2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We are about to enter into a new year and a new beginning. We're also going to enter into a new move of the Holy Spirit. The time healing and restoration is coming into our nations, our churches, our families and our lives. This is a time for making some New Year's resolutions, that we commit to and keep. The best resolution we can make, is to spend more time in God's Word and more time listening to the Holy Spirit.
Many of us have spent out prayer time talking and less time listening. It does more good hearing from the Father, rather than telling Him what is wrong. No problem we can face is new to Him and no problem is beyond His ability. Many of us fail to hear the instructions from the Father concerning out problems, when we pray. We've been waiting for the answer, before we believe that God has heard us, instead of believing He has heard us when we prayed. It doesn't do much good for Him to hear us, if we don't do what He tells us to do or believe He's heard our petition.
Let's resolve to wait and listen for His leading and instructions this New Year. And, let's do what He says. Even Jesus said that, "I only do what My Father says." We must resolve to heed the promises of the new covenant and put faith in what God wishes to do in our lives. Many of the things He truly want to do, have been so "down played" that we don't believe He will do them when we pray. We have nearly stopped believing Him to change things in our lives and have accepted that when things go awry in our lives, then it's God's will. His Word is His will, but I don't see much believing to have Him move.
We've reached a place of complacency in our lives, where we just accept things as they have always been. God still answers prayer, just like He always has and that is by His Word. God will not violate His Word, by doing "magical" things. God will only do faith things. God is not going to change, but He does expect us to change. His will is still the same for His people, so we must come in line with His will, when we pray.
The old saying of, "You never know what God's will is," has got to change in the hearts of His people. God has stated His will and He has showed His will, in the life of Jesus. Jesus was and is the very Example of God's will on earth for mankind. Jesus brought salvation, healing and miracles to people's lives. If you know the Lord Jesus, then you should know the Father's will, because Jesus never did anything that wasn't the Father's will. Jesus was the very Likeness of God, in every aspect. If Jesus did something, then it was the will of the Father.
It's beyond comprehension, how we ever got so mixed-up, as to what the Father would do. God's will is the same and will always be the same, but He still needs people to become obedient to His will, in order to have it done. Today, if we're not witnessing healings, miracles, and deliverance like we'd like too, then it's because the people aren't being obedient to His Voice, like we should be.
Please, do not misunderstand me. God's will is going to be fulfilled, but the question is whether or not we are going to be obedient to it. All things will end like God has said and all things will come to pass, like the Word has determined. The difference is whether some people will receive their healing now, or wait until they come into His Presence, after their mortal body dies? Although healing is a temporal things, it's important to us now, if we are the ones who need that healing.
Jesus knew (and we know too), that when we enter into the spirit realm (after our mortal body dies), we will be made whole. Jesus knew this, but it didn't stop the Father from healing the people even in this realm, through Jesus.
I do not believe that we were made to be spectators in this new creation, but we were made to be participants. It's a truly marvelous things to be born-again and to become a new creation, but we must know what we were created to be. Man wasn't created solely to "be here," but to do something while we are here. Now, we must decide what it is that we are supposed to do.
A challenge has been laid down before us, we will overcome or be overcome. Our adversary refuses to move by anything other than the force of God's Word and the Name of Jesus. We've been granted authority in His Name and His Name is still "Above all names." It is His authority that's been delegated to His Body (the Church), that will move the enemy. I guarantee that the peace talks our politicians are engaged in, will not work over our enemy, because he only responds to the Name of Jesus and faith in the Name of Jesus. We know the Name, but seemingly, we have misplaced our faith in His Name.
This New Year, let's commit to pray, read the Word, listen to the Holy Spirit and move on what we have heard. Being in the right place, at the right time, will let us be "about our Father's business." Not everyone is called to go to Africa, but all of us are called to "Go into all the world." This means we are to go and tell the world (the unsaved) about Jesus. You might only need to go next door or your part of "going into all the world," might be going to those you work with. Don't just try getting them to church, bring the Church to them. Remember, we are the Church. The church building is simply a place where we gather for praise, worship and instruction.
The Church is called by His Name. His Name is not "Baptist," "Catholic," "Evangelical" or "Non-denominational." The Pastor is not the only one who is responsible for brings sons unto glory, but every bran.ch is to bear fruit. This is not the Fruit of the Spirit. That is what you (by the Holy Spirit) bear in your own life. A watermelon branch doesn't merely bring forth the blossom, but the melon. We are to "bear fruit after kind." What kind is that?
This year, let's not only make a few decisions, but commitment to our decisions. Let's commit to let our new resolutions slide in a week or so, but continue until Jesus comes. Pray for God to heal our Land and pray for laborers into the harvest, while never forgetting that we are all also laborers in this harvest. When God tells you to go, remember that someone is believing you will be their laborer, in a harvest unto the Lord.
Don't expect "cheerleaders" will be there to encourage you, but take responsibility for your commitment to the Lord and just go do it. We should do like David did and encourage yourself in the Lord. Those around you won't always agree with you or encourage you, but you must, "Do it as unto the Lord." If God says to do it, then it is His will.
This is going to be a year, like no other has been in our Christian walk. We are coming to a new place in the Lord, this year. These things don't "come upon you," without your being obedient to His will. It wasn't easy for Jesus to be obedient to God's will at the cross, but because of He was obedient even to death, Jesus was given a Name above all names. Some Christians, along with the world, will try talking out of something that you know is God's will. We must learn to hear the Voice of the Father for ourselves and do like He instructs us to do.
Let Him make this new year, the best year you've ever had and put your faith in His Word (which is forever settled in Heaven). This is His will for you.
GOD BLESS YOU
Friday, December 30, 2016
Thursday, December 29, 2016
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Lesson 143 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
There has never been any creature like the new creation, before on this planet. We were not only saved from sin and death, but have actually been created "in Christ Jesus." For many, this is simply a religious term and nothing else, but when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, the Word says that we were born-again by incorruptible Seed, which is the Word of the Living God. This Seed is Christ Jesus Himself, according to Revelation 19:13 (Amplified) which says, "He is dressed in a robe dyed by dipping in blood, and the Title by which He is called is The Word of God."
We are not only created like Him, but we are created in and by Him, according to Genesis 1:11 (Amplified) which says, "And God said, Let the earth put forth (tender) vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the earth, And it was so." 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) tells us, "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."
As new creation people, we will never understand what our lives actually means in this world, until we first understand who we are. This great mystery has been well hidden for many years, by satan. If the Church continues to look at themselves through the eyes of the religious sect, we will never dare function the way the Father intended.
In order to change the world and lead the people to salvation, we must first understand who we are. We serve a Super-natural God and Father Who has given us His Life to live in this world. We have been somewhat successful in leading people to salvation and being born-again, but not in setting them free. Even the sin that we were saved from, has been like an anchor on the legs of the Church. We've spoken to the Church like they are still sinners, instead of new creation people.
Very little has ever entered into the new born spirit, that came with our new birth and the struggle with the flesh continues like before. Our flesh was never subjected to the new creation spirit that abides within this house of flesh. Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." A better rendering of this scripture might say, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are mature sons of God." We haven't yet entered into maturity as God's sons and daughters.
We read God's Word and still identify more with sin than righteousness in ourselves. Many associate the identifying of ourselves with Jesus, as being prideful. In reality, it is prideful and a false humility, when we don't identify ourselves with Jesus. When we count ourselves with the old man and not the finished works of Jesus, we are actually declaring that what Jesus did, didn't work. This is pride, at its greatest. Who are we, to deny what Jesus has done on our behalf, just to hold-on to our guilt and flesh?
According to the above scripture, being led by the Spirit of God is taking dominion over the flesh and bringing it into submission to the Spirit. Hebrews 5:14 (Amplified) says, "But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law."
We are instructed to take God's Word into our new creation spirit and use it to "train" the flesh and soul of our being, by practice and consistent use of that Word. If we can train a dog, bird, or lion by practice, then we can train our body. Allowing the flesh to simply go on undisciplined by the spirit, is like allowing a child to grow up without any discipline in the home. That child will finally rule the parent and the home.
It doesn't matter how smart a child is, no child can rule a household and expect it to run smoothly. We need to "Train a child by the Word" and by our example, how to behave in the adult world. Today, many children have grown up without instruction or example. Even athletes cannot hope to run marathons without training. They train their body to do what is doesn't want to do and they stay in control of the flesh.
Our new creation man is a new spirit that is so intertwined with the Spirit of God, that you will never be separated from Him ever again. If you pour a cup of water into a lake, then you can never dip that same cupful from that lake again. You might dip out another cupful from that lake, but the original cupful can never be separated from the lake again.
The new creation is so intertwined with the Spirit of God, that like that cupful of water, it can never be separated ever again. Our new man has the "Father in us, Who does the work," just like Jesus stated about Himself. We can train the flesh, by the infusing of God's Spirit in our spirit.
As we enter a new year, let's also enter into our new life. Our nation is about to take on a new face and nature, so should we (the Body of Christ), take on a new face. We must begin to look like Jesus in the eyes of the world. If ever "seed produces after kind," then we are supposed to bear the Image of the Seed that produced us. The first Adam was made like God and the Last Adam was made in God. We are a new creation, created in Christ Jesus. If we are created in Him, then like that cupful of water in the lake, we are "in Him" to stay.
The training of our senses isn't taking away what God created our senses for, but to keep them from ruling over our spirit man. Our spirit is supposed to be in authority over the senses and the flesh. We had it all backwards for so long, that we believe this is how it was to be. God's Spirit dwells within our new spirit. Our spirit is supposed to be in authority and training the flesh to comply with God's Word. Jesus was led by the Spirit of God and this is how we are to be led. Jesus said, "I only do what the Father (the Spirit of God within Him) tells Me to do."
There has never been any creature like the new creation, before on this planet. We were not only saved from sin and death, but have actually been created "in Christ Jesus." For many, this is simply a religious term and nothing else, but when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, the Word says that we were born-again by incorruptible Seed, which is the Word of the Living God. This Seed is Christ Jesus Himself, according to Revelation 19:13 (Amplified) which says, "He is dressed in a robe dyed by dipping in blood, and the Title by which He is called is The Word of God."
We are not only created like Him, but we are created in and by Him, according to Genesis 1:11 (Amplified) which says, "And God said, Let the earth put forth (tender) vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the earth, And it was so." 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) tells us, "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."
As new creation people, we will never understand what our lives actually means in this world, until we first understand who we are. This great mystery has been well hidden for many years, by satan. If the Church continues to look at themselves through the eyes of the religious sect, we will never dare function the way the Father intended.
In order to change the world and lead the people to salvation, we must first understand who we are. We serve a Super-natural God and Father Who has given us His Life to live in this world. We have been somewhat successful in leading people to salvation and being born-again, but not in setting them free. Even the sin that we were saved from, has been like an anchor on the legs of the Church. We've spoken to the Church like they are still sinners, instead of new creation people.
Very little has ever entered into the new born spirit, that came with our new birth and the struggle with the flesh continues like before. Our flesh was never subjected to the new creation spirit that abides within this house of flesh. Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." A better rendering of this scripture might say, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are mature sons of God." We haven't yet entered into maturity as God's sons and daughters.
We read God's Word and still identify more with sin than righteousness in ourselves. Many associate the identifying of ourselves with Jesus, as being prideful. In reality, it is prideful and a false humility, when we don't identify ourselves with Jesus. When we count ourselves with the old man and not the finished works of Jesus, we are actually declaring that what Jesus did, didn't work. This is pride, at its greatest. Who are we, to deny what Jesus has done on our behalf, just to hold-on to our guilt and flesh?
According to the above scripture, being led by the Spirit of God is taking dominion over the flesh and bringing it into submission to the Spirit. Hebrews 5:14 (Amplified) says, "But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law."
We are instructed to take God's Word into our new creation spirit and use it to "train" the flesh and soul of our being, by practice and consistent use of that Word. If we can train a dog, bird, or lion by practice, then we can train our body. Allowing the flesh to simply go on undisciplined by the spirit, is like allowing a child to grow up without any discipline in the home. That child will finally rule the parent and the home.
It doesn't matter how smart a child is, no child can rule a household and expect it to run smoothly. We need to "Train a child by the Word" and by our example, how to behave in the adult world. Today, many children have grown up without instruction or example. Even athletes cannot hope to run marathons without training. They train their body to do what is doesn't want to do and they stay in control of the flesh.
Our new creation man is a new spirit that is so intertwined with the Spirit of God, that you will never be separated from Him ever again. If you pour a cup of water into a lake, then you can never dip that same cupful from that lake again. You might dip out another cupful from that lake, but the original cupful can never be separated from the lake again.
The new creation is so intertwined with the Spirit of God, that like that cupful of water, it can never be separated ever again. Our new man has the "Father in us, Who does the work," just like Jesus stated about Himself. We can train the flesh, by the infusing of God's Spirit in our spirit.
As we enter a new year, let's also enter into our new life. Our nation is about to take on a new face and nature, so should we (the Body of Christ), take on a new face. We must begin to look like Jesus in the eyes of the world. If ever "seed produces after kind," then we are supposed to bear the Image of the Seed that produced us. The first Adam was made like God and the Last Adam was made in God. We are a new creation, created in Christ Jesus. If we are created in Him, then like that cupful of water in the lake, we are "in Him" to stay.
The training of our senses isn't taking away what God created our senses for, but to keep them from ruling over our spirit man. Our spirit is supposed to be in authority over the senses and the flesh. We had it all backwards for so long, that we believe this is how it was to be. God's Spirit dwells within our new spirit. Our spirit is supposed to be in authority and training the flesh to comply with God's Word. Jesus was led by the Spirit of God and this is how we are to be led. Jesus said, "I only do what the Father (the Spirit of God within Him) tells Me to do."
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Lesson 142 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The sacrifice needed to be offered up daily, under the old covenant. The continual offering of blood was required to keep the people under the covenant. Because the "wages of sin is death," a daily sacrifice or death, was needed to keep the requirements of the covenant. The blood offered up was the proof that a death had been paid. As long as a death had been observed, the Law of sin and death had met its requirement and the blood covered the people, until the next sacrifice.
Romans 8:1-2,3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and of death." One can clearly see what the new Law of the Spirit of Life is in Verse 3, which says, "For God has done what the Law could not do. (Its power) being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit). Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin (God) condemned sin in the flesh (subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice)."
The new creation people still have a problem of seeing themselves the way God sees us. Because we still live in this house of flesh, we don't see it as "dead" and continue to allow it to dictate our faith to us, instead of allowing our spirit to dictate our condition. If God sees our body of flesh as being "dead," then we should also see it in that sense. As long as the flesh can dictate our condition to us, we will always walk in condemnation.
This isn't a license to sin, but a way to keep the flesh in subjection to the spirit, while we are growing up into mature sons and daughters of God. Our flesh and has been corrupted by the things we knew and practiced from birth. Not everything we learned in our body was sin, but they weren't spirit. We must still eat, sleep, clothe ourselves and do the necessary earthly things. However, we must not allow these things to be our guide, but to be our servant in this earth.
The old covenant Law isn't for the new creation, because we were given only two commandments to follow by Jesus Himself in Matthew 22:37-40 (Amplified) which says, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind (intellect) This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment And the second is like it; You shall love your neighbor as (you do) yourself. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the prophets."
Prior to the new creation covenant, man could only "love" by human conditions, because of the dead spirit that was in him. Under this new covenant, we are "Made alive in Christ Jesus and the Love of God (God's Love) has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us," according to Romans 5:5 (Amplified). Romans 13:10 (Amplified) tells us, "Love does not wrong to ones neighbor (it never hurts anyone) Therefore Love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law)."
Man was unable and incapable of fulfilling this Law while in the flesh, because it was the instrument of sin. So, God did what the Law couldn't do, He reckoned our body death with the crucifixion. Romans 6:5 (Amplified) says, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, We shall also be (one with Him in sharing) His resurrection (by a new life lived with God)."
Most of us have never truly considered ourselves "dead in the flesh" and don't see how we're already resurrected. We're still awaiting both death and resurrection. In our Father, we died with Jesus and were made alive and raised from the dead, resurrected with Him already. There will of course, come the time when our flesh and blood body will actually die and will be resurrected, but in Christ, it is already done. We've had a difficult time seeing ourselves as a new creation, because we continue walking more in the old man, instead of the new man. This is why Romans 8:1 is so very important for the new creation man.
Thus, it says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the spirit." A dead man should never be allowed to dictate how to live, to a living man. If we allow the dictates of the old,dead, flesh man guide us, then we will never see ourselves in the new creation Light of the Gospel. We must learn to receive the prices of our sin to be "paid in full," in order the ever truly live in Christ.
The sacrifice needed to be offered up daily, under the old covenant. The continual offering of blood was required to keep the people under the covenant. Because the "wages of sin is death," a daily sacrifice or death, was needed to keep the requirements of the covenant. The blood offered up was the proof that a death had been paid. As long as a death had been observed, the Law of sin and death had met its requirement and the blood covered the people, until the next sacrifice.
Romans 8:1-2,3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and of death." One can clearly see what the new Law of the Spirit of Life is in Verse 3, which says, "For God has done what the Law could not do. (Its power) being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit). Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin (God) condemned sin in the flesh (subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice)."
The new creation people still have a problem of seeing themselves the way God sees us. Because we still live in this house of flesh, we don't see it as "dead" and continue to allow it to dictate our faith to us, instead of allowing our spirit to dictate our condition. If God sees our body of flesh as being "dead," then we should also see it in that sense. As long as the flesh can dictate our condition to us, we will always walk in condemnation.
This isn't a license to sin, but a way to keep the flesh in subjection to the spirit, while we are growing up into mature sons and daughters of God. Our flesh and has been corrupted by the things we knew and practiced from birth. Not everything we learned in our body was sin, but they weren't spirit. We must still eat, sleep, clothe ourselves and do the necessary earthly things. However, we must not allow these things to be our guide, but to be our servant in this earth.
The old covenant Law isn't for the new creation, because we were given only two commandments to follow by Jesus Himself in Matthew 22:37-40 (Amplified) which says, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind (intellect) This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment And the second is like it; You shall love your neighbor as (you do) yourself. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the prophets."
Prior to the new creation covenant, man could only "love" by human conditions, because of the dead spirit that was in him. Under this new covenant, we are "Made alive in Christ Jesus and the Love of God (God's Love) has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us," according to Romans 5:5 (Amplified). Romans 13:10 (Amplified) tells us, "Love does not wrong to ones neighbor (it never hurts anyone) Therefore Love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law)."
Man was unable and incapable of fulfilling this Law while in the flesh, because it was the instrument of sin. So, God did what the Law couldn't do, He reckoned our body death with the crucifixion. Romans 6:5 (Amplified) says, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, We shall also be (one with Him in sharing) His resurrection (by a new life lived with God)."
Most of us have never truly considered ourselves "dead in the flesh" and don't see how we're already resurrected. We're still awaiting both death and resurrection. In our Father, we died with Jesus and were made alive and raised from the dead, resurrected with Him already. There will of course, come the time when our flesh and blood body will actually die and will be resurrected, but in Christ, it is already done. We've had a difficult time seeing ourselves as a new creation, because we continue walking more in the old man, instead of the new man. This is why Romans 8:1 is so very important for the new creation man.
Thus, it says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the spirit." A dead man should never be allowed to dictate how to live, to a living man. If we allow the dictates of the old,dead, flesh man guide us, then we will never see ourselves in the new creation Light of the Gospel. We must learn to receive the prices of our sin to be "paid in full," in order the ever truly live in Christ.
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Lesson 141 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (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 is come."
Merry Christmas!
It's exciting and interesting for the believer, to see all the revelation knowledge that's being brought forth in these last days. There are things being learned today, that are from God and some things that are not from Him. We must steadfastly and intently listen to the Holy Spirit, because there are many voices in the world. These voices are trying to mislead and distract the children of God and the world.
In light of Christmas season, I'd like to return to perhaps the greatest revelation of all and that is the truth of our salvation in the Gift of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. There are many foolish teachings out there, with some Truth. One thing we can count on is the Truth of the Virgin birth, death and the resurrection of Jesus have come to save and cleanse us from all sin and righteousness, when we place our faith in the Heavenly Father.
We have become new creations in Him and "Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new." Even though I might not understand the entire thing, I can still believe it, because my God, "Who isn't a Man that He should lie," has said it. There are those who will argue about what day Jesus was born and what day we should observe Christmas. I might not know the exact day Jesus was born, but I do know that HE WAS BORN. Every day is Christmas to me, as I thank God daily for His Gift to me and to all who will accept His Gift.
It doesn't matter to me, whether or not you're from a different denomination, because if you've received the Gift of salvation, then you're a part of my family and we are all part of God's family. Loving and giving become part of people's lives during this time of year and God is using this time (whether or not we understand it) to move in the lives of humanity. More people reach out in love, to give and bless others during this season, probably more than any other. Families come together, praises are being lifted up and people are being touched by the Spirit of God in a way that we don't seem to be open too, at other times.
I don't wish to argue over "who is right and who is not," but I simply want to rejoice because HE IS RIGHT and because of that, I am saved and free. Some of the things that argue about, are not really important to God. The one basic Truth, that He sent His Son into the world to save mankind for as many as will believe, is what matters to Him.
This is a Christmas Gift that will last throughout eternity, for those who will accept it. It doesn't matter what color we are, what position we hold, what our background is, what political persuasion we hold, or if we are wealthy. We only need the Truth of salvation in God's Gift of grace. Because we continue struggling with everyday things of life and this world, we have the assurance that, no matter what might come, we will see our loved ones in the House of our Father.
Times change, things become more and more complicated, which can cause us to forget the true meaning of being a new creation. We can sometimes become frustrated by things in life that we still don't understand, but the one thing I can always rely on, is the fact that my Father Loves me and watches over me. Some people become depressed during this time of year, because they don't have money to buy gifts for their loved ones. This is the perfect time to reach out in Love, to as many people as we can. We can share in the joy of giving, that we've seen modeled after God Who gave His Only Son on our behalf.
How much we give isn't as important as the Spirit in which we give. Christmas doesn't "come from a store," but from the heart. As we approach the ending of the calendar year 2016 and the beginning of 2017, let's allow the Spirit move you forward, into a life of giving and caring for all you are able. Don't let Christmas end on the 26th, but continue throughout the year.
Romans 14:6-9 (Amplified) says, "He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He who also eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. None of us lives to himself (but to the Lord), and none of us dies to himself (but to the Lord) for if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die we die to the Lord, So then, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord For Christ died and lived again for this very purpose, that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living."
Because of God's Gift of Love and grace, we have cause to praise Him at this time of year, and all year long. We praise Him because in Christ Jesus, we belong to God, now and forever.
Merry Christ and a Blessed New Year and always,
Jim
Merry Christmas!
It's exciting and interesting for the believer, to see all the revelation knowledge that's being brought forth in these last days. There are things being learned today, that are from God and some things that are not from Him. We must steadfastly and intently listen to the Holy Spirit, because there are many voices in the world. These voices are trying to mislead and distract the children of God and the world.
In light of Christmas season, I'd like to return to perhaps the greatest revelation of all and that is the truth of our salvation in the Gift of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. There are many foolish teachings out there, with some Truth. One thing we can count on is the Truth of the Virgin birth, death and the resurrection of Jesus have come to save and cleanse us from all sin and righteousness, when we place our faith in the Heavenly Father.
We have become new creations in Him and "Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new." Even though I might not understand the entire thing, I can still believe it, because my God, "Who isn't a Man that He should lie," has said it. There are those who will argue about what day Jesus was born and what day we should observe Christmas. I might not know the exact day Jesus was born, but I do know that HE WAS BORN. Every day is Christmas to me, as I thank God daily for His Gift to me and to all who will accept His Gift.
It doesn't matter to me, whether or not you're from a different denomination, because if you've received the Gift of salvation, then you're a part of my family and we are all part of God's family. Loving and giving become part of people's lives during this time of year and God is using this time (whether or not we understand it) to move in the lives of humanity. More people reach out in love, to give and bless others during this season, probably more than any other. Families come together, praises are being lifted up and people are being touched by the Spirit of God in a way that we don't seem to be open too, at other times.
I don't wish to argue over "who is right and who is not," but I simply want to rejoice because HE IS RIGHT and because of that, I am saved and free. Some of the things that argue about, are not really important to God. The one basic Truth, that He sent His Son into the world to save mankind for as many as will believe, is what matters to Him.
This is a Christmas Gift that will last throughout eternity, for those who will accept it. It doesn't matter what color we are, what position we hold, what our background is, what political persuasion we hold, or if we are wealthy. We only need the Truth of salvation in God's Gift of grace. Because we continue struggling with everyday things of life and this world, we have the assurance that, no matter what might come, we will see our loved ones in the House of our Father.
Times change, things become more and more complicated, which can cause us to forget the true meaning of being a new creation. We can sometimes become frustrated by things in life that we still don't understand, but the one thing I can always rely on, is the fact that my Father Loves me and watches over me. Some people become depressed during this time of year, because they don't have money to buy gifts for their loved ones. This is the perfect time to reach out in Love, to as many people as we can. We can share in the joy of giving, that we've seen modeled after God Who gave His Only Son on our behalf.
How much we give isn't as important as the Spirit in which we give. Christmas doesn't "come from a store," but from the heart. As we approach the ending of the calendar year 2016 and the beginning of 2017, let's allow the Spirit move you forward, into a life of giving and caring for all you are able. Don't let Christmas end on the 26th, but continue throughout the year.
Romans 14:6-9 (Amplified) says, "He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He who also eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. None of us lives to himself (but to the Lord), and none of us dies to himself (but to the Lord) for if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die we die to the Lord, So then, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord For Christ died and lived again for this very purpose, that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living."
Because of God's Gift of Love and grace, we have cause to praise Him at this time of year, and all year long. We praise Him because in Christ Jesus, we belong to God, now and forever.
Merry Christ and a Blessed New Year and always,
Jim
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Lesson 140 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (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 new creation being that we've become, has everything except a glorified body. We're here for one purpose on this earth and that's to increase the Kingdom of God. Genesis 1:28 (Amplified) says, "And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it (using all its vast resources in the service of God and man) and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
We've been awaiting something to come, that has already taken place in the life of the believer. Jesus has even fulfilled all of the Feast Days, including the Feast of Tabernacles, that "are required," according to Leviticus 23:1-33. All of these set feast will continue to occur in this natural realm, just like they have been. But, in the life of a Christian family, these were are are fulfilled even now. 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives withing you, Whom you have received (as a Gift) from God?" You are not your own. All of these feats are yet to be fulfilled in the natural realm, but are in Jesus, already true in the believer. He has become our sin Offering, our First Fruits, our Wave Offering, our Sabbath (or Rest), our Pentecost, and our Feast of Trumpets that has called us out of death into Life. The long awaited Feast of Tabernacles has already become a reality in the believer. God is now dwelling in this tabernacle of flesh and bone, as one in us.
Through the ages, we've witnessed the fulfilling of these feasts, being brought to pass in the earth like God said they would. The Feast of Pentecost was fulfilled in this natural world in Acts 2:1 (Amplified), which says,
And when the day of Pentecost had fully come they were all assembled together in one place; When suddenly there came a sound from Heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and if filled the whole house in which they were sitting."
The time of this feast is still in effect on earth, in the time table of "earth time." The earth and its people are still involved with this "last" fulfilled feast. The next feast day the earth will see with the natural man, is Trumpets. Leviticus 23:24 (Amplified) says, "Say to the Israelites, on the first day of the seventh month (almost October) you shall observe a day of solemn (Sabbatical) rest, a memorial day announced by blowing of trumpets, a holy (called) assembly." This is a feast that all the earth will know and hear about. As new creation people, we have heard this in our spirit and have received this "called forth assembly."
Paul wrote to the churches about this in the Epistles. He wrote in 1Corinthians 1:2 (Amplified), "To the Church (assembly) of God which is in Corinth, to those consecrated and purified and made holy in Christ Jesus, (who are) selected and called to be saints (God's people) together with all those who in any place call upon and give honor to the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours."
Paul also wrote in Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) saying, "And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the Heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." The fulfilling of the Feast of Trumpets is yet to come and will be for all to hear and see. There's been so much controversy about this, throughout the years, but it remains the Truth of what God has declared "is to come." Paul wrote about the Feast of Trumpets to the Church of Corinth saying, in 1Corinthians 15:51-52 (Amplified), "Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an even decreed by the hidden purpose or Council of God). We shall not all fall asleep (in death) but we shall all be changed (transformed) In a moment, in the Twinkling of an Eye, at the (sound of the) last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead (in Christ) will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay) and we shall be changed (transformed)."
This same message is given to God's people in 1Thessalonians 4:15-18 (Amplified), which says, "For this we declare unto you by the Lord's Own Word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede (into His Presence) or have previously fallen asleep (in Him in death). For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the Trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first." Verses 17-18 go on, "Then we, the living ones who remain (on the earth) shall simultaneously be caught up along with (the resurrected dead) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of eternities) we shall be with the Lord Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these Words."
We have already become "the called out ones," we have already become citizens of God's Kingdom, and we have already been seated with Him in our new creation spirit. We have now become temples or tabernacles of the Living God. Our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, who have already died the natural death of this body, will "ascend into God's Presence," at the sound of the trumpet. Those of us here, who are awaiting the sound of that trumpet of God signalling the "ones called out" will enter into His Presence then. Our body is not our own and is God's temple that was bought and paid for by the Blood of Jesus, will also be taken out of this earth. It doesn't make a difference whether we are alive or in the grave, because our body will "transform into His glory."
John writes in 1John 3:2 (Amplified), "Beloved, we are (even here and) now God's children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be (hereafter), but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall (as God's children) resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He (really) is." 1Corinthians 15:51 (Amplified) says we, "Shall be changed (transformed) at the last trumpet."
The actual fulfilling of this Feast is rapidly approaching, on this earth. Some refer to it as, "the rapture," some completely dismiss the idea altogether, some have different interpretations about this even, but one thing is certain: IT WILL TAKE PLACE. The above scripture directs us to, "comfort one another with these Words" and it's a great comfort to me that Jesus is returning just like He foretold. It's also of great comfort to me, that my loved ones who have already gone to be with Him in spirit, will be raised from the grave and become "incorruptible" from death's grip on earth. It's bonus that we (the called out ones) will receive a new body, like Jesus' glorified Body. It's truly a bonus, too, that we will be completed in His Presence forever.
The Feast of Tabernacles is made true in our spirit, because God Himself is presently living in us and walking in us. When the trumpet of the archangel sounds, we will be in the fullness of His Presence (spirit, soul, and body). We will be complete in Him. Now that we see how we are actually "one with Him," we should recall Jesus' prayer from John 17:22-23 (Amplified) where He says, "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they be one (even) as We are One I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one."
The new creation being that we've become, has everything except a glorified body. We're here for one purpose on this earth and that's to increase the Kingdom of God. Genesis 1:28 (Amplified) says, "And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it (using all its vast resources in the service of God and man) and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
We've been awaiting something to come, that has already taken place in the life of the believer. Jesus has even fulfilled all of the Feast Days, including the Feast of Tabernacles, that "are required," according to Leviticus 23:1-33. All of these set feast will continue to occur in this natural realm, just like they have been. But, in the life of a Christian family, these were are are fulfilled even now. 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives withing you, Whom you have received (as a Gift) from God?" You are not your own. All of these feats are yet to be fulfilled in the natural realm, but are in Jesus, already true in the believer. He has become our sin Offering, our First Fruits, our Wave Offering, our Sabbath (or Rest), our Pentecost, and our Feast of Trumpets that has called us out of death into Life. The long awaited Feast of Tabernacles has already become a reality in the believer. God is now dwelling in this tabernacle of flesh and bone, as one in us.
Through the ages, we've witnessed the fulfilling of these feasts, being brought to pass in the earth like God said they would. The Feast of Pentecost was fulfilled in this natural world in Acts 2:1 (Amplified), which says,
And when the day of Pentecost had fully come they were all assembled together in one place; When suddenly there came a sound from Heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and if filled the whole house in which they were sitting."
The time of this feast is still in effect on earth, in the time table of "earth time." The earth and its people are still involved with this "last" fulfilled feast. The next feast day the earth will see with the natural man, is Trumpets. Leviticus 23:24 (Amplified) says, "Say to the Israelites, on the first day of the seventh month (almost October) you shall observe a day of solemn (Sabbatical) rest, a memorial day announced by blowing of trumpets, a holy (called) assembly." This is a feast that all the earth will know and hear about. As new creation people, we have heard this in our spirit and have received this "called forth assembly."
Paul wrote to the churches about this in the Epistles. He wrote in 1Corinthians 1:2 (Amplified), "To the Church (assembly) of God which is in Corinth, to those consecrated and purified and made holy in Christ Jesus, (who are) selected and called to be saints (God's people) together with all those who in any place call upon and give honor to the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours."
Paul also wrote in Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) saying, "And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the Heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." The fulfilling of the Feast of Trumpets is yet to come and will be for all to hear and see. There's been so much controversy about this, throughout the years, but it remains the Truth of what God has declared "is to come." Paul wrote about the Feast of Trumpets to the Church of Corinth saying, in 1Corinthians 15:51-52 (Amplified), "Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an even decreed by the hidden purpose or Council of God). We shall not all fall asleep (in death) but we shall all be changed (transformed) In a moment, in the Twinkling of an Eye, at the (sound of the) last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead (in Christ) will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay) and we shall be changed (transformed)."
This same message is given to God's people in 1Thessalonians 4:15-18 (Amplified), which says, "For this we declare unto you by the Lord's Own Word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede (into His Presence) or have previously fallen asleep (in Him in death). For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the Trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first." Verses 17-18 go on, "Then we, the living ones who remain (on the earth) shall simultaneously be caught up along with (the resurrected dead) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of eternities) we shall be with the Lord Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these Words."
We have already become "the called out ones," we have already become citizens of God's Kingdom, and we have already been seated with Him in our new creation spirit. We have now become temples or tabernacles of the Living God. Our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, who have already died the natural death of this body, will "ascend into God's Presence," at the sound of the trumpet. Those of us here, who are awaiting the sound of that trumpet of God signalling the "ones called out" will enter into His Presence then. Our body is not our own and is God's temple that was bought and paid for by the Blood of Jesus, will also be taken out of this earth. It doesn't make a difference whether we are alive or in the grave, because our body will "transform into His glory."
John writes in 1John 3:2 (Amplified), "Beloved, we are (even here and) now God's children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be (hereafter), but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall (as God's children) resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He (really) is." 1Corinthians 15:51 (Amplified) says we, "Shall be changed (transformed) at the last trumpet."
The actual fulfilling of this Feast is rapidly approaching, on this earth. Some refer to it as, "the rapture," some completely dismiss the idea altogether, some have different interpretations about this even, but one thing is certain: IT WILL TAKE PLACE. The above scripture directs us to, "comfort one another with these Words" and it's a great comfort to me that Jesus is returning just like He foretold. It's also of great comfort to me, that my loved ones who have already gone to be with Him in spirit, will be raised from the grave and become "incorruptible" from death's grip on earth. It's bonus that we (the called out ones) will receive a new body, like Jesus' glorified Body. It's truly a bonus, too, that we will be completed in His Presence forever.
The Feast of Tabernacles is made true in our spirit, because God Himself is presently living in us and walking in us. When the trumpet of the archangel sounds, we will be in the fullness of His Presence (spirit, soul, and body). We will be complete in Him. Now that we see how we are actually "one with Him," we should recall Jesus' prayer from John 17:22-23 (Amplified) where He says, "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they be one (even) as We are One I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one."
Friday, December 16, 2016
Lesson 139 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (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 of today's younger generation are searching for their heritage, using DNA technology and family lineage sites. Many are doing so, because they are mixed-up and are "trying to find themselves." As Christians, we should also be searching to discover who we've become as this new creation. Finding out who we've become doesn't make us a Christian, but it will aid in our understanding of what a Christian is all about.
If you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then you are already a new creation. Find out who this new creation people is, will supply you with the knowledge and understanding as to the reality of this new creation. Since Adam and Eve, we've heard such things as "We are all God's children" and "We all have one Father." God's Word tells us that we have a "first Adam" and a "Last Adam."
The first Adam was God's crowning Glory and was to be the "seed" of God's Own family. From the beginning, satan was determined to destroy or steal the seed from which God's family would rule. Adam was the first of the creation of family and Jesus is the Seed of the new creation. Jesus is the Word of God and the Seed of Promise. And, He is the Seed of the new creation family. Since God's Word is "forever settled in Heaven" and is eternal, as well as incorruptible. So then, the family that is born of this Seed are as well.
God formed the first Adam, as the seed to father His Own family. Eve was to be the fertile soil of the seed and was to bear fruit and "replenish the earth." Satan successfully stopped this family from being fruitful for God's Kingdom, so God brought forth a new creation. Jesus is the incorruptible and sinless Seed of this new creation. We, the Church, are to be the fertile soil used to bring forth fruit, to multiply and be fruitful for God's Kingdom.
Jesus said in John 15:5 (Amplified), "I am the Vine, you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me) you can do nothing."
Without the Seed, there is no vine or branches. And, without this, there is no fruit from this union. Adam was the vine and Eve was the branch that would bear fruit. Jesus is now the Vine and the Seed that produced the Vine. You and I are like Eve was, the branches that bear the fruit.
Paul spoke about the husband and wife relationship in Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified) saying, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." The analogy of husband and wife, like in Genesis (Adam and Eve), has now become the reality of Jesus and the Church. Jesus is the Seed and as the branches, we bring forth fruit to the glory of the Husbandman, Who is the Father.
The new creation family is no longer of the seed of natural man (Adam), but is from the Super-natural Seed of the Living God. Unlike the first seed (Adam), this Seed comes from the Spirit of God into the spirit of man and has brought forth a new creation that has joined the two into one. The dead spirit that produced the seed of the first Adam, has now been born into a new creation that created a new living, infused spirit with and through God Himself.
The first Adam was made a spirit like God and the Last Adam has created a Spirit in God. The first was an eternal independent spirit and the Las is an eternal joint spirit in the Holy Spirit. Jesus prayed in John 17:21 (Amplified) saying, "That they all may be one (just) as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You sent Me."
Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) tells us, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God, He created him, male and female, He created them." This scripture tells us that God made a man in His Own Image, which is a spirit. We were in the Image of God, even before we were saved. We were like Adam was, a spirit. Through Adam, we took upon ourselves a spiritual death, which was being separated from God in sin. We were, though, still in His Image as a spirit. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified) that, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
We were still a spirit, even when we were dead in sin. The new creation is a spirit that has been raised from death by Jesus, made one with Jesus in His resurrection, and joined together with the father in Life, as one new creation spirit. The new creation spirit is no longer a separated spirit, but now one with God Himself. The new creation is better, stronger and more glorious than the former or first creation, because now, God Himself indwells this new man. We have now become the actual temple of God, according to 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) which says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received (as a gift) from God?" YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN.
We've heard these things for so many years, but we have never traced our heritage as new creation beings. Satan uses the very same line on us, that he used with Adam, to make us doubt who God created or made us to be. This God-man or temple God has chosen as His Own, this new sinless, Holy, righteous, sanctified, and accepted temple, is the new creation. It is by God, from God, chosen of God, created by God, declared righteous by God and is now, already one with God.
Jesus called Himself the Son of man and the Son of God. We, too, can lay claim to this truth, because we are the sons of man (by our natural flesh and blood body) and we are sons of god (by our new creation co-joined, infused spirit by the Seed of God Himself). 1Peter 1:23 (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."
Jesus is the Seed (the Word of God) that has brought forth a brand new creation. It's no longer a mortal Seed, but One that is Immortal (the Word, Seed of God). It's been difficult for us to see ourselves like the Father see us, because we've never traced our DNA back to the source, which is God Himself. He sees us as sinless, holy, righteous and as sons, like Jesus is a Son. I'm not sure we've ever thought of Adam's not being co-joined with the Holy Spirit, but as an independent spirit. Adam was like God, in the fact he was s spirit, but he was not filled with God's Spirit.
The infilling or indwelling of the Holy Spirit, is what has made us the new creation. The joining of our new spirit with the Holy Spirit, is a new creation. God has fulfilled the Law of sin and death by Jesus and has established the Law of the Spirit in Christ Jesus in place, for this new creation. Sin and death have no hold on the new creation being, because Life now abides in us for eternity, through our being made "one with Jesus and the Father," according to John 17:21 (Amplified). If we are "one with Jesus and the Father" and They live in us and we in Them, then how can a Law of sin and death abide in us? Sin and death cannot live in a man who God Himself abides in.
Truly, the body of flesh will suffer the wages of sin and will ultimately die, but the new creation is free from the Law of sin and death and has Eternal Life living inside him.
Many of today's younger generation are searching for their heritage, using DNA technology and family lineage sites. Many are doing so, because they are mixed-up and are "trying to find themselves." As Christians, we should also be searching to discover who we've become as this new creation. Finding out who we've become doesn't make us a Christian, but it will aid in our understanding of what a Christian is all about.
If you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then you are already a new creation. Find out who this new creation people is, will supply you with the knowledge and understanding as to the reality of this new creation. Since Adam and Eve, we've heard such things as "We are all God's children" and "We all have one Father." God's Word tells us that we have a "first Adam" and a "Last Adam."
The first Adam was God's crowning Glory and was to be the "seed" of God's Own family. From the beginning, satan was determined to destroy or steal the seed from which God's family would rule. Adam was the first of the creation of family and Jesus is the Seed of the new creation. Jesus is the Word of God and the Seed of Promise. And, He is the Seed of the new creation family. Since God's Word is "forever settled in Heaven" and is eternal, as well as incorruptible. So then, the family that is born of this Seed are as well.
God formed the first Adam, as the seed to father His Own family. Eve was to be the fertile soil of the seed and was to bear fruit and "replenish the earth." Satan successfully stopped this family from being fruitful for God's Kingdom, so God brought forth a new creation. Jesus is the incorruptible and sinless Seed of this new creation. We, the Church, are to be the fertile soil used to bring forth fruit, to multiply and be fruitful for God's Kingdom.
Jesus said in John 15:5 (Amplified), "I am the Vine, you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me) you can do nothing."
Without the Seed, there is no vine or branches. And, without this, there is no fruit from this union. Adam was the vine and Eve was the branch that would bear fruit. Jesus is now the Vine and the Seed that produced the Vine. You and I are like Eve was, the branches that bear the fruit.
Paul spoke about the husband and wife relationship in Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified) saying, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." The analogy of husband and wife, like in Genesis (Adam and Eve), has now become the reality of Jesus and the Church. Jesus is the Seed and as the branches, we bring forth fruit to the glory of the Husbandman, Who is the Father.
The new creation family is no longer of the seed of natural man (Adam), but is from the Super-natural Seed of the Living God. Unlike the first seed (Adam), this Seed comes from the Spirit of God into the spirit of man and has brought forth a new creation that has joined the two into one. The dead spirit that produced the seed of the first Adam, has now been born into a new creation that created a new living, infused spirit with and through God Himself.
The first Adam was made a spirit like God and the Last Adam has created a Spirit in God. The first was an eternal independent spirit and the Las is an eternal joint spirit in the Holy Spirit. Jesus prayed in John 17:21 (Amplified) saying, "That they all may be one (just) as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You sent Me."
Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) tells us, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God, He created him, male and female, He created them." This scripture tells us that God made a man in His Own Image, which is a spirit. We were in the Image of God, even before we were saved. We were like Adam was, a spirit. Through Adam, we took upon ourselves a spiritual death, which was being separated from God in sin. We were, though, still in His Image as a spirit. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified) that, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
We were still a spirit, even when we were dead in sin. The new creation is a spirit that has been raised from death by Jesus, made one with Jesus in His resurrection, and joined together with the father in Life, as one new creation spirit. The new creation spirit is no longer a separated spirit, but now one with God Himself. The new creation is better, stronger and more glorious than the former or first creation, because now, God Himself indwells this new man. We have now become the actual temple of God, according to 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) which says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received (as a gift) from God?" YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN.
We've heard these things for so many years, but we have never traced our heritage as new creation beings. Satan uses the very same line on us, that he used with Adam, to make us doubt who God created or made us to be. This God-man or temple God has chosen as His Own, this new sinless, Holy, righteous, sanctified, and accepted temple, is the new creation. It is by God, from God, chosen of God, created by God, declared righteous by God and is now, already one with God.
Jesus called Himself the Son of man and the Son of God. We, too, can lay claim to this truth, because we are the sons of man (by our natural flesh and blood body) and we are sons of god (by our new creation co-joined, infused spirit by the Seed of God Himself). 1Peter 1:23 (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."
Jesus is the Seed (the Word of God) that has brought forth a brand new creation. It's no longer a mortal Seed, but One that is Immortal (the Word, Seed of God). It's been difficult for us to see ourselves like the Father see us, because we've never traced our DNA back to the source, which is God Himself. He sees us as sinless, holy, righteous and as sons, like Jesus is a Son. I'm not sure we've ever thought of Adam's not being co-joined with the Holy Spirit, but as an independent spirit. Adam was like God, in the fact he was s spirit, but he was not filled with God's Spirit.
The infilling or indwelling of the Holy Spirit, is what has made us the new creation. The joining of our new spirit with the Holy Spirit, is a new creation. God has fulfilled the Law of sin and death by Jesus and has established the Law of the Spirit in Christ Jesus in place, for this new creation. Sin and death have no hold on the new creation being, because Life now abides in us for eternity, through our being made "one with Jesus and the Father," according to John 17:21 (Amplified). If we are "one with Jesus and the Father" and They live in us and we in Them, then how can a Law of sin and death abide in us? Sin and death cannot live in a man who God Himself abides in.
Truly, the body of flesh will suffer the wages of sin and will ultimately die, but the new creation is free from the Law of sin and death and has Eternal Life living inside him.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Lesson 138 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (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 never looked, with any depth, to see what the Word tells us about the new creation we've become in Jesus. There were those even under the old covenant, who understood their relationship with God, among the greater number of those who simply followed traditions. 1Samuel 17:26 (Amplified) says, "And David said to the men standing by him. What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
Even though they were all under the same covenant with God, only one man stood on this covenant, like he should in relationship with God. This relationship with God was available and in place with all of Israel, but most of them didn't put faith in the blood that bound this covenant. This covenant was blood and sealed from Abraham until all who would receive it, but they became traditional, instead of understanding it. They still offered up all of the sacrifices like they were supposed to, but they lost faith in the sacrifices for protection and relationship.
Goliath looked like the giant he was to David, like he did to the rest of Israel, but David saw his God BIGGER and knew his covenant rights with God. In 1Samuel 17:45 (Amplified) David says to Goliath, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the Name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied."
Many new creation people in the new covenant, have lost sight of the relationship we have with our Heavenly Father. David had a covenant that was bought with the blood of animal sacrifice and he stood strong in it. We have a covenant that was bought with the Blood of Jesus and we have a Father/family relationship with God. David knew his God and the covenant rights of protection. We should know our Father and our rights or our righteousness with God through Jesus. God says in Isaiah 54:14-15 (Amplified), "You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God's will and order) You shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you."
This is the covenant or relationship of the new creation family of God. Our covenant hasn't only made us in right standing with God, but has made us family with Him. We are "heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ", according to Romans 8:17 (Amplified). We have misunderstood and misinterpreted this relationship, which have resulted our failing to put faith in the power of family.
The "giants" might still be out there, but we have a relationship with the Father, that David didn't have. If his faith in the covenant with God, made him strong enough in God to stand against a massive giant, then our family relationship with our Heavenly Father should equip us with the boldness to stand in the face of the enemy? Would God do less for His children, than He would for His servant David?
Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told) and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the Message that came from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)." Jesus never preached fear of the enemy to His people. Jesus never did say that it was God Who brought things down on them. Jesus' Message was about deliverance, power, authority and victory over all the power of the enemy and how "Nothing shall by any means harm you," in Luke 10:9
(Amplified).
The men who went forth as disciples of Jesus, weren't yet part of the new creation family, but they were under the Authority of the One Who would usher in the new creation. These men understood that Jesus walked under and operated in His relationship with God. Now, through the new covenant creation family, we have the same relationship operating in our lives. Jesus told His followers in John 17: 18 (Amplified), "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world."
We've placed little faith in this part of of our new creation covenant, because we've heard precious little preached about it. And, because faith in God comes by hearing the Words of God, this had resulted in our not developing much faith in this family relationship. Even today, many continue having difficulty believing that we are truly righteous or in right standing with God. We have put more faith in who we were, instead of in who Christ has made us to be.
Of course, all of us "had sinned and none were righteous," but that was before we received Jesus and became part of the new creation family. Jesus has now removed our sins and made us righteous with His righteousness. I don't see how anyone can be more righteous than that. If you believe that good deeds and traditions, can improve on Jesus' right standing with the Father, then you are walking in deepest deception. We are righteous because it's His righteousness that we have obtained by faith in Him and not ourselves.
The most awesome part of the new creation, is that we were created in right standing with the Father. We didn't obtain this through our good works, but we inherited it by covenant relationship with Jesus. When we became fellow heirs with Him, we received everything that He is and has; we are family. The world and the Church have been taught fear, which has prevented them from entering into and bringing forth family for God, in the boldness that even men of the old covenant saw in their relationship with God. We've never dared to see ourselves in relationship with the Father, the way Jesus revealed to us.
Religion and tradition have said that seeing ourselves as being God's children, is walking in pride and arrogance. The Truth is, though, that this is why Jesus came. He came to bring back all that was lost in the Garden of Eden. He came to bring back the Tree of Life and family relationship with our Heavenly Father. Jesus came to bring back and unbroken fellowship and bond with our Father, that He had then and still now has. Through the new creation, we are now created in holiness, righteousness and family fellowship with God, like Jesus Himself was when He was raised from the dead on our behalf. This wasn't something God "hoped would work," but this was the faith of our God Who created all things and Who brought forth a new creation, which is held in place by His Word.
Many have never looked, with any depth, to see what the Word tells us about the new creation we've become in Jesus. There were those even under the old covenant, who understood their relationship with God, among the greater number of those who simply followed traditions. 1Samuel 17:26 (Amplified) says, "And David said to the men standing by him. What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
Even though they were all under the same covenant with God, only one man stood on this covenant, like he should in relationship with God. This relationship with God was available and in place with all of Israel, but most of them didn't put faith in the blood that bound this covenant. This covenant was blood and sealed from Abraham until all who would receive it, but they became traditional, instead of understanding it. They still offered up all of the sacrifices like they were supposed to, but they lost faith in the sacrifices for protection and relationship.
Goliath looked like the giant he was to David, like he did to the rest of Israel, but David saw his God BIGGER and knew his covenant rights with God. In 1Samuel 17:45 (Amplified) David says to Goliath, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the Name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied."
Many new creation people in the new covenant, have lost sight of the relationship we have with our Heavenly Father. David had a covenant that was bought with the blood of animal sacrifice and he stood strong in it. We have a covenant that was bought with the Blood of Jesus and we have a Father/family relationship with God. David knew his God and the covenant rights of protection. We should know our Father and our rights or our righteousness with God through Jesus. God says in Isaiah 54:14-15 (Amplified), "You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God's will and order) You shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you."
This is the covenant or relationship of the new creation family of God. Our covenant hasn't only made us in right standing with God, but has made us family with Him. We are "heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ", according to Romans 8:17 (Amplified). We have misunderstood and misinterpreted this relationship, which have resulted our failing to put faith in the power of family.
The "giants" might still be out there, but we have a relationship with the Father, that David didn't have. If his faith in the covenant with God, made him strong enough in God to stand against a massive giant, then our family relationship with our Heavenly Father should equip us with the boldness to stand in the face of the enemy? Would God do less for His children, than He would for His servant David?
Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told) and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the Message that came from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)." Jesus never preached fear of the enemy to His people. Jesus never did say that it was God Who brought things down on them. Jesus' Message was about deliverance, power, authority and victory over all the power of the enemy and how "Nothing shall by any means harm you," in Luke 10:9
(Amplified).
The men who went forth as disciples of Jesus, weren't yet part of the new creation family, but they were under the Authority of the One Who would usher in the new creation. These men understood that Jesus walked under and operated in His relationship with God. Now, through the new covenant creation family, we have the same relationship operating in our lives. Jesus told His followers in John 17: 18 (Amplified), "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world."
We've placed little faith in this part of of our new creation covenant, because we've heard precious little preached about it. And, because faith in God comes by hearing the Words of God, this had resulted in our not developing much faith in this family relationship. Even today, many continue having difficulty believing that we are truly righteous or in right standing with God. We have put more faith in who we were, instead of in who Christ has made us to be.
Of course, all of us "had sinned and none were righteous," but that was before we received Jesus and became part of the new creation family. Jesus has now removed our sins and made us righteous with His righteousness. I don't see how anyone can be more righteous than that. If you believe that good deeds and traditions, can improve on Jesus' right standing with the Father, then you are walking in deepest deception. We are righteous because it's His righteousness that we have obtained by faith in Him and not ourselves.
The most awesome part of the new creation, is that we were created in right standing with the Father. We didn't obtain this through our good works, but we inherited it by covenant relationship with Jesus. When we became fellow heirs with Him, we received everything that He is and has; we are family. The world and the Church have been taught fear, which has prevented them from entering into and bringing forth family for God, in the boldness that even men of the old covenant saw in their relationship with God. We've never dared to see ourselves in relationship with the Father, the way Jesus revealed to us.
Religion and tradition have said that seeing ourselves as being God's children, is walking in pride and arrogance. The Truth is, though, that this is why Jesus came. He came to bring back all that was lost in the Garden of Eden. He came to bring back the Tree of Life and family relationship with our Heavenly Father. Jesus came to bring back and unbroken fellowship and bond with our Father, that He had then and still now has. Through the new creation, we are now created in holiness, righteousness and family fellowship with God, like Jesus Himself was when He was raised from the dead on our behalf. This wasn't something God "hoped would work," but this was the faith of our God Who created all things and Who brought forth a new creation, which is held in place by His Word.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Lesson 137 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
These lessons have been about how we are new creations. We've read such scriptures (like the above one) with our intellect and have understood the meaning of their words with the carnal mind and the education provided by the world of natural man. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "It is the spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver) the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." 1corinthians 2:13 (Amplified) says, "And we are setting these truths forth in Words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Holy Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language (to those who possess the Holy Spirit)." John 3:6 (Amplified) tells us, "What is born of (from) the flesh is flesh (of the physical is physical) and what is born of the Spirit is spirit."
While trying to understand the things of the Father, we have stumbled over so many things in the flesh. Our teachers have taught with good intentions and purpose, but still have taught much from the flesh. We had the understanding of natural man, but little revelation from the Holy Spirit. Many of man's traditions and religion have been passed down through the centuries, but not much revelation was passed down. Today, when revelation flies in the face of tradition, we still war with it in ourselves. Everything we've been learning is not wrong, but it hasn't all been right. Because we still live in this flesh and blood body, we are mostly led by it too.
We are truly new creations. We read this in the Word, but we have very little revelation concerning this truth. We've tried reaching into the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven from the outside-in, instead of from the inside-out. Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) says, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his inner most past." Even in this day and hour, we endeavor to bring about what we seek from God, by our own way and understanding. When the Word doesn't conform to what we want it to say about certain circumstances, then we try to change it, instead of bringing our understanding in line with the Word.
We are a new creation family who is alive once again in spirit to God and all of our revelation and understanding now comes from and through our born-again spirit. The above scripture tells us that "light and revelation comes through our new living spirit." Our Father "uses our new spirit to instruct, guide, discipline, correct and train in holy living in thought, purpose, and action, to the ways of righteousness, and God's will for our lives," according to 2Timothy 3:16 (Amplified).
God's Words are Spirit and Life. In order to bring us into conformity to His will and bring the correct revelation, this Word must enter into our spirit. When the Word is only heard with our human understanding and not the spirit, it only brings forth laws that are powerless in our lives. Since we are Spirit beings and new creations, we must have revelation to live in the power of the Word. Even the truth about our healing and our peace cannot come from the outside-in, but must come from the inside-out.
Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) says, "My son, attend to My Words, consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight, keep them in the center of your heart (spirit), For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." The health and healing of your flesh, then, start and flow from your spirit and the Word from the inside-out. Many become offended at teachings that are "against" their religion, just like when the Lord Himself taught. This isn't deliberate, but is a cultural thing that opposes truth.
We've come to the place where our own culture governs our spirit life with the Lord. Our culture has determined how we receive God's Word and what part of the Word is for today or has passed away. Man's culture has become more of our way of life, than the Word. Today, there are many nations that still determine how, when, who and what the people can worship.
There was a culture controlling the people, even in Jesus' time. More of the Gentiles were open to the Lord, than were the covenant people of God. Tradition that was brought on by the culture, determined which day Jesus could heal and how He could do so. If Jesus' actions opposed tradition, then they were wrong in the eyes of those in control. Many of the things Jesus did and said, offended their ideas of how and when He could (and should) do things.
Many cultures today, would limit the way Jesus operates. For the believer, any form of faith must begin and end in Jesus. In order to have faith for healing, we must first have faith that Jesus bore our sickness and disease. If our faith is in any other thing, then it will not work to our advantage. Even receiving forgiveness, requires faith in what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary. For many, our culture still determines that we are "only sinners saved by grace." This is true to a point, but only to a point.
We were sinners who were saved by grace, this isn't of ourselves, but is the grace of God. Many traditions and religions continue teaching that "we are still sinners." These teachings undermine our faith in Jesus' being our Sin Bearer, to the point where our faith in Him has been misplaced. We believe that we must still prove in our fleshly deeds, instead of believing that His grace makes us whole. Of course, we are called to live upright before Him, but we do this by faith in His ability to remove our sin.
Man's ideas about righteousness, tell us that we are still not righteous. We have more faith in our own ability to be right, instead of in His ability to make us right. Culture has shaped our way of walking and receiving from God, for centuries. Culture in America has resulted in our walking in what we think the Word says, instead of the Truth of what is says. We've allowed culture to drive and shape our walk with God, rather than the Word.
If we're seeking God for peace, healing, deliverance or anything else, then it must first come through our spirit and then be manifested into our soul and body. Even after being born-again, we continue to seek God in our natural man and in our unrenewed minds. We've nearly forgotten the fact that our God is a Super-natural God.
The modern culture in today's Church, has led us to nearly dismiss the super-natural and has led us to base our walk on intellectual things instead. God has not changed, nor will He ever change. If Jesus could not do any mighty works because of the unbelief of the people in Nazareth, then He is still limited by unbelief today.
Revelation only comes by the Spirit and the Word. Many believe because they see signs and wonders, but that kind of faith is in the sense knowledge. According to Mark 4:17 (Amplified), "When trials and tests come for the Word's sake, they become offended and fall away." In today's Church and in the world, much about the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of God hasn't been taught. Much has been taught to the world about being born-again, but not much has been taught about their being born-again into what? What is it that we've been born again into? What difference will being born-again, make in our lives? What difference does the forgiveness of sin, make in our lives today? What does it mean to Christians, for their walk with God? How do all these truths affect our walk on earth and how are we supposed to lives as ambassadors for Christ?
This is what the new creation people must receive into their living spirits, in order to learn how to walk in the light by faith in Jesus and His ability He has placed withing our new living spirits.
These lessons have been about how we are new creations. We've read such scriptures (like the above one) with our intellect and have understood the meaning of their words with the carnal mind and the education provided by the world of natural man. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "It is the spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver) the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." 1corinthians 2:13 (Amplified) says, "And we are setting these truths forth in Words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Holy Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language (to those who possess the Holy Spirit)." John 3:6 (Amplified) tells us, "What is born of (from) the flesh is flesh (of the physical is physical) and what is born of the Spirit is spirit."
While trying to understand the things of the Father, we have stumbled over so many things in the flesh. Our teachers have taught with good intentions and purpose, but still have taught much from the flesh. We had the understanding of natural man, but little revelation from the Holy Spirit. Many of man's traditions and religion have been passed down through the centuries, but not much revelation was passed down. Today, when revelation flies in the face of tradition, we still war with it in ourselves. Everything we've been learning is not wrong, but it hasn't all been right. Because we still live in this flesh and blood body, we are mostly led by it too.
We are truly new creations. We read this in the Word, but we have very little revelation concerning this truth. We've tried reaching into the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven from the outside-in, instead of from the inside-out. Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) says, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his inner most past." Even in this day and hour, we endeavor to bring about what we seek from God, by our own way and understanding. When the Word doesn't conform to what we want it to say about certain circumstances, then we try to change it, instead of bringing our understanding in line with the Word.
We are a new creation family who is alive once again in spirit to God and all of our revelation and understanding now comes from and through our born-again spirit. The above scripture tells us that "light and revelation comes through our new living spirit." Our Father "uses our new spirit to instruct, guide, discipline, correct and train in holy living in thought, purpose, and action, to the ways of righteousness, and God's will for our lives," according to 2Timothy 3:16 (Amplified).
God's Words are Spirit and Life. In order to bring us into conformity to His will and bring the correct revelation, this Word must enter into our spirit. When the Word is only heard with our human understanding and not the spirit, it only brings forth laws that are powerless in our lives. Since we are Spirit beings and new creations, we must have revelation to live in the power of the Word. Even the truth about our healing and our peace cannot come from the outside-in, but must come from the inside-out.
Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) says, "My son, attend to My Words, consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight, keep them in the center of your heart (spirit), For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." The health and healing of your flesh, then, start and flow from your spirit and the Word from the inside-out. Many become offended at teachings that are "against" their religion, just like when the Lord Himself taught. This isn't deliberate, but is a cultural thing that opposes truth.
We've come to the place where our own culture governs our spirit life with the Lord. Our culture has determined how we receive God's Word and what part of the Word is for today or has passed away. Man's culture has become more of our way of life, than the Word. Today, there are many nations that still determine how, when, who and what the people can worship.
There was a culture controlling the people, even in Jesus' time. More of the Gentiles were open to the Lord, than were the covenant people of God. Tradition that was brought on by the culture, determined which day Jesus could heal and how He could do so. If Jesus' actions opposed tradition, then they were wrong in the eyes of those in control. Many of the things Jesus did and said, offended their ideas of how and when He could (and should) do things.
Many cultures today, would limit the way Jesus operates. For the believer, any form of faith must begin and end in Jesus. In order to have faith for healing, we must first have faith that Jesus bore our sickness and disease. If our faith is in any other thing, then it will not work to our advantage. Even receiving forgiveness, requires faith in what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary. For many, our culture still determines that we are "only sinners saved by grace." This is true to a point, but only to a point.
We were sinners who were saved by grace, this isn't of ourselves, but is the grace of God. Many traditions and religions continue teaching that "we are still sinners." These teachings undermine our faith in Jesus' being our Sin Bearer, to the point where our faith in Him has been misplaced. We believe that we must still prove in our fleshly deeds, instead of believing that His grace makes us whole. Of course, we are called to live upright before Him, but we do this by faith in His ability to remove our sin.
Man's ideas about righteousness, tell us that we are still not righteous. We have more faith in our own ability to be right, instead of in His ability to make us right. Culture has shaped our way of walking and receiving from God, for centuries. Culture in America has resulted in our walking in what we think the Word says, instead of the Truth of what is says. We've allowed culture to drive and shape our walk with God, rather than the Word.
If we're seeking God for peace, healing, deliverance or anything else, then it must first come through our spirit and then be manifested into our soul and body. Even after being born-again, we continue to seek God in our natural man and in our unrenewed minds. We've nearly forgotten the fact that our God is a Super-natural God.
The modern culture in today's Church, has led us to nearly dismiss the super-natural and has led us to base our walk on intellectual things instead. God has not changed, nor will He ever change. If Jesus could not do any mighty works because of the unbelief of the people in Nazareth, then He is still limited by unbelief today.
Revelation only comes by the Spirit and the Word. Many believe because they see signs and wonders, but that kind of faith is in the sense knowledge. According to Mark 4:17 (Amplified), "When trials and tests come for the Word's sake, they become offended and fall away." In today's Church and in the world, much about the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of God hasn't been taught. Much has been taught to the world about being born-again, but not much has been taught about their being born-again into what? What is it that we've been born again into? What difference will being born-again, make in our lives? What difference does the forgiveness of sin, make in our lives today? What does it mean to Christians, for their walk with God? How do all these truths affect our walk on earth and how are we supposed to lives as ambassadors for Christ?
This is what the new creation people must receive into their living spirits, in order to learn how to walk in the light by faith in Jesus and His ability He has placed withing our new living spirits.
Friday, December 9, 2016
Lesson 136 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (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."
We must learn to walk, think and act on a completely different level of Life, because we have become "new creations." Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "I have come that you should have life in the full abundance, til it overflows." The "Life" He spoke about, was the new birth that would come from being born-again by and through the very Word and Spirit of the Father Himself.
The new creation would be like the first creation of God was new to everything (except God, the Word, and the Holy Spirit Who were in existence before everything). The Word tells us that, "In the beginning was God." Creation came out of the will and Love of God Himself. He created a family and and a home for His family to live in and co-exist with God Himself.
there had never before been done like God's creation. The Heavens, earth, sun, moon, stars, vegetation, animals and fish, were all part of this creation. Man was the crowning glory of all God's creation and God created everything else for His family. Everything still remained of God's first creation, even though it had fallen under the curse of the Law. God didn't need to recreate everything. Jesus gave a revelation to John in Revelations 21:1,5 (Amplified), "Then [John] saw a new sky (Heaven) and a new earth, for the former sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished) and there no longer existed any sea." Verse 5 goes on, "And He Who was seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible and trustworthy) and true (genuine)."
In the above scripture, God did things on a different scale. Instead of creating everything else, before creating man, God created us in Christ Jesus (the new creation) to take back what had been lost. When the new creation man came into being, he was the master again, over all that God had brought through Adam. When God's new creation people took back dominion over His first creation, satan was defeated and brought back under man's feet. God speaks about Jesus and the family of God who would be born from His Seed, in genesis 3:15 (Amplified) saying, "And I will put enmity between you (satan) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you shall lie in wait and bruise His heel."
Through the cross and resurrection of Jesus, God has brought forth a new creation, who would be a God-filled man. This God-filled man would rule over the first creation (the natural earth) once again and would be one with God Himself again. Jesus said in Luke 19:10 (Amplified), "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." God's creation wasn't only lost, but His crowning glory (His family) came into the captivity of the enemy.
God never intended for satan to have any part of His creation. God's first thing was to have a new Man, Who was without sin and wasn't under the curse, but under His blessing again. This new creation was not one simply covered by blood and still a sinner, but one who was completely cleansed and perfected, according to Hebrews 10:14 (Amplified) which says, "For by a Single Offering He has forever completely cleansed and perfected those who are consecrated and made holy"
The Father has, through Jesus, brought forth a new creation who would be a God-made like unto Himself. This new creation would take back dominion and would have God's Own Spirit living within him and would live by the Spirit. This new creation is to be different from the first Adam, who was a natural man with an eternal spirit. This new creation would be a Spirit-filled man who was entwined, infused and one with, the Holy Spirit. The new creation man would have a natural body (a house), in which God's Own Spirit would indwell. In essence, this new creation would be the actual dwelling place of God, on this earth. He would become a living, moving, speaking Ark of the Covenant. The glory of God would live in and through him.
Satan would have no authority over this new creation man, because the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, has made us free from the Law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Because the claims of justice have been met through Jesus, satan no longer has legal right to rule over the new creation." The new creation (the Body of Christ) have God's Own Spirit living in us and after all things have been put under the feet of Jesus, will tread satan's head underfoot. Satan will then, bruise the heel of this new creation Body of Christ.
Until recently, the revelation of who we are to the Father and Who He is in us, has been blinded by the Church's eyes by satan's lies and deception. In these last days, before the joining together of His Body (by His coming), the Body is beginning to stir and rise up in the power of His Name and Word. When this time is come, justice is decreed and order restored, there will be a New Heaven and new earth. And, God's family (the new creation) will become one family- all in all.
We must learn to walk, think and act on a completely different level of Life, because we have become "new creations." Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "I have come that you should have life in the full abundance, til it overflows." The "Life" He spoke about, was the new birth that would come from being born-again by and through the very Word and Spirit of the Father Himself.
The new creation would be like the first creation of God was new to everything (except God, the Word, and the Holy Spirit Who were in existence before everything). The Word tells us that, "In the beginning was God." Creation came out of the will and Love of God Himself. He created a family and and a home for His family to live in and co-exist with God Himself.
there had never before been done like God's creation. The Heavens, earth, sun, moon, stars, vegetation, animals and fish, were all part of this creation. Man was the crowning glory of all God's creation and God created everything else for His family. Everything still remained of God's first creation, even though it had fallen under the curse of the Law. God didn't need to recreate everything. Jesus gave a revelation to John in Revelations 21:1,5 (Amplified), "Then [John] saw a new sky (Heaven) and a new earth, for the former sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished) and there no longer existed any sea." Verse 5 goes on, "And He Who was seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible and trustworthy) and true (genuine)."
In the above scripture, God did things on a different scale. Instead of creating everything else, before creating man, God created us in Christ Jesus (the new creation) to take back what had been lost. When the new creation man came into being, he was the master again, over all that God had brought through Adam. When God's new creation people took back dominion over His first creation, satan was defeated and brought back under man's feet. God speaks about Jesus and the family of God who would be born from His Seed, in genesis 3:15 (Amplified) saying, "And I will put enmity between you (satan) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you shall lie in wait and bruise His heel."
Through the cross and resurrection of Jesus, God has brought forth a new creation, who would be a God-filled man. This God-filled man would rule over the first creation (the natural earth) once again and would be one with God Himself again. Jesus said in Luke 19:10 (Amplified), "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." God's creation wasn't only lost, but His crowning glory (His family) came into the captivity of the enemy.
God never intended for satan to have any part of His creation. God's first thing was to have a new Man, Who was without sin and wasn't under the curse, but under His blessing again. This new creation was not one simply covered by blood and still a sinner, but one who was completely cleansed and perfected, according to Hebrews 10:14 (Amplified) which says, "For by a Single Offering He has forever completely cleansed and perfected those who are consecrated and made holy"
The Father has, through Jesus, brought forth a new creation who would be a God-made like unto Himself. This new creation would take back dominion and would have God's Own Spirit living within him and would live by the Spirit. This new creation is to be different from the first Adam, who was a natural man with an eternal spirit. This new creation would be a Spirit-filled man who was entwined, infused and one with, the Holy Spirit. The new creation man would have a natural body (a house), in which God's Own Spirit would indwell. In essence, this new creation would be the actual dwelling place of God, on this earth. He would become a living, moving, speaking Ark of the Covenant. The glory of God would live in and through him.
Satan would have no authority over this new creation man, because the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, has made us free from the Law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Because the claims of justice have been met through Jesus, satan no longer has legal right to rule over the new creation." The new creation (the Body of Christ) have God's Own Spirit living in us and after all things have been put under the feet of Jesus, will tread satan's head underfoot. Satan will then, bruise the heel of this new creation Body of Christ.
Until recently, the revelation of who we are to the Father and Who He is in us, has been blinded by the Church's eyes by satan's lies and deception. In these last days, before the joining together of His Body (by His coming), the Body is beginning to stir and rise up in the power of His Name and Word. When this time is come, justice is decreed and order restored, there will be a New Heaven and new earth. And, God's family (the new creation) will become one family- all in all.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Lesson 135 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
If God says that born-again people are a "new creation," then that is exactly what we are. We are a species of being who never existed before, in all of eternity. We live by the very Spirit of Life, Who is not just a spirit, but THE HOLY SPIRIT. Every person who has been on this planet, is a spirit. But, only the Church is born of God's Spirit.
We are different than the old covenant persons, because they were still separated from God in their spirit. These were natural men, who still had the sentence of sin and death operating in their spirit. The Church is no longer subject to this Law of sin and death, according to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit and Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed us from the Law of sin and of death."
People who are not yet born-again, like the old covenant people, are still "subject to the Law of sin and death." Everyone who has received God's offer of grace and salvation, has had the requirement for this Law paid in full by Jesus' Sacrifice.
Because the Law of sin and death is a law, there must be a fulfilling of this Law to make it legal and just, before the Judge of the Universe. God doesn't ignore the Laws governing everything. He must, by His Own righteousness, judge everything that violates His Law of Creation. God first put this Law into motion in Genesis 2:17 (Amplified) which says, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
Adam and Eve didn't die in the natural form, for many years after the transgression, but they did die (were separated from Life, Who is God) in their spirit that very day. This kind of death has been difficult for both the world and the Church to comprehend, because we are all still breathing and are alive in the natural. In this natural world, life goes on. They look at it saying, "Everybody (both Christians and non-Christians) dies" and they fail to understand the death from being separate from Life.
No on can see the Spirit of God or the spirit of man, so the natural man fails to understand this Law. Many Christians still do not comprehend the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus. Many believe this Law means that we will have new life when we get to Heaven. This Law of our new being, came into effect the moment we were born-again.
We are now the "new creation," Paul writes above in 2Corinthians 5:16-17. It's not that we failed to become new creatures in the new birth, but we continue looking at who we were, instead of who we have become. We have been slow to teach the Church about who we have become, because we haven't understood the principle of Paul's teaching in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified) which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). (No) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh)."
Many of us still think of Jesus as just "the Man from Galilee." Today, many of us still see Jesus as being on the cross, instead of resurrected from the dead. I'm not diminishing or making light of the cross, but this is where we were made "free from the Law of sin and death." We came into a different Law, which is the Law of Spirit and Life, because of Jesus' resurrection. The Spirit of Life is the new birth. When we accepted God's offer and received His offering on our behalf, instead of trying to become righteous by our own efforts, we became alive again in our spirit and made one again with God.
The Law of sin and death is still a law, operating in today's earth. Since it is a law, it must be legally dealt with by God Himself. God can't dismiss it, but must abide by it Himself. The only way for man to gain back what God had given him, was to pay the price for breaking this law. God needed to bring a Man into this earth, Who was without sin, in order to pay and fulfill this Law. Jesus was not "born from the corrupted seed of man, but the incorruptible Seed of God (the Word)." God had a Man in Jesus, Who could pay the price for all men.
One man (Adam) brought this Law into the earth (and this Law included all men), so One Man could pay the price and fulfill this Law, for all who would receive this Sacrifice. Romans 5:18-19 (Amplified) says, "Well then, as one man's transgression (one man's false step and falling away led) to condemnation for all men, so one Man's act of righteousness (leads) to acquittal and right standing with God and Life for all men. For just as by one man's disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by One Man's obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him)."
When we by faith, accepted God's grace for the payment of sin and death, we have been "paid for by Jesus' obedience," were born-again into Life with God and were declared righteous and free from the Law of sin and death. The new creation has now become the family God always desired and we are now His children. We have been "created in righteousness" and have already been translated into His Kingdom and sent as ambassadors of that Kingdom and our King. As ambassadors for Christ, we've been granted diplomatic immunity from the Law of sin and death (and all the laws governing the fallen world).
When God sent Jesus to walk as a Man on earth, He walked above the Law of sin and death, as well as the curse that came with it. This privilege has been granted by grace, to all who will by faith, accept and receive it. We have once again, become what God had in His heart when man was the object of His Love and we're to rule over the works of His hands, according to Psalm 8:4-6 (Amplified) which says, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of (earth born) man that You care for him? Yet You have made hi but a little lower than God (or Heavenly beings) and You have crowned hi with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet."
The above scripture lays our the place God desired for His family and GOD CHANGES NOT. Through His new creation, God has restored His will for His family and has returned that which was lost in the fall of Adam. Jesus walked in this authority over "the works of His hands" and He dominated all of the natural laws (as well as the Spiritual Laws of sin and death). This is the "heritage of the new creation man." As new creation people, our calling is to represent our King and His Kingdom and to rule it by the Higher Laws of our King. We're to bring sons into glory by the new birth and govern by the Laws of our King. We are to be subject to no other king or kingdom, but only the One King and Kingdom we represent.
The people were amazed at Jesus saying, "What manner of Man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"
If God says that born-again people are a "new creation," then that is exactly what we are. We are a species of being who never existed before, in all of eternity. We live by the very Spirit of Life, Who is not just a spirit, but THE HOLY SPIRIT. Every person who has been on this planet, is a spirit. But, only the Church is born of God's Spirit.
We are different than the old covenant persons, because they were still separated from God in their spirit. These were natural men, who still had the sentence of sin and death operating in their spirit. The Church is no longer subject to this Law of sin and death, according to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit and Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed us from the Law of sin and of death."
People who are not yet born-again, like the old covenant people, are still "subject to the Law of sin and death." Everyone who has received God's offer of grace and salvation, has had the requirement for this Law paid in full by Jesus' Sacrifice.
Because the Law of sin and death is a law, there must be a fulfilling of this Law to make it legal and just, before the Judge of the Universe. God doesn't ignore the Laws governing everything. He must, by His Own righteousness, judge everything that violates His Law of Creation. God first put this Law into motion in Genesis 2:17 (Amplified) which says, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
Adam and Eve didn't die in the natural form, for many years after the transgression, but they did die (were separated from Life, Who is God) in their spirit that very day. This kind of death has been difficult for both the world and the Church to comprehend, because we are all still breathing and are alive in the natural. In this natural world, life goes on. They look at it saying, "Everybody (both Christians and non-Christians) dies" and they fail to understand the death from being separate from Life.
No on can see the Spirit of God or the spirit of man, so the natural man fails to understand this Law. Many Christians still do not comprehend the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus. Many believe this Law means that we will have new life when we get to Heaven. This Law of our new being, came into effect the moment we were born-again.
We are now the "new creation," Paul writes above in 2Corinthians 5:16-17. It's not that we failed to become new creatures in the new birth, but we continue looking at who we were, instead of who we have become. We have been slow to teach the Church about who we have become, because we haven't understood the principle of Paul's teaching in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified) which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). (No) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh)."
Many of us still think of Jesus as just "the Man from Galilee." Today, many of us still see Jesus as being on the cross, instead of resurrected from the dead. I'm not diminishing or making light of the cross, but this is where we were made "free from the Law of sin and death." We came into a different Law, which is the Law of Spirit and Life, because of Jesus' resurrection. The Spirit of Life is the new birth. When we accepted God's offer and received His offering on our behalf, instead of trying to become righteous by our own efforts, we became alive again in our spirit and made one again with God.
The Law of sin and death is still a law, operating in today's earth. Since it is a law, it must be legally dealt with by God Himself. God can't dismiss it, but must abide by it Himself. The only way for man to gain back what God had given him, was to pay the price for breaking this law. God needed to bring a Man into this earth, Who was without sin, in order to pay and fulfill this Law. Jesus was not "born from the corrupted seed of man, but the incorruptible Seed of God (the Word)." God had a Man in Jesus, Who could pay the price for all men.
One man (Adam) brought this Law into the earth (and this Law included all men), so One Man could pay the price and fulfill this Law, for all who would receive this Sacrifice. Romans 5:18-19 (Amplified) says, "Well then, as one man's transgression (one man's false step and falling away led) to condemnation for all men, so one Man's act of righteousness (leads) to acquittal and right standing with God and Life for all men. For just as by one man's disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by One Man's obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him)."
When we by faith, accepted God's grace for the payment of sin and death, we have been "paid for by Jesus' obedience," were born-again into Life with God and were declared righteous and free from the Law of sin and death. The new creation has now become the family God always desired and we are now His children. We have been "created in righteousness" and have already been translated into His Kingdom and sent as ambassadors of that Kingdom and our King. As ambassadors for Christ, we've been granted diplomatic immunity from the Law of sin and death (and all the laws governing the fallen world).
When God sent Jesus to walk as a Man on earth, He walked above the Law of sin and death, as well as the curse that came with it. This privilege has been granted by grace, to all who will by faith, accept and receive it. We have once again, become what God had in His heart when man was the object of His Love and we're to rule over the works of His hands, according to Psalm 8:4-6 (Amplified) which says, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of (earth born) man that You care for him? Yet You have made hi but a little lower than God (or Heavenly beings) and You have crowned hi with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet."
The above scripture lays our the place God desired for His family and GOD CHANGES NOT. Through His new creation, God has restored His will for His family and has returned that which was lost in the fall of Adam. Jesus walked in this authority over "the works of His hands" and He dominated all of the natural laws (as well as the Spiritual Laws of sin and death). This is the "heritage of the new creation man." As new creation people, our calling is to represent our King and His Kingdom and to rule it by the Higher Laws of our King. We're to bring sons into glory by the new birth and govern by the Laws of our King. We are to be subject to no other king or kingdom, but only the One King and Kingdom we represent.
The people were amazed at Jesus saying, "What manner of Man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Lesson 134 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation is (and was) God's original intent, when creating man from the start. God intended to have children and family to share in His Love and the glory of His creation. The serpent brought corruption into the Garden of Eden, but that didn't stop God's original intent for His family. God is the Alpha and Omega and His original intent remains His objective and goal, today. God's heart continues longing for the restoration of His children into His Likeness and Image.
One cannot possible believe that pornography on the web, was part of God's original intent. Neither can anyone possibly believe that the Freedom of Speech was created for obscenity. The Founding Fathers didn't create Freedom of Religion, so that we could have satanic churches or orgies set up to worship satan and other gods. The original intent of these freedoms was for good, but they have become perverted. What God intended when bringing man to this planet, was not what we witness today, but man transformed into this with the fall of Adam.
The new creation is the realization of God's original intent being restored to earth again. He is still in "infant form," like Jesus in the manger and is growing into what Jesus became as a mature Son. When Paul spoke about "renewing our minds," he wasn't saying to become what the world teaches, but we were to renew our minds and learn to think with the Mind of Christ. Romans 12:2 (Amplified) says, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs) but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (by its new ideals and its new attitude) so that you may prove (for yourselves) what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His sight for you)."
The world's idea of God will and the Mind of Christ's idea of what God's will is for us, aren't even close to being the same. The unrenewed mind (the carnal mind) has ideas concerning the will of God, tells us that God uses sickness, disease, death, hardship and even torture, in order to teach us. God's Word declares that, "Jesus bore the curse of the Law, so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles."
The unrenewed mind might say, "There is a God," but then stumble at the Truth that He is now our Father. The only way of transforming your mind, is to hear the Word in your spirit (and not just in your senses). Your natural mind cannot even conceive the things of God in any true sense, except with the "education" programmed into it. Education is a great thing to operate in, as long as it pertains to the natural things in life. We need the senses to reach into this natural God created for us.
With Adam in the beginning, God made a natural man to contact the natural world He created on earth and in order to know how to function in this world. God created Adam first in the spirit, though, to be in contact with Himself. Adam was supposed to live in the spirit (to be led by his spirit) and his natural body was to be in submission to his spirit. God taught, trained, informed and maintained fellowship with Adam, by His Spirit.
Because of the fall, Adam lost fellowship and contact with God through the spirit. Then, Adam's natural body and mind took control of his destiny. As the new creation, we have been made alive again, to the guidance and wisdom of God by His Spirit now living in us. We must renew our natural mind by the Holy Spirit and let Him teach us how to operate in this natural world and its customs. We already know that what the world teaches, is contrary to God's Word, we don't know how to function by His Word. And, because we have allowed the world's ideas about God to rule instead of God's Word, we hold preconceived ideas that are contrary to the Truth. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefits whatever (there is no profit in it) The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
Since the Words Jesus spoke are "Spirit and Life," our spirit first must receive them, before our flesh could understand them. The things Jesus said and did, were impossible to the natural mind. But, to their spirit, they were Truth. Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit in John 14:17 (Amplified) saying, "The Spirit of Truth Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him, But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you (constantly) and will be in you."
The unrenewed mind might have "heard" about God, but because the sense cannot see, touch, smell, hear or taste God in this natural realm, the senses (natural man) rejects the things the sense cannot perceive. We are born-again in the Church, but the senses still speak more to us than our new spirits. Your mind of the world, cannot and will not, accept anything beyond the senses. They will not believe without actually seeing them.
The world has taught us more about how we are to accept God, than our spirits have. Our unrenewed minds can't understand the laying of hands onto the sick and we've determined "This isn't for us today." Only the Mind of Christ, the mind that is renewed by the Word, can grasp and operate in this realm.
When Paul writes about "being transformed by the renewal of our mind," this is a Word for metamorphosis. When a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly, it becomes a completely form of being. When we begin to think like God and Jesus by the renewing our minds with the Word, it will cause such a change in our lives, that we become this new creation in visible terms. We've always had the potential of becoming the "butterfly" that God intended, but we haven't allowed the metamorphosis to occur. In order for this to happen, the caterpillar must become dominant, so the transformation can take place. We must "still the voice of the senses" and allow God's Word to bring out the beauty of the new creation.
. Our carnal minds can't understand anything beyond their realm of the five senses, that have ruled them. Satan has spent nearly two-thousand years, trying to educate the senses away from the spirit. He has dictated to the Church, the things we can and can't believe, through the natural man that is still controlled by satan. He has ruled mankind for millennia by the senses and refuses to change his program. The new creation man has been returned to fellowship with our Father, by the new birth. The new creation people are to receive instruction from the Holy Spirit and not from the world's spirit.
The unrenewed (carnal) mind can't and will never accept the Super-natural realm of God, only our new being can reach into this realm of understanding. We have been taught education, instead of revelation. This allows us to read the Word of God, without knowing what it says. Jesus said that, "Having ears, we still don't hear." We can hear the words that are spoke and comprehend the message, by educating our senses to read, but the Truth and Life of the Words are filtered out by natural thinking. Babies can hear what is being said to them and still not know what is being said. But, as we train them up into adolescents and young adults, they come to understand. The Church has heard the Word and still doesn't understand what it says, because of lack of teaching the Truth.
The new creation is (and was) God's original intent, when creating man from the start. God intended to have children and family to share in His Love and the glory of His creation. The serpent brought corruption into the Garden of Eden, but that didn't stop God's original intent for His family. God is the Alpha and Omega and His original intent remains His objective and goal, today. God's heart continues longing for the restoration of His children into His Likeness and Image.
One cannot possible believe that pornography on the web, was part of God's original intent. Neither can anyone possibly believe that the Freedom of Speech was created for obscenity. The Founding Fathers didn't create Freedom of Religion, so that we could have satanic churches or orgies set up to worship satan and other gods. The original intent of these freedoms was for good, but they have become perverted. What God intended when bringing man to this planet, was not what we witness today, but man transformed into this with the fall of Adam.
The new creation is the realization of God's original intent being restored to earth again. He is still in "infant form," like Jesus in the manger and is growing into what Jesus became as a mature Son. When Paul spoke about "renewing our minds," he wasn't saying to become what the world teaches, but we were to renew our minds and learn to think with the Mind of Christ. Romans 12:2 (Amplified) says, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs) but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (by its new ideals and its new attitude) so that you may prove (for yourselves) what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His sight for you)."
The world's idea of God will and the Mind of Christ's idea of what God's will is for us, aren't even close to being the same. The unrenewed mind (the carnal mind) has ideas concerning the will of God, tells us that God uses sickness, disease, death, hardship and even torture, in order to teach us. God's Word declares that, "Jesus bore the curse of the Law, so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles."
The unrenewed mind might say, "There is a God," but then stumble at the Truth that He is now our Father. The only way of transforming your mind, is to hear the Word in your spirit (and not just in your senses). Your natural mind cannot even conceive the things of God in any true sense, except with the "education" programmed into it. Education is a great thing to operate in, as long as it pertains to the natural things in life. We need the senses to reach into this natural God created for us.
With Adam in the beginning, God made a natural man to contact the natural world He created on earth and in order to know how to function in this world. God created Adam first in the spirit, though, to be in contact with Himself. Adam was supposed to live in the spirit (to be led by his spirit) and his natural body was to be in submission to his spirit. God taught, trained, informed and maintained fellowship with Adam, by His Spirit.
Because of the fall, Adam lost fellowship and contact with God through the spirit. Then, Adam's natural body and mind took control of his destiny. As the new creation, we have been made alive again, to the guidance and wisdom of God by His Spirit now living in us. We must renew our natural mind by the Holy Spirit and let Him teach us how to operate in this natural world and its customs. We already know that what the world teaches, is contrary to God's Word, we don't know how to function by His Word. And, because we have allowed the world's ideas about God to rule instead of God's Word, we hold preconceived ideas that are contrary to the Truth. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefits whatever (there is no profit in it) The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
Since the Words Jesus spoke are "Spirit and Life," our spirit first must receive them, before our flesh could understand them. The things Jesus said and did, were impossible to the natural mind. But, to their spirit, they were Truth. Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit in John 14:17 (Amplified) saying, "The Spirit of Truth Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him, But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you (constantly) and will be in you."
The unrenewed mind might have "heard" about God, but because the sense cannot see, touch, smell, hear or taste God in this natural realm, the senses (natural man) rejects the things the sense cannot perceive. We are born-again in the Church, but the senses still speak more to us than our new spirits. Your mind of the world, cannot and will not, accept anything beyond the senses. They will not believe without actually seeing them.
The world has taught us more about how we are to accept God, than our spirits have. Our unrenewed minds can't understand the laying of hands onto the sick and we've determined "This isn't for us today." Only the Mind of Christ, the mind that is renewed by the Word, can grasp and operate in this realm.
When Paul writes about "being transformed by the renewal of our mind," this is a Word for metamorphosis. When a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly, it becomes a completely form of being. When we begin to think like God and Jesus by the renewing our minds with the Word, it will cause such a change in our lives, that we become this new creation in visible terms. We've always had the potential of becoming the "butterfly" that God intended, but we haven't allowed the metamorphosis to occur. In order for this to happen, the caterpillar must become dominant, so the transformation can take place. We must "still the voice of the senses" and allow God's Word to bring out the beauty of the new creation.
. Our carnal minds can't understand anything beyond their realm of the five senses, that have ruled them. Satan has spent nearly two-thousand years, trying to educate the senses away from the spirit. He has dictated to the Church, the things we can and can't believe, through the natural man that is still controlled by satan. He has ruled mankind for millennia by the senses and refuses to change his program. The new creation man has been returned to fellowship with our Father, by the new birth. The new creation people are to receive instruction from the Holy Spirit and not from the world's spirit.
The unrenewed (carnal) mind can't and will never accept the Super-natural realm of God, only our new being can reach into this realm of understanding. We have been taught education, instead of revelation. This allows us to read the Word of God, without knowing what it says. Jesus said that, "Having ears, we still don't hear." We can hear the words that are spoke and comprehend the message, by educating our senses to read, but the Truth and Life of the Words are filtered out by natural thinking. Babies can hear what is being said to them and still not know what is being said. But, as we train them up into adolescents and young adults, they come to understand. The Church has heard the Word and still doesn't understand what it says, because of lack of teaching the Truth.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Lesson 133 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Since God has created a new creature who is a new species of being through Christ Jesus, it would be prudent for us to find out who we have become and to forget about who we were." We continue reading God's Word, with a sense of being judged as sinners, when God has said that this isn't true. Of course, there is still sin on the earth and weakness of our flesh, even after being born-again. If we are to do what the Word says and the Holy Spirit instructs us to do, then we "outgrow" the sin nature of the flesh.
1Peter 2:2 (Amplified) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto (completed) salvation." We should grow into maturity and adulthood by God's Word. We must train a new baby to function like they should, because they don't even know how to be human beings. They were born a human being, but have no concept of what that truly is. We must teach them everything needed to function on this earth.
There are things we must teach babies in love, that will govern the rest of their lives. We didn't beat our children in order to teach them. We guided them. They should never be raised or governed in fear, but in love. They respond to encouragement and praise while learning, and will excel in what they're being taught. I never scolded my children saying, "You were so bad and I had to change your diapers." I encourage and train them into growing beyond that point in life.
As Christians in God's family, we are continuously being reminded of who were were as babies, instead of being instructed how to behave like adults. I no longer need to remind my children, "Don't touch the hot stove," because they have learned what that means. As we grow up, we operate in things we learned from childhood and we no longer need to be reminded how to walk.
We have been born-again and have become new creations. There are things we must learn, about who we have now become. Any child born of this earth, doesn't know anything about being a human being. We've been born-again into the Kingdom of God and into the realm of the Spirit, and we know nothing about who we are to be. Even a child born into the earth, only knows what it is taught and raised in. They come from different homes and parents, and are not always given sound instructions that others receive. Some children grow into adulthood, without growing into maturity. Every child will grow up into being an adult, so it's not a matter of their being adults, but what kind of adult will they be?
The same goes for Christians. It's not about whether we're children of God or whether we'll be adults, but what kind of adult will we be? Will we grow up into mature sons of God and be of us to Him here on earth? Or, will we continue to remain children who reject training in maturity and be of little use to God here on earth? This doesn't determine the Father's Love for anyone, because He loved us before we were saved. This is more about our working in our Father's Love and doing the Father's will.
Babies who never learned differently, grow up to be selfish (and usually angry too). They expect everything to be done for them and don't care about doing things for others. We find this in the Church too. We look to our own comfort and whether the church building is comfortable or not. We are content with only the "milk" and only care about whether the milk was heated just the way we like it.
In these last days before Jesus returns, we must not only become adult Christians, but also must become mature Christians. We've become so comfortable in the world and have left the Truth of the Spirit. We have left the super-natural realm of our new Kingdom and have become complacent in this natural Christianity. We don't develop our faith in the super-natural Spirit realm that we are part of, but have accepted the natural state of affairs. In this new Kingdom we've been born into, we are supposed to bring this super-natural Presence of God into this natural state of life. We must first learn like newborn babies, what it is we are to mature into.
There are "career criminals" developed in this world, while some people feel entitled to the things others worked for, and others are posturing for their place in upper society. Many have sought our professions and careers that benefit others. In this new creation, we all have the same rights or right standing with God and we all have the same Teacher Who is the Holy Spirit. Maturity is available to all who seek after it, but what is maturity in this new Kingdom? Does it simply mean what others think, that we get older? Or, is it maturing into adulthood in age?
Many Christians have been born-again for years and have failed to mature into sonship knowledge. My boys were sons when they were birthed into this world, but were much use to me on the ranch, until they matured into manhood. One must first seek to understand what is expected of a "son" and then allow the Holy Spirit to bring us to this place.
We have left the realm of the Spirit and God's Kingdom and have been willing to live by things governing the world. The Word says that we "are in this world, but are not of this world." Many in God's family today, have lost sight of the super-natural things of our new Kingdom. God is using His family to bring His identity to the world again through signs and wonders. This part of being in God's family, is natural and normal for all who are new creatures in Christ.
This super-natural is perfectly natural for the new creation and is what makes this creation new. It's not the same thing that used to be, but an entirely new creation. The very nature, spirit, character, ability and Image of our New Father has been given to us. But, in order to develop faith in who He has made us to be, we must know Who He is and What He is about. We previously learned about salvation and how it is (and was) a super-natural invasion of Heaven into this earth. It was to restore all satan corrupted; spirit, soul, and body. It was to return contact between God and mankind on a human level and allow the parent realm of the Spirit to restore the Father's original intent.
It was never God's intent that we should be sick, hungry, oppressed, diseased or controlled by anyone or anything. From the beginning, God intended for man to be in the Family business of "God and Sons" to ruled and maintain the universe and all the Father made for us. Jesus understood God's will to restore everything to the place God willed.
When Jesus opened blind eyes, He was only bring back God's will for that person. When He raised the dead to "fulfill the length of their days on earth," Jesus was simply operating in God's will for mankind again. When Jesus cleansed the leper and cast out demons, it was God's Own original intent for mankind, now as well as before the fall of Adam. It was never God's will for calamity to befall His children.
God's original intent of salvation is found in Luke 4:18-19. As the First Preacher of this Gospel of the Kingdom, Jesus taught what God's original intent was. He preached the total restoration of all things. As new creation people, we are to restore order to everything satan had taken control over and bring back into order the very Justice of God in that restoration. Even the earth had fallen under the curse through Adam, but now the blessing is restored through Jesus. God is using the new creation people to restore the blessing again.
Well meaning have cautioned us about "being zealous in our pursuit of God." They say we must be careful and not become "too far out there." Every time we venture beyond the boundaries someone else has set, they will try to contain us to those boundaries. Years ago, people said, "Man cannot fly," but the Wright Brothers refused to be contained. "Men will never go to the moon," they said, but man pushed aside those boundaries and we're now planning to go to Mars! Many say, "You cannot heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead, stop the storms, see and hear into the spirit realm or bring God's will to bear here on earth." But, some refuse to be contained within the boundaries others and are reaching into the limitless boundaries of our new Kingdom and our new King.
Remember, "With God all things are still possible and nothing is impossible to he who believes." We must not be confined by the opinions of others, but must only believe and watch those limitations be lifted from you. We must be led by the Spirit of God, not the reasonings of man. We've been birthed into the Super-natural realm, where our origin is (and was) God's original intent for His children. We are co-laborers together with Him. The business of "God and Sons" is back in business.
Since God has created a new creature who is a new species of being through Christ Jesus, it would be prudent for us to find out who we have become and to forget about who we were." We continue reading God's Word, with a sense of being judged as sinners, when God has said that this isn't true. Of course, there is still sin on the earth and weakness of our flesh, even after being born-again. If we are to do what the Word says and the Holy Spirit instructs us to do, then we "outgrow" the sin nature of the flesh.
1Peter 2:2 (Amplified) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto (completed) salvation." We should grow into maturity and adulthood by God's Word. We must train a new baby to function like they should, because they don't even know how to be human beings. They were born a human being, but have no concept of what that truly is. We must teach them everything needed to function on this earth.
There are things we must teach babies in love, that will govern the rest of their lives. We didn't beat our children in order to teach them. We guided them. They should never be raised or governed in fear, but in love. They respond to encouragement and praise while learning, and will excel in what they're being taught. I never scolded my children saying, "You were so bad and I had to change your diapers." I encourage and train them into growing beyond that point in life.
As Christians in God's family, we are continuously being reminded of who were were as babies, instead of being instructed how to behave like adults. I no longer need to remind my children, "Don't touch the hot stove," because they have learned what that means. As we grow up, we operate in things we learned from childhood and we no longer need to be reminded how to walk.
We have been born-again and have become new creations. There are things we must learn, about who we have now become. Any child born of this earth, doesn't know anything about being a human being. We've been born-again into the Kingdom of God and into the realm of the Spirit, and we know nothing about who we are to be. Even a child born into the earth, only knows what it is taught and raised in. They come from different homes and parents, and are not always given sound instructions that others receive. Some children grow into adulthood, without growing into maturity. Every child will grow up into being an adult, so it's not a matter of their being adults, but what kind of adult will they be?
The same goes for Christians. It's not about whether we're children of God or whether we'll be adults, but what kind of adult will we be? Will we grow up into mature sons of God and be of us to Him here on earth? Or, will we continue to remain children who reject training in maturity and be of little use to God here on earth? This doesn't determine the Father's Love for anyone, because He loved us before we were saved. This is more about our working in our Father's Love and doing the Father's will.
Babies who never learned differently, grow up to be selfish (and usually angry too). They expect everything to be done for them and don't care about doing things for others. We find this in the Church too. We look to our own comfort and whether the church building is comfortable or not. We are content with only the "milk" and only care about whether the milk was heated just the way we like it.
In these last days before Jesus returns, we must not only become adult Christians, but also must become mature Christians. We've become so comfortable in the world and have left the Truth of the Spirit. We have left the super-natural realm of our new Kingdom and have become complacent in this natural Christianity. We don't develop our faith in the super-natural Spirit realm that we are part of, but have accepted the natural state of affairs. In this new Kingdom we've been born into, we are supposed to bring this super-natural Presence of God into this natural state of life. We must first learn like newborn babies, what it is we are to mature into.
There are "career criminals" developed in this world, while some people feel entitled to the things others worked for, and others are posturing for their place in upper society. Many have sought our professions and careers that benefit others. In this new creation, we all have the same rights or right standing with God and we all have the same Teacher Who is the Holy Spirit. Maturity is available to all who seek after it, but what is maturity in this new Kingdom? Does it simply mean what others think, that we get older? Or, is it maturing into adulthood in age?
Many Christians have been born-again for years and have failed to mature into sonship knowledge. My boys were sons when they were birthed into this world, but were much use to me on the ranch, until they matured into manhood. One must first seek to understand what is expected of a "son" and then allow the Holy Spirit to bring us to this place.
We have left the realm of the Spirit and God's Kingdom and have been willing to live by things governing the world. The Word says that we "are in this world, but are not of this world." Many in God's family today, have lost sight of the super-natural things of our new Kingdom. God is using His family to bring His identity to the world again through signs and wonders. This part of being in God's family, is natural and normal for all who are new creatures in Christ.
This super-natural is perfectly natural for the new creation and is what makes this creation new. It's not the same thing that used to be, but an entirely new creation. The very nature, spirit, character, ability and Image of our New Father has been given to us. But, in order to develop faith in who He has made us to be, we must know Who He is and What He is about. We previously learned about salvation and how it is (and was) a super-natural invasion of Heaven into this earth. It was to restore all satan corrupted; spirit, soul, and body. It was to return contact between God and mankind on a human level and allow the parent realm of the Spirit to restore the Father's original intent.
It was never God's intent that we should be sick, hungry, oppressed, diseased or controlled by anyone or anything. From the beginning, God intended for man to be in the Family business of "God and Sons" to ruled and maintain the universe and all the Father made for us. Jesus understood God's will to restore everything to the place God willed.
When Jesus opened blind eyes, He was only bring back God's will for that person. When He raised the dead to "fulfill the length of their days on earth," Jesus was simply operating in God's will for mankind again. When Jesus cleansed the leper and cast out demons, it was God's Own original intent for mankind, now as well as before the fall of Adam. It was never God's will for calamity to befall His children.
God's original intent of salvation is found in Luke 4:18-19. As the First Preacher of this Gospel of the Kingdom, Jesus taught what God's original intent was. He preached the total restoration of all things. As new creation people, we are to restore order to everything satan had taken control over and bring back into order the very Justice of God in that restoration. Even the earth had fallen under the curse through Adam, but now the blessing is restored through Jesus. God is using the new creation people to restore the blessing again.
Well meaning have cautioned us about "being zealous in our pursuit of God." They say we must be careful and not become "too far out there." Every time we venture beyond the boundaries someone else has set, they will try to contain us to those boundaries. Years ago, people said, "Man cannot fly," but the Wright Brothers refused to be contained. "Men will never go to the moon," they said, but man pushed aside those boundaries and we're now planning to go to Mars! Many say, "You cannot heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead, stop the storms, see and hear into the spirit realm or bring God's will to bear here on earth." But, some refuse to be contained within the boundaries others and are reaching into the limitless boundaries of our new Kingdom and our new King.
Remember, "With God all things are still possible and nothing is impossible to he who believes." We must not be confined by the opinions of others, but must only believe and watch those limitations be lifted from you. We must be led by the Spirit of God, not the reasonings of man. We've been birthed into the Super-natural realm, where our origin is (and was) God's original intent for His children. We are co-laborers together with Him. The business of "God and Sons" is back in business.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Lesson 132 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person in (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
As Christians, we have not learned to develop our faith in this new creation being that we've become. We've been taught that we are saved, but we haven't understood what being saved means for us today. Paul writes in Romans 10:13 (Amplified), "For everyone who calls upon the Name of the Lord (invoking Him as Lord) will be saved." According to The Strong's Concordance (#4982), "saved" means "SOZO, safe; to save i.e. deliver or protect, (lit. or fig.) heal, preserve, save (self) do well, be (made) whole." And, according to (#4983) it means, "The body (as a sound whole) used in a very wide application (lit. or fig.) - bodily body." It means "Corporeal or physical," according to (#4983) and (#4084).
The rendering of the word "saved" is so much more than we've been taught or come to believe. These meanings change everything about the new creation man. I believe, that when Paul taught about Jesus to the Gentiles, he taught the full meaning. We don't read where Paul writes about "healing," even though it was a very important part of Jesus' ministry. I believe this was mainly because, when Paul preached, salvation and healing and deliverance and restoration were all included at the receiving of the Gospel he preached.
Since that time, the Truth of the Gospel has been watered down and we have settle for a mere portion of what both Jesus and Paul preached. Many have accepted that Christ's Gospel means they will go to Heaven when they die and has very little to do with our lives here on earth. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told) and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the Message that came from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)."
One might ask, "What was the Message from the lips of Christ?" Jesus proclaimed in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) that the Gospel He preached to everyone was, "The Spirit of the lord (is) upon Me, because He has anointed Me (the Anointed One, the Messiah) to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to sent forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are down trodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity): To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord (the dau when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound." Upon finishing preaching the Gospel, Jesus declares in Luke 4:21 (Amplified) saying, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled while you are present and hearing."
If Jesus declared His message of the Gospel was "fulfilled," then it is still fulfilled today. We haven't been preaching the full Truth of the Gospel, which means the people haven't heard it and if they haven't heard it, then they haven't been able to place faith in it. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) again says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told) and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the Message that comes from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)."
So, because we haven't heard the Truth of the Message of the Gospel, our faith has never been developed for it (it has been developed for everything else we've heard). When was the last time you heard a salvation message preached, which included healing and deliverance are also yours when you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior? I don't recall having ever heard the Message of the Truth of the Gospel like that. We've put faith in what we've heard, but we haven't heard the Message that our Messiah preached above.
The new creation man was to be restored back to God's original intent; spirit, soul and body. The old creation man wasn't just a spirit with a mortal flesh and blood body, but he was a man who was a spirit being with an immortal body. Now, the new creation man isn't just a spirit, but has God's Own Spirit living (ingrafted) into our new creation being. We were made brand new; spirit, soul, and body. This body was to be redeemed or restored. The soul (mind, will, and emotions) were to be ingrafted with the Mind of Christ. The spirit was to be made alive again unto God. The new creation wasn't even to bear the "marks of fallen man."
During the earthly ministry of Jesus, we see the Gospel being manifested to all who would "believe by hearing" and God was restoring back that which had been lost in Adam's fall. Everything that was out of place, was restored by miracles for everything who believed the Word. God never planned for any of His creation to be blind, so He restored the sight that satan had stolen. God's original plan for His children never included sickness, so Jesus brought forth salvation (healing) to the sick bodies and restored them back to the Original. God never intended for anyone to be possessed by an unclean spirit, but His original intent was for us to be filled with His Spirit and He set them free from satan's hold.
Now, we can better understand what Jesus meant when He told them to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." Mark 16:15-20 (Amplified) says, "And He said to them; Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the Good News (the Gospel) to every creature (of the whole human race). And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied (it). Amen."
It seem apparent that these men were "preaching the Message that came from the lips of the Messiah." And, because this Gospel was being preached, the signs and miracles flowed for restoration. We've been hearing an incomplete Gospel and putting our faith in only a portion of what Jesus "came to preach" in Luke 4:18-19. When the whole Word is preached, we have more to put our faith into and more to walk in.
The new creation man is so much more than what we've been told or have dared to believe! He is like the "First Born from the dead (JESUS)" and the "First Born of many brethren." The new creation is exactly what its title says, a new creation. We are not just what we've been told describes us, "simply forgiven sinners," but we are new creations that never existed in all of creation.
We were created fully in the Likeness and Image of God and we're supposed to take dominion through His indwelling Presence in our new man, and restore His original intents as the Work of His hands. The question remains: Do we have the necessary boldness to believe what His Word says? Or, do we allow the giant of Joshua's day, to keep us from His Promise?
We are only responsible to believe and the "Father in us, will do the work," like He did in Jesus. We are only required to believe that, "All things are possible to him who believes." We've been operating in misplaced faith, because we have only heard a small portion of the Message that Jesus came to proclaim. It's not a matter of our just going to Heaven when we die, but it is a Truth that Heaven has come to earth. This is the new creation.
We are a generation of God men, new creation beings who are born from God's Own Seed (the Word) and filled with His Own Presence. We are called by His Name and sent from the Kingdom as His very Own representatives to do what the first Adam failed to do in the first creation. Through the Last Adam, we can now take dominion and bring back what is rightfully ours through Christ.
As Christians, we have not learned to develop our faith in this new creation being that we've become. We've been taught that we are saved, but we haven't understood what being saved means for us today. Paul writes in Romans 10:13 (Amplified), "For everyone who calls upon the Name of the Lord (invoking Him as Lord) will be saved." According to The Strong's Concordance (#4982), "saved" means "SOZO, safe; to save i.e. deliver or protect, (lit. or fig.) heal, preserve, save (self) do well, be (made) whole." And, according to (#4983) it means, "The body (as a sound whole) used in a very wide application (lit. or fig.) - bodily body." It means "Corporeal or physical," according to (#4983) and (#4084).
The rendering of the word "saved" is so much more than we've been taught or come to believe. These meanings change everything about the new creation man. I believe, that when Paul taught about Jesus to the Gentiles, he taught the full meaning. We don't read where Paul writes about "healing," even though it was a very important part of Jesus' ministry. I believe this was mainly because, when Paul preached, salvation and healing and deliverance and restoration were all included at the receiving of the Gospel he preached.
Since that time, the Truth of the Gospel has been watered down and we have settle for a mere portion of what both Jesus and Paul preached. Many have accepted that Christ's Gospel means they will go to Heaven when they die and has very little to do with our lives here on earth. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told) and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the Message that came from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)."
One might ask, "What was the Message from the lips of Christ?" Jesus proclaimed in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) that the Gospel He preached to everyone was, "The Spirit of the lord (is) upon Me, because He has anointed Me (the Anointed One, the Messiah) to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to sent forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are down trodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity): To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord (the dau when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound." Upon finishing preaching the Gospel, Jesus declares in Luke 4:21 (Amplified) saying, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled while you are present and hearing."
If Jesus declared His message of the Gospel was "fulfilled," then it is still fulfilled today. We haven't been preaching the full Truth of the Gospel, which means the people haven't heard it and if they haven't heard it, then they haven't been able to place faith in it. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) again says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told) and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the Message that comes from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)."
So, because we haven't heard the Truth of the Message of the Gospel, our faith has never been developed for it (it has been developed for everything else we've heard). When was the last time you heard a salvation message preached, which included healing and deliverance are also yours when you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior? I don't recall having ever heard the Message of the Truth of the Gospel like that. We've put faith in what we've heard, but we haven't heard the Message that our Messiah preached above.
The new creation man was to be restored back to God's original intent; spirit, soul and body. The old creation man wasn't just a spirit with a mortal flesh and blood body, but he was a man who was a spirit being with an immortal body. Now, the new creation man isn't just a spirit, but has God's Own Spirit living (ingrafted) into our new creation being. We were made brand new; spirit, soul, and body. This body was to be redeemed or restored. The soul (mind, will, and emotions) were to be ingrafted with the Mind of Christ. The spirit was to be made alive again unto God. The new creation wasn't even to bear the "marks of fallen man."
During the earthly ministry of Jesus, we see the Gospel being manifested to all who would "believe by hearing" and God was restoring back that which had been lost in Adam's fall. Everything that was out of place, was restored by miracles for everything who believed the Word. God never planned for any of His creation to be blind, so He restored the sight that satan had stolen. God's original plan for His children never included sickness, so Jesus brought forth salvation (healing) to the sick bodies and restored them back to the Original. God never intended for anyone to be possessed by an unclean spirit, but His original intent was for us to be filled with His Spirit and He set them free from satan's hold.
Now, we can better understand what Jesus meant when He told them to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." Mark 16:15-20 (Amplified) says, "And He said to them; Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the Good News (the Gospel) to every creature (of the whole human race). And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied (it). Amen."
It seem apparent that these men were "preaching the Message that came from the lips of the Messiah." And, because this Gospel was being preached, the signs and miracles flowed for restoration. We've been hearing an incomplete Gospel and putting our faith in only a portion of what Jesus "came to preach" in Luke 4:18-19. When the whole Word is preached, we have more to put our faith into and more to walk in.
The new creation man is so much more than what we've been told or have dared to believe! He is like the "First Born from the dead (JESUS)" and the "First Born of many brethren." The new creation is exactly what its title says, a new creation. We are not just what we've been told describes us, "simply forgiven sinners," but we are new creations that never existed in all of creation.
We were created fully in the Likeness and Image of God and we're supposed to take dominion through His indwelling Presence in our new man, and restore His original intents as the Work of His hands. The question remains: Do we have the necessary boldness to believe what His Word says? Or, do we allow the giant of Joshua's day, to keep us from His Promise?
We are only responsible to believe and the "Father in us, will do the work," like He did in Jesus. We are only required to believe that, "All things are possible to him who believes." We've been operating in misplaced faith, because we have only heard a small portion of the Message that Jesus came to proclaim. It's not a matter of our just going to Heaven when we die, but it is a Truth that Heaven has come to earth. This is the new creation.
We are a generation of God men, new creation beings who are born from God's Own Seed (the Word) and filled with His Own Presence. We are called by His Name and sent from the Kingdom as His very Own representatives to do what the first Adam failed to do in the first creation. Through the Last Adam, we can now take dominion and bring back what is rightfully ours through Christ.
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