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“Christianity is not a set of rules, it is the expression of a new nature”
“Christianity is not a set of rules, it is the expression of a new nature”
God created man for fellowship and to be a part of the God Family (Elohim). In order to do this, He had to create man with a will to choose. Man would have to choose to become like God. He gave man His nature (spirit) and the vehicle to express this nature (soul). So man was to take God’s nature ( image) and choose to express it into his soul producing God’s likeness and so become a glorified being or God – man. He would then enter Heaven and sit with the Father in His throne and rule both in Heaven and on Earth.
God gave Man the earth as his growth arena. It was his project and the Garden of Eden was his proto type. He was to bring Heaven to Earth as he saw it in Eden. Man would learn to walk in Hope, Faith, and Love and so become just like his Father. He was to use Hope to see into the heart and mind of God until he became filled with the substance (faith) of what he saw. He was then to walk in the maturity of Love as he brought forth his Father’s Glory in exercising dominion over all the earth. By so doing, he would turn earth into heaven and so learn to dwell with God forever. Earth was to be Man’s training ground for ruler-ship with God. He was commanded to be fruitful and multiply and so cover the earth with the Glory of God. He was supposed to turn the rest of the earth into what God had demonstrated for him in the Garden of Eden, which in it’s perfect state was probably just like Heaven.
Man used his greatest gift, the gift of choice, to deny his Father and break his covenant ( agreement) with God. This brought immediate and long term consequences and brought death to all of the creation including all that he was given rulership over.
Man’s nature changed and he no longer had the ability to bring forth God’s likeness, but instead began to oppose all that God is. On the day that he transgressed God’s Word he conceived iniquity, his spirit died, and was separated from God. Instead of bringing forth God’s likeness, from that day forward he brought forth the likeness of the one whom he obeyed in the Garden. He became like his father the devil and without a Savior would share an eternity of judgement with his new master and father.
Instead of ruling the creation, Man became it’s servant. He eventually rejected the knowledge of God and began to worship the creation itself. It was at this point that God introduced His Character ( Likeness, the Law) to humanity through a people He chose from all the families of the earth to be His own. It became evident that not one man in all the generations of man had the ability to think and walk like God or to become like Him so as to have the ability to fellowship with Him. To those who chose to serve the Creator instead of the creation, He gave the hope of Salvation by the institution of animal sacrifices that pointed to the coming of a Perfect Man that would willingly offer himself for the redemption of all mankind.
If God’s mercy had not covered Adam on the day he sinned, he would have been struck dead immediately. However, because of God’s mercy, Adam was allowed to live on in the flesh and his death sentence was deferred on to his children and children’s children through something called iniquity. The day would come when one of Adam’s children would pay the penalty of Adam’s transgression which he could not have paid himself or the human race would have ended with no hope of future generations.
The one to pay the penalty and so remove the deferment of death from the human race is called the Last Adam, The Son of God, and the First Born from among the Dead.
This Son of Man so perfectly walked by the Rhema of God that the nature ( image) of God was pressed out into his soul until He became the very Likeness or Character of the Father thus fulfilling man’s original purpose as laid out in Genesis 1:26. He was then qualified to be the lamb sacrifice to take away sins.
He was sacrificed to remove the body of sin ( indwelling satanic nature, dead spirit of man) from all those who will confess His name and apply His blood to their lives.
As the last Adam, He bore the death penalty of iniquity for all generations and ended the generation of Adam and started a new race of mankind (God – Men) Elohims. He died and was risen from the dead. As the first man to be born again he entered Heaven by His own blood and sat down in the thrown of His Father.
Before He left the earth He released to His body, the many sons that would be brought unto glory, the revelation that “ All Authority in Heaven and on Earth was now His, we should therefore and in that revelation go.”
Before Jesus was born again by His resurrection from the dead, he only had authority on earth as the Son of Man, just like Adam was given. After coming into the Father’s likeness and entering Heaven he had completed Gen 1:26 and was given “ All authority in Heaven “. He took the position in Heaven as the glorified God – man that was reserved for Man from the beginning but left vacant because of man’s fall.
Our Job as redeemed man is to now apply the blood of Jesus to every part of our soul that still resembles our old satanic nature. With our mouth we also confess or agree with the new nature ( Jesus Christ ) within us and the Spirit of God responds by giving us faith ( the substance of Glory) to overcome and subdue the Giants (strongholds) in our Canaan land ( soul ).
Our foremost activity is to meditate on the Logos and then act on the Rhema when it comes. In so doing we will become like him (the Logos) as we are transfigured by the renewing of our minds. This process cannot happen apart from our intentional action to subdue the evil on this earth with His righteousness by bringing Heaven to Earth through the word of His Authority.
Because we are born again, we have a new nature and we can now see the Kingdom. As we look into our Father’s heart and Mind, we see. As we see, we hope. As we hope, we believe. As we believe, we receive substance from Heaven ( Faith, the answer to our prayers). From this substance we speak, and our Father’s Glory is released and our fruit remains. As this process continues the whole earth is filled with His Glory and the creation is released into the freedom of Heaven which is the fulfillment of it’s original purpose. This is called the RE-GENERATION and it is the recreation of the heavens and the earth which was entrusted to Christ as the first born of all creation and the head of redeemed man. We participate in this recreation or regeneration as we allow the redemptive process to work in us and through us by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of our Testimony. The first Creation expressed the Father’s personality. The 2nd Creation will be done through our personality as His Glory flows through us because of the agreement of our will expressed by the words of our mouth.
We go from strength to strength, faith to faith, and then glory to glory. This process continues until we are perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect and are qualified to sit down with Him in His thrown even as Jesus overcame and sat down with His Father in His thrown. We thus experience " The Regeneration", which is perfect redemption.
Supporting Scriptures: Gen 1:26, 1John 1:3, Isaiah 55:7-9, Gen 2:17, 1Cor 13:13, Rev1:18,Rev 3:21, Gen 3:22&23, Psalm 82:6, John 10:34, Phil 2:6, John 5:18, John 5:38, John 15:7, Psalms 1:2, Joshua 1:8, John 15:16, Numbers 14:21, Exodus 33:7, Math 5:48, John 1:1, John 1:12, Math 28:18, Coll 3:1&2, Math 19:28, Acts 3:21, Rom 8:17-22, 2 Peter 1:4, James 3:2 , Math 12:33-37, Rom 12:2, John 3:3, Heb 3:1, Rom 10:9&10, Ephes 4:13, Rev 12:11, 1John 5:4, Heb 9:5, Isaiah 14:12, Rev 22:16, Rev 2:28, Exodus 37:7-9, Math 10:7&8, Math 12:28, John 8:38,42,44, Rom 1:28-32, Math 16:23, Mark 11:23, 1 Cor 15:45-49, 1 Cor 5:17, Gal 6:15, Heb 1:3
