We have seen ourselves, in our Christian walk, as "just forgiven sinners" for many years. Because of this, we have identified more with Adam than with Jesus. We've been very conscious of sin and not with being made righteous or in right standing with God. 2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified) plainly states that we don't look upon any Christian as being "Merely or purely in a human point of view, but after the spirit."
Because of Jesus, we are now a "new creation," according to 2Corinthians 5:17. As new creation people, we are translated by the Holy Spirit, into the Image and Likeness of our Father. We were made brand new by being "ingrafted in Christ." We were made to be righteous and in right standing with God, through and in Christ Jesus. We try judging our own righteousness by our conduct, instead of judging our righteousness in Christ. This great misunderstanding has hindered our entire Christian walk, as well as hindering everything God wants to do in our lives.
Under our new covenant with God, He is no longer just God, but is now Father. God's power or His nature haven't changed, but our relationship with Him has. I can have a better relationship with my Father than I could with God, because we are now made family. Barack Obama is probably the most powerful political figure in the world today. People from all over the world are trying to lobby and petition him for his favor. There are two girls who live in the White House with the him, who are his daughter. These daughter can get more from Father than all the others will get from President. His power or authority hasn't changed, only their relationship with him is closer.
When we really begin to see God as our Father and stop trying to impress Him, we will find that we do not need to petition His attention, because everything has already been done to make Him available to us. Because we have been made new creation people, we have a new way of life in this spirit realm. We have always put off spiritual things for until we get to heaven, when what God has done is to make all spiritual blessings available to us now in Christ Jesus.
Because of Jesus, we now have the best of both worlds. We're still living in this natural earth, in a flesh and blood body, but are alive in Christ, to the Spirit and the realm of the heavenlies. We have the ability and the privilege of conducting heavenly affairs in the natural world. When Adam walked with God in the Garden, before the fall, he had spiritual authority over all the natural realm. When Adam fell, the earth and everything in it came back under natural authority. We have available to us, the power of heaven, through Jesus, to bring the natural back into dominion.
Ephesians 2:5-6 (Amplified) says, "Even when we were dead (slain) by (our own) shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; (He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for) it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgement and made partakers of Christ's salvation). 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 us being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
We have somehow read the above scripture, but have failed to understand what it says. We have been now been given, through Jesus, His authority from where we have been jointly seated together. This isn't a "some day privilege," but is the state of affairs of the new creation people (us). Jesus' Name, authority, power and favor have already been granted from His Kingly Status in heaven. As new creation people, we have been granted His authority from heaven into earth as well.
We've been left with Jesus' very Own Words on how to pray. Jesus told His disciples to pray, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." This was to be our quest, as new creation people, to bring what we've been granted in the heavenlies to pass on the earth. We are in in the world, but are not of the world, according to 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified) which says, "We see no man any longer from just a purely natural point of view, but after the Spirit."
We are a new creation that never existed previously. We are the people satan has been so afraid of since the Holy Spirit arrived in the Upper Room. He has done everything he knows, to prevent our ever knowing these things. Satan knows that once we begin functioning from where we have been raised and exalted by Jesus, then his reign is over. We need to begin taking our Blood bought birth rights and bring God's will to earth, like Jesus did. The Same Father Who did the work in Jesus, is the Same Father Who wants to do these things through us. We've never dared believe these truths before, because of religious persecution, but the time is now for the Church to rise up and take its place in the earth. The most powerful things on this planet, is the Church, the Body of Christ. "No weapon formed against us will prosper and our righteousness is of our Father.
Isaiah 54:14 (Amplified) tells us, "You shall establish yourself in righteousness (righteousness, 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." It seems difficult to see and read God's great promises to us, through Jesus, and still not know who or what we really are. Have we held back because of peer pressure or fear of being left without fellowship? The world and the Church, both have left everything up to "when we die." Dead men don't change this world without God's life in them. Stop just "being crucified with Christ" and begin living in the power of His resurrection.
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