Mark 16:5-6 (Amplified) says, "And going into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting there on the right side, clothed in a long stately sweeping robe of white, and they were utterly amazed and struck with terror. And he said to them, Do not be amazed and terrified: you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, Who was crucified. He has Risen; He is not here. See the place where they laid Him."
If Jesus had not Risen from the dead, then the virgin birth would have been a failure and all of the prophecies about Jesus, would have been for nothing. This day changed all of Heaven and earth. It signaled the total defeat of satan, death, and sin. Hebrews 12:22-23 (Amplified) says, "But rather, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God (the Heavenly Jerusalem), and the countless multitudes of angels in festal gatherings And to the Church (assembly of the First Born) who are registered as citizens in Heaven, and to the God Who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the Righteous (the Redeemed in Heaven who have been made perfect)."
Adam's transgression caused mankind to be separated from the Father Himself. God Loved them so much, that He sent Jesus, His Perfect Sacrifice, to Redeem them and unite them with Himself. Prior to Jesus' Resurrection, those who followed God went into the Bosom of Abraham when they died and weren't united with Him in Heaven. Through Jesus' Resurrection, we are restored with the Father. This was and is, the Crowning Glory and the time the Father had been awaiting, since Adam's fall. The Father could only come close to His family and watch over them from a distance. They could only approach Him from the Outer Court and needed to stay behind the veil.
Hebrews 10:19-20 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter in to the Holy of Holies by the Power and Virtue of the Blood of Jesus, By this fresh, new and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil) of the Holy of Holies, (that is through His flesh)." The veil that held us back from God's full Presence in the Temple, is now the veil of the flesh of Jesus, which opened the way back into the Father's Presence again.
Jesus told His followers in John 14:2-4 (Amplified), "In My Father's House there are many dwelling places (homes), If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you. And when I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself; that where I am, you may be also. And to the place where I am going, you know the way." The Father prepared many homes or dwelling places for His family, but we couldn't dwell in them, until the Blood of Jesus paid our Price and became the Door by which we could enter back into the Father's Presence. Through the Power of His Resurrection, Jesus has cleansed the Heavenly utensils. His Blood has not only covered our sins, like in the old covenant, but has removed the stain of sin and death and opened Heaven to us again.
We still hold back from God's Full and welcome Presence, because of who we once were. God has laid out the welcome mat to His family and longs for a Family reunion with us. He has longed for our presence, in His House for a long time and wishes to enjoy His children eating at the table He sets before us. This is the very Heart of Love, that brought us into existence at the beginning. We must never feel like "we don't belong there, because we're not worthy to be there." It cost the separation of Jesus from the Father, to bring His family back to Him. He has made us worthy and we are welcome. We're not separated by a veil any longer. You have been made one with Jesus and it's His Righteousness by which we now enter in.
There are times when we violate our faith, by the weakness of our flesh and feel like we've failed in our covenant with God. God didn't make covenant with us, He made it with Jesus. We entered into this covenant by faith in Him and He will not and cannot break or violate the covenant. The reason God made covenant by Himself through Jesus, was because the old covenant couldn't be kept, because of man's fleshly weakness. Romans 8:3 (Amplified) says, "For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit), Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh (subdued, overcame, deprived it) of its power over all who accept that Sacrifice. So that the Righteous and Just requirement of the Law might be met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit. Our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit."
There are times when we fail in our walk with God, as we grow in the ways and knowledge of Him and learn to put away the flesh, but Jesus has never failed in His covenant with Father. This isn't an excuse for living in sin, but is how the Father has brought the flesh into subjection, until we grow up in Him. Paul writes in Hebrews 13:20 (Amplified), "Now may the God of Peace (Who is the Author and Giver of Peace), Who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, by the Blood that sealed (ratified), the Everlasting agreement (covenant, testament)."
Resurrection Sunday is the greatest day in all the universe and is the Everlasting covenant between God and Man, through the agreement covenant made between God and the Man, Christ Jesus. Jesus, Who is the Son of man and the Son of God, made covenant with the Father. God made covenant with Himself, through Jesus. This is an unbreakable, eternal covenant and Jesus is the Guarantor of that covenant to all who enter in by faith in Him, our Risen Lamb of God.
Let's always be grateful and thankful, for a Love so great, that He died in our place and made the Way for us to enter into His Place with the Father. We can't hold back because of the failures we make while learning and growing in Him, but we must rest in the Truth that He is the Author and Finisher of our faith and that we will overcome by His Blood. Paul writes in Hebrews 2:13-14 (Amplified), "My trust and assured reliance and confident Hope shall be fixed in Him. And yet again, Here I am, I and the children Whom God has given me. Since therefore, these, His children share in flesh and blood (in the physical nature of human beings). He Himself, in a similar manner partook of the same nature, that by going through death He might bring to nought and make of no effect, him who had the power of death (that is the devil)."
Have a Blessed and Happy Easter!
Friday, April 10, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Lesson 94 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
God furnished everything Adam and Eve would ever need. Everything was complete and given to Adam and Eve. They would live in God's Presence, as His family, and they would never lack anything in their lives. The only thing God required from them, was that they remain in His Presence and have Him in their presence. The honor, praise and worship God wanted from Adam and Eve, was their fellowship and their allowing His Love to surround them. They didn't have a need, in all the time they spent with God, before the fall.
There was no Curse, before Adam's disobedience. The Curse was the result of Adam's transferring the authority God had given him, into the hands of satan. Adam transferred the dominion of man, into the hands of the enemy, according to Genesis 3:17,21 (Amplified) which says, "God said to Adam, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the Tree which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is cursed because of you, in sorrow and toil shall you eat of the fruits of it all the days of your life."
Verse 21 tells us that God killed, shed the blood and took the skins of animals, in order to cover Adam and Eve. Their sacrifice was the first blood to be shed, so that God could cover man's sins for a time. God's family now had sin and death, which caused them to be separated from God and to be strangers to Him. The covering of blood would continue thoughout the entire old covenant. Jesus shed His Blood, in order to fulfill this covenant. His Blood didn't just cover sin, but eradicated it for all who would receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Jesus' Blood redeemed us from the Curs and restored us to God's Blessing again.
The new covenant is an unbreakable covenant and is no longer dependent upon man's ability to keep it. It cannot be broken, because it's made with God's Own Blood. The wages of sin is death, so God took animal blood, to cover and hold back death from Adam and Eve. The blood of animals couldn't remove sin, but only cover it. Death was still the result of sin. Animals had to be continually killed and their blood needed to be continually poured out, in order to cover God's people from the Curse of Sin and of Death. The priest stood daily and offered up the blood of goats and bulls, in order to cover God's people and hold off the Curse from God's people. Jesus' Blood didn't cover sin, but removed it completely. The Law of Sin and Death no longer rules the new creation people of God, because the Very Life of God, His Holy Spirit, now lives in us.
Adam's disobedience and his transferring the Blessing God gave him into the hands of the spirit of death himself, satan, caused us to become strangers to God, instead of sons and daughters. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The theif comes only in order to steal, and kill and to destroy, but I come that you may have Life." The only source of death, is separation from God Himself, Who is Life. God had given Adam the Blessing, dominion and authority, but those things became perverted into a Curse that covered mankind and the earth. Life became death, in satan's hands.
We're witnessing the Curse working upon the earth and it's inhabitants today. We see the grief and heartache of others, who are losing their loved ones to death. If sickness, death, poverty and heartache were God's will, then He would have included them when He created everything. Genesis 1:31 (Amplified) says, "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very Good (suitable and pleasant), and He approved it completely. And there was morning, a sixth day."
Many believers are double-minded and struggle about what God's will, Intent, and purpose is for mankind. We've grown up in a world that is out of order, so we think, "That just how things are" and "It is what it is." This isn't Truth and it's now God's Intention for His people. The earth and the inheritance weren't created this way, but they've become this way as a result of Adam's transgression.
Sickness, death, poverty, separation, murder and things that plague the earth today, were never God's Intention, He is Love. Love would never purposely subject his/her children to these horrible things. We dismiss these things as being, "God's way of teaching us something," by listening to the world's ideas about Who God is. The Holy Spirit, the Five-Fold ministry, God's Word and our new creation person, were and still are God's way of teaching and correcting His children.
Many born-again Christians believe that thes things happening, must be "God's will." Nothing can be farther from the Truth. I see many things happening to both saved and unsaved persons, that I know are not God's will. When we don't know God's will, then we're deceived by the enemy and are no different from the unsaved persons. We have faith and know that we'll spend Eternity with Him, but we put off the other Promises of God, for when we die and leave this earth, because we don't put faith in them.
We don't need authority over satan, when we go to Heaven, because he won't be there. We won't need the Promise of healing when we're in Heaven, because there is no sickness there. The Curse doesn't exist in God's Presence and in His Kingdom, so we won't need the Blessing. These are Promises for here and now, through Jesus Christ. We're already sons and daughters of God and we're joint heirs with Christ. We've been restored back to God's Original Intent for His family. If we don't see God's Word through the Revelation of the Holy Spirit, then we'll only understand by our senses and our natural intellet, not our spirit.
Jesus showed us this Truth in Mark 4, when He gave "The Parable of the Sower." Jesus told us that, "The same Seed that brought forth a hundredfold return, was the same seed that didn't produce anything, when it was on the hard soil or when the weeds of humanity choked it out." There has never been anything wrong with the Seed or the Word, but is the soil or spirit or heart of those who heard it. We've allowed the teachings and ideas of carnal men, to bring the Power of God's Word to naught. We've dismissed most of it as being, "for when we die and leave this earth."
We're struggling to believe and we're doing all we know how, to walk upright before God. But, we've failed to Trust God, in the face of adversity and hard times. Jesus said in Mark 4 that, "Satan comes at once, by force, to take away the Word that wa sown in our hearts." Satan tries to make us quit or give up on God's Word, by using circumstances and others. Jesus stripped satan of all his power and ability, according to Luke 10. The only things satan has now, is deception. If we don't yield to the deception and quit our walk with the Father, then satan cannot keep the Truth of God's Word from producing what God says. We inherit the Promises of God, through faith and patience.
God furnished everything Adam and Eve would ever need. Everything was complete and given to Adam and Eve. They would live in God's Presence, as His family, and they would never lack anything in their lives. The only thing God required from them, was that they remain in His Presence and have Him in their presence. The honor, praise and worship God wanted from Adam and Eve, was their fellowship and their allowing His Love to surround them. They didn't have a need, in all the time they spent with God, before the fall.
There was no Curse, before Adam's disobedience. The Curse was the result of Adam's transferring the authority God had given him, into the hands of satan. Adam transferred the dominion of man, into the hands of the enemy, according to Genesis 3:17,21 (Amplified) which says, "God said to Adam, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the Tree which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is cursed because of you, in sorrow and toil shall you eat of the fruits of it all the days of your life."
Verse 21 tells us that God killed, shed the blood and took the skins of animals, in order to cover Adam and Eve. Their sacrifice was the first blood to be shed, so that God could cover man's sins for a time. God's family now had sin and death, which caused them to be separated from God and to be strangers to Him. The covering of blood would continue thoughout the entire old covenant. Jesus shed His Blood, in order to fulfill this covenant. His Blood didn't just cover sin, but eradicated it for all who would receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Jesus' Blood redeemed us from the Curs and restored us to God's Blessing again.
The new covenant is an unbreakable covenant and is no longer dependent upon man's ability to keep it. It cannot be broken, because it's made with God's Own Blood. The wages of sin is death, so God took animal blood, to cover and hold back death from Adam and Eve. The blood of animals couldn't remove sin, but only cover it. Death was still the result of sin. Animals had to be continually killed and their blood needed to be continually poured out, in order to cover God's people from the Curse of Sin and of Death. The priest stood daily and offered up the blood of goats and bulls, in order to cover God's people and hold off the Curse from God's people. Jesus' Blood didn't cover sin, but removed it completely. The Law of Sin and Death no longer rules the new creation people of God, because the Very Life of God, His Holy Spirit, now lives in us.
Adam's disobedience and his transferring the Blessing God gave him into the hands of the spirit of death himself, satan, caused us to become strangers to God, instead of sons and daughters. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The theif comes only in order to steal, and kill and to destroy, but I come that you may have Life." The only source of death, is separation from God Himself, Who is Life. God had given Adam the Blessing, dominion and authority, but those things became perverted into a Curse that covered mankind and the earth. Life became death, in satan's hands.
We're witnessing the Curse working upon the earth and it's inhabitants today. We see the grief and heartache of others, who are losing their loved ones to death. If sickness, death, poverty and heartache were God's will, then He would have included them when He created everything. Genesis 1:31 (Amplified) says, "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very Good (suitable and pleasant), and He approved it completely. And there was morning, a sixth day."
Many believers are double-minded and struggle about what God's will, Intent, and purpose is for mankind. We've grown up in a world that is out of order, so we think, "That just how things are" and "It is what it is." This isn't Truth and it's now God's Intention for His people. The earth and the inheritance weren't created this way, but they've become this way as a result of Adam's transgression.
Sickness, death, poverty, separation, murder and things that plague the earth today, were never God's Intention, He is Love. Love would never purposely subject his/her children to these horrible things. We dismiss these things as being, "God's way of teaching us something," by listening to the world's ideas about Who God is. The Holy Spirit, the Five-Fold ministry, God's Word and our new creation person, were and still are God's way of teaching and correcting His children.
Many born-again Christians believe that thes things happening, must be "God's will." Nothing can be farther from the Truth. I see many things happening to both saved and unsaved persons, that I know are not God's will. When we don't know God's will, then we're deceived by the enemy and are no different from the unsaved persons. We have faith and know that we'll spend Eternity with Him, but we put off the other Promises of God, for when we die and leave this earth, because we don't put faith in them.
We don't need authority over satan, when we go to Heaven, because he won't be there. We won't need the Promise of healing when we're in Heaven, because there is no sickness there. The Curse doesn't exist in God's Presence and in His Kingdom, so we won't need the Blessing. These are Promises for here and now, through Jesus Christ. We're already sons and daughters of God and we're joint heirs with Christ. We've been restored back to God's Original Intent for His family. If we don't see God's Word through the Revelation of the Holy Spirit, then we'll only understand by our senses and our natural intellet, not our spirit.
Jesus showed us this Truth in Mark 4, when He gave "The Parable of the Sower." Jesus told us that, "The same Seed that brought forth a hundredfold return, was the same seed that didn't produce anything, when it was on the hard soil or when the weeds of humanity choked it out." There has never been anything wrong with the Seed or the Word, but is the soil or spirit or heart of those who heard it. We've allowed the teachings and ideas of carnal men, to bring the Power of God's Word to naught. We've dismissed most of it as being, "for when we die and leave this earth."
We're struggling to believe and we're doing all we know how, to walk upright before God. But, we've failed to Trust God, in the face of adversity and hard times. Jesus said in Mark 4 that, "Satan comes at once, by force, to take away the Word that wa sown in our hearts." Satan tries to make us quit or give up on God's Word, by using circumstances and others. Jesus stripped satan of all his power and ability, according to Luke 10. The only things satan has now, is deception. If we don't yield to the deception and quit our walk with the Father, then satan cannot keep the Truth of God's Word from producing what God says. We inherit the Promises of God, through faith and patience.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Lesson 93 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beast of the fields, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
We can determine from these scriptures, that God's Intention from the beginning, was for His family to be in a position of authority, dominion and under His Blessing. God Intended to be co-owners with His family of the earth and everything on it, for eternity. God Intended for His family to multiply, bringing forth more family who would live under His provision and Blessing forever. The earth was to be a home for God's children to grow and thrive. God Intended His family to be a constant source of joy, fellowship and blessing to the Father.
The Father Intended to oversee the growth of His children in complete joy. The Father held a dream in His heart, that couldn't be denied and His Greatness brought it into fruition. He set things into motion on this planet, including everything in and on it and He never left anything undone. God didn't just make one of everything, but He created an abundance of everything. He didn't create one fish, but made millions of different kinds of fish. God brought forth flowers that had no purpose, other than to please and Bless His children. God created thousands of different kinds of flowers, of different colors and fragrances, in order to please and delight His family.
God fashioned mountains and lakes that held such beauty and majesty, it would take your breath away, so that no matter where His children walked or looked, they could take in their grandeur. Even today, mankind has yet to explore all the depths of the seas and oceans and the creatures that live there. Only the Father could create these things and He did so, just to Bless His children. God created the entire earth and all it's beauty, to forever Bless His family and their children.
This was and is God's Original Plan and Intent for His family and the generations thereafter. The Father's heart of Love wanted to watch over, fellowship with and provide for His family, for eternity. Jesus bought and paid for all of our mistakes and failures, with His Own Blood, because of His Great Love for us. God wouldn't rest, until His family was restored back to Him. We're so unfamiliar with God's Goodness, that we don't run into His arms, rejoicing in His Great Love. We've allowed the world's way of seeing Him, instead of seeing how much it hurts God when we stand outside of His embrace.
God couldn't embrace His son Adam, after the transgression in the Garden. If God had drawn Adam into His arms in his state of sin and death, then it would have destroyed His man forever. No one could come back into God's Presence, because His Holiness and His Power of Being would have destroyed them. Today, many of us hold onto rituals and the training we received from the world, instead of joyfully entering into His Presence. We stand on formalities and ritual, instead of standing in God's Presence as His children, even though the Loving Father gave everything He had, in order to hold us once again.
God is still God Almighty, but He is our very own Father. Mankind didn't come into existence on our own, but we were created by His Love. We weren't trying to force our way into His house, but He became The Door and The Way, so we could come back into His Presence. He became The Light that would lead us home again, where we were made to belong.
We must never forget the reverence and respect that is His as God. We must also never forget that the Creator is also our Father and it was His Plan to create us, to be His family. Honor is due Him at all times. We honor and reverence our earthly fathers, even when we're grown. My oldest son is 58 years old, but before leaving my house or presence, he always hugs me, kisses me, and tells me that he loves me. I believe this is what our Heavenly Father desires. He wants us to enter into His house.
We must never forget that Jesus was and is, the Lord and Presence of God Himself. He was always close to His disciples and showed complete compassion on those around Him. Jesus ate with them, walked with them and fellow shipped with them as friends. They honored Jesus and loved Him as their friend and Messiah and Lord. Jesus must have laughed a lot, because the little children ran to Him and kids don't like grumpy, sour people.
We don't always see the human side of our Lord Jesus as much as we should. We should worship and fellowship with Him, as our Friend. Let's be glad to come before Him on this Resurrection Sunday and see Him as "Father," instead of the One Who can do things for us. Spending time in personal fellowship with Him, is the greatest Revelation anyone can hope for. Most of the Revelation knowledge I've received from the Father, came by talking with Him and asking what He wants us to know about Him.
Paul compares the intimacy of the husband/wife relationship to that of God and the Church, in Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified), saying, "This Mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the Revelation of Christ and the Church." If we spent the same amount of time with our spouses that we do fellowshipping with God, then we wouldn't be married very long. This is an intimate relationship that involves the intermingling of body, soul and spirit, complete in one.
If we spent time hearing and fellowshipping with God, then things in our walk and lives would change. One of my parishioners gave me a belt buckle that says, "On the eighth day, God made a Cowboy." It means a lot to me, when people recognize that I can be myself and still be anointed and be a man of God. We must all be the best us, that we can be, because that's who He created us to be.
We can determine from these scriptures, that God's Intention from the beginning, was for His family to be in a position of authority, dominion and under His Blessing. God Intended to be co-owners with His family of the earth and everything on it, for eternity. God Intended for His family to multiply, bringing forth more family who would live under His provision and Blessing forever. The earth was to be a home for God's children to grow and thrive. God Intended His family to be a constant source of joy, fellowship and blessing to the Father.
The Father Intended to oversee the growth of His children in complete joy. The Father held a dream in His heart, that couldn't be denied and His Greatness brought it into fruition. He set things into motion on this planet, including everything in and on it and He never left anything undone. God didn't just make one of everything, but He created an abundance of everything. He didn't create one fish, but made millions of different kinds of fish. God brought forth flowers that had no purpose, other than to please and Bless His children. God created thousands of different kinds of flowers, of different colors and fragrances, in order to please and delight His family.
God fashioned mountains and lakes that held such beauty and majesty, it would take your breath away, so that no matter where His children walked or looked, they could take in their grandeur. Even today, mankind has yet to explore all the depths of the seas and oceans and the creatures that live there. Only the Father could create these things and He did so, just to Bless His children. God created the entire earth and all it's beauty, to forever Bless His family and their children.
This was and is God's Original Plan and Intent for His family and the generations thereafter. The Father's heart of Love wanted to watch over, fellowship with and provide for His family, for eternity. Jesus bought and paid for all of our mistakes and failures, with His Own Blood, because of His Great Love for us. God wouldn't rest, until His family was restored back to Him. We're so unfamiliar with God's Goodness, that we don't run into His arms, rejoicing in His Great Love. We've allowed the world's way of seeing Him, instead of seeing how much it hurts God when we stand outside of His embrace.
God couldn't embrace His son Adam, after the transgression in the Garden. If God had drawn Adam into His arms in his state of sin and death, then it would have destroyed His man forever. No one could come back into God's Presence, because His Holiness and His Power of Being would have destroyed them. Today, many of us hold onto rituals and the training we received from the world, instead of joyfully entering into His Presence. We stand on formalities and ritual, instead of standing in God's Presence as His children, even though the Loving Father gave everything He had, in order to hold us once again.
God is still God Almighty, but He is our very own Father. Mankind didn't come into existence on our own, but we were created by His Love. We weren't trying to force our way into His house, but He became The Door and The Way, so we could come back into His Presence. He became The Light that would lead us home again, where we were made to belong.
We must never forget the reverence and respect that is His as God. We must also never forget that the Creator is also our Father and it was His Plan to create us, to be His family. Honor is due Him at all times. We honor and reverence our earthly fathers, even when we're grown. My oldest son is 58 years old, but before leaving my house or presence, he always hugs me, kisses me, and tells me that he loves me. I believe this is what our Heavenly Father desires. He wants us to enter into His house.
We must never forget that Jesus was and is, the Lord and Presence of God Himself. He was always close to His disciples and showed complete compassion on those around Him. Jesus ate with them, walked with them and fellow shipped with them as friends. They honored Jesus and loved Him as their friend and Messiah and Lord. Jesus must have laughed a lot, because the little children ran to Him and kids don't like grumpy, sour people.
We don't always see the human side of our Lord Jesus as much as we should. We should worship and fellowship with Him, as our Friend. Let's be glad to come before Him on this Resurrection Sunday and see Him as "Father," instead of the One Who can do things for us. Spending time in personal fellowship with Him, is the greatest Revelation anyone can hope for. Most of the Revelation knowledge I've received from the Father, came by talking with Him and asking what He wants us to know about Him.
Paul compares the intimacy of the husband/wife relationship to that of God and the Church, in Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified), saying, "This Mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the Revelation of Christ and the Church." If we spent the same amount of time with our spouses that we do fellowshipping with God, then we wouldn't be married very long. This is an intimate relationship that involves the intermingling of body, soul and spirit, complete in one.
If we spent time hearing and fellowshipping with God, then things in our walk and lives would change. One of my parishioners gave me a belt buckle that says, "On the eighth day, God made a Cowboy." It means a lot to me, when people recognize that I can be myself and still be anointed and be a man of God. We must all be the best us, that we can be, because that's who He created us to be.
Monday, April 6, 2020
Lesson 92 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This was God's Plan and Intention for mankind, when He created them. Mankind was to have complete authority and dominion over everything in and on the earth. The earth was the home for man's physical body, which was to be compliant with the Spirit. Man's rule was transferred into satan's rule, when Adam transgressed. Mankind fell under demonic rule and spiritual death, at Adam's fall in the Garden. Mankind lost God's Blessing, fellowship with God and even his identity as God's son. Only God and His Great Love and Wisdom, could retrieve mankind and place him back into Spiritual Life and fellowship with Him.
God created a way that would allow Him back into the earth, by finding individuals who would allow Him to move through them. He established Law and sacrifice, in order to temporarily cover mankind's sin and restrain the Law of Sin and of Death for awhile. It was man who brought forth this sin and death, so only the blood and death of a man could actually pay the Price for that sin and death. Sin was transferred to every person through Adam's seed, but no one could pay for his/her sin on our own. Only a Man Who was without sin, could pay for man's sin.
The death, followed by shedding of that animal's blood, covered the payment for mankind's sin, but it required the continual sacrifice of animals to do so. It couldn't restore mankind and pay the price, but it could hold back the fullness of the penalty, for a short time. There was a penalty or Curse that went along with the Law, if it wasn't followed correctly. This Law would allow God to have partial access into man's lives, until He could bring the Promise, Jesus the Lamb of God, into this world.
Those under the Law, weren't born-again, new creations and were still dead in trespass and sin. They never knew the Almighty God as "Father," but only by their flesh. They learned to walk with God, by adhering to and believing to the Law of Moses. If someone violated the Law, then they were left without the blood covering and were open to the Curse that resulted from Adam's sin. Too many of God's family today, still believe they must obey certain laws, in order to be in God's Grace, as His family. They are double-minded and don't understand God's Grace. God doesn't accept sacrifices any longer. We've tried walking with Him by our outer, fleshly man, through works, sacrifices and following our own way. God's Word tells us that "Only faith is pleasing to Him" and we're to "obtain entry by faith and Grace" in (Hebrews 11:6).
Many still expect God to chasten us, like He did under the Law of the old covenant. We don't know Him and try fostering our own Image of God. No one can really "know God," if we don't know Jesus. We might be saved and love Him, but still don't know Him. We're always looking for the other shoe to drop and are awaiting the consequences from our lack of obedience or our failure.
Every new creation child of God should listen carefully to what Jesus said about understanding our Heavenly Father, in John 8:17-19 (Amplified)." Thus, He said, "In your own Law it is written that the testimony (evidence of two persons) is reliable and valid. I Am One of the Two bearing testimony concerning Myself, and My Father, Who sent Me, He also testifies about Me. Then they said to Him, Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also."
God's Intent for us has never changed. Adam's transgression resulted in God's changing the way He dealt with mankind, but His Intention for His family didn't change. Jesus has restored us back to the way God dealt with His family at the beginning and His Intention for His family. He is the same God, but we're not the same people. We don't sacrifice animals and become covered by their blood. We're totally cleansed now, by the Blood of Jesus Christ, God Himself. His Blood doesn't just cover our sins for a period of time. His Blood has removed our sins completely and made us new creatures in Christ Jesus.
If you don't see Jesus, then you can't see the Father. We must know and understand that God doesn't deal with us like He did under the old covenant. We must see ourselves as being totally cleansed and forgiven, through the Sacrifice of Jesus. If we believe that God still deals with us like those under the Law, instead of through the Grace Jesus provided, then we're double-minded. The enemy tries to keep us double-minded about our true identity in Christ, in order to retain his hold over us. James 1:7 (Amplified) says that, "If we're double-minded, then we are unstable, unreliable, dubious and uncertain about everything we think, feel, and decide." We don't know whether to resist or submit, when we don't know if it's God or satan. We can't pray for deliverance in faith, because we don't know if it's God's will or satan's attack. James said, "Let not this man think he will receive anything from the Lord."
A double-minded person might know the God of the old covenant, but not know Him as Father of the family. We stumble and grope like blind men and women, wondering "Why is God doing this to us," when it was the enemy all along. The enemy has impersonated the Father and we don't recognize him, because our spiritual eyes are still blinded by the world and it's ideas of our Father. We've been sold a bill of good, that comes from the religious minds of men and women who don't know our Heavenly Father, anymore than those of the old covenant did.
The Church has substituted this deception, for Truth. We've allowed ourselves to be seduced by the same lie that caused Adam's downfall. We've listened to the voices of others, instead of listening to the Holy Spirit. We are angered when someone opposes or challenges the old religious order of things. God gave Adam authority and dominion over the earth and everything on and in it. Adam allowed satan into his place of Blessing and security. Through Jesus, we've been restored back into this place of authority over the earth and everything on and in it. James 4:7 (Amplified) tells us to, "Resist the devil and he will flee from us." We have the Name and authority of Jesus Christ to set things back into God's Order.
Paul writes about the Armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-18 (Amplified). Verse 11 says, "The armor of a heavy armed soldier which God supplies." God has supplied His Army of believers with the Armor of God, but we have to put it on. We can't fight a battle, if we don't know whether it's coming from God or satan. We have put on the Helmet of Salvation, but there's more. Paul tells us to put on the Belt of Truth in Verse 14. If we don't know the Truth that we've been made righteous in Christ Jesus, then we can't put on the Breastplate of Righteousness. We're to shod our feet with the Good News of the Peace with God, but if we don't know the Truth that Jesus is our Peace Offering and God is now at peace with us, then we're fighting without boots. Verse 15 tells us that, "The covering from the Shield of Faith, will quench the missiles of satan. If we're double-minded, then we are walking in faith. Paul says that without the Sword of Faith (weapon), you don't know "God's will, purpose, plan or intent for you, as a child of God and a king or a priest."
God's Church has walked far too long, in the belief that, "Whatever happens is God's will." Jesus is God's will and God's Person, in our lives. If Jesus didn't do something, then God doesn't do it. If Jesus did it, then our Father does it. They are the Same. During His earthly ministry, Jesus never put sickness, disease, brokenness, early death, heartache or calamity on people. The Father will never do these things either.
This was God's Plan and Intention for mankind, when He created them. Mankind was to have complete authority and dominion over everything in and on the earth. The earth was the home for man's physical body, which was to be compliant with the Spirit. Man's rule was transferred into satan's rule, when Adam transgressed. Mankind fell under demonic rule and spiritual death, at Adam's fall in the Garden. Mankind lost God's Blessing, fellowship with God and even his identity as God's son. Only God and His Great Love and Wisdom, could retrieve mankind and place him back into Spiritual Life and fellowship with Him.
God created a way that would allow Him back into the earth, by finding individuals who would allow Him to move through them. He established Law and sacrifice, in order to temporarily cover mankind's sin and restrain the Law of Sin and of Death for awhile. It was man who brought forth this sin and death, so only the blood and death of a man could actually pay the Price for that sin and death. Sin was transferred to every person through Adam's seed, but no one could pay for his/her sin on our own. Only a Man Who was without sin, could pay for man's sin.
The death, followed by shedding of that animal's blood, covered the payment for mankind's sin, but it required the continual sacrifice of animals to do so. It couldn't restore mankind and pay the price, but it could hold back the fullness of the penalty, for a short time. There was a penalty or Curse that went along with the Law, if it wasn't followed correctly. This Law would allow God to have partial access into man's lives, until He could bring the Promise, Jesus the Lamb of God, into this world.
Those under the Law, weren't born-again, new creations and were still dead in trespass and sin. They never knew the Almighty God as "Father," but only by their flesh. They learned to walk with God, by adhering to and believing to the Law of Moses. If someone violated the Law, then they were left without the blood covering and were open to the Curse that resulted from Adam's sin. Too many of God's family today, still believe they must obey certain laws, in order to be in God's Grace, as His family. They are double-minded and don't understand God's Grace. God doesn't accept sacrifices any longer. We've tried walking with Him by our outer, fleshly man, through works, sacrifices and following our own way. God's Word tells us that "Only faith is pleasing to Him" and we're to "obtain entry by faith and Grace" in (Hebrews 11:6).
Many still expect God to chasten us, like He did under the Law of the old covenant. We don't know Him and try fostering our own Image of God. No one can really "know God," if we don't know Jesus. We might be saved and love Him, but still don't know Him. We're always looking for the other shoe to drop and are awaiting the consequences from our lack of obedience or our failure.
Every new creation child of God should listen carefully to what Jesus said about understanding our Heavenly Father, in John 8:17-19 (Amplified)." Thus, He said, "In your own Law it is written that the testimony (evidence of two persons) is reliable and valid. I Am One of the Two bearing testimony concerning Myself, and My Father, Who sent Me, He also testifies about Me. Then they said to Him, Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also."
God's Intent for us has never changed. Adam's transgression resulted in God's changing the way He dealt with mankind, but His Intention for His family didn't change. Jesus has restored us back to the way God dealt with His family at the beginning and His Intention for His family. He is the same God, but we're not the same people. We don't sacrifice animals and become covered by their blood. We're totally cleansed now, by the Blood of Jesus Christ, God Himself. His Blood doesn't just cover our sins for a period of time. His Blood has removed our sins completely and made us new creatures in Christ Jesus.
If you don't see Jesus, then you can't see the Father. We must know and understand that God doesn't deal with us like He did under the old covenant. We must see ourselves as being totally cleansed and forgiven, through the Sacrifice of Jesus. If we believe that God still deals with us like those under the Law, instead of through the Grace Jesus provided, then we're double-minded. The enemy tries to keep us double-minded about our true identity in Christ, in order to retain his hold over us. James 1:7 (Amplified) says that, "If we're double-minded, then we are unstable, unreliable, dubious and uncertain about everything we think, feel, and decide." We don't know whether to resist or submit, when we don't know if it's God or satan. We can't pray for deliverance in faith, because we don't know if it's God's will or satan's attack. James said, "Let not this man think he will receive anything from the Lord."
A double-minded person might know the God of the old covenant, but not know Him as Father of the family. We stumble and grope like blind men and women, wondering "Why is God doing this to us," when it was the enemy all along. The enemy has impersonated the Father and we don't recognize him, because our spiritual eyes are still blinded by the world and it's ideas of our Father. We've been sold a bill of good, that comes from the religious minds of men and women who don't know our Heavenly Father, anymore than those of the old covenant did.
The Church has substituted this deception, for Truth. We've allowed ourselves to be seduced by the same lie that caused Adam's downfall. We've listened to the voices of others, instead of listening to the Holy Spirit. We are angered when someone opposes or challenges the old religious order of things. God gave Adam authority and dominion over the earth and everything on and in it. Adam allowed satan into his place of Blessing and security. Through Jesus, we've been restored back into this place of authority over the earth and everything on and in it. James 4:7 (Amplified) tells us to, "Resist the devil and he will flee from us." We have the Name and authority of Jesus Christ to set things back into God's Order.
Paul writes about the Armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-18 (Amplified). Verse 11 says, "The armor of a heavy armed soldier which God supplies." God has supplied His Army of believers with the Armor of God, but we have to put it on. We can't fight a battle, if we don't know whether it's coming from God or satan. We have put on the Helmet of Salvation, but there's more. Paul tells us to put on the Belt of Truth in Verse 14. If we don't know the Truth that we've been made righteous in Christ Jesus, then we can't put on the Breastplate of Righteousness. We're to shod our feet with the Good News of the Peace with God, but if we don't know the Truth that Jesus is our Peace Offering and God is now at peace with us, then we're fighting without boots. Verse 15 tells us that, "The covering from the Shield of Faith, will quench the missiles of satan. If we're double-minded, then we are walking in faith. Paul says that without the Sword of Faith (weapon), you don't know "God's will, purpose, plan or intent for you, as a child of God and a king or a priest."
God's Church has walked far too long, in the belief that, "Whatever happens is God's will." Jesus is God's will and God's Person, in our lives. If Jesus didn't do something, then God doesn't do it. If Jesus did it, then our Father does it. They are the Same. During His earthly ministry, Jesus never put sickness, disease, brokenness, early death, heartache or calamity on people. The Father will never do these things either.
Friday, April 3, 2020
Lesson 91 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
God created or birthed a family, when He made mankind. He didn't make a Test Dummy, in order to see if mankind could measure up to His Greatness. God created a family, who knew neither good or bad. God would teach His children, by His Word and His very Presence. Every child makes mistakes while growing up, but we eventually do grow up. The parent's job is to love and teach their children the right way to be. Our Heavenly Father was and is, no different. Adam and Eve weren't made "all knowing," but had the ability to come to know all things, because they were made in God's Image and Likeness.
God planned to walk with and teach His family for eternity, but then sin and death entered the Garden, as a result of Adam's transgression. Genesis 2:19-20 (Amplified) says, "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every wild beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was it's name. And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air, and to every wild beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper (meet, suitable, adapted), complimentary for him."
God was raising His family and teaching them how to see the differences in all the creation He had made for them. God allowed His son, Adam to name all of the things He had made. God accepted whatever title Adam gave them. This is the loving, raising and training of a Loving Parent towards His children. I'm not sure that anyone today, could name all the beasts of the field or the birds of the air, but Adam had the mind and wisdom of His Father, because He was made in God's Image and Likeness.
We've been taught that God uses sickness, hardship, disease, and the death of a loved one, to teach us and to try our faith. This deception comes in part, from the way God had to deal with the old covenant people, who were spiritually dead and ruled by sin and death. God had to teach or deal with mankind from the outside (the flesh), because man was spiritually dead and separated from God in the spirit. God established a way to still Bless and provide for mankind, but it needed to be based on man's ability to keep certain Laws that God provided. If someone broke the Law, then the Blessing wouldn't work for them. God made sacrifices available for them to return to the place of His Blessing. All of the old covenant was based on man's ability and performance, in order to be Blessed.
We're no longer separated from God in the spirit, but have been to be one spirit, in and with Jesus. This is the new covenant we enjoy through Jesus. We have become one in Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, according to Ephesians 5:1 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow His Example, as well-beloved children imitate their father." Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's Own handiwork, His workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus, born anew that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us taking paths which He prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live."
This scripture show us what God's Original Intent truly was and still is, for His children to be and live in. Through Jesus' Sacrifice, the Father brought us back to the place He intended for His children, as though Adam had never sinned. God can now walk with, talk with, fellowship with and teach His family, like He did before the fall of Adam.
God was teaching and training Adam how to live his new life, before Adam sinned. Adam didn't know how to walk or how to be God's son. Adam was made fully grown, but he was still unlearned and untaught about how to live and walk with God, as His son. Adam had God's Word (Jesus) and His Spirit to teach him.
We're new creations in Christ and must learn how to walk with God too, just like Adam did. We have God's Word and His Spirit to lead, guide and teach us "God's way of doing and being right." We haven't learned what God's Original Intent for His family is. We've been taught from man's ideas, the world's ideas and religion, which put us in the place where God governs us like He did those who aren't new creations, but are still fallen men/women. We've been learning by the flesh, instead of the Spirit and have accepted sickness and hardship, as being "God teaching us."
This is contrary to what Jesus taught or said, about our growing and learning from the Father in John 16:13-15 (Amplified), where Jesus says, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father; He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future). He will honor and Glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He, the Spirit, will take the things that are Mine, and will reveal (declare disclose, transmit), it to you."
When Jesus spoke about "the things that are to come and will happen in the future," He wasn't just speaking about The Book of Revelation and the End Times. The Holy Spirit hadn't come yet, because Jesus hadn't died yet. The new creation man/woman and the Church weren't present in the world yet. The Holy Spirit is to be our Teacher. He is the One Who will teach us who we have become now, in Jesus. He came to reveal the Father and bring us back to the place where God had prepared for us, in the beginning.
We can only know our Heavenly Father, through God's Word and His Spirit. The world has distorted His Image in the minds of God's children, so we don't really know Him at all. We don't know God's will, His intent, His Voice or His teachings for us. We haven't differentiated between how God dealt with the old covenant people who were spiritually dead and separated from His Spirit, and how He deals with the new creatures in Christ Jesus, who've been made Righteous by the Blood of Jesus and restored by Grace as God's family. We're not under Law, but live by faith in what Jesus did for us and not by our own works.
Satan tries to stop the Church from walking in faith. James 1:5-8 (Amplified) says, "If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God, Who gives to all men liberally and ungrudgingly without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given to him. Only it must be in faith that he asks, with no wavering ( no hesitation, no doubting), For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts), is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord. For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels and decides."
If we don't know the difference between the God of the old covenant and the Father of the new covenant, then you are double-minded and uncertain about everything you know about Him.
God created or birthed a family, when He made mankind. He didn't make a Test Dummy, in order to see if mankind could measure up to His Greatness. God created a family, who knew neither good or bad. God would teach His children, by His Word and His very Presence. Every child makes mistakes while growing up, but we eventually do grow up. The parent's job is to love and teach their children the right way to be. Our Heavenly Father was and is, no different. Adam and Eve weren't made "all knowing," but had the ability to come to know all things, because they were made in God's Image and Likeness.
God planned to walk with and teach His family for eternity, but then sin and death entered the Garden, as a result of Adam's transgression. Genesis 2:19-20 (Amplified) says, "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every wild beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was it's name. And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air, and to every wild beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper (meet, suitable, adapted), complimentary for him."
God was raising His family and teaching them how to see the differences in all the creation He had made for them. God allowed His son, Adam to name all of the things He had made. God accepted whatever title Adam gave them. This is the loving, raising and training of a Loving Parent towards His children. I'm not sure that anyone today, could name all the beasts of the field or the birds of the air, but Adam had the mind and wisdom of His Father, because He was made in God's Image and Likeness.
We've been taught that God uses sickness, hardship, disease, and the death of a loved one, to teach us and to try our faith. This deception comes in part, from the way God had to deal with the old covenant people, who were spiritually dead and ruled by sin and death. God had to teach or deal with mankind from the outside (the flesh), because man was spiritually dead and separated from God in the spirit. God established a way to still Bless and provide for mankind, but it needed to be based on man's ability to keep certain Laws that God provided. If someone broke the Law, then the Blessing wouldn't work for them. God made sacrifices available for them to return to the place of His Blessing. All of the old covenant was based on man's ability and performance, in order to be Blessed.
We're no longer separated from God in the spirit, but have been to be one spirit, in and with Jesus. This is the new covenant we enjoy through Jesus. We have become one in Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, according to Ephesians 5:1 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow His Example, as well-beloved children imitate their father." Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's Own handiwork, His workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus, born anew that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us taking paths which He prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live."
This scripture show us what God's Original Intent truly was and still is, for His children to be and live in. Through Jesus' Sacrifice, the Father brought us back to the place He intended for His children, as though Adam had never sinned. God can now walk with, talk with, fellowship with and teach His family, like He did before the fall of Adam.
God was teaching and training Adam how to live his new life, before Adam sinned. Adam didn't know how to walk or how to be God's son. Adam was made fully grown, but he was still unlearned and untaught about how to live and walk with God, as His son. Adam had God's Word (Jesus) and His Spirit to teach him.
We're new creations in Christ and must learn how to walk with God too, just like Adam did. We have God's Word and His Spirit to lead, guide and teach us "God's way of doing and being right." We haven't learned what God's Original Intent for His family is. We've been taught from man's ideas, the world's ideas and religion, which put us in the place where God governs us like He did those who aren't new creations, but are still fallen men/women. We've been learning by the flesh, instead of the Spirit and have accepted sickness and hardship, as being "God teaching us."
This is contrary to what Jesus taught or said, about our growing and learning from the Father in John 16:13-15 (Amplified), where Jesus says, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father; He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future). He will honor and Glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He, the Spirit, will take the things that are Mine, and will reveal (declare disclose, transmit), it to you."
When Jesus spoke about "the things that are to come and will happen in the future," He wasn't just speaking about The Book of Revelation and the End Times. The Holy Spirit hadn't come yet, because Jesus hadn't died yet. The new creation man/woman and the Church weren't present in the world yet. The Holy Spirit is to be our Teacher. He is the One Who will teach us who we have become now, in Jesus. He came to reveal the Father and bring us back to the place where God had prepared for us, in the beginning.
We can only know our Heavenly Father, through God's Word and His Spirit. The world has distorted His Image in the minds of God's children, so we don't really know Him at all. We don't know God's will, His intent, His Voice or His teachings for us. We haven't differentiated between how God dealt with the old covenant people who were spiritually dead and separated from His Spirit, and how He deals with the new creatures in Christ Jesus, who've been made Righteous by the Blood of Jesus and restored by Grace as God's family. We're not under Law, but live by faith in what Jesus did for us and not by our own works.
Satan tries to stop the Church from walking in faith. James 1:5-8 (Amplified) says, "If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God, Who gives to all men liberally and ungrudgingly without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given to him. Only it must be in faith that he asks, with no wavering ( no hesitation, no doubting), For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts), is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord. For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels and decides."
If we don't know the difference between the God of the old covenant and the Father of the new covenant, then you are double-minded and uncertain about everything you know about Him.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Lesson 90 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts of the fields, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, using all it vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
God's Original Intention for His man and His family, was to fill the earth and have authority and dominion over everything on it and in it. Jesus came as a Man, walked with God without breaking the Law of Moses, and held the authority and dominion over everything that crept upon the earth. Through our faith and obedience in Jesus' work, we walk too, without breaking the Law.
Through Him, we're now qualified again for God's Blessing and we've returned to the Intent God had for us in the beginning. It's not up to us to fulfill the Law, we only must trust in the One Who did. It's not up to us to take back the authority satan usurped from Adam, but we must trust in the ability of Jesus, Who took it back. It's not up to us to redeem ourselves from the Curse of the Law, but to only trust Jesus with it. It's not up to us to "become" righteous, but to accept Jesus' Righteousness and Trust in the work He did for us. It's not up to us to cover our sins with the blood of goats and bulls, but we must trust in the Blood of Jesus Christ to eradicate our sins for us. It's not up to us to be healed, but to trust in the stripes Jesus took on His back, to manifest our healing for us.
In this day and age of salvation, God only requires us to believe that the Man, Jesus Christ has returned us back to God's Original Intent. God gave this Blessing and authority to a man, Adam and the Man, Jesus Christ has taken it back and delivered it to "Whomsoever will believe." Our salvation is so much more than just being with God after we die. It's God being with us here, on the earth He created for us. It's walking like the Last Adam walked here on earth, in the restored Blessing and authority God gave man in the beginning.
Jesus returned everything Adam gave over to satan, including the authority over satan. Since satan "creeps upon the earth," he is also under the God-given authority that Jesus returned to the man/woman who will receive and believe what Jesus said and did. Jesus didn't take back this authority for Himself, because He was never under the authority of satan. He did it for us. Most of us have never truly understood what Jesus did, when He took away in in our lives. Adam's sin caused man to be separated from our Heavenly Father and man couldn't remove sin and death on our own. It required a Man, Who was without sin, to pay for the sins that separated mankind from God. The Word tells us that "All had sinned and come short of the Glory of God." We were all born in sin and couldn't come into God's Glory. God's Glory couldn't come into mankind either, before Jesus.
When we put faith in that Jesus became sin with our sin on Calvary, then we became sin in Him. When our sin was removed in Jesus, then we could come into a place with our Father, like He intended in the beginning. God's Blessing was restored, the authority returned by the Power of His Name and our relationship with our Father was back in place. Jesus brought us back as God's Own family, as though Adam had never failed and things are like God Intended from the beginning, according to Genesis 1:26-28.
Most of us have never seen the Truth of our salvation and have believed that "we're old sinners, saved by Grace." We were old sinners and by Grace we were saved and in Jesus, we've been restored back to God's Own family members. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. This means that like Jesus is, we're what the Father created us to be from the start. This isn't arrogance, but true faith in the One Who actually paid for all that had separated mankind from the Father. He Loved us so much and enough, to pray the entire bill that was against us. When we see the word, "Redeemed," it means "bought back." The price of our redemption was high and we could never pay it on our own. Sin took us from God and that cost needed to be paid, in order to restore us back to Him. We inherited the sin nature from our natural father, Adam. It was born into us, by his seed. God needed a Man, Who was born without Adam's natural seed and Who was born from a sinless Seed, the Word of God.
The Holy Spirit planted the Seed in Mary and Jesus became flesh, a Man born without sin Who would die in our place and restore God's family back to Him. God had given man this place from the beginning, but Adam lost it. A Man had to recover it and this Man was Jesus. He perfectly redeemed us by His Own Sacrifice. In Him, we're now supposed to do what we were first created to do and be. We're to use the authority and dominion that Jesus restored to us in His Name, to bring things back into God's Own Order. We're to preach salvation to the lost, give faith to the fearful and have authority over all the earth, to take dominion and put things back into God's Order.
Many will believe this is being puffed up in pride, but those who can "see," it's the Power of the Gospel or Good News in Christ Jesus. Psalm 107:1-2 (Amplified) says, "O give thanks to the Lord, for He is Good; for His mercy and Loving Kindness endure forever. Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary."
Only those who are in Christ Jesus, can say this, because our Redemption is in Him. The above scripture tells us that, "We have NOW been redeemed from the hand of the adversary." Now means now, while we're living here on earth. The Church has heard and believed the words of the world so long, that we're afraid to say what God has told us to say. We don't want people to think we're boastful and prideful, by saying what God says. It's not being these things, but it's Truth in what Jesus has done and having faith in the Redemption He has provided us. We can't discount the Awesome Price Jesus paid to buy us back, saying, "His Sacrifice wasn't enough to redeem us." This is denying the Power of Calvary.
The Father never left anything to chance, when He sent Jesus. Jesus was more than enough to bring us back to God's Original Intent. Jesus did this so we can fellowship with the Father again and so the Father could be in union with His family again. We still insist on staying outside of God's Presence though and remain separated from Him, by our human pride and foolishness. Only faith in Him can override the pride and guilt, satan tries to put on us by religion. Religion is man's idea of God and it's held us in a place of guilt and shame over who we were. It's prevented us from seeing who Jesus has made us to be. Romans 8:1-3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, there is NOW no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who lives and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death. For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit), Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh (subdued it and overcame and deprived it of its power over all that accept that Sacrifice)."
Have you accepted that Sacrifice? If you have, then don't allow the dictates of the flesh to tell you that, "You are not acceptable to God" or that, "You're not redeemed from the enemy."
God's Original Intention for His man and His family, was to fill the earth and have authority and dominion over everything on it and in it. Jesus came as a Man, walked with God without breaking the Law of Moses, and held the authority and dominion over everything that crept upon the earth. Through our faith and obedience in Jesus' work, we walk too, without breaking the Law.
Through Him, we're now qualified again for God's Blessing and we've returned to the Intent God had for us in the beginning. It's not up to us to fulfill the Law, we only must trust in the One Who did. It's not up to us to take back the authority satan usurped from Adam, but we must trust in the ability of Jesus, Who took it back. It's not up to us to redeem ourselves from the Curse of the Law, but to only trust Jesus with it. It's not up to us to "become" righteous, but to accept Jesus' Righteousness and Trust in the work He did for us. It's not up to us to cover our sins with the blood of goats and bulls, but we must trust in the Blood of Jesus Christ to eradicate our sins for us. It's not up to us to be healed, but to trust in the stripes Jesus took on His back, to manifest our healing for us.
In this day and age of salvation, God only requires us to believe that the Man, Jesus Christ has returned us back to God's Original Intent. God gave this Blessing and authority to a man, Adam and the Man, Jesus Christ has taken it back and delivered it to "Whomsoever will believe." Our salvation is so much more than just being with God after we die. It's God being with us here, on the earth He created for us. It's walking like the Last Adam walked here on earth, in the restored Blessing and authority God gave man in the beginning.
Jesus returned everything Adam gave over to satan, including the authority over satan. Since satan "creeps upon the earth," he is also under the God-given authority that Jesus returned to the man/woman who will receive and believe what Jesus said and did. Jesus didn't take back this authority for Himself, because He was never under the authority of satan. He did it for us. Most of us have never truly understood what Jesus did, when He took away in in our lives. Adam's sin caused man to be separated from our Heavenly Father and man couldn't remove sin and death on our own. It required a Man, Who was without sin, to pay for the sins that separated mankind from God. The Word tells us that "All had sinned and come short of the Glory of God." We were all born in sin and couldn't come into God's Glory. God's Glory couldn't come into mankind either, before Jesus.
When we put faith in that Jesus became sin with our sin on Calvary, then we became sin in Him. When our sin was removed in Jesus, then we could come into a place with our Father, like He intended in the beginning. God's Blessing was restored, the authority returned by the Power of His Name and our relationship with our Father was back in place. Jesus brought us back as God's Own family, as though Adam had never failed and things are like God Intended from the beginning, according to Genesis 1:26-28.
Most of us have never seen the Truth of our salvation and have believed that "we're old sinners, saved by Grace." We were old sinners and by Grace we were saved and in Jesus, we've been restored back to God's Own family members. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. This means that like Jesus is, we're what the Father created us to be from the start. This isn't arrogance, but true faith in the One Who actually paid for all that had separated mankind from the Father. He Loved us so much and enough, to pray the entire bill that was against us. When we see the word, "Redeemed," it means "bought back." The price of our redemption was high and we could never pay it on our own. Sin took us from God and that cost needed to be paid, in order to restore us back to Him. We inherited the sin nature from our natural father, Adam. It was born into us, by his seed. God needed a Man, Who was born without Adam's natural seed and Who was born from a sinless Seed, the Word of God.
The Holy Spirit planted the Seed in Mary and Jesus became flesh, a Man born without sin Who would die in our place and restore God's family back to Him. God had given man this place from the beginning, but Adam lost it. A Man had to recover it and this Man was Jesus. He perfectly redeemed us by His Own Sacrifice. In Him, we're now supposed to do what we were first created to do and be. We're to use the authority and dominion that Jesus restored to us in His Name, to bring things back into God's Own Order. We're to preach salvation to the lost, give faith to the fearful and have authority over all the earth, to take dominion and put things back into God's Order.
Many will believe this is being puffed up in pride, but those who can "see," it's the Power of the Gospel or Good News in Christ Jesus. Psalm 107:1-2 (Amplified) says, "O give thanks to the Lord, for He is Good; for His mercy and Loving Kindness endure forever. Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary."
Only those who are in Christ Jesus, can say this, because our Redemption is in Him. The above scripture tells us that, "We have NOW been redeemed from the hand of the adversary." Now means now, while we're living here on earth. The Church has heard and believed the words of the world so long, that we're afraid to say what God has told us to say. We don't want people to think we're boastful and prideful, by saying what God says. It's not being these things, but it's Truth in what Jesus has done and having faith in the Redemption He has provided us. We can't discount the Awesome Price Jesus paid to buy us back, saying, "His Sacrifice wasn't enough to redeem us." This is denying the Power of Calvary.
The Father never left anything to chance, when He sent Jesus. Jesus was more than enough to bring us back to God's Original Intent. Jesus did this so we can fellowship with the Father again and so the Father could be in union with His family again. We still insist on staying outside of God's Presence though and remain separated from Him, by our human pride and foolishness. Only faith in Him can override the pride and guilt, satan tries to put on us by religion. Religion is man's idea of God and it's held us in a place of guilt and shame over who we were. It's prevented us from seeing who Jesus has made us to be. Romans 8:1-3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, there is NOW no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who lives and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death. For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit), Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh (subdued it and overcame and deprived it of its power over all that accept that Sacrifice)."
Have you accepted that Sacrifice? If you have, then don't allow the dictates of the flesh to tell you that, "You are not acceptable to God" or that, "You're not redeemed from the enemy."
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Lesson 89 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. And God Blessed them and said to them; Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
God intended for the First Adam to "be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue it." Adam was to bring forth the children of God, into God's family and His delight. God would be able to walk with them, provide for them and Bless them. God's heart desired to fellowship and partner with His children. The Last Adam, Jesus did exactly that and even more. Adam's seed was a natural seed that was to produce children in a natural body. Their natural bodies made it possible for them to enjoy the natural world or home that God created for them.
We are a new creation family, who were created new through and by Jesus, The Seed. We bare the First Adam's natural, mortal image, which came from the dust of the earth, as his seeds. We're also the seed of the Last Adam, Jesus and bare His Image, as a living spirit housed in our natural bodies. 1Corinthians 15:45-48 (Amplified) says, "Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam Christ, became a Life-Giving Spirit, restoring the dead to Life. but it is not the Spiritual Life which came first, but the physical and then the Spiritual. The first man was from out of earth (made of dust, earthly minded); the Second Man is the Lord from out of Heaven. Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly minded); and as is the Man from Heaven, so also are those who are of Heaven (Heavenly minded)."
Romans 8:9 (Amplified) says, "But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the Life of the Spirit, if the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you (directs and controls you). But if anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he is none of His (he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God). But if Christ lives in you, then although your natural body is dead by reason of sin and guilt; the spirit is alive because of the Righteousness that He imputes to you."
Everything God intended for His family through the First Adam, has now become reality in our lives, through the Last Adam, Jesus. Healing is no longer a Promise, but is a Truth in Jesus. 1Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) tells us that, "When we received Jesus as our Savior and Lord, "All [God's] Promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, to God's Glory." They are ours already. We still identify more with the natural man/woman, than with the new creation person of the spirit. We dwell in a natural body, but we Live after the Spirit. Our entire being is now to be led by and controlled by our spirit, which is infused in the Holy Spirit.
In the old covenant of days past, man could only receive the Holy Spirit from the outside anointing. In these Last days, God's new covenant family has the Holy Spirit and Anointing living within us and infused into our very own born-again spirit. We don't receive from the outside or flesh, but we're led by the Holy Spirit Who lives within us. Our spirit is the be led by God's Word and His Spirit. We function in this world by listening to God's Word and Spirit, but we're not of this world.
Jesus had a natural Body like we do, but He was led from within, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me, Who does the work." This is how the new creation children of God are supposed to operate. We still live in the flesh, but we don't walk after the flesh. Jesus had a Body, in order to eat, sleep, bathe and function in this natural realm, but He never allowed it to dominate His Spirit Man. When we study Jesus, during His earthly ministry, we can see God's Intention for the family He created in His Own Image and Likeness at the beginning. God intended the Spirit realm to be the dominate realm and to rule over the earthly realm. God gave mankind to have complete authority over the earth and everything that creeps upon it.
Everything was created by the Spirit and was made subject to the Spirit. As God's family, we're to have complete authority over everything the Spirit created on and in the earth, by our spirit. This planet and the natural things on it, were and now are again, under the authority of the new creation family of God. Even the weather and animals are once again subject to the new family of God, by the authority of the Name of Jesus.
The authority God gave to the First Adam, has now been restored to us, through Jesus. We've been placed back into God's Original Intent. We've never seen anyone walk in this God-given authority and have never learned to walk in it. The Spirit always had the authority, even in the old covenant. At that time, only kings, priests and prophets had the Holy Spirit Anointing to rule and have power. This has now been extended to all who are born-again, according to 1Peter 2:9-10 (Amplified) which says, "But you are a chosen race; a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation. God's Own purchased special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and the perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His Marvelous Light. Once you were not a people at all, but now you are God's people; Once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy."
God intended for the First Adam to "be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue it." Adam was to bring forth the children of God, into God's family and His delight. God would be able to walk with them, provide for them and Bless them. God's heart desired to fellowship and partner with His children. The Last Adam, Jesus did exactly that and even more. Adam's seed was a natural seed that was to produce children in a natural body. Their natural bodies made it possible for them to enjoy the natural world or home that God created for them.
We are a new creation family, who were created new through and by Jesus, The Seed. We bare the First Adam's natural, mortal image, which came from the dust of the earth, as his seeds. We're also the seed of the Last Adam, Jesus and bare His Image, as a living spirit housed in our natural bodies. 1Corinthians 15:45-48 (Amplified) says, "Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam Christ, became a Life-Giving Spirit, restoring the dead to Life. but it is not the Spiritual Life which came first, but the physical and then the Spiritual. The first man was from out of earth (made of dust, earthly minded); the Second Man is the Lord from out of Heaven. Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly minded); and as is the Man from Heaven, so also are those who are of Heaven (Heavenly minded)."
Romans 8:9 (Amplified) says, "But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the Life of the Spirit, if the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you (directs and controls you). But if anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he is none of His (he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God). But if Christ lives in you, then although your natural body is dead by reason of sin and guilt; the spirit is alive because of the Righteousness that He imputes to you."
Everything God intended for His family through the First Adam, has now become reality in our lives, through the Last Adam, Jesus. Healing is no longer a Promise, but is a Truth in Jesus. 1Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) tells us that, "When we received Jesus as our Savior and Lord, "All [God's] Promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, to God's Glory." They are ours already. We still identify more with the natural man/woman, than with the new creation person of the spirit. We dwell in a natural body, but we Live after the Spirit. Our entire being is now to be led by and controlled by our spirit, which is infused in the Holy Spirit.
In the old covenant of days past, man could only receive the Holy Spirit from the outside anointing. In these Last days, God's new covenant family has the Holy Spirit and Anointing living within us and infused into our very own born-again spirit. We don't receive from the outside or flesh, but we're led by the Holy Spirit Who lives within us. Our spirit is the be led by God's Word and His Spirit. We function in this world by listening to God's Word and Spirit, but we're not of this world.
Jesus had a natural Body like we do, but He was led from within, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me, Who does the work." This is how the new creation children of God are supposed to operate. We still live in the flesh, but we don't walk after the flesh. Jesus had a Body, in order to eat, sleep, bathe and function in this natural realm, but He never allowed it to dominate His Spirit Man. When we study Jesus, during His earthly ministry, we can see God's Intention for the family He created in His Own Image and Likeness at the beginning. God intended the Spirit realm to be the dominate realm and to rule over the earthly realm. God gave mankind to have complete authority over the earth and everything that creeps upon it.
Everything was created by the Spirit and was made subject to the Spirit. As God's family, we're to have complete authority over everything the Spirit created on and in the earth, by our spirit. This planet and the natural things on it, were and now are again, under the authority of the new creation family of God. Even the weather and animals are once again subject to the new family of God, by the authority of the Name of Jesus.
The authority God gave to the First Adam, has now been restored to us, through Jesus. We've been placed back into God's Original Intent. We've never seen anyone walk in this God-given authority and have never learned to walk in it. The Spirit always had the authority, even in the old covenant. At that time, only kings, priests and prophets had the Holy Spirit Anointing to rule and have power. This has now been extended to all who are born-again, according to 1Peter 2:9-10 (Amplified) which says, "But you are a chosen race; a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation. God's Own purchased special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and the perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His Marvelous Light. Once you were not a people at all, but now you are God's people; Once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy."
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Lesson 88 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts of the field, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
Jesus is God and Man, and as a Man He took back the complete authority, dominion, and Blessing that the Father pronounced on His family, in the beginning. Hebrews 1:2 (Amplified) says, "But in the Last of these days He has spoken unto us in the Person of a Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time. He made (produced, built, operated) and arranged them in order."
Romans 8:16-17,18 (Amplified) says, "The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs (joint heirs) with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
The suffering Jesus bore on Calvary's cross was ours and not His. Jesus bore this suffering, so that we would no longer owe the penalty for sin and death. The suffering we share with Him, is the rejection and misunderstanding by the world and the things of the world. Paul goes onto to explain this suffering in Verse 18, saying, "But what of that? For I consider that the suffering of this present time (this present life), are not worth being compared with the Glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us."
Paul wasn't speaking only about after we leave this earth, but said that it's to be revealed to us, and in us, and for us and conferred on us, while we're still here on earth. We have inherited the Glory, with Jesus. Jesus took back everything Adam lost and He conferred it upon us, while we're still here on earth. Through Jesus, we have the ability to bring many sons and daughters unto Glory for God. Hebrews 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For it was an act worthy of God, and fitting to the Divine nature that He, for Whose sake and by Whom all things have their existence, in bringing many sons into Glory, should make the pioneer of the salvation perfect, should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to be perfectly equipped for His Office as High Priest through suffering."
Jesus suffered as a Man, so we might be made into what the Father intended for us to be and bring many sons and daughters into Glory. Through Jesus, we're now new creations, who are still in the flesh and born of the the Spirit like He was. We have the call on our lives that Adam had to "multiply, be fruitful and fill the earth with God's family." We're to have "complete authority over all the earth, to subdue it," by the Spirit.
This is still God's Original Intent for mankind and it's the fulfillment of the Father's heart. We have a Great High Priest, Who has suffered everything that could be placed on mankind, in order to deliver us back into the Heavenly Father's family. Jesus was tempted in every way, like we are, according to Hebrews 2:13-14,18 (Amplified), where Paul writes, "My trust and assured reliance and confident hope shall be fixed on Him, and yet again, Here I am, I and the children whom God has given me. Since therefore, these His children share in flesh and blood (in the physical nature of human beings), He Himself, in a similar manner partook of the same nature, that by going through death He might bring to naught and make of no effect him who had the power of death, that is the devil."
We read about Christ's suffering in Verse 18, which says, "For because He Himself, in His humanity, has suffered in being tempted, tested and tried, He is able immediately to run to the cry of (assist, relieve), those who are being tempted and tested and tried, and who are therefore being exposed to suffering." The suffering we're to endure, is the same suffering that Jesus endured when satan tried, tempted, and tested His humanity. This is while we're still in these natural bodies. By God's Spirit and His ability, we too can overcome and live in Him by faith, because "He is faithful to deliver us from all the work of the evil one."
God never intended His family to be subject to anyone except Him and that is on the basis of a love relationship and not fear or Law. We're citizens of God's Heavenly Kingdom again, as His sons and daughters and through Jesus. Through Him, we've inherited this earth and are to return it the Father's Plan again. We've been faithful to bring sons and daughters into Glory, by the preaching of God's Word of salvation. We've been slack though, in teaching these new babies in Christ about who they have become in Christ or about the mandate of authority and dominion that God has given them as their inheritance.
We've been given the Name of Jesus, to use as our badge of authority and we must understand that Name. Philippians 2:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, because He stooped so low, God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the Name that is above every name. That in (at) the Name of Jesus, every knee should (must) bow, in Heaven and on earth and under the earth." God had many Names in the old covenant and each Name had a purpose. His Name was Provider, Healer, Deliverer, and our Peace. All these Names are now wrapped up in One Name that is above every name and that is the Name of Jesus. He is now all these things in One. Jesus is our Peace, our Healer, our Provider, our Redeemer, our Deliverer and our Lord. He is the Firstborn from the dead and He's our Door back to our Father. The Father has placed all things and provided all things to us, by the Power of His Name. We're only required to believe in His Name. All of God's Promises are already paid for and done, by faith in the Name of Jesus Christ.
We don't end our prayers with "In the Name of Jesus, Amen," as a P.S. We do so, because it's the very essence of who we are and Who He is to the world, to the heavens and to the enemy. Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) tells us, "Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, ALL AUTHORITY, ALL POWER OF RULE, in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me." We are in that Name. We have His Power of Attorney to use His Name, for whatever is out of place on this planet. All of Heaven is behind us and all the angels in God's Army of Heavenly Hosts, when we use that Name.
Jesus is God and Man, and as a Man He took back the complete authority, dominion, and Blessing that the Father pronounced on His family, in the beginning. Hebrews 1:2 (Amplified) says, "But in the Last of these days He has spoken unto us in the Person of a Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time. He made (produced, built, operated) and arranged them in order."
Romans 8:16-17,18 (Amplified) says, "The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs (joint heirs) with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
The suffering Jesus bore on Calvary's cross was ours and not His. Jesus bore this suffering, so that we would no longer owe the penalty for sin and death. The suffering we share with Him, is the rejection and misunderstanding by the world and the things of the world. Paul goes onto to explain this suffering in Verse 18, saying, "But what of that? For I consider that the suffering of this present time (this present life), are not worth being compared with the Glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us."
Paul wasn't speaking only about after we leave this earth, but said that it's to be revealed to us, and in us, and for us and conferred on us, while we're still here on earth. We have inherited the Glory, with Jesus. Jesus took back everything Adam lost and He conferred it upon us, while we're still here on earth. Through Jesus, we have the ability to bring many sons and daughters unto Glory for God. Hebrews 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For it was an act worthy of God, and fitting to the Divine nature that He, for Whose sake and by Whom all things have their existence, in bringing many sons into Glory, should make the pioneer of the salvation perfect, should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to be perfectly equipped for His Office as High Priest through suffering."
Jesus suffered as a Man, so we might be made into what the Father intended for us to be and bring many sons and daughters into Glory. Through Jesus, we're now new creations, who are still in the flesh and born of the the Spirit like He was. We have the call on our lives that Adam had to "multiply, be fruitful and fill the earth with God's family." We're to have "complete authority over all the earth, to subdue it," by the Spirit.
This is still God's Original Intent for mankind and it's the fulfillment of the Father's heart. We have a Great High Priest, Who has suffered everything that could be placed on mankind, in order to deliver us back into the Heavenly Father's family. Jesus was tempted in every way, like we are, according to Hebrews 2:13-14,18 (Amplified), where Paul writes, "My trust and assured reliance and confident hope shall be fixed on Him, and yet again, Here I am, I and the children whom God has given me. Since therefore, these His children share in flesh and blood (in the physical nature of human beings), He Himself, in a similar manner partook of the same nature, that by going through death He might bring to naught and make of no effect him who had the power of death, that is the devil."
We read about Christ's suffering in Verse 18, which says, "For because He Himself, in His humanity, has suffered in being tempted, tested and tried, He is able immediately to run to the cry of (assist, relieve), those who are being tempted and tested and tried, and who are therefore being exposed to suffering." The suffering we're to endure, is the same suffering that Jesus endured when satan tried, tempted, and tested His humanity. This is while we're still in these natural bodies. By God's Spirit and His ability, we too can overcome and live in Him by faith, because "He is faithful to deliver us from all the work of the evil one."
God never intended His family to be subject to anyone except Him and that is on the basis of a love relationship and not fear or Law. We're citizens of God's Heavenly Kingdom again, as His sons and daughters and through Jesus. Through Him, we've inherited this earth and are to return it the Father's Plan again. We've been faithful to bring sons and daughters into Glory, by the preaching of God's Word of salvation. We've been slack though, in teaching these new babies in Christ about who they have become in Christ or about the mandate of authority and dominion that God has given them as their inheritance.
We've been given the Name of Jesus, to use as our badge of authority and we must understand that Name. Philippians 2:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, because He stooped so low, God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the Name that is above every name. That in (at) the Name of Jesus, every knee should (must) bow, in Heaven and on earth and under the earth." God had many Names in the old covenant and each Name had a purpose. His Name was Provider, Healer, Deliverer, and our Peace. All these Names are now wrapped up in One Name that is above every name and that is the Name of Jesus. He is now all these things in One. Jesus is our Peace, our Healer, our Provider, our Redeemer, our Deliverer and our Lord. He is the Firstborn from the dead and He's our Door back to our Father. The Father has placed all things and provided all things to us, by the Power of His Name. We're only required to believe in His Name. All of God's Promises are already paid for and done, by faith in the Name of Jesus Christ.
We don't end our prayers with "In the Name of Jesus, Amen," as a P.S. We do so, because it's the very essence of who we are and Who He is to the world, to the heavens and to the enemy. Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) tells us, "Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, ALL AUTHORITY, ALL POWER OF RULE, in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me." We are in that Name. We have His Power of Attorney to use His Name, for whatever is out of place on this planet. All of Heaven is behind us and all the angels in God's Army of Heavenly Hosts, when we use that Name.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Lesson 87 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26,28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth." Verse 28 says, "God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This was God's Original Intent for mankind and the earth He created for them. God's great Love desired a family to share in His Goodness and to fellowship with Him. After Adam's fall, God worked for many years to bring Jesus into the earth, so He could restored everything back to His Plan. God made covenant with various different people throughout the years, in order to keep His man from being completely destroyed. A blood covenant was cut in the Garden, when God killed animals and shed their blood to cover Adam and Eve.
Adam's disobedience brought sin into the world, along with the consequences of death or separation from God, Who is Life. God set in motion a sacrifice of animals that would shed their blood, in payment for sin and as a covering of man's sin, so He wouldn't be completely separate from His family. Sin demanded death as a result, so the blood of animals signified a covering and temporary payment for death. The sacrifice of animals didn't cleanse the people of their sin, but it covered them until God could get a Man, Jesus into the earth, Who would be the total payment for sin and death.
Many Christians don't distinguish between the old and new covenants and believe God still punishes mankind like He did under the old covenant. This has left us open to the enemy's deception and not knowing God's will for mankind. This makes us insecure in our faith.
It's difficult to preach healing in many of today's churches, because the people don't know whether or not healing is God's will. It's nearly impossible to have your faith be secure enough to receive from God, when you don't know His will for you. We read in John 8:19 (Amplified), "Then they said to Him, Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also." In order to know God's will for us today, we must first know Jesus. In John 14:7 (Amplified), Jesus said, "If you had known Me, had learned to recognize Me, you would also have known My Father. From now on, you know Him and have seen Me."
We've confused the God of the old covenant, with the Saving Father of the new covenant. We've heard many good men and women of God, preach about how "God does certain things in order to teach and lead us." This mostly comes from their not really knowing Jesus. If we know Jesus and have received Him as our Lord and Savior, then we should know that our Heavenly Father doesn't put things on His new creation family in order to teach us something. We know this, by watching Jesus.
The people of the old covenant were great and sincere, but they weren't born-again, Spirit-filled, redeemed by the Blood and weren't sons and daughters. They were only living in the Promise of Messiah. We're not living in a Promise that's to come, but is now fulfilled in Jesus, the Messiah. 2Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) says, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes Answer in Him, Christ. For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency, to the Glory of God."
These are still Promises to the unsaved world, but they are fulfilled Truth (So be it), to the new creation family of God. Healing was a Promise, but it's now a fact and Truth. If it wasn't God's will, then He would never make a Promise that He didn't intend to keep. Once your faith is in His Promise, nothing can keep it from coming to pass. We've had trouble trusting in what God has Promised. I've seen many people who weren't healed, but I've also witnessed many who have been healed. Were those who were healed "special?" Or, were they the ones who finally realized it was God's will all along? We're not waiting for our healing. He's waiting for us to put our faith in the Truth that He's already given it and it's already ours.
We never read about Jesus refusing to heal anyone who came to Him. Jesus said that, "When you see Me, You have seen the Father." If Jesus healed them, then it must have been the Father's will and if Jesus and the Father are One (and they are), then it must be God's will today for us to be healed. We can't allow carnal sermons and worldly ideas about God, to make us double-minded about the Super-natural display of God's Love for us.
Jesus was ministering to a group of people, when a paralyzed man was lowered in front of Him from the rooftop, in Mark 2:5,9 -12 (Amplified). Jesus said to the man, "Son your sins are forgiven." The people were aghast at this and asked, "Who can forgive sin but God?" We should pay close attention to what Jesus said about God's will for our healing in Verses 9-12. Thus, He said, "Which is easier; to say to the paralyzed man, Your sins are forgiven and put away, or to say, Rise, Take up your bed or mat, and start walking, and keep on walking. But that you may know and positively and beyond doubt that the Son of Man has the right and authority and power on earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralyzed man, I say to you, arise, pick and carry your sleeping pad or mat, and be going home. And he arose at once and picked up his sleeping pad and went out before them all."
How many today, believe He can forgive or remove sin from our lives, but still not believe He can heal our body? Those around Jesus had witnessed Him heal and believed that, but they couldn't believe He could forgive sin. Many are sadly still like that today. We believe He can forgive our sins, but not that He can heal us. Jesus asked, "Which is easier? To forgive or heal?" Both were the same Jesus and both were easy for Him. We haven't believed that these were the perfect will of God for us today.
Don't take someone else' word on this, but go to God's Word and study Jesus very closely. If you do this, then you'll see it's God's will to heal, deliver, set free and forgive. You'll see that one isn't more difficult for God to do, than the other is.
This was God's Original Intent for mankind and the earth He created for them. God's great Love desired a family to share in His Goodness and to fellowship with Him. After Adam's fall, God worked for many years to bring Jesus into the earth, so He could restored everything back to His Plan. God made covenant with various different people throughout the years, in order to keep His man from being completely destroyed. A blood covenant was cut in the Garden, when God killed animals and shed their blood to cover Adam and Eve.
Adam's disobedience brought sin into the world, along with the consequences of death or separation from God, Who is Life. God set in motion a sacrifice of animals that would shed their blood, in payment for sin and as a covering of man's sin, so He wouldn't be completely separate from His family. Sin demanded death as a result, so the blood of animals signified a covering and temporary payment for death. The sacrifice of animals didn't cleanse the people of their sin, but it covered them until God could get a Man, Jesus into the earth, Who would be the total payment for sin and death.
Many Christians don't distinguish between the old and new covenants and believe God still punishes mankind like He did under the old covenant. This has left us open to the enemy's deception and not knowing God's will for mankind. This makes us insecure in our faith.
It's difficult to preach healing in many of today's churches, because the people don't know whether or not healing is God's will. It's nearly impossible to have your faith be secure enough to receive from God, when you don't know His will for you. We read in John 8:19 (Amplified), "Then they said to Him, Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also." In order to know God's will for us today, we must first know Jesus. In John 14:7 (Amplified), Jesus said, "If you had known Me, had learned to recognize Me, you would also have known My Father. From now on, you know Him and have seen Me."
We've confused the God of the old covenant, with the Saving Father of the new covenant. We've heard many good men and women of God, preach about how "God does certain things in order to teach and lead us." This mostly comes from their not really knowing Jesus. If we know Jesus and have received Him as our Lord and Savior, then we should know that our Heavenly Father doesn't put things on His new creation family in order to teach us something. We know this, by watching Jesus.
The people of the old covenant were great and sincere, but they weren't born-again, Spirit-filled, redeemed by the Blood and weren't sons and daughters. They were only living in the Promise of Messiah. We're not living in a Promise that's to come, but is now fulfilled in Jesus, the Messiah. 2Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) says, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes Answer in Him, Christ. For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency, to the Glory of God."
These are still Promises to the unsaved world, but they are fulfilled Truth (So be it), to the new creation family of God. Healing was a Promise, but it's now a fact and Truth. If it wasn't God's will, then He would never make a Promise that He didn't intend to keep. Once your faith is in His Promise, nothing can keep it from coming to pass. We've had trouble trusting in what God has Promised. I've seen many people who weren't healed, but I've also witnessed many who have been healed. Were those who were healed "special?" Or, were they the ones who finally realized it was God's will all along? We're not waiting for our healing. He's waiting for us to put our faith in the Truth that He's already given it and it's already ours.
We never read about Jesus refusing to heal anyone who came to Him. Jesus said that, "When you see Me, You have seen the Father." If Jesus healed them, then it must have been the Father's will and if Jesus and the Father are One (and they are), then it must be God's will today for us to be healed. We can't allow carnal sermons and worldly ideas about God, to make us double-minded about the Super-natural display of God's Love for us.
Jesus was ministering to a group of people, when a paralyzed man was lowered in front of Him from the rooftop, in Mark 2:5,9 -12 (Amplified). Jesus said to the man, "Son your sins are forgiven." The people were aghast at this and asked, "Who can forgive sin but God?" We should pay close attention to what Jesus said about God's will for our healing in Verses 9-12. Thus, He said, "Which is easier; to say to the paralyzed man, Your sins are forgiven and put away, or to say, Rise, Take up your bed or mat, and start walking, and keep on walking. But that you may know and positively and beyond doubt that the Son of Man has the right and authority and power on earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralyzed man, I say to you, arise, pick and carry your sleeping pad or mat, and be going home. And he arose at once and picked up his sleeping pad and went out before them all."
How many today, believe He can forgive or remove sin from our lives, but still not believe He can heal our body? Those around Jesus had witnessed Him heal and believed that, but they couldn't believe He could forgive sin. Many are sadly still like that today. We believe He can forgive our sins, but not that He can heal us. Jesus asked, "Which is easier? To forgive or heal?" Both were the same Jesus and both were easy for Him. We haven't believed that these were the perfect will of God for us today.
Don't take someone else' word on this, but go to God's Word and study Jesus very closely. If you do this, then you'll see it's God's will to heal, deliver, set free and forgive. You'll see that one isn't more difficult for God to do, than the other is.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Lesson 86 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26,28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth." Verse 28 says, "And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This was God's Original Intent for His family (mankind). Mankind lost the Blessing and the dominion over the earth, becoming subject to death and satan, when Adam transgressed in the Garden. The Blessing was now a Curse upon man and upon the earth. This wasn't something the Father did, but was the result of Adam's actions. Genesis 3:17 (Amplified) tells us, "And to Adam [God] said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the Tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a Curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat of the fruits of it all the days of your life."
The Curse came because of Adam and not because of the Father. God had given Adam complete authority and dominion over all the earth and everything that creeps upon it. In Genesis 3:18-19 (Amplified), God says, "Thorns and thistles shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken, for dust you are and to dust you shall return."
God didn't stop the Blessing, Adam did. Adam could have used his God given authority and dominion, to cast satan out of the Garden and protect his inheritance. When God gave his earthly creation to Adam and his wife, it was now Adam's domain and he had the responsibility to keep and dress the Garden, according to Genesis 2:15 (Amplified) which says, "And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it."
God gave man the job of tending, guarding and keeping the Garden. God gave Adam the ability to keep satan out of the Garden and to prevent satan from taking it from him. Christians sometimes think that everything that happens to us, "Is God's will and He must have allowed it or sent it to us." Jesus said in Matthew 18:18 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven."
God gave believers the ability to bind and loose, declare proper or improper, lawful or unlawful. We have the ability through our words and deeds. God has Spiritual Laws in Heaven, that we're to use to govern our lives and things of this earth. If believers would do like God directed Adam and use the authority and dominion God gave us over the earth and everything that creeps upon it, then we could and should declare many things unlawful and nonproductive in our lives.
Once God gave all authority over to Adam, God never interfered or took back the authority. He allowed Adam to have rule over his own life. Religion has taught us that God will do whatever He wants to and we can't do anything except watch and wait. This wasn't and isn't God's will or His Intention for His family. Jesus didn't tell the Leper, "It's God's will for you to have leprosy," Jesus used the authority given to man at the beginning and didn't allow it to stay on that man. Jesus knew that sickness and disease weren't lawful in Heaven, so He had dominion over it here on earth.
Jesus loosed a woman who was bound and couldn't stand straight in Luke 13:12 (KJV) and Matthew 18:18 (KJV). The Amplified Bible used the words, "Improper, or proper and lawful." The infirmity was already declared to be forbidden and unlawful in Heaven, so Jesus brought the Heavenly Laws of the Kingdom, down to earth and set the woman free.
The Spirit realm has Laws that govern and set things in place. Jesus has restored the ability to bind or loose, declare proper or unlawful on earth back to us, giving us the authority over the earth and everything on it again. These are Kingdom Laws and they always work, but we've misunderstood them. Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek, aim at, and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
God's way of doing and being right, begin with His Righteousness, which is the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Romans 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed thought the way of faith, that arouses to more faith." God's way of doing and being right or righteous, is faith in the righteousness we've received in Christ Jesus. Until you accept this by faith, you're not sure of your righteousness or your own authority to bind or loose and you won't know God's will for you.
Jesus has restored us back to God's Original Intent and has placed the ability to declare and take authority back to us. If like Adam, we don't take that authority over the enemy, then we'll reap the same results. You might be saved, born-again, filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues, but still not understand the Laws that govern the Kingdom you've been born into. We keep waiting for God to do something, not understanding that through Jesus, He has already done everything that needed to be done and restored us back into God's Original Intent for His family. We're not waiting for our healing, but He's waiting for us to receive what Jesus has already done for us.
We tolerate and put up with things that aren't and never have been God's Intention, when He created man and gave him authority. As a Man, Jesus took back the authority satan conned Adam out of and restored it back to the born-again man and woman. We now have Jesus' Name, His Righteousness, His authority, His Word and His Promise. We're free from the bondage of sin, death, satan, sickness and over anything that has held us back. You're not God and you're not Jesus, but you are an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus. You're a son or daughter, just like Jesus, because you were born of the Same Seed, Who is the incorruptible Word of God. You are family and family has God's way of doing and being right by Kingdom Law, here on earth.
This was God's Original Intent for His family (mankind). Mankind lost the Blessing and the dominion over the earth, becoming subject to death and satan, when Adam transgressed in the Garden. The Blessing was now a Curse upon man and upon the earth. This wasn't something the Father did, but was the result of Adam's actions. Genesis 3:17 (Amplified) tells us, "And to Adam [God] said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the Tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a Curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat of the fruits of it all the days of your life."
The Curse came because of Adam and not because of the Father. God had given Adam complete authority and dominion over all the earth and everything that creeps upon it. In Genesis 3:18-19 (Amplified), God says, "Thorns and thistles shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken, for dust you are and to dust you shall return."
God didn't stop the Blessing, Adam did. Adam could have used his God given authority and dominion, to cast satan out of the Garden and protect his inheritance. When God gave his earthly creation to Adam and his wife, it was now Adam's domain and he had the responsibility to keep and dress the Garden, according to Genesis 2:15 (Amplified) which says, "And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it."
God gave man the job of tending, guarding and keeping the Garden. God gave Adam the ability to keep satan out of the Garden and to prevent satan from taking it from him. Christians sometimes think that everything that happens to us, "Is God's will and He must have allowed it or sent it to us." Jesus said in Matthew 18:18 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven."
God gave believers the ability to bind and loose, declare proper or improper, lawful or unlawful. We have the ability through our words and deeds. God has Spiritual Laws in Heaven, that we're to use to govern our lives and things of this earth. If believers would do like God directed Adam and use the authority and dominion God gave us over the earth and everything that creeps upon it, then we could and should declare many things unlawful and nonproductive in our lives.
Once God gave all authority over to Adam, God never interfered or took back the authority. He allowed Adam to have rule over his own life. Religion has taught us that God will do whatever He wants to and we can't do anything except watch and wait. This wasn't and isn't God's will or His Intention for His family. Jesus didn't tell the Leper, "It's God's will for you to have leprosy," Jesus used the authority given to man at the beginning and didn't allow it to stay on that man. Jesus knew that sickness and disease weren't lawful in Heaven, so He had dominion over it here on earth.
Jesus loosed a woman who was bound and couldn't stand straight in Luke 13:12 (KJV) and Matthew 18:18 (KJV). The Amplified Bible used the words, "Improper, or proper and lawful." The infirmity was already declared to be forbidden and unlawful in Heaven, so Jesus brought the Heavenly Laws of the Kingdom, down to earth and set the woman free.
The Spirit realm has Laws that govern and set things in place. Jesus has restored the ability to bind or loose, declare proper or unlawful on earth back to us, giving us the authority over the earth and everything on it again. These are Kingdom Laws and they always work, but we've misunderstood them. Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek, aim at, and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
God's way of doing and being right, begin with His Righteousness, which is the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Romans 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed thought the way of faith, that arouses to more faith." God's way of doing and being right or righteous, is faith in the righteousness we've received in Christ Jesus. Until you accept this by faith, you're not sure of your righteousness or your own authority to bind or loose and you won't know God's will for you.
Jesus has restored us back to God's Original Intent and has placed the ability to declare and take authority back to us. If like Adam, we don't take that authority over the enemy, then we'll reap the same results. You might be saved, born-again, filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues, but still not understand the Laws that govern the Kingdom you've been born into. We keep waiting for God to do something, not understanding that through Jesus, He has already done everything that needed to be done and restored us back into God's Original Intent for His family. We're not waiting for our healing, but He's waiting for us to receive what Jesus has already done for us.
We tolerate and put up with things that aren't and never have been God's Intention, when He created man and gave him authority. As a Man, Jesus took back the authority satan conned Adam out of and restored it back to the born-again man and woman. We now have Jesus' Name, His Righteousness, His authority, His Word and His Promise. We're free from the bondage of sin, death, satan, sickness and over anything that has held us back. You're not God and you're not Jesus, but you are an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus. You're a son or daughter, just like Jesus, because you were born of the Same Seed, Who is the incorruptible Word of God. You are family and family has God's way of doing and being right by Kingdom Law, here on earth.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Lesson 85 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26,28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth." Verse 28 says, "And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
These two short Verses from God's Word, tell us that God created, gave His Blessing and authority over this planet, to just one man and his wife. God's Intent for mankind, was that they'd multiply and be fruitful and fill the earth. All of this was when there was just one man and his wife. God's Intention was for family and that He would provide everything man would ever need. 1Peter 3:18 (Amplified) tells us the full reason Jesus came to earth, saying, "For Christ the Messiah Himself, died for since once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous, the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty, that he might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the Spirit."
The most important thing in the Father's heart, was and is the return of His family to Himself. We've somehow missed how much the Father wishes to spend time with us in fellowship and relationship. We've gone through many rituals, rites and traditions, in order to approach the Father, but He mostly desires our love and fellowship with Him. I don't mean that we shouldn't be aware that He is the Almighty God, but that we shouldn't always stand on formality, instead of family.
My children never forget that I'm their father, but they also never forget that I'm their friend and companion. Above all, my children are never uneasy or afraid in my presence, no matter what goes on. They always have the liberty to come to me for any reason. If they need wisdom or understanding, then they can always feel welcome with me and expect to have what they expect from me. My house is always open and my time is always theirs, whenever they need me. God's House and His time are always open too. God gets the most pleasure from our simply spending time with Him.
I wonder how many of God's children feel truly comfortable and at ease in His Presence. How many of us simply want to spend time with Him, in conversation and fellowship? When we seek Him, everything He has is ours, without our having to earn it. It was for this purpose that God created it in the beginning. He wanted to see us learn, grow, and enjoy what He had provided for us. Nothing is being held back from us by Him, but our lack of knowing.
The Name of Jesus doesn't just give us authority over satan and disease, but it's our place of entrance and fellowship with the Father. By His Name, we have unreserved and unrestricted entry into the very Presence of the Almighty God. Our Heavenly Father has watched His children be deceived, killed, run over and lied to, for about as long as He intends to put up with. The time of His Presence and His Glory upon the earth on behalf of His family, is about here.
Many of God's children are afraid in His Presence and His Spirit. I've been in services where people become frightened and leave the meeting, when the Glory of God's Presence was made manifest. He is a Super-natural God and He has begotten a Super-natural people, who should recognize Him for Who He is. The miraculous things God did in the early Church days, are nearly completely lost to the modern day Church. Hebrews 13:8 (Amplified) tells us that, "Jesus Christ, the Same yesterday, today, and forever." If God ever did these things, then He still does. God hasn't changed, but we have. We've allowed ourselves to believe that God is the problem, instead of THE ANSWER.
We're not Old Testament servants, but are New Testament family. God doesn't deal with us like He did in the Old covenant, but as He children. He doesn't deal with our flesh, but with our spirit. When we only move by our senses, instead of our spirit, we're subject to the enemy's deception and devices. Satan is a master of dealing with mankind's emotions and feelings. This is why our Father must deal with us by His Word and His Spirit.
It's imperative that God's family learns to recognize His Voice and His leading. During His earthly ministry, Jesus tells us that He "Only did and said what He heard the Father say and do." Jesus said that, "The Words (Truths) I speak are not Mine, but the Fathers." Over the years, we've been trained to believe we can only trust the testimony and experience of others, instead of trusting in God's Word. When we trust more in others, we can't hear God's Voice any longer, but are lead mostly by the flesh. Adam never failed in his walk with God, until he yielded to the voice of his flesh.
Adam walked in perfect peace and provision for eons, by his spirit and union with his Father. Adam only failed when the master of deception was allowed to speak and Adam listened. Adam has complete authority, so he had no business even allowing satan into the Garden of Eden. When he yielded to his senses, Adam lost everything, including God's Own family, until Jesus. We've allowed the enemy to do the same thing, in our lives. Satan said to Adam and Eve, "Yea! did God say." This very question has placed today's Church in the same state.
The time is at hand when the Presence of the Lord is going to be revealed in power and Glory. It's going to be essential in these Last Days, for us to know and be led by God's Word and His Spirit. Many will be touched by His Spirit, but not all will be able to be used by His Spirit, only "those who have ears to hear." The world will say, "These things aren't so" and even many of God's Own children will doubt and turn away from this call, but those who know His Voice will do mighty things in His Name and Spirit.
Jesus spent three and one half years training men to follow His teaching. He sent them forth with the Same Spirit, to teach others and continue the work He started. In the first century after Jesus left, the Church walked in the power of His teaching. These things only stopped after the world and the senses took over the Gospel and shut down the Super-natural flow of the Holy Spirit. The time is at hand when the restoration of the Holy Spirit will bring the Church into the Glory of the Father and reveal Him to the whole world.
We must talk to and listen to the Spirit of the Lord, in these times. We can't get caught up in the world's idea of Who He is, but must know Him for ourselves. The enemy is content with entertainment, but God is only content when His family is restored with His Spirit. We're not servants to man's idea, but are those who hear His Voice to cast out devils, speak with new tongues, lay hands on the sick and preach and display the Gospel in Power.
These two short Verses from God's Word, tell us that God created, gave His Blessing and authority over this planet, to just one man and his wife. God's Intent for mankind, was that they'd multiply and be fruitful and fill the earth. All of this was when there was just one man and his wife. God's Intention was for family and that He would provide everything man would ever need. 1Peter 3:18 (Amplified) tells us the full reason Jesus came to earth, saying, "For Christ the Messiah Himself, died for since once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous, the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty, that he might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the Spirit."
The most important thing in the Father's heart, was and is the return of His family to Himself. We've somehow missed how much the Father wishes to spend time with us in fellowship and relationship. We've gone through many rituals, rites and traditions, in order to approach the Father, but He mostly desires our love and fellowship with Him. I don't mean that we shouldn't be aware that He is the Almighty God, but that we shouldn't always stand on formality, instead of family.
My children never forget that I'm their father, but they also never forget that I'm their friend and companion. Above all, my children are never uneasy or afraid in my presence, no matter what goes on. They always have the liberty to come to me for any reason. If they need wisdom or understanding, then they can always feel welcome with me and expect to have what they expect from me. My house is always open and my time is always theirs, whenever they need me. God's House and His time are always open too. God gets the most pleasure from our simply spending time with Him.
I wonder how many of God's children feel truly comfortable and at ease in His Presence. How many of us simply want to spend time with Him, in conversation and fellowship? When we seek Him, everything He has is ours, without our having to earn it. It was for this purpose that God created it in the beginning. He wanted to see us learn, grow, and enjoy what He had provided for us. Nothing is being held back from us by Him, but our lack of knowing.
The Name of Jesus doesn't just give us authority over satan and disease, but it's our place of entrance and fellowship with the Father. By His Name, we have unreserved and unrestricted entry into the very Presence of the Almighty God. Our Heavenly Father has watched His children be deceived, killed, run over and lied to, for about as long as He intends to put up with. The time of His Presence and His Glory upon the earth on behalf of His family, is about here.
Many of God's children are afraid in His Presence and His Spirit. I've been in services where people become frightened and leave the meeting, when the Glory of God's Presence was made manifest. He is a Super-natural God and He has begotten a Super-natural people, who should recognize Him for Who He is. The miraculous things God did in the early Church days, are nearly completely lost to the modern day Church. Hebrews 13:8 (Amplified) tells us that, "Jesus Christ, the Same yesterday, today, and forever." If God ever did these things, then He still does. God hasn't changed, but we have. We've allowed ourselves to believe that God is the problem, instead of THE ANSWER.
We're not Old Testament servants, but are New Testament family. God doesn't deal with us like He did in the Old covenant, but as He children. He doesn't deal with our flesh, but with our spirit. When we only move by our senses, instead of our spirit, we're subject to the enemy's deception and devices. Satan is a master of dealing with mankind's emotions and feelings. This is why our Father must deal with us by His Word and His Spirit.
It's imperative that God's family learns to recognize His Voice and His leading. During His earthly ministry, Jesus tells us that He "Only did and said what He heard the Father say and do." Jesus said that, "The Words (Truths) I speak are not Mine, but the Fathers." Over the years, we've been trained to believe we can only trust the testimony and experience of others, instead of trusting in God's Word. When we trust more in others, we can't hear God's Voice any longer, but are lead mostly by the flesh. Adam never failed in his walk with God, until he yielded to the voice of his flesh.
Adam walked in perfect peace and provision for eons, by his spirit and union with his Father. Adam only failed when the master of deception was allowed to speak and Adam listened. Adam has complete authority, so he had no business even allowing satan into the Garden of Eden. When he yielded to his senses, Adam lost everything, including God's Own family, until Jesus. We've allowed the enemy to do the same thing, in our lives. Satan said to Adam and Eve, "Yea! did God say." This very question has placed today's Church in the same state.
The time is at hand when the Presence of the Lord is going to be revealed in power and Glory. It's going to be essential in these Last Days, for us to know and be led by God's Word and His Spirit. Many will be touched by His Spirit, but not all will be able to be used by His Spirit, only "those who have ears to hear." The world will say, "These things aren't so" and even many of God's Own children will doubt and turn away from this call, but those who know His Voice will do mighty things in His Name and Spirit.
Jesus spent three and one half years training men to follow His teaching. He sent them forth with the Same Spirit, to teach others and continue the work He started. In the first century after Jesus left, the Church walked in the power of His teaching. These things only stopped after the world and the senses took over the Gospel and shut down the Super-natural flow of the Holy Spirit. The time is at hand when the restoration of the Holy Spirit will bring the Church into the Glory of the Father and reveal Him to the whole world.
We must talk to and listen to the Spirit of the Lord, in these times. We can't get caught up in the world's idea of Who He is, but must know Him for ourselves. The enemy is content with entertainment, but God is only content when His family is restored with His Spirit. We're not servants to man's idea, but are those who hear His Voice to cast out devils, speak with new tongues, lay hands on the sick and preach and display the Gospel in Power.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Lesson 84 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26,28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth." Verse 28 goes on, "And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
Notice that Adam had nothing to do, in order tot be Blessed and be in God's Presence. All of these Blessings and authority were given by God, without man's doing nothing to deserve them. This was God's Plan for His family, from the very beginning. The only thing God wanted from His man, was fellowship and to have someone to show His Love to. We though, continue trying to deserve God's Blessing and Love, by our own works. We've misunderstood God's Purpose and Intent, when He made man. We no longer know Him, but only know about Him from what others say or have taught us.
This Blessing has already been given to those who are God's family, through Jesus. We don't have to do anything to get it, but only receive what Jesus has already done for us, when He restored us to God. We keep trying to do things, in order to have God Bless us and heal or touch us, when we have everything the Father gave to His family, when He brought us into existence. We call God, "Father," but act like we're still old covenant people who are still separated from Him by sin. Jesus was the Sacrifice for our sins and there is no more Sacrifice for sin needed. Once you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, the only sacrifice left is the sacrifice of praise and present your whole self in worship for what He's already done.
We seem to miss why God sent Jesus to us. The reason Jesus came was to bring God's family back to Him, without any barrier between us. We can now come boldly to His Throne of Grace at any time. In Jesus, we have access into the very Presence and face of our Father, at any time. My children don't do things for me on Father's Day, because they think I'll give them a gift. They do special things on Father's Day, to show their love and appreciation for my love and provision, which are already theirs. My children aren't afraid of me, but in love with me. They don't bring gifts to appease me, but to express how they feel about me. The greatest gift my children give me, is when they spend family time with me in fellowship.
How much time do you spend just talking with and in fellowship with your Heavenly Father? It's important to read His Word, but I'm talking about just spending time with Him. I don't just seek Him, when I need or want something from Him. I do so, in order to know Him and to be with Him. Everything He has is already mine.
We read "The Parable of the Prodigal Son," in Luke 15:21,22-24,31 (Amplified). The prodigal son came to his father, not to receive anything except his father's acceptance. He wasn't seeking anything, but to be a simple servant in his father's house. Verses 22-24 tell us that the father brought out everything he had and restored all his son's inheritance back to him. The other son, who had stayed and was still working for his father, became upset because his brother had all these things and he had none. The father said to the other son in Verse 31, "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours."
The prodigal son came only to seek his father's love and his acceptance, while the other was already with the father. This son only saw himself as being a servant in his father's eyes, without knowing that all was his already. Both sons belonged to the same father, but one received by Grace, what the other didn't receive by works. That son didn't really know his father's heart and the love his father had for him. It seems like we're always in one of these camps, when it comes to our Father. One camp teaches us from religious minds, laying out rules we must follow in order to qualify for the Father's Blessings and Love. The other camp teaches God's Word about wealth, without relationship, like the other son did in the Parable. Everything was already his, but he didn't know it. The prodigal son only wanted to come and he didn't care if he would be only a servant there. Both were wrong. Everything the Father had was already theirs, as family.
God's Original Intent for His family was in the peace that both the First and Last Adam walked with Him in. I don't believe the First Adam ever thought about his own provision, but that he trusted his Father and His way of providing. The Last Adam Jesus, also walked in such a relationship with the Father, so He never thought of lack for anything. Jesus was teaching His followers about provision in Matthew 6:26-33 (Amplified). He said in Verse 26, "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?"
Like today, these listeners had families, bills to pay, food to buy, shelter and clothing to provide. Jesus didn't tell them that they "didn't need" these things or that it was wrong to seek these things. He told them what to seek, in order to have them in their lives. Jesus told them in Verse 33, "But seek, aim at and strive after First of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right) AND THEN all of these things taken together will be given you besides."
Jesus didn't say it was wrong to have these things, but that we're to seek God and not just His Provision. After being saved, we go along for while, until something goes wrong. The doctor tells us we have a disease or ailment and we seek God for our healing, but we don't know if it's His will or if God still heals today. Jesus instructed us to "Seek first, God's way of doing and being right and all the things we have need of on this earth, are also provided."
Many Christians don't know Him for ourselves, well enough to know whether or not God still does heal or will heal or if He cares if we get healed. Many don't know Him well enough and wonder if God's putting this on them, in order to teach them something. If you don't know God for yourself, especially in this tech age, then it will only add confusion about what God's will is for you. You must establish yourself in Him, so you're not swayed by every wind of doctrine that's available.
The Holy Spirit speaks to us through John in 1John 2:27 (Amplified), saying, "But as for you, the Anointing, the Sacred appointment, the unction which you have received from Him, abides permanently in you, So then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His Anointing teaches you concerning everything and is True and is no falsehood, so you must abide in, live in, never depart from Him, being rooted in Him, knit to Him, just as His Anointing has taught you to do."
The above phrase, "That you have no need that anyone should instruct you," doesn't mean you're so super smart you know it all. It means that when you do hear things that aren't of the Holy Spirit, you'll know enough to guard your heart and not allow them to undermine your faith and understanding with the Father. There are many winds of doctrine being preached and these have undermined the faith of many, but once you establish your heart in God's Word then you'll be able to stand on the Rock and not sink in the sand. Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice." This comes by spending time with Him in fellowship and not following the voice of a stranger.
Notice that Adam had nothing to do, in order tot be Blessed and be in God's Presence. All of these Blessings and authority were given by God, without man's doing nothing to deserve them. This was God's Plan for His family, from the very beginning. The only thing God wanted from His man, was fellowship and to have someone to show His Love to. We though, continue trying to deserve God's Blessing and Love, by our own works. We've misunderstood God's Purpose and Intent, when He made man. We no longer know Him, but only know about Him from what others say or have taught us.
This Blessing has already been given to those who are God's family, through Jesus. We don't have to do anything to get it, but only receive what Jesus has already done for us, when He restored us to God. We keep trying to do things, in order to have God Bless us and heal or touch us, when we have everything the Father gave to His family, when He brought us into existence. We call God, "Father," but act like we're still old covenant people who are still separated from Him by sin. Jesus was the Sacrifice for our sins and there is no more Sacrifice for sin needed. Once you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, the only sacrifice left is the sacrifice of praise and present your whole self in worship for what He's already done.
We seem to miss why God sent Jesus to us. The reason Jesus came was to bring God's family back to Him, without any barrier between us. We can now come boldly to His Throne of Grace at any time. In Jesus, we have access into the very Presence and face of our Father, at any time. My children don't do things for me on Father's Day, because they think I'll give them a gift. They do special things on Father's Day, to show their love and appreciation for my love and provision, which are already theirs. My children aren't afraid of me, but in love with me. They don't bring gifts to appease me, but to express how they feel about me. The greatest gift my children give me, is when they spend family time with me in fellowship.
How much time do you spend just talking with and in fellowship with your Heavenly Father? It's important to read His Word, but I'm talking about just spending time with Him. I don't just seek Him, when I need or want something from Him. I do so, in order to know Him and to be with Him. Everything He has is already mine.
We read "The Parable of the Prodigal Son," in Luke 15:21,22-24,31 (Amplified). The prodigal son came to his father, not to receive anything except his father's acceptance. He wasn't seeking anything, but to be a simple servant in his father's house. Verses 22-24 tell us that the father brought out everything he had and restored all his son's inheritance back to him. The other son, who had stayed and was still working for his father, became upset because his brother had all these things and he had none. The father said to the other son in Verse 31, "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours."
The prodigal son came only to seek his father's love and his acceptance, while the other was already with the father. This son only saw himself as being a servant in his father's eyes, without knowing that all was his already. Both sons belonged to the same father, but one received by Grace, what the other didn't receive by works. That son didn't really know his father's heart and the love his father had for him. It seems like we're always in one of these camps, when it comes to our Father. One camp teaches us from religious minds, laying out rules we must follow in order to qualify for the Father's Blessings and Love. The other camp teaches God's Word about wealth, without relationship, like the other son did in the Parable. Everything was already his, but he didn't know it. The prodigal son only wanted to come and he didn't care if he would be only a servant there. Both were wrong. Everything the Father had was already theirs, as family.
God's Original Intent for His family was in the peace that both the First and Last Adam walked with Him in. I don't believe the First Adam ever thought about his own provision, but that he trusted his Father and His way of providing. The Last Adam Jesus, also walked in such a relationship with the Father, so He never thought of lack for anything. Jesus was teaching His followers about provision in Matthew 6:26-33 (Amplified). He said in Verse 26, "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?"
Like today, these listeners had families, bills to pay, food to buy, shelter and clothing to provide. Jesus didn't tell them that they "didn't need" these things or that it was wrong to seek these things. He told them what to seek, in order to have them in their lives. Jesus told them in Verse 33, "But seek, aim at and strive after First of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right) AND THEN all of these things taken together will be given you besides."
Jesus didn't say it was wrong to have these things, but that we're to seek God and not just His Provision. After being saved, we go along for while, until something goes wrong. The doctor tells us we have a disease or ailment and we seek God for our healing, but we don't know if it's His will or if God still heals today. Jesus instructed us to "Seek first, God's way of doing and being right and all the things we have need of on this earth, are also provided."
Many Christians don't know Him for ourselves, well enough to know whether or not God still does heal or will heal or if He cares if we get healed. Many don't know Him well enough and wonder if God's putting this on them, in order to teach them something. If you don't know God for yourself, especially in this tech age, then it will only add confusion about what God's will is for you. You must establish yourself in Him, so you're not swayed by every wind of doctrine that's available.
The Holy Spirit speaks to us through John in 1John 2:27 (Amplified), saying, "But as for you, the Anointing, the Sacred appointment, the unction which you have received from Him, abides permanently in you, So then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His Anointing teaches you concerning everything and is True and is no falsehood, so you must abide in, live in, never depart from Him, being rooted in Him, knit to Him, just as His Anointing has taught you to do."
The above phrase, "That you have no need that anyone should instruct you," doesn't mean you're so super smart you know it all. It means that when you do hear things that aren't of the Holy Spirit, you'll know enough to guard your heart and not allow them to undermine your faith and understanding with the Father. There are many winds of doctrine being preached and these have undermined the faith of many, but once you establish your heart in God's Word then you'll be able to stand on the Rock and not sink in the sand. Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice." This comes by spending time with Him in fellowship and not following the voice of a stranger.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Lesson 83 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent
Genesis 1:26 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth."
God has never varied from this commitment and His Original Intention for His children. Mankind was never meant to be under bondage to anyone or anything. The relationship we have with our Heavenly Father was not one of bondage, but of family. It was meant to be a Love relationship between God and His children, as family. The relationship I have with my wife, children, siblings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren isn't one of bondage, but of love. They don't stay with me out of fear, but they stay with me out of their love for me and my love for them.
My part in this family is to enjoy, provide and care for them, to the very best of my ability, so they'll grow into fine adults and bring forth seed to replenish the generations. They will learn how to love their family, by watching and learning from their own experience in life. My sons learned how to love their wives, by watching how I treated and loved their mother.
The way we do this in God's family, is by watching our Heavenly Father and His Example for His family. If I don't have the correct picture of Him and His family, then I don't have the right picture for myself and my family. When I promise my children something, I'm assured they believe me, because I don't lie to them or promise things I can't deliver. Sadly, we look at the Promises our Heavenly Father has made and then wonder if He really means what He says.
God's Word tells us that, "All of God's Promises are Yes and Amen of us in Christ Jesus." He is able to provide everything He Promises in His Word, because HE IS THE FATHER. We draw our ideas of Him, from the experiences we had with our earthly fathers, and these aren't always good images. We haven't all had good earthly fathers and the image we have of our Heavenly Father is clouded by our experiences. The relationship we have with our spouses are sometimes clouded by our not understanding the True relationship between Christ and His Bride, the Church. Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified) says, "This Mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the relation of Christ and the Church."
My wife could have chosen another man to be her husband, but she chose me. She doesn't stay with me out of fear, but out of love. I don't need to threaten her and force her to stay. She stays because she loves me and for no other reason. Even when I can't provide the very best and we've endured hard times, I can trust in her to remain faithful to me and remain with me, out of love.
Even as Christians, my wife and I struggle sometimes and have some hard times, but during these times, we can depend on one another, lean on one another and remain in love with one another. She doesn't love me for my money or for all I can provide, but she just loves me. Many are upset with God for various reasons and think He's holding out on them or isn't doing His part. We don't love God for only His Provision, but for Who He is. This is unconditional love and will always remain.
If God only loved us when we did everything right, then His Love wouldn't remain unconditional. There's a way to walk with God, according to the principles of the family, which will allow Him to provide all He's Promised us in Jesus. Most of us don't take the time to learn or understand the family into which we were born-again. Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek, aim at and strive after, first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all of these things taken together will be given you besides."
What is God's way of doing and being right? We can't become in right standing or become righteous before Him, by our works or traditions. We do so, by accepting the Righteousness He provided for us in Jesus. Jesus said in John 14:5 (Amplified), "I Am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me." Romans 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For in the Gospels, a righteousness which God ascribes is 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."
We are righteous by faith in His Righteousness and not of our own doing. This is "His way of doing and being right or righteous. This is the Kingdom's way of being in right standing with the Father. The above scripture tells us that, "We accept His Gift of Righteousness and realize we're righteous in His eyes and Kingdom by faith." The rest of His Promises are easy to accept, when we put our faith in this Truth. Most of us see our own faults and think of our unrighteousness, instead of considering His Righteousness, which He ascribes, by faith in Jesus.
Many believers don't know what the cleansing of our sins, really means. Even though we're born-again, the full meaning of this eludes us. God didn't just forgive our sin, but He eradicated it as though it never existed. He declared us Righteous, by being in Jesus and as His very Own family. He sees us as being clean.
We're still working out and walking out this righteousness, while we're in this body, but God only counts the steps we take and not how many times we might fall down, while we're learning to walk. Most children spend more time on their Pampers, than on their feet, while learning how to walk. We never doubted that they'd eventually learn to walk. Like children, we make mistakes that we learn to overcome, as we grow. Don't you think our Heavenly Father knows we'll learn to overcome these things?
Don't just look at your failings and think you'll never arrive, on this side of Heaven. You're already in God's family and you'll learn how to do "His way of doing and being right or righteous." the Kingdom has spiritual Laws that govern it and God cannot change the Laws, but He will teach us how to walk in them. These aren't rituals, like in the old covenant. They're Laws that hold the universe in place. If God changed these Laws, then all of creation would be displaced, so we must learn to observe His way of doing and being right.
We must spend time in His Presence and listen to the Voice of the Holy Spirit. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers about the Holy Spirit, in John 16:13 (Amplified), "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole full Truth), For He will not speak His Own Message (on His Own authority), but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father (He will give the Message that has been given to Him); and He will announce it and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
Jesus wasn't speaking just about "the End," when He spoke about the "things that will happen in the future," but about the things that may happen in our lives tomorrow. Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit will show us how to deal with these things. Today, the world is wrapped up in the Coronavirus. We must listen to the Voice of the Holy Spirit and He will direct us how to deal with even this, by His way of doing and being right. Don't step out in presumption or fear, but step out in faith in God's Righteousness and in His way of doing and being right. He will direct you.
God has never varied from this commitment and His Original Intention for His children. Mankind was never meant to be under bondage to anyone or anything. The relationship we have with our Heavenly Father was not one of bondage, but of family. It was meant to be a Love relationship between God and His children, as family. The relationship I have with my wife, children, siblings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren isn't one of bondage, but of love. They don't stay with me out of fear, but they stay with me out of their love for me and my love for them.
My part in this family is to enjoy, provide and care for them, to the very best of my ability, so they'll grow into fine adults and bring forth seed to replenish the generations. They will learn how to love their family, by watching and learning from their own experience in life. My sons learned how to love their wives, by watching how I treated and loved their mother.
The way we do this in God's family, is by watching our Heavenly Father and His Example for His family. If I don't have the correct picture of Him and His family, then I don't have the right picture for myself and my family. When I promise my children something, I'm assured they believe me, because I don't lie to them or promise things I can't deliver. Sadly, we look at the Promises our Heavenly Father has made and then wonder if He really means what He says.
God's Word tells us that, "All of God's Promises are Yes and Amen of us in Christ Jesus." He is able to provide everything He Promises in His Word, because HE IS THE FATHER. We draw our ideas of Him, from the experiences we had with our earthly fathers, and these aren't always good images. We haven't all had good earthly fathers and the image we have of our Heavenly Father is clouded by our experiences. The relationship we have with our spouses are sometimes clouded by our not understanding the True relationship between Christ and His Bride, the Church. Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified) says, "This Mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the relation of Christ and the Church."
My wife could have chosen another man to be her husband, but she chose me. She doesn't stay with me out of fear, but out of love. I don't need to threaten her and force her to stay. She stays because she loves me and for no other reason. Even when I can't provide the very best and we've endured hard times, I can trust in her to remain faithful to me and remain with me, out of love.
Even as Christians, my wife and I struggle sometimes and have some hard times, but during these times, we can depend on one another, lean on one another and remain in love with one another. She doesn't love me for my money or for all I can provide, but she just loves me. Many are upset with God for various reasons and think He's holding out on them or isn't doing His part. We don't love God for only His Provision, but for Who He is. This is unconditional love and will always remain.
If God only loved us when we did everything right, then His Love wouldn't remain unconditional. There's a way to walk with God, according to the principles of the family, which will allow Him to provide all He's Promised us in Jesus. Most of us don't take the time to learn or understand the family into which we were born-again. Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek, aim at and strive after, first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all of these things taken together will be given you besides."
What is God's way of doing and being right? We can't become in right standing or become righteous before Him, by our works or traditions. We do so, by accepting the Righteousness He provided for us in Jesus. Jesus said in John 14:5 (Amplified), "I Am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me." Romans 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For in the Gospels, a righteousness which God ascribes is 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."
We are righteous by faith in His Righteousness and not of our own doing. This is "His way of doing and being right or righteous. This is the Kingdom's way of being in right standing with the Father. The above scripture tells us that, "We accept His Gift of Righteousness and realize we're righteous in His eyes and Kingdom by faith." The rest of His Promises are easy to accept, when we put our faith in this Truth. Most of us see our own faults and think of our unrighteousness, instead of considering His Righteousness, which He ascribes, by faith in Jesus.
Many believers don't know what the cleansing of our sins, really means. Even though we're born-again, the full meaning of this eludes us. God didn't just forgive our sin, but He eradicated it as though it never existed. He declared us Righteous, by being in Jesus and as His very Own family. He sees us as being clean.
We're still working out and walking out this righteousness, while we're in this body, but God only counts the steps we take and not how many times we might fall down, while we're learning to walk. Most children spend more time on their Pampers, than on their feet, while learning how to walk. We never doubted that they'd eventually learn to walk. Like children, we make mistakes that we learn to overcome, as we grow. Don't you think our Heavenly Father knows we'll learn to overcome these things?
Don't just look at your failings and think you'll never arrive, on this side of Heaven. You're already in God's family and you'll learn how to do "His way of doing and being right or righteous." the Kingdom has spiritual Laws that govern it and God cannot change the Laws, but He will teach us how to walk in them. These aren't rituals, like in the old covenant. They're Laws that hold the universe in place. If God changed these Laws, then all of creation would be displaced, so we must learn to observe His way of doing and being right.
We must spend time in His Presence and listen to the Voice of the Holy Spirit. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers about the Holy Spirit, in John 16:13 (Amplified), "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole full Truth), For He will not speak His Own Message (on His Own authority), but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father (He will give the Message that has been given to Him); and He will announce it and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
Jesus wasn't speaking just about "the End," when He spoke about the "things that will happen in the future," but about the things that may happen in our lives tomorrow. Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit will show us how to deal with these things. Today, the world is wrapped up in the Coronavirus. We must listen to the Voice of the Holy Spirit and He will direct us how to deal with even this, by His way of doing and being right. Don't step out in presumption or fear, but step out in faith in God's Righteousness and in His way of doing and being right. He will direct you.
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