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We Were, We Are, But, We Have to Be.

Uncategorized · November 13, 2020

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We were, we are, but, we have to be. This is the story of Scripture. “What in the world?” you might say. Let’s take a look …

In the beginning, God created man and woman in His Image to live with Him and be fruitful by and through His Guidance. We were created as Children of God.

But, there was the fall, the fall from Glory. We exited God’s plan of Glory falling into sin. So, God created separation. Rather than being in an intimate relationship with the Father, we were ‘put out of the Garden or Paradise’ and guards were stationed to keep us separate. Sin is costly.

Separated from God, we die spiritually. It’s a vast wasteland of wandering. He means to be LORD (which means master) of our lives. There’s no doubt about it, this is for our own good.

So God made the way for us to come back — back to Paradise, back to Him.

His goal is for us to Live with Him. To be constantly Aware of His Presence with us. We should be continually receiving His Guidance in our Life. He is the One who knows everything so Knowing His Presence with us is obviously a very good idea.

So, the journey back began. First God begins by working with a called out or awakened person and then a people. Called out, Called up and Awakened are terms that reference our coming Alive in a Spiritual Relationship. The idea behind a Called Out people was to teach them and us the Character and Way of God.

A key figure to notice is Noah who Learned obedience, building an Ark in preparation for a flood. God is Faithful to prepare us with what we need, if we’ll Listen.

Then, there is Abraham who learned Trust. Abraham and Noah both responded to God doing what He said, going where He directed and they had their Faith reckoned to them as Righteousness. Righteousness is Huge. It is Hearing and Following in the Way of God.

With this demonstration of Trusting Obedience, or Righteousness, the promise was made that, through Abraham, God would Reestablish the nation and nations. He promised to be God to them and give them the land of their sojourning.

That means they would be fruitful and protected. They would once again have dominion over evil, and fear and doubt. They would have Authority over the enemy. Spiritual Authority that is. We’ll find this is key to Thriving with God.

The Descendants of Abraham are to be people of the Covenant or Promise. People who Know the Word of God written and the Word with them. People who Respond to the Voice of God with a Listening, Doing Faith.

When it gets down to it, that’s how we Learn Obedience and Trust.

When you Learn a Trusting Walk in the Spirit of God, and Know how to Hear and Obey His Voice you will find Life and Peace. That is His Promise. Without Him, it’s kind of like a jungle. The Bible calls it wandering, or being lost or asleep.

The lineage continued and in the process Truth was shared. We learned the nature of God. He is Love, Holy Love. Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent Love. He wants the Best for all His Creation and His Created. All Humanity is meant to know Him and be His Children, those He Guides, Leads and Shepherds on earth, in Paradise.

On an upbeat note, God created Earth as Paradise, and created Humanity to Live with Him in it! He promises responders Love, Blessing, Favor, Wisdom and Authority.

Through the Ages that have followed we can see how Life with God and Life in God is meant to play out. Listen, Hear, Look and Do is the pattern that leads to Trust and Resting Belief. Faith that pleases God comes from Relationship, a Trusting, Responsive Relationship with the Holy God.

In time, when God had humanity prepared, He demonstrated a Fully Fruitful Relationship with Humanity again, He sent the Son chosen to Model Life, Light, Hope, Love, Kingdom Power and Authority — all things good!

Jesus showed us Abundant, Fruitful Life. A Life of Listening, Looking, Learning, and Loving, He was a ‘Doer of the Word’ and as the Spirit and Power of the Holy God came upon Him, He ‘Modeled Paradise Life, or the Kingdom of God.’

Expressing God as the sent Son, Jesus was the House of God. The Lovingkindness or Grace of God was Full in Him. He was the Embodiment of God’s Spirit. He perfectly reflected God’s Divine Love. He was recognized as the Christ, the Word of God made flesh, He was the Chosen One, Anointed to be the Messiah, the Son of the Living God.

Jesus as the Last Adam and the first Heavenly Man
was the Model of who we can be when we understand the Fullness of our Potential and New Identity.

God Reconciled humanity to Himself through Christ and gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation. As we understand this and choose to Live our Lives for the Honor of God and His Christ, in Christ, by God’s Empowerment we Become someone who we can never be on our own. We are Representatives of Heaven. God’s Spiritual Children Alive with Him Leading, Guiding And Directing us once again!

Jesus in His Perfection, chose to lay down His Life for us. The Made Perfect Son became the Atonement, the Propitiation and Payment for humanity’s sin. This is the story of the cross. The Blood of the Perfect Son, the unblemished Lamb of God paid the debt of our sin so that we can Live Reconciled to God once again.

This changed everything. There was a New Covenant
enacted thanks to God’s Plan, and the Son’s Willing Obedience. The Finished Work of the cross changed the standing of humanity.

We were flesh sons relegated to separation, to spiritual death.

But now, we are Reconciled in our Standing, Redeemed to come Alive in Christ.

Every single one of us are able to Accept the Work of God through Christ Jesus, and to Rise up and Be Spiritual Sons and Daughters of God. We are to be made Whole, Fruitful and Perfectly at Peace by Relationship with the Spirit of God.

We are people of Heavenly Potential.

The last Adam Jesus, ensured that humanity is no longer consigned to be a living soul. We can Be people made Complete by the Life-Giving Spirit of God.

We can Learn to Model Glory, but that’s another story for another day.

So hear the Good News —

By the Grace of God, by the Forgiveness and Mercy He gave to us in and through His Son, The New and Living Way Covenant was enacted.

Today, we are Redeemed,

But, we have to accept the gift, Become and Be God’s Children —

We have to know His Spirit with us, and Be fruitfully Transformed.

So there it is, the story. We were, we are, but, we have to be … To Be Children bearing Glory!

Arise and Shine. It is time to Become God’s Intention, Overcomers Knowing and Living our Destiny. We, you and I, are meant to unveil the ending of the Story!

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The Plan of God — Humanity Complete in Christ

God is always protecting us. We don’t necessarily always understand how but, His heart is protection. So in response to sin and disobedience, He removed Adam and Eve from the garden placing the flaming sword and cherubim to guard the way to the Tree of Life.
The story of Creation and the early stages of Humanity’s Life with God is recorded in Genesis 1-2. But, in chapter 3 we see the Fall from Glory leads to expulsion from the immediate Presence of God.
From Genesis 3 : 22-24:
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
Do not lose heart though here is the Promise of Scripture —
“To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.” Revelation 2 : 7
We have the capacity to regain access to the Garden and to Eternal Life. As we Overcome the spiritual death to which we were consigned, we will Know God with us and comprehend the Mercy of God! His heart is for all people to Know Him and be Transformed into people bearing His Image and Living with Him on earth in Paradise.
God’s Word is His Bond, it will not return void. His final Covenant (Genesis 17) with Abraham and his descendants is sure. As the Father of Faith, Abraham when he was called, obeyed living as an alien in the land of promise. (Alien can be used as a term for those living on earth in the Spiritual Realm of Relationship with God, they are living among a people who are not their own. Sometimes this is called people from another tribe, or even people from another country — in this case a heavenly country.) Hebrews 11 says Abraham was looking for the City which has foundations whose architect and builder is God. Deep Trust and Faith in the Word of God is as essential today as it was in the day of Abraham. With Faith, we can see God is directing the ‘Building of this City.’ He is Revealing the Heavenly Jerusalem, the City of Truth, and He is directing those will Listen and Obey to be Residents of this ‘New’ Jerusalem, the City coming out of Heaven from God. As we navigate this new territory it is essential to judge everything you hear against Scripture, to discern Truth against the Word of God. To Know the written Word of God leads you to Know the Presence of the living Word of God within you. This is the mystery unveiled by Paul as He spoke of Christ.
Comprehending Earth as Paradise does require some sleuthing. God gives us His written Word in the form of a Mystery to make it so intriguing we want to dive in and uncover Deep Truths hidden in symbols and parables. He invites us to build our own personal Relationship with Him as He Teaches us Himself. We gain the Trust and Faith in God that He wants us to have as we allow the Holy Spirit within us to teach us. The world as Spiritual Realm is experienced by those Overcome the lust of the flesh to Live as People of the Spirit guided by God throughout their Life Journey. As we Realize this Realm of Living we comprehend the City Abraham foresaw. Jesus as the ‘perfecter of faith’ Actualized the Potential for all people to Know God, Know Him and Know ‘the City’ by Becoming the Way, the Truth and the Life of the Holy God and beckoning us to Follow the Example that God gave Him to Be. Because of Him. Humanity died as ‘Adam’ and we are born prepared to Learn to be Spiritual Ambassadors of the Holy One, people Living Reconciled to the Holy God.”
In this way, Righteousness comes to the earth and is seen as the New Norm among humanity. We are God’s Ambassadors of Peace, Living Purposeful Lives, and Seeking Prosperity, Justice and Liberty for all.
Jesus Lived Responsively to the Father God. He did what the Father instructed and spoke not on His initiative but by His Father’s command. Key Scriptures describing this relationship are noted here.

John 12 : 44-50

And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

 

John 10 : 31-38

The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

 

The Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit comes upon you to Empower and Illuminate you for Kingdom service. We are Created to be Ambassadors of God, people who Honor the Name of the Holy One. As Jesus had the Spirit descend upon Him He repeated the Words from Isaiah and then after being tempted, moved on to Teach and Preach about the Kingdom of God. This overview of this portion of the Story can be read in Luke 3 : 21 – 4 : 43.
Jesus was the Son of Man who was also the Son of God on earth. He demonstrated God’s Power to fill us with His Word, or with Christ and Revealed Truth. Christ is Eternally the Father’s Guiding Presence. In His Perfection by the Lovingkindness of the Father with Him, Jesus the Made Perfect Son was the Last Adam — the final human separated from the living God. Today in Christ, we can all Know God with us and because of the Atonement we can apprehend the Forgiveness that allows us to safely approach the Holy God. Jesus was on earth the Son who was from Heaven filled with the Life-Giving Spirit of God.
This is outlined in 1 Corinthians 15 : 45 – 58:
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

 

The Mystery of Resurrection

 

Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
For more on this see: Understanding Identity in Christ
The New Covenant was enacted by the blood Atonement of the Made Perfect Son. Thanks to the Work of God in and through Jesus, and Jesus’ willingness to sacrificially die for all humanity, we can all Know God and Live as Reconciled Ambassadors of Christ. The New Covenant allows us to to Live with the Covering of the Blood of the Lamb Jesus acting as the Actualization of God’s Forgiveness and Mercy while we are Empowered by His Grace (Lovingkindness) to Grow in our Salvation to Completeness in Christ. The New Covenant is explained in Hebrews 9-10.

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