2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (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 new creation man/woman is developed by knowing and understanding what Grace has provided us, by the new birth. Many things that we've heard taught and preached, have held back the new creation. Satan fears the person who knows who he/she has become, when being born-again and receiving Jesus as our Savior and Lord. We must know that who we've now become, is and was, because of Jesus Christ. Everything He has done is ours by faith and not by works.
We find the Promises God made to His people throughout the Word and these only come by faith in what Jesus did for us on Calvary's cross and by His Resurrection. The Promise of healing is now no longer a Promise, but a fact. The Blessing has already become fact, in the life of the believer. Many have stumbled over this Truth, because we try to "deserve" them. We don't receive these things because we deserve them, but because Jesus died in order to give them to us, by Grace. Through His death and Resurrection, Grace has provided every Promise.
We've gone wrong, by thinking it has to do with our being perfect enough to deserve them. In reality, it only takes faith in what Jesus has done and then receiving what He has done for us. We could never become righteous with God on our own. Rom.3:10(Amp) says, "As it is written, None is Righteous (just and truthful and upright and conscientious), no not one." Notice how one is left in this scripture, it says, "none is righteous." Jesus provided for us on the cross and Grace has made it a Truth, by faith in Jesus. We learn how this new Righteousness was made manifest to us who will believe in Rom.3:21-22,23-24(Amp), which says, "But now the Righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although actually it is attested by the Law and the prophets. Namely, the Righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and in confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and it is meant for all who believe, For there is no distinction."
In order to be righteous in God's eyes, we must by faith, believe that in Jesus, we were made righteous with His Righteousness. This is an act of faith in what Grace has already provided us, in Jesus. This doesn't come by striving to do works, in order to become righteous in our own selves. It is already been done by Jesus. Everything God has Promised, has already been done and paid for by the Blood of Jesus. Jesus took our place, in order to put us in His place with the Father. Jesus took our sin and gave us His Righteousness. He took all of our sickness and disease and gave us His Own healing and deliverance. We're only required to simply trust and put faith in Jesus' Sacrifice for us.
Paul continues in Verses 23-24, writing, "All are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His Grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the Redemption which is provided in Christ Jesus." The Church has spent centuries trying to become what Jesus has already made us to be. We must simply believe in what He has already provided us.
Heb.11:6(Amp) says, "But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out." The only way to come near to Him, is by righteousness and the only way we can become righteous, is by believing in Jesus to make us righteous. Without faith in Jesus, we cannot be pleasing and near to Him. We're not acceptable to Him, in our own righteousness.
Paul continues writing about Jesus in Rom.3:25-26(Amp), saying, "Whom God put forward before the eyes of all as a Mercy Seat and Propitiation by His Blood, the cleansing and Life-giving Sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, TO BE REVEALED THROUGH FAITH. This was to show God's Righteousness, because in His Divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment. It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season), that He Himself is Righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has true faith in Jesus."
Faith isn't a teaching, but is the way of life for the believer. Many scoff at "faith teachings," like they're foolishness, but "without faith, it is impossible to please God." Everything we get from God our Father, is by faith in what Grace has provided, in Jesus. Many don't receive this Truth, because they don't "feel" worthy or "good enough to deserve it." We didn't get what we deserve, thank God! We deserved to die in our sin and pass into judgment because of it. By Grace, Jesus was sent to take our place and now by Grace and faith in Jesus, we can receive God's Righteousness and favor. We didn't get what we deserve, but what our Heavenly Father wished us to have.
We can now do works of righteousness for mankind, instead of works to become righteous. We do this by faith in the Finished Work of Jesus and by faith in what He has provided by Grace and His Sacrifice. Everything we will ever need, both here and when we get to Heaven, has now been provided for by the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God. Jesus said in John10:9(Amp), "I Am the Door, anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out freely and will find pasture."
Rom.5:2(Amp) says, "Through Him also we have our access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this Grace, state of God's favor in which we firmly and safely And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the Glory of God."
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