THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! This is how God always operates. He calls things that be not as though they were (Romans 4:17). He declares the end from the beginning. And, as always, the end He declared comes to pass just as He said it would. 3 short years later, the devil was whipped and the curse conquered--- all by the power of THE BLESSING. NO DIVINE PRIVILEGES ! Wait a minute." You might say, "I thought Jesus did those things by the divine power that belongs to Him as the Son of God." No, the Bible says that when Jesus Christ, came to earth, He stripped Himself of all divine privileges. He laid aside the power that belong to Him as a member of the Godhead, "became like men and was born a human being." That means every miracle Jesus performed and every work of ministry He accomplished on earth was a manifestation of THE BLESSING in operation. He healed the sick, cast out demons and raise the dead--- all by faith in THE BLESSING of Abraham and the promises it included. You would have to understand, Jesus came and announced; that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him because God the Father has Anointed Him. It's amazing, but true: Jesus did everything the Father had called Him to do, not as the Son of God, but as the Son of man. The New Testament, which is The New Covenant leaves no doubt about it, telling us again and again that Jesus referred to Himself in that way: when He healed the paralytic, He said, "That you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, then he saith... Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house" (Matthew 9:6). When speaking to His disciples, He asked, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am ?" (Matthew 16:13). When He talked about His crucifixion, He said, "The Son of man must suffer many things..." (Mark 8:31). When He explained His earthly mission He said, "The Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them" (Luke 9:56). When He spoke to the Jews who question His identity, He said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know, that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things" (John 8:28). By referring to Himself as the Son of man, Jesus was in no way denying His divinity. He wholly affirmed Peter's revelation that, "Thou art the Christ, The Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16). Yet, it was not His divinity that Jesus emphasized. It was His humanity. By calling Himself "The Son of man," Jesus was actually saying to His Jewish listeners who knew that Adam were the same Hebrew word: "I am The One who walks in Adams BLESSING. I am the last Adam." "But, I thought Jesus walked in THE BLESSING of Abraham," you might say. He did ! As we've already seen, Adam's BLESSING and Abraham's BLESSING are the same. The reason that BLESSING is referred to in the New Testament as " THE BLESSING of Abraham" is because it was Abraham's faith in his relationship with God that made the way for Jesus to come to earth. Jesus birth, and life, and ministry, and sacrifice for our sin and His resurrection, were all possible because Abraham believed and received THE BLESSING--- not just for himself, but for his Seed which is Christ. Notice the word seed is singular, not plural. It not only refers to the Jewish people who are Abraham's natural heirs, but according to (Galatians 3:16), THE BLESSING of Abraham and every promise included in it were specifically directed toward one particular Heir--- Jesus Christ. "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promise made. He saith not, an to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ." In light of this, you can see why (Galatians 3:8) says that God was preaching the gospel unto Abraham when He said, "In thee shall all nations be BLESSED." With that one statement, God proclaimed the good news that Jesus was coming to get THE BLESSING back for all nations, to demonstrate its true power and make it available to every man, woman and child on earth who would put their faith in Him !