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."
We have received the Gift of God's Grace, by faith in Jesus' Sacrifice. God's Grace has provided the removal of our sins and trespasses and has given us His Own Righteousness. Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if by one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one (Adam), much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor) and the free Gift of Righteousness, putting them in right standing with Himself, reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
If we do not accept the free Gift of God's Grace, then it will not benefit us. If we do not accept and reject this Gift, then it offends the One Who offered it. None who are born-again would ever seek to offend our Lord Jesus, but that's what we're doing when we reject the Gifts He offers. He is at a loss to deliver us, when we reject the Gifts He offers. Some believe it's "prideful," to consider ourselves righteous, but it's pride that leads us to disbelieve and reject the Gift of Righteousness.
Believing and receiving God's free Gift of Righteous, will make a great difference in the new creation child of God. We believe that we've been placed in right standing with God, through Jesus, which builds confidence in our prayers and faith for all God has done through the Blood of our Sacrifice Lamb. John writes about the Life we now have in Jesus and the fellowship we have with the Father, in 1John5:14-15(Amp) saying, "And this is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness, which we have in Him; we are sure that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His Own Plan), He listens to and hears us. And if, since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."
How do we know God's will? We must be in His Word enough to know what God has granted us through Calvary's cross and Jesus' Blood. If Jesus bore it for us, then we are, by His will, exempted from it. Our sins and death were placed on Jesus, so it's God's will that we, by accepting Jesus, receive by faith, the remission and extraction of sin and death. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus, according to Rom.8:17(Amp), which 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 must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
The suffering we share with Jesus, is being mocked and rejected by others, not being sick or depressed. Jesus bore the Curse of the Law for us. We must identify with Jesus' Sacrifice on Calvary, in order to share His suffering. We share His death by dying with Him, as though we were nailed to the cross ourselves. When we know in our hearts that Jesus did all this for us, we can have confidence in our hearts and minds, knowing that we were also raised with Him into His Glory.
If we believe that God is still holding us accountable for the old creature we were, then it will be impossible to truly walk and have faith in the new creation man/woman God made us to be. Paul writes in Gal.2:20(Amp), "I have been crucified with Christ (in Him I have shared His crucifixion); it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in and adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God, Who Loved me and gave Himself up for me."
We don't receive Jesus' suffering on the cross, when we believe that we're sick because "God is testing us." We must identify with Jesus and share His suffering for us, so we can understand the extent of what Calvary has granted to us, by Him. We're not in sin, if we get sick and God isn't testing us, when we get sick. It simply means that we don't understand the full effect of what Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross. We share in Jesus' suffering, so we don't have to endure it.
As joint heirs of Jesus, we haven't inherited sickness, disease, poverty, fear, captivity, sin or death, but we're inherited what He died to restore us back to, which is the fullness of God's Love. Jesus was justified and seated at God's Right Hand, and we must truly understand that He has made us free and fellow heirs, sharing His Glory and inheritance.
If we believe that God is trying to teach us by making us sick, then we haven't shared in His suffering and have laid ourselves open to the enemy's deception. If we don't receive the Father's Free Gift, even though it's Priceless, then it will not profit us. Salvation has been offered to the entire world, but many have rejected this Gift. The Father has offered it, but they haven't yet received it, for one reason or another. When we receive the Gift of Salvation, the rest of God's Gifts are ours also, because we've become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. This Gift comes by faith and is ours to enjoy, as part of our inheritance.
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