LIFE IN THE SUPERNATURAL

LIFE IN THE SUPERNATURAL

 

Galatians 4:31   ³¹ So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Abraham had two sons, one by a bondmaid and her name was Hagar.

Hagar was a slave woman obligated to the law. So the slave woman’s son could not share the family inheritance with the freewoman’s son.

Sarah, who was the wife of Abraham and her son, was born of a free bond woman.

The son of the bond woman was an attempt to bring about the fulfillment of Gods promise to Abraham.

But the son of the free bond wife was born as Gods own fulfillment of His promise.

These two women serve as an illustration of Gods two covenants.

Hagar the slave woman represents Mount Sinai where people first became enslaved to the law.

Just as Hagar was a slave.

Sarah, the free woman represents the heavenly Jerusalem.

We are not children of Hagar. Hagar’s children are children of the natural.

Galatians 4:28   ²⁸ Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

We are children of Sarah; we are children of the promise.

When we were born again something happened. Now we can’t be held back. It is not by might, nor by power. It is by His Spirit that we are the children of the supernatural.

We have no connection to the finish work of the cross without faith.

To get what grace has made available we have to get it by faith. Grace is God’s unmerited favor.

Ephesians 4:7-8   ⁷ But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

⁸ Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

We must learn to respond to grace through faith, to release the supply available before the need was ever evident. It is always available

Religion tells us that we have to perform to get what God has already done.

Ephesians 2:8-9   For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

God in all his wisdom has in his good pleasure made everything we need or ever will need available through the Blood of Jesus.

We have been saved, delivered from judgment and everything heaven has to offer can be possessed by faith, not by religious rhetoric.

Hebrews 11:1   Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for.

1^st Peter 1:3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Hope is the finished work of the cross.

Spiritual warfare is you maintaining the victory that Jesus died to obtain.

Spiritual warfare is standing on the word, regardless of the pain, your thoughts or your feelings.

It doesn’t matter what the circumstance may look like, do not move away from your faith. What you’re believing for is already done.

Spiritual warfare is the battle in your mind: what you are thinking.

If what you are thinking doesn’t line up with the word of God, don’t receive it. Stand on the finished work of the Cross.

The things hoped for are the finished works of the cross.

2^nd Peter 1:3   According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

So where is it? It is in your spirit.

Ephesians 1:3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Has blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in Heavenly places.

So when we say, God what are you going to do? His reply is I am finished, what are you going to do.

It is a done deal, I am finished.

So how do we manifest the super natural finished works of the cross to the natural realm?

Your response is the key to how you respond to everything that happens to you.

Don’t respond to the natural situation: that keeps you bound to the natural.

Some situations demand a supernatural response. Immediately give a supernatural response.

Philemon 6    That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Our faith will become effective by acknowledging the finished work of Jesus Christ which is in you. It is in you. Christ in you, the hope of glory.