“But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all” (Isa. 53:5-6).
Every sin that man has been or will be
guilty of has been whipped clean...forgiven...by the finished work of of Jesus'
death and resurrection. Jesus by His death on the Cross bore the sin of
"ALL". Until we have a proper appreciation and understanding of God’s
accomplishment through the finished work of Jesus, we can never be kingdom
believers walking in the reality of His life in us. We must have more than just
an superficial understanding of the plan of God for humanity.
Man’s problem was sin. God took care of sin
through Jesus. Man's downfall post-cross is his preoccupation with "sin
consciousness" rather than "God consciousness"! Sin is not a
problem with God because He has dealt with it through Jesus...sin is a problem
for man in that it robs him of "God consciousness", and gives him a
feeling of being separated from God. If we were more God conscious we would
experience living in the presence of God and in fellow-shipping with Him our
"sin consciousness would be dead.
Romans 3:23 says that “All have sinned and
come short of the glory of God.” The glory of God is to fill the temple of God
and PEOPLE are His temple...nor buildings called churches. Man was created to
be a vessel to contain the fullness of everything that God is. We were not
created to be full of self, sin, lusts of the flesh or the pride of life that
"sin consciousness" glorifies and magnifies. We were created to be
the full expression of His glory and to manifest His kingdom in the earth to
glorify God.
There are two sources of life available to
us as people to draw out life from, the first Adam or the last Adam. The
natural carnal man receives his source of life from the first Adam and lives
being "sin conscious", even if he is a believer. The spiritual man
receives his life from the second Adam...Jesus...and is "God
conscious" manifesting the compassion, love and grace of God as the
Community of the Redeemed to the Community of Humanity.
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