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."
Rom.1:17(Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes in revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith."
The above scripture is a continuing Revelation of what our salvation is to the believer. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we're cleansed from sin and belong to God our Father, and we become newborn babies in God's Kingdom. The Revelation of the new birth goes on to explain what we will and WHAT WE ARE NOW, in 1John3:2(Amp), saying, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children: it is not yet disclosed and made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."
We go from faith to faith in the ongoing Revelation of who we are in Christ. Knowing that we are saved is a great Revelation in itself, but knowing who we've become as born-again children of God, is awesome too. We now continue from faith to faith, growing and expanding as we read God's Word and learn who we are as new creations. We learn that we're not only forgiven, but what our citizenship in Heaven and our family relationship with the Father has given us, as heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. Rom.8:17(Amp) says, "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 are to share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
This suffering isn't what Jesus bore on the cross. He suffered this for us. He suffered the penalty and the Curse, along with our sickness and separation from the Father, so we could be healed and united with the Father once again. We share the suffering Jesus endured, when He was rejected and mocked by those who didn't understand Him and were used by the enemy to bring harm and separation to others.
Jesus prayed in John17:16,15(Amp), "They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), just as I am not of the world." He said in Verse 15, "I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep and protect them from the evil one." We grow by faith in Jesus prayer, expecting God to keep and protect us from the evil one. Most of us have never moved onto this level of faith to faith and live like we did in the world before being born-again. We have kept the faith, but never moved from the faith we had to put towards salvation and grew to protecting faith. Some have watered down God's Word throughout the years, until it's been lost to today's Church.
We believe in what we're going to be in Heaven, but have lost sight of who we are now in this world. The only thing we lack in this world, is the Glorified Body Jesus now has with the Father (1John3:2). We don't know how we will look when we enter eternity in Heaven, but we will resemble Jesus as He is now. Until that time, the new creation children of God will live in our natural bodies. Few have understood, like Paul did, the Revelation of who we truly have become in Christ Jesus.
No one went to the moon and back until decades ago, but that didn't mean that someone couldn't do it, but until that time, it hadn't been done. Few have gone from faith to faith and walked in what God Promised, but that doesn't mean that we can't do it. We must learn to trust God's Word beyond where must have stopped, which will cause us to suffer like Jesus suffered at the hands of the enemy.
We must dare to believe God's Word and reach out beyond what religion says, growing in our relationship as the Super-natural family of God. If we're truly heirs of God, then we don't get what is in the will for us after we die, but after Jesus died. He is the Only One Who made a will, died to validate that will and rose from the dead to become the Executor over His will, so we won't be cheated or left our of what He provided for us.
We may not walk in the Fullness of what we really are in Christ, but we can go from faith to faith and believe God's Word. We can begin to walk in the Blessing of Abraham, instead of the Curse. We can begin to trust what Jesus did when He bore our sickness and disease, making a stand in our faith in Him and receiving our healing. I know many stand on Psalm91 and God's Word worked for them.
We can exercise our faith in the covenant for more than just going to Heaven when we die. God's Word is true for everything He has said. If God's Word is true for the forgiveness of sin, then it's true for the rest of our redemption. We can go from the faith to receive salvation, into everything else our salvation has provided through the Blood of Jesus. We can grow from babies in Christ, unto our completed salvation.
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