almost totally ignorant of who they were and what they had in Jesus. Satan was determined to destroy the Church, while it was still in the infant stages and didn't have the complete knowledge of who God made the new creation people to be. Many believers needed to hide in caves, suffered persecution and death, but that wasn't God's Plan for His people. This was only a beginning of a mature and glorious family.
To my knowledge, Paul was the only person who had the Revelation of Grace, son-ship, redemption, the new birth, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, being heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, along with the authority God had given the Church over satan and unclean spirit. That's why satan tried to kill and stop Paul from spreading the Revelation of the Risen Christ and God's Plan for the Church. Satan made Paul his primary target, in order to stop the growth and manifestation of the new covenant people.
Satan tried everything to stop Jesus and believed that if he could "get Jesus killed," then he would win, but that was the biggest mistake of his existence. After Jesus was raised from the dead and ascended into Heaven, satan witnessed the Holy Spirit falling onto Jesus' followers, as tongues of fire and filling them with power. Multitudes of believers were added to the Church that day. Then, Paul was born-again and began revealing the power of who the new creation people were in Christ. This threatened satan's entire kingdom of darkness, so he tried stopping Paul. Instead of looking at and identifying with Paul's troubles, we should look at his faith and determination to fulfill what Jesus had sent him forth to do. We should look at how God's Presence took care of and delivered Paul from many trials, in spite of all of satan's efforts to stop him.
Today, we don't just have one letter, but we have the compilation of God's Word. We don't have one letter written to one church, but we have all the letters that were written to other churches. We're not in the dark about the Gifts of the Spirit, the power of prayer, the Revelation of the new creations, or how God's Grace covers us at all times. God's Church has thrived and grown, in spite of everything satan used against the early Christians. We've become what satan feared most, a Church that could come against the gates of hell and a Church that he is unable to stop. We've been deceived into believing that we're merely pawns used in a power struggle between God and satan. There is no power struggle! Jesus Christ is Lord and you are in His Name and in His Place on earth, in order to finish His earthly ministry, through the Holy Spirit. You are unstoppable in Him!!!
When we read from God's Word instead of the world, we understand that we're not underfoot, but we're raised together with Jesus and are seated in Heavenly places with Him, in the Father. We're not here to be pitied, but to take charge by the Power of His Name. The Last Adam Jesus has restored us back to a place of unity with the Father, like Adam had never fallen in the Garden. We've been made over comers and above all spiritual wickedness, principalities and demonic forces, through the Power of the Name and Person of Jesus Christ.
Satan's greatest fear is that the Body of Christ will get the Revelation of who we have come in this new creation and take our place in this world over him, in Jesus. It doesn't harm satan or his kingdom of darkness, when we're just religious. When we learn who Jesus has made us to be, by reading God's Word and listening to the Holy Spirit, then his kingdom will be destroyed. Satan knows his destruction and end is ultimate. The days of our chasing the wrong thins and wearing ourselves out are over. God's Church has come to the place of knowing who we are in Christ and understanding the Revelation of our soon returning Lord and Savior. It is time.
If a bull ever realizes that it's not the red cape, but the matador who is it's enemy, then the bullfight would be over. Let's not go after the cape of the bull fighter, but after the bull fighter himself. The enemy has set up many capes or distractions for today's Church, in order to wear us out. We can't be distracted. The real enemy is the one causing such distractions as the Covid19 pandemic. He's doing this, in order to keep us from using the Anointing on him, instead of the disease. This is a Spiritual battle and must be dealt with by the Church, so we can complete our calling and purpose in these Last Days.
We need to proclaim the Gospel and let the world see the Manifestation of God in their lives today. This is the day God's Power must be Manifested and displayed to the saved and unsaved. Some people will never step into a church, so we must display God's Anointing in the streets and marketplace of life. We're the Body of Christ and must prepare the way for the coming of our Lord, in Power and Glory, so that the world will know that He and He Alone, is God.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.
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