🔥FORGET THE FORMER THINGS

 Many people do not know the righteousness of God. I was reading through my notes from yesterday during my time with the Lord and I just wanted to share. Sometimes I forget that a lot of people aren't in the Word and their highest revelation is that they are a sinner. Maybe they even know they are a sinner and Jesus died for their sin. But how does that save anyone? So they are taught to say a prayer to "get to heaven", as if God just merely sent His only Son to the earth to die just to help us make it through this pitiful life on earth until He rescues us out of here someday. I want to encourage you to get into the Word of God and know what He says.  It's been taught that heaven is a far away place, but what if I show you in scripture that eternal life is not only somewhere you go after you die? What if John 17:3 is actually true? "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." In Ecclesiastes 3:11, it says, "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." What about Luke 17:21? nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is in your midst." Midst means with in. Do you believe Matthew 1:23? That the Son of God was born to a woman.. That He too had to be baptized by water and when He came up heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him. A voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased." Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He wasn't tempted in morality. He was tempted in what He believed. He was tempted just like Adam was in the Garden. Did God really say that? Are you really the Son of God? He was tempted to prove that He was the Son of God. Jesus knew there was nothing to prove. God told Him that He was His Son. He believed God and the Spirit of God rested on Him. 1 John 4:17 tells us, "This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement: In THIS WORLD we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love." I will tell you, Adam failed and fear and shame came upon him. But Jesus did not fail the test. If you are identifying more with Adam than you are Jesus, I ask you... Do you want to know the One true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent? He is the only way back to God the Father. He is the only Truth that will set you free. He is the Life of God in you. He is Christ in you, the Hope of glory. These aren't even my notes from yesterday yet, lol. The Lord just laid it on my heart to put that in here first. So many people live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven and we eagerly await a Savior from there who by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will TRANSFORM our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body. Citizenship is a legal status AND an identity that shapes our relationships. Is your Adamic earthly nature your status and identity or have you been adopted into the Kingdom of God? Are you in Christ? Scripture tells us, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The OLD IS GONE, THE NEW IS HERE!" Wait, when does it say the new creation comes? After we shed this physical body? NO!!!! It says, IF WE ARE IN CHRIST, THE NEW CREATION COMES. Then what? Then we become foreigners on this earth because we are now under a different government. We are under a different lordship. Heaven is our residence and we become a dwelling place for the Lord. What does that look like? It looks like the marriage supper of the Lamb. It looks like we are now fellow citizens with Gods people and also members of His household. Please understand that you were chosen in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined you for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will. Many are called, but few are chosen. How is this so? Because we were only chosen IN CHRIST. If we are not in Christ, we will not appear with Him in glory and we will be cast into utter darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Im telling you, eternity started 2 thousand years ago and you have the option today, to choose life or death. Whatever one you choose today will determine the rest of your life, in this life and the one to come. Its been predetermined, in Christ you will have life. In Adam you remain dead in the worlds broken system, always trying to prove yourself. 

The Son is the only one who is faithful, He is the one who keeps the covenant with loving devotion to 1,000 generations to those who love Him and keep His commands. Christ is the point of the Law, so that there will be righteousness for everyone that believes. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! But because we were busy trying to satisfy the lusts of our flesh, the law had no power to make us right with God. So God sent His own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law be fully met IN US who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. Do you know that please means, agree with, welcome, enjoy, delight in, accept? The realm of the flesh cannot agree with God. The realm of the flesh cannot welcome God. The realm of the flesh cannot enjoy God. The realm of the flesh cannot delight in God. The realm of the flesh cannot ACCEPT God. You know why? One can only come to God through His Son. In order to even agree with God, you must know His Son. God will not force Himself to you. You receiving Him requires your consent. Which ironically is another meaning for agree. Are you trying to do what is right without knowing Jesus? You might know the golden rule but do you know the Son of the Living God? Sin is cursed in the flesh, if we live according to the flesh we will be condemned and not be able to accept God. We were at one time living according to the flesh and the ways of this world, we were hostile to God and to His laws, but Jesus became our mediator- between us and God, He delivers us from ignorance. The ignorance of us not knowing that God made a way for us to be free from the curse of sin in the flesh, that we may now live by the Spirit in which there is no law. It is in the Spirit that the righteous requirement of the law is met fully in us. We no longer have an obligation to the flesh. In fact, if we continue to try and live by the flesh we will die, but if by the Spirit we put to death the misdeeds of the flesh; we will live. For those led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again; rather the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by Him we cry out, "Abba Father." The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit, that we are Gods children, then we are heirs- heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. Do you notice how much order is referenced in scripture? I don't even know how many times and instances in scripture I've read the words, "in order". Do you know that God is a God of order? He gave us the order, and in our ignorance we continue to fumble around not knowing why things are going haywire, trying to do all the right things, trying to not sin, trying to forgive, trying to witness about someone we have never even met to people we don't even love. Let that sink in for a minute. When something has a sign that says, "out of order", guess what?! It doesn't work. If we continue outside of Gods design, outside of His order which is another word for command by the way, then we will never enter the Kingdom of God. Not because of God, but because of our own ignorance. God already accepted you in His Son. And its only in His Son that you can accept Him too. Stop wasting time doing things that are meaningless. What good is it to drag around a dead man? Let the One who defeated death give life to your mortal body. Get to know the order of God. All creation is groaning as in pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfriuts of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of the church, whom is the body of Christ. Faith comes by hearing. If you have an ear let it hear through the revelation that can only come through the Word of God. He has made us competent ministers of a new covenant- not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered and you hinder those who were entering. Know Truth. Get Free. Love always,

Talli Lopez