2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "We are no longer seen as purely natural men any longer, but after the Spirit." We have become a new creation in Christ Jesus.
For years, many of us have believed that we will become a new creation, after we get to heaven. God's Word says that we are now, no longer viewed as merely human people, but after the Spirit because the new birth has made us new creations. We, the Church, are a new species of being that has never before existed. We've been confirmed into the likeness of the Risen Christ and have actually become His Body here on earth.
This understanding changes everything, because we are not of this world system and people, we have the God given ability to function on a much higher level of being. Through the Holy Spirit, we have been delegated the power of attorney to operate in the very authority of Jesus' Name and standing with our Father.
For centuries, satan has feared the time would come when God opens this revelation to His Church and the time of the End of Days would be upon this planet. When this happens, satan wouldn't see just a mere handful of people walking in God's power, but a multitude of them. Satan has fought hard from the Day of Pentecost until now, trying to keep this from being known.
On the Day of Pentecost, satan witnessed one hundred and twenty people become something had had no power over, at all. Miracles and wonders were seen throughout the land. Demons trembles at the though of God's mighty Spirit born people being loosed on the earth. Paul, Steven, Phillip, Peter and John, along with many others, were now doing the works Jesus Himself had done on earth as a Man. Now the same Spirit was living in men, was set loose upon the world and satan couldn't stop it.
Satan had tried killing off these new creation people before this truth could be known, but even while imprisoned, Paul wrote to the churches revealing this awesome truth. He then had to use the very thing that always worked before, religion. By turning truth into tradition, satan once again made God's Word to no affect.
The Church struggled not only to grow, but to survive. Satan had opened up his entire arsenal against God's children. He murdered them at every opportunity and tried to "abort" the baby Christians, before they could reach maturity. He had to prevent their growing up into maturity and strength.
We were bringing people all over the world, to the Lord and getting them born again, but very few were living long enough to grow up. Satan perverted the Truth through lies and tradition, in order to weaken the Body into futility. The Kings and Priests of God's household, were nearly helpless under the assault of satan's lies. Even when some would be raised up in truth, it seemed so far from what we thought was truth, that many looked upon them as deranged, like in Jesus' time.
Saul of Tarsus was a very devoted Jew, who believed it was his calling to stop the movement Jesus began. He was actually deceived into thinking that Jesus' message wasn't true. When the Lord revealed the truth to him, satan could no longer use him to spread fear among the believers of the early Church. Paul became satan's worst enemy, after learning the truth. After receiving the revelation of the church, Paul set out to undo the damage he had done, before he knew about the new creation.
Satan tried everything to silence Paul, but nothing could stop him. Even when Paul was thrown into prison, he sang praises to God loudly enough that "God inhabited the praises of His people" and the jail fell apart. Satan pressed on in his attempt to silence Paul and finally he was imprisoned in Rome, so satan believed his troubles were over.
Paul continued receiving revelation from God, even from his confinement, and sent letters to the churches about the truth of the new creation. Satan, again, tried to bring revelation into religion, to make it powerless. Paul wrote to the church in Galatia about this very thing in Galatians 3:1-3 (Amplified) saying, "O you poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom-right before your very eyes-Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing (the message of the Gospel) and believing (it)? (was it from observing a Law of rituals or from a message of faith?) Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun (your new life spiritually) with the Holy Spirit, are you now reaching perfection (by dependence) on the flesh?"
The moment the people heard the truth of the new creation, satan tried bringing it back under his control into the flesh. If the truth of the new creation entered into the spiritual revelation of God's new family, then it would no longer be a thing satan could control. Because he is the god of this world system, satan could control the fleshly religion and man by the works of the flesh. But,he had no control over the spiritual life that had now come upon mankind.
The new creation was to be just like Jesus was on the earth, a flesh and blood temple of the Holy Spirit. The new creation was where God Himself could now live and dwell in the midst of the earth and bring heaven to earth by His Presence here. This was what satan was so fearful of.
He couldn't control one Man (Jesus) Who was filled with the Holy Spirit of God, so how could he control millions of people who were just like Him? From the Day of Pentecost until now, the devil has fought to keep this truth from being preached because "Faith comes by hearing the Word of God," according to Romans 10:17. Whenever God's Word is preached, it brings forth (by faith in what was preached) a new creation people.
The devil doesn't fear religion that he can control by the flesh. There will be a remnant of people who will receive this truth and begin walking in it, so the earth will once again see the glory, power, mercy and the majesty of God displayed in the earth like never before.
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