Paul said that anyone who is "grafted into Jesus Christ" is now a "new creation," in 2Corinthians 3:16-17 (Amplified). Verse 16 tells us that, "We now know no man any longer after the flesh, but after the Spirit." In Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) Paul says, "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)."
We've failed to realize that we already have a "heavenly" position in the Lord, in order to operate on earth by heaven's power. We've been waiting to get to heaven in order to operate by the Spirit, when all along, the Spirit of heaven has become our Spirit to work with here. Just like someone from Ireland relocates to America and finds there are different laws here than they are in Ireland. People drive on the other side of the road in Ireland. If you do that in the U.S., then you'll either be pulled over by the police or someone will run into you. That could have deadly consequences.
The laws governing heaven are different from the laws governing earth. They are Higher laws and hold greater authority than the laws of earth. Jesus walked in the laws that govern heaven and was thus allowed freedom from the limits of the lower, earth laws. Jesus defied the law of gravity and walked on water. He defied the laws of time and the ship was "immediately on the other side." He even defied the laws of commerce, when He took money from the mouth of a fish. Jesus defied the laws of lack and want, when He fed a multitude with five loaves and two fishes. These are the laws of the Spirit realm of heaven, where the laws of the Creator are Higher than the laws of Creation.
Paul wrote to the Church in 2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) saying, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God." As far as God is concerned, we've already been "translated" into the heavenly sphere, by Jesus, and are now required to operate and function by those laws that govern there. These laws, is operated in, will bring the "super-natural" things of the heavenlies into the realm of the natural and supersede them. For many years, we have wondered why things don't seem to work like we "thought" the Bible says. This is because we've been trying to get heaven to operate by our laws, instead of His laws.
One of the main laws of heaven is the Spoken Word. We've fought among ourselves over the teaching of words, like words do not matter. The law of Genesis still works like it did when God first spoke it. God spoke everything into existence at the Genesis. Jesus spoke to disease and bread loaves and fish. Nearly everything Jesus did, He did by words. John 3:34 (Amplified) says, "For since He Whom God sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own message) God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the gift God makes of His Spirit."
Jesus said multiple times that, "I only say what I hear My Father say." In Mark 16:20 (Amplified) we read, "And they went forth 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 (so be it)."
This has always been the way the kingdom of God has worked. From the time it has been recorded, until now, God has always operated by the Law of the Spirit. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "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."
If we would only put aside our differences and allow the Holy Spirit to speak and teach us, then we could plainly see the truth. We find that the very way of our salvation is based on the very same Law of the Spirit, in Romans 10:9-10 (Amplified) which says, "Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart of a person believes (adheres to, trust in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms (his) salvation."
The Laws governing heaven are either enforced or left dormant on this earth, by the words we speak. We can enforce the things of God in our lives or leave them without power if we choose. Let's go to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) and listen to the Holy Spirit, as He conveys this truth to you.
Thus, Verse 2 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 (new creation) has freed me from the law of sin and of death." Now let's return to John 6:63 (Amplified) which says, "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."
We have believed this truth, as far as "speaking/confessing" Jesus as our Savior, but then stopped believing as far as making Him Lord over everything else we say. If one part of what we say is truth, then why wouldn't the rest of what we say matter? Jesus taught about this in Matthew 12:35-37 (Amplified) saying, "The good man from his inner good treasure, brings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner ever storehouse, brings forth evil things. But I tell you, on the day of judgement men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, not working) word they speak." Verse 37 continues, "For by your words you will be justified and acquitted and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced."
We read above that words of faith in Jesus as Lord, will "justify or condemn" every person. On the judgment day where we are "judged by our words," who will stand? 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."
If this "Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus" is Truth and Life (salvation), then why wouldn't this same Law of the Spirit of Life be true in everything else of the Father's Spirit realm? If our words of faith in what He said can bring about a new creation, then why wouldn't these same words of faith in what He said, maintain our entire walk with God?
I'm not implying here that we must run around like parrots, quoting scripture all day, but we need to keep our words in line with God's Words, because they are Spirit and Life.
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