Romans 8:15-17 (Amplified) says, "For the Spirit which you have received is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, the Spirit producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry Abba, Father, Father. The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
We can read these scriptures, but not have a Revelation of what the Holy Spirit is saying about who we are now, in Jesus. When a person writes a will, when do you get what that person left you in that will? When you die or when the testator dies? Jesus is the Only Man Who made out His will, died to validate it and then rose from the dead, becoming the executor over His will. Jesus made sure that we wouldn't lose out of anything He left us, the Redeemed of the Lord. Believers have lost sight of what Redemption means to us.
Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified) says, "Where there is no vision (no Redemptive Revelation of God), the people perish: but he who keeps the Law of God (His Words) which includes that of man, Blessed, happy, fortunate is he."
Psalm 107:2 (Amplified) says, "Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary." Do we truly understand our redemption and do we proclaim it, so that the adversary realizes that we know who we are? It's not for God's sake that we're to "say so," but we do it in order to announce to the adversary that we now have a Redemptive Revelation of what Jesus has done on our behalf.
The First Adam sold us into bondage and slavery, by his transgression in the Garden. In the natural world, we can liken it to being sold in a pawn shop. The pawn shop dealer now has possession and control over our lives and future. As Gentiles, we had no way of paying our debt ourselves. The Price required to buy our freedom, was a debt that natural man could never pay. It was a Spiritual Redemption and man was Spiritually dead in trespass and sin.
1Peter 1:18-19 (Amplified) says, "You must know and recognize that you were Redeemed, Ransomed from the useless, fruitless way of living inherited by tradition from your forefathers, not with corruptible things such as silver and gold. But you were purchased with the Precious Blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a Sacrificial Lamb without blemish or spot."
We are no longer the property of the pawn broker, but we've been bought back by the Blood of Jesus. We're not on layaway, which has payments made on it. We're already paid for and have no dealings or obligation to the pawn broker. 1Corinthians 6:19-20 (Amplified) 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. You were bought with a Price, purchased with a Preciousness and Paid for, made His Own. So then honor God and bring Glory to Him in your body."
If we read and understand this scripture by the Revelation or vision of our redemption, then we will know that nothing satan used to hold us in bondage, is part of our existence any longer. The debt and captivity we were under by the First Adam, has been completely paid for now and eternity, by Jesus Christ. The debt of our old, past lives which separated us from God, has been paid. We're no longer enslaved by our former pawn broker, satan. Satan will continue trying to convince us that we still owe him from our former time as his servants, but when we understand our Redemption, we can stand on what God's Word says. God's Word tells us, "Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so." Jesus has redeemed us from the hand of the adversary and we need to remind satan of that Truth.
Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "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." Our spirit man/woman has been bought back by Jesus. This is the Revelation of our Redemption and if we have no vision of this, then God says in Proverbs 29:18, "My people perish without a vision." When the vision becomes clear to us, then we no longer listen to the lies and slander coming from our previous owner, the pawn broker who held us in bondage. We will live by the dictates of the Spirit, understanding that we were bought back and Redeemed. We will live in the union of and with our Father, by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, the Law of our new being.
Jesus didn't simply make a down payment on us or put us on a layaway plan. Jesus was faithful to fully Redeem us, so we're not under the Law of Sin and of Death. We don't owe the adversary anything, not even an explanation. We are free, so we shout, "Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so." When satan comes to say, "You still owe me," then you shout, "Jesus has Paid my debt in full and I'm the Redeemed of the Lord!"
We must identify with who Jesus has made us to be, instead of who we were. We must proclaim our Redemption, on a legal aspect of Spiritual Law in the new creation Kingdom that we're now citizens of. We are in this world, but we're no longer part of it and subject to the bondage and slanderous lies of the adversary. Satan deceived the First Adam and he continues trying to hold us in bondage using lies of guilt and deception. If we don't have the vision or Revelation of our Redemption, then satan still tries controlling our lives by fraud.
God gives instructions for the Redeemed of the Lord in Proverbs 25:28 (Amplified), saying, "He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls." The city is open to attack from the enemy, because there is no defensive walls. When we have a Revelation of our Redemption, then we will allow God's Word to take rule over our spirit, like Romans 8:1 says. We will only listen to the dictates of your spirit, by God's Word and His Holy Spirit. This is the rule over our new creation citizen, who is part of God's family and His Kingdom.
We've been guilty of listening more to the lies of the adversary and the world, than God's Word and His Spirit. Jesus only said what the Father said, went where the Father told Him to go and did only what the Father said to do. Jesus had rule over His Spirit and was invincible in His life, as far as the adversary was concerned.
The new Life that Jesus came to give us, is the Life that is above the natural life we had under satan's bondage. Satan held us under the Law of Sin and of Death, but we need to see that we live under the Law of the Spirit of Life, which Jesus came to give us. If we have the vision and Revelation of our Redemption and the new Life Jesus gave us, then we remain vulnerable to satan's lies.
Satan has no defense against the new birth , nor can he stop it from coming to pass in the lives of any person who calls upon the Name of the Lord. Satan can only try controlling our lives, by deception and our lack of understanding who we have become in Christ Jesus. We must not listen to the dictates of our flesh and the accusations of our former pawn broker, who once held us for ransom. The Year of Understanding is now and the Revelation knowledge of the God Kind of Life that Jesus came to give us, is now available to all who will believe. We're no longer subject to satan's lies, condemnation, guilt or anything else he tries to use against us. We must make our stand by the Holy Spirit, boldly proclaiming our Redemption and identity in Christ Jesus.
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