Genesis 1:1-3 (Amplified) says, "In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned and) created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light."
John 1:1-5 (Amplified) says, "In the beginning (before all time) was the Word (Christ) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself." Verse 2 says, "He was present originally with God." Verse 3-5 says, "All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it (put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it)."
Both of these scriptures give the account of creation according to the Word. Most any born again Christian knows that Jesus is the human form or manifestation of the Word. Luke 1:35-38 (Amplified) says, "Then the angel said to her (Mary), the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you (like a shining cloud); and so the Holy (pure, sinless) thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God. And listen! Your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is now the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing is ever impossible and no Word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment. Then Mary said, Behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be done to me according to what you have said, and the angel left her." The King James version quotes Mary as saying, "According to your Word, let it be done to me."
John 1:14 (Amplified) tells us, "And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we (actually) saw His glory (His honor, His majesty) such glory as an only begotten Son receives from His Father, full of grace (favor, loving kindness) and truth."
These scriptures illustrate the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit working together as One to bring about the will and heart of God in our lives. God has already declared how He desired a family before creating the earth for that family to inhabit. Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's (Own) handiwork (His workmanship) recreated in Christ Jesus (born anew) that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us (taking paths which He prepared ahead of time), that we should walk in them (living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live)."
We are the "new creations," according to 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away, Behold, the fresh and new has come." Many have missed the part of our being a new creation. Through Jesus, we have become an "immaculate conception" by the very same process that brought Jesus into this world.
Like Mary's saying, "Let it be done to me according to Thy Word," we did the same by confessing Jesus as Lord with our mouths and receiving Him in our heart." Romans 10:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trust in and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms his salvation."
As new creations, we came about even as Jesus came about. Like Mary, we declared by faith, "Let it be done unto me according to your Word (which is Jesus)." The Holy Spirit overshadowed us and the "holy thing" born into us was called a son of God. We were born of the Word and the Spirit, just like Jesus was. 1Peter 1:23-25 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and lasting Word of God For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like (the) flower of grass, the grass withers and the flower drops off, But the Word of the Lord (divine instructions, the Gospel) endures forever, And this Word is the Good News, which was, preached to you."
We were born again by the Word of God, just like Jesus was. We were born again as God's new creation and were born again into His family, like He intended from before the foundation of the world. 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away, Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The Holy Spirit can reveal to you from the Word that we are new creatures born like Jesus was and ingrafted into Him. 1John 1:35 (Amplified) says we are the, "sinless and holy offspring" sons of God." Most of us still identify with the first creation (Adam), instead of with the New Creation, Who is Jesus. We were born again by faith when taking His Word into our hearts, just like He was. The Word (Jesus) is the "sperm, seed of God" and it produces the same thing as the "Original Seed (the Word, Jesus). His sperm or seed produces "sinless and pure and holy," because His Word can only bear the same fruit each and every time. Genesis 1:25-26 (Amplified) says, "The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to its own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it. And God made the (wild) beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the earth according to their kind. And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it. god said, Let us (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) make man in Our Image, after Our Likeness and after Our Kind."
How can the Seed (Word) of God produce anything less than "After It's Kind?" We've failed to hear the Holy Spirit's Voice and the counsel of the Word by the Holy Spirit. We've failed to see ourselves after the First Adam instead of after the Last Adam, Jesus. In Him, we are "pure and sinless and holy" and in right standing and righteousness before God. We are born of His Seed, which is Jesus Himself.
This truth can bring about a righteousness consciousness, instead of a sin consciousness. This is the truth that will bring you into true fellowship with our Father and bring us "Boldly before His Throne of Grace," which is the Holy of Holies. We need to get passed the "Sin that so easily besets us," like Hebrews 6:1-2 instructs saying, "Therefore, Let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not be again laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith (by which you turned) to God. With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment (These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago)."
Romans 8:28-30 (Amplified) says, "We are assured and know that (God being a partner in their labor) all things work together and are (fitting into a plan) for good to and for those who love God and are called according to (His) design and purpose." Verse 29 goes on, "For those whom He loves and knew (of who He was aware and loved beforehand) He also destined from the beginning (for ordained them) to be molded into the Image of His Son (and share inwardly His (Likeness) that He might become the firstborn among many brethren (every seed produces after its kind)." Verse 30 says< "And those whom He thus fore ordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself) And those whom He justified, He also glorified (raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being)."
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