Christians say to me, "Well, I don't think I need to do all these things, in order to go to Heaven." They are of course, one-hundred percent correct. The requirement for going to Heaven as God's new creation child, is to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Understand how to walk in this new creation, honors God. It lets God know that we trust Him, in the inheritance we've received in His Kingdom.
Matthew 6:33 (Amp) tells us, "But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His Righteous (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides." "All these things," are the things we need and require here in this life and come from our new Life in Jesus. We still have to nourish and provide for our natural bodies, while we're here on earth. The crowd surrounding Jesus in this scripture, were asking about clothing, food, shelter and the needs of natural man.
Notice that Jesus didn't disregard the natural man, but said that,"If we seek God first, along with His way of doing and being right, then we'd also be given the natural things we need." We've separated our life in Him, from His Life in us. We still consider our life in Jesus as being for the hereafter, while Jesus considers His Life in us, as being for now and hereafter. God's Promises aren't only for when we leave this planet and enter His Kingdom. We already have the Promises of His Kingdom now, in order to function in while we're deployed on this earth.
One of the Promises is healing in our earthly bodies. We won't need healing in Heaven, when we leave our natural bodies. This Promise is one we receive, by following His way of doing and being right or righteous. The Promise of the Blessing of Abraham is for our benefit in this natural life, as well as for when we leave this planet. Paul spoke about the Blessing Promised to Abraham in Galatians 3:14 (Amp), saying it's "The Blessing of the Holy Spirit" or "The realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
Many believe that when the Holy Spirit was sent to earth on the Day of Pentecost, it was about speaking in tongues, the Gift of the Spirit and being filled with the Holy Spirit. These things are True, but it was much more than that. This was the time, when all that Heaven held for God's children, were restored to the full, just as if Adam had never transgressed in the Garden. "Life," as God had planned was to be restored, as if sin never happened.
The Blessing Promised to Abraham was the fullness of God for this natural life and the Spiritual Life that was to come through Jesus. Abraham's Blessing never included man's being born-again and becoming new creations. The Blessing God had given Adam for this life on earth, was now upon Abraham. The Promise of the Holy Spirit was to come upon all who accepted and believed in Jesus, Who was the Promise Himself.
We've placed limits on the Promise, by regarding the Holy Spirit in religious terms, instead of the Truth of the Promise of total restoration and relationship with God and His Kingdom, which we now have access to, by the Holy Spirit. When the Word speaks about our being heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, it refers to our total restoration, just like Adam never fell in the Garden. The Church is now one Spirit with the Father and His Son Jesus, Who was the "Firstborn of many brethren." We are once again, God's Own family.
The Holy Spirit is the One Who brings to pass, whatever the Word (Jesus) has spoken from the mouth of God Himself. Everything the Promise states, is now fulfilled in God. There was only darkness, when God spoke "Light be." The Holy Spirit moved on God's Word and there was light. When the Word, God, spoke the complete redemption of His man, redemption was and still is, just like light, which is still expanding at the rate of one-hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second. God has never retracted His Word for light and so it continues. God has never retracted His Word of redemption and salvation by the Promise of the Holy Spirit.
We've received the Promise of the Holy Spirit, in order to fulfill all things,but have failed to understand the fullness of this Promise. Everything the Father had planned for His family, has been restored. All things in Heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth are once again subject to God's Word Jesus. We are now living in God's Promise of the Holy Spirit. When God spoke, the Holy Spirit began manifesting it in the earth. God spoke about "The Seed of a woman" in Genesis 3 and the Holy Spirit brought it to pass in Mary's womb. The Holy Spirit continues to still manifest every Word that proceeded from God's mouth. This isn't only for the future, but Hebrews 11:1 (Amp) says, "Now faith, is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen." The Holy Spirit will manifest all things that God has spoken, to all who will in faith, receive the fullness of the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit.
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