Proverbs 4:7 (Amp) advises, "Wisdom is the principal thing, but with all your getting, get Wisdom." The Church has had the Wisdom of God, which is His Word, for centuries. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amp) says that God has, "Made unto us in Jesus, Wisdom." We have Wisdom, but we've lacked the Spiritual understanding of what Wisdom has done and made available to us. Proverbs 29:18 tells us that, "Without a vision of the Redemptive Word of God, His people still perish." This is Wisdom, without understanding.
Jesus stood in a Nazarene Synagogue and reading from Isaiah 61:1-2, preached "The acceptable Year of the Lord." At the end of His proclamation, Jesus said, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your ears (while you are present and hearing)." This was and is, the Wisdom of God. The people in the synagogue had read that this day was to come, but they had no understanding that "The Acceptable Year of the Lord," was the Jubilee. Leviticus 25:13 (Amp) says, "In this year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his ancestral property." Jesus was declaring that, "I am the Jubilee."
We haven't heard many teachings and have little understanding of what Jesus was truly saying to them. We've read about Jesus' proclamation in that synagogue and some of us have probably preached from this text, but we've failed to realize that if this was fulfilled then, then it is still fulfilled. Romans 10:17,14 (Amp) says, "So faith comes by hearing what is told, and what is heard comes by the preaching of the Message that came from the lips of Christ the Messiah Himself." Paul wrote in Verse 14, "How shall they have faith without it being preached?"
Most of us have heard little preaching about the Words Jesus preached, resulting in our having little faith and believing that "In that day, the Jubilee was fulfilled." We've heard a lot of sermons about being born-again and it's accepted throughout the world, because people have put faith in the Message that was preached. Paul told us that, "Faith comes by hearing." God's Promises go much than just going to Heaven when we die. They Promise that "Heaven can come to earth."
The Father Promised that He Himself would live in us and walk in us, and He would "Be our God and we would be our people." We have God's Promises, but even greater than these, we have the One Who made these Promises. It's not too late to begin preaching and teaching about God's Promises. We've heard much in these Last Days, about the Super-natural provisions that Paul preached to the early Church.
The faith that believers have in our Super-natural Father, is beginning to come into focus, more than it has since the early Church. Many of God's people are beginning to trust in His Word, beyond just the Promise of going to Heaven and have allowed the Heavenly Promises to be manifested here in the sight of the world. God's children are hearing and believing the Father's call in their hearts and are becoming a Body like never before. Many believers have realized that Gifts and miracles aren't just for the pastors and evangelists, but are for all who will believe, like Mark 16:17 (Amp) says, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; they will pick up serpents and even if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick and they will get well."
Many are living in fear because of the Covid-19 pandemic, while others have heard and put faith in what they heard, which was that even Covid-19 is under the Blood. They've heard and put faith in the Promises of God and have chosen to walk in the vision of Redemption and The Acceptable Year of the Lord that Jesus preached. Their faith came by hearing God's Word and His Promises, along with trusting that the God Who lives in them, will watch over and perform His Word. Not everyone who hears will believe, but God is raising up a people who will trust Him and refuse to limit the Holy One, like those in the Wilderness did.
How far can God be trusted? Is what He says in His Word True today or has it passed away with the early Church? Is this world a safer place, than it was in the time of Jesus, so we don't need His protection? Have all the demonic spirit gone away, so we no longer need to set the captives free? Do we no longer need to lay hands on the sick, because medicine, technology and doctors have cured every sickness and disease? Do we need to believe in the Super-natural ability of God's Word any longer?
These are only questions that every individual can answer for him/herself. What one believes, depends on what one hears. Jesus said in Mark 4:24 (Amp), "Be careful what you are hearing, the thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you, and more besides will be given to you who hear." Some reading this blog, have already dismissed what it teaches, but others are beginning to seek understanding of God's Word and how it is so relevant today. Some might think this teaching is radical, but God doesn't. He is still testifying about those champions of faith listed in Hebrews 11. We're called to "Go from faith to faith," in Romans 1:17 and not to stop at what others think about God's Word. You're the only person who can stop your faith. He will not forsake you or leave you, as far as you will trust Him.
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