The way we think and perceive things in the spirit withers as we become guarded, wary, mistrust, and suspicious. – It is so important that we renew our minds to the truth of our new creation birth. That we nourish, nurture, and protect the life of Christ within us and the knowledge of all Christ is. Satan wants us to live a life of mistrust and he is the master of causing unbelief. But Christ lives in every believer, the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us. We are never separated from God.
Innocence is a quality we are born with but slowly lose through the experiences of life. – It is the innocence of our New Creation Nature that Satan and the world desperately ties to corrupt. Every experience in life has been set before us to grind us down and take away our innocence. Satan tries every plan to steal, kill and destroy, he tries every effort to rob us of our New Creation perspective and give us his worldly perspective.
Grace and Mercy has birthed us into Innocence
Through our New Creation birth into Christ we have entered into all Christ won at the cross and this kills all Adam lost for us in the Garden of Eden. We are now re-born as New Creation and receive the innocence of Christ. Now as Christ was born without sin from the incorruptible seed of God, we to are New Creation re-born into Christ without sin by the incorruptible seed of Christ. – “having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.” 1 Peter 1:23
We are ambassadors of the grace and mercy of God. We are ambassadors that God is not counting men’s sins against them.
We are to bring heaven to earth – Our “commission” is to reveal the grace, mercy, goodness, and kindness of God so that everyone can see that a loving God has done everything in His power to bring them into an abundant and eternal life. This revelation of God’s overflowing heart of compassion and love was given so that everyone would be encouraged to repent and let God change and bring new birth into their lives. To take them from a consciousness birthed in Adam to a consciousness now birthed in Christ.
The two main attributes of God that run through the bible are Grace and Mercy. God is full of favour and goodness. Jesus has been judged at Calvary so that all who come to him in life will receive grace and mercy.
We come to a God who is overflowing in grace and mercy – We now live in the day of the Lord’s favour, the season of grace where the church is alive to show and represent the mercy of God.
A God of love who is eternally good – God’s nature is that He is love and he created us to dwell and be with him in intimate relationship.
We are to give the earth a taste of what heaven will be like – It is God’s overflowing delight that we should bring Heaven to Earth. The fruit of the Spirit is our inner garden of all the attributes of Heaven to be overflowing on earth- “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;” – Galatians 5 : 22-23 – From out of the overflow of our heart’s, Heaven comes to earth.
Therefore, there two things that are linked together – our inheritance to receive and be a blessing and the world’s need to see the goodness of God. – When we receive and live in our inheritance of the victory of the cross, when become a blessing that the world needs. Everything Christ has won, he won so that the Earth would declare the glory of God. It is through reconciliation that we show and declare God’s goodness.
The world is bad, not because of the evil it contains, but because too few Christians really believe in the power of Gods goodness.
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” – 2 Corinthians 5 : 18-19 – God through Christ reconciled the world back to himself. The act of the cross was an act of reconciliation. Mankind’s sin, inherited by everyone through Adam, was dealt with at the cross. God is no longer holding mankind’s sin against them. The world is fallen because we choose darkness instead of light. The church has the power of reconciliation but has chosen to focus on sin and not the Goodness of God. The church has spoken judgment over mankind and not reconciliation. Creation is desperate for the Sons of God to rise up and declare that God is good and His mercies endure forever.
We position ourselves with an attitude of expectancy – It is with a heart of expectancy that we delight in him and come to him. God has promised never to withhold anything from us, we receive his fullness and we are complete in Christ.
Living Grace 