Get Wisdom #35

   Prov.4:7(Amp) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, Get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom), For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the Principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension and interpretation)."

  Wisdom is the Word of God and Jesus is the Word Himself, according to 1Cor.1:30(Amp), which says, "God has made to us our Wisdom in and through Christ Jesus." If you're born-again and Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then you already have access to all of the Wisdom of God.  And we have access to understanding, discernment, comprehension and interpretation, through the Holy Spirit. 

  We need understanding of the Word of God in the Spiritual aspect. Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life." When we read God's Word with only an intellectual source, we fail to know the mind of the Spirit into the realm of God's Wisdom. Without skillful and Godly Wisdom, the Word becomes just a religious book with do's and don'ts. This can lead to thinking the Old Testament and New Testament were written under one covenant. 

 Of course the Old Testament is the Truth of God's Word, but it is under the Law and needed to be obeyed by people who weren't yet born-again by the Spirit of God.  Even Jesus' disciples weren't born-again until the Day of Pentecost. No one but Jesus ever fulfilled and perfectly walked in the Law. Jesus said in Matt.5:17(Amp), "I did not come to do away with the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill it." When we were born-again, we also fulfilled the Laws and the Prophets by being made One with Christ Jesus.

 This doesn't mean that we can ignore what the Law says, but that through Jesus, we now have a new and Greater Law. Jesus summed up the entire Law and Prophets in two Commandments, saying in Matt.22:37-40(Amp), "The First and Greatest of these is Thou Shalt love the Lord they God with all your heart, soul and mind; and the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as you love yourself. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets."

  We only have two Laws that we're required to walk in, but since we still have flesh and blood bodies with only the wisdom of the world which guide them, we must seek the Wisdom of God's Word and the discernment of the Holy Spirit to lead us in our spirits. Instead of being judged by the Law when we sin and do wrong, we have Grace and the Blood of Jesus to cleanse us and keep us in His favor.

  We have so much to comprehend about the Power and significance of what the Redeeming Blood of Jesus means to our lives. This is why we've been leaning into this so much. Col.1:13-14(Amp) tells us, "The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness, and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of His Love; In Whom we have our Redemption through His Blood which means the forgiveness of our sins."

  Heb.10:19(Amp) says, "Therefore brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Power and Virtue in the BLOOD OF JESUS." The Blood of Christ continually keeps us washed and cleansed from sin, if we're faithful to acknowledge our sins and by faith, accept our Passover Lamb. Peter wrote that "We've been Redeemed from the Curse of the Law," in Gal.3:13. It's not that the Curse is no longer here, but the Blood of Jesus exempts us from the Curse, by the cleansing of His Blood. It's not like the Passover under the old covenant, where the people needed to sacrifice a lamb every time they broke the Law. Now, through the Eternal Blood of Jesus, after we confess and repent of our sins, the Blood cleanses us and keeps us in God's Blessing.

  Heb.9:12(Amp) says, "He (Jesus) went once for all into the Holy of Holies of Heaven, not by the virtue of the blood of goats and calves by which to make reconciliation between God and man, but by His Own Blood having found and secured a complete Redemption (an Everlasting) release for us." The Curse is still here, but Wisdom, understanding and faith in our Passover Lamb Jesus, Redeems us from this Curse and secures God's Blessing for us. I encourage you to read what the Curse of the Law entails from Deut.28, then you'll see just how many of them you're allowing to occur in your life, that Jesus has Redeemed us from. After this, "LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO."