Proverbs 4:7 (Amp) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, get Wisdom, skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding, discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."
Proverbs 29:18 (Amp) says, "Where there is no vision, no redemptive Revelation of God, the people perish; but he who keeps the Law of God (the Word), which includes that of man, Blessed, fortunate, and enviable is he."
Psalm 107:2 (Amp) says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary."
How many of us today, have enough understanding of God's Word of redemption, to "say so?" Do we even have a Revelation of our redemption today? Do we dare to believe and trust in God's Word and the Redemptive work of Jesus, to put our faith in them? Galatians 3:13 (Amp) says, "Christ purchased our freedom, Redeeming us from the Curse (doom) of the Law, by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in the scriptures, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified)." Why can we believe that Jesus bore our sin and iniquities, but can't believe that He also bore the Curse and Redeemed us from it?
1Peter 1:18-19 (Amp) says, "You must know (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."
Satan had a legal right to hold mankind on the bondage of sin and death, because of the fall of Adam in the Garden, but the above scripture says that Jesus has redeemed, bought back and purchased us from the Curse. God covered man's sins under the Law, when the people offered the blood sacrifice of bloods and bulls. The innocent blood of these animals was poured out daily, in order to cover the sins of the people, but their sacrifice couldn't pay the price owed for the trespass. Satan demanded that mankind remain in his hands and the Curse, was the payment he commanded.
The blood of animals couldn't pay the ransom note held on mankind, but was an interest rate of sorts on the debt. The Blood of Jesus paid the debt and bought our freedom from the legal debt mankind could never pay on his/her own. God's Word tells us that, "All had sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Jesus though was the Only Man Who had no sin in His Blood and could buy back man's transgression. The Law of Genesis, says that, "Everything produces after kind," so all other men were born in sin after Adam's fall and couldn't pay-off the debt owed, so satan was secure in his place as god of this world. The seed of man could only produce another sin filled, Spiritually dead man.
The Seed of Jesus didn't come from man, but from the Father God Himself, so He was without sin and death. God had a Man in Jesus, Who could pay the debt owed, with His Own Blood. Mankind would no longer be under the Curse, death and the control of satan, but were now again, BLOOD BOUGHT children of God, who were made in His Image and Likeness and without sin, without death and without the Curse. Life and Blessing have been restored to us, because we are now heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ. The entire Curse of the Law has been Paid for by the Blood of Jesus and satan has no legal right to use the Curse on God's children. God's children must understand the True Redemption in Jesus, in order to know this.
If you were about to lose your home, because you couldn't pay the mortgage and another person paid it off, then you would own your home, be debt free and no creditor could demand another payment for your home. In this case, anyone could redeem your home, but we owed a debt of sin and death for which only the blood of someone who was sin free, could pay that debt. Satan could never believe that our Heavenly Father would or could, Love us enough to do what He did through Jesus. Satan's way of thinking, along with his selfish ways and love of himself, couldn't imagine a Love so great that it would offer himself for someone else or that the Almighty God would do so. This is the Mystery hidden from satan from the beginning. He could never believe such a thing, because of his self-centered spirit of greed, pride, division and hatred.
We're not just forgiven sinners, but are the bought back family of God, purchased by the Most Awesome Price of anyone or anything ever held for ransom. We've been Ransomed and bought back by the Blood of God Himself. There isn't, nor ever can be a more Pure, Sinless and Expensive Ransom, than Jesus Christ. The debt mankind owed needed to be paid for legally, justly and perfectly, because if one part failed, then satan would know the plan enough to stop it from happening. Jesus didn't just pay for our sins, but He also paid the consequences and penalty of sin and death and the Curse.
We find the Curse that Jesus paid for, so we could be free of the bondage of sin and disease and calamity, in Deuteronomy 28:15 to the end of the chapter. The Price of Redemption was and is, too High a Price for us to allow satan to trap us and hold us. We've been Redeemed from sickness and calamity for ourselves and our children. We've been Redeemed from hunger, loss, torment, fear and anything else that condemnation might try to dictate to us, because of our failures. The Price has been offered and accepted and we've been Redeemed, we just didn't know it.
We weren't put on lay-away, waiting to be paid for, but we are already paid for and have been bought back to the original place where mankind was removed from. 1Corinthians 6:19-20 (Amp) 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."
We've become so accustomed to charging our purchases or laying things away, that we think we're not God's, until we leave this earth in death. This is the culture of the world that has transferred into our Spirit life and relationship with the Lord. We act like our natural lives and body don't count with God, but He made the body we live in and He has bought it back from the bondage of sin and death. Jesus Paid the Ransom which held it under the Curse of the Law and brought it to Grace. There isn't any debt owed.
We've separated our natural man and life, from our spirit man and life. We're tri-une beings, like our Heavenly Father, Who is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are a spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amp), "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)." Genesis 2:7 (Amp) says, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being." Matthew 26:38 (Amp) says, "Then [Jesus] said to them, My soul is very sad and is deeply grieved."
God is Spirit, soul and body and we're His Own children and family, who also have a spirit, soul and body. The spirit is born over as new creations, like Jesus. 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The soul, mind will and emotional part of our new creation being, are being transformed and being renewed to think and act as the mind of Christ, according to Romans 12:2 (Amp) which says, "Do not be conformed to this world (age), fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs, but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind, by its new ideals and its new attitude, so that you may prove for yourself what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you."
Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amp) talks about God's Word bringing healing to our bodies. Thus, God says, "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight, keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." Jesus healed, delivered and ministered to the physical, natural man, throughout the New Testament. The Redemption Jesus brought us, involves the three parts of us (spirit, soul and body). 3John 2 (Amp) says, "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and that your body may keep well, even as I know your soul keeps well and prospers."
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