We've been basing these teachings about the new creation on 2Corinthians 5:16-17. Many of the previous teachings were about who we are now in Christ Jesus, helping us grow from the infant stage of Christianity we've been in for many years. Times have changed. The world has gotten darker and as the coming of the Lord approaches, the Church must grow up.
We can see clearly from 1John 3:2 (Amplified) that we are now a new creation. Thus, it says, "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."
I don't know what we will look like when we are "caught up together with Him, but I do know that the only difference in us now as a new creation, is the way we look. We have His Name, we have His delegated authority, we have His promise, and we have His Spirit. We have His Word and we have the revelation of who we are now, in Him. We're not supposed to waiting to go to heaven and become daughters and sons of God. We're supposed to be Ambassadors for Him on this earth and to being His will to bear "on earth, as it is in heaven.
We have a job to do on this earth, that only by our understanding who we are in Christ, can we even accomplish. We've remained in the infant stage in our walk with God, for as long as we can. Although we're still "babies" in our walk, we are new creations and don't even realize it. We have a small, four month old baby boy, in our congregation. He is, even in the natural realm, a new creation. He didn't exist here until a short time ago. He is a citizen of America and a recipient of all the benefits our Constitution holds.
This perfectly healthy, strong and intelligent baby has all the benefits of an American citizen. Presently, he doesn't know whether he's a girl or boy, he has not concept of anything other than his own needs. He isn't concerned about the upcoming election, the warfare in the Middle East or even where his next meal is coming from. He is perfectly healthy and very intelligent, but he has much to learn in order to partake of what men and women have died for to make us free.
As new creation people, we are now citizens of heaven. We, though, have never crown up to either enjoy being or useful to the fact of who we really are. We've sat back and allowed someone else to do everything for us. We Americans have allowed someone else to make all the decisions for us in these last days. We've never really accepted the responsibility of our new creation identity. Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) 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)."
God didn't lead us to salvation only for us to wait until the day we go to heaven, but to bring His Kingdom (heavens) to bear on the earth. We were given "joint seating" with Jesus. This means that we share, "even here and now," His authority, His Name. His will for this planet is to bring heaven's will to pass here like it is in heaven. We were made to be Ambassadors for Christ, according to 2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified), which says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's ambassadors or personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God."
An Ambassador is set to represent one nation or kingdom to another nation or kingdom. They do not change who they are, but represent who they are by bringing the representation to that country. An Ambassador lives in an Embassy that still holds the laws of the nation of kingdom they represent. 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)."
God's goodness has already come upon you, through Christ Jesus. His acceptance of you came when you made Jesus the Lord of your life and became a new creation. God's perfect will for you, is something that you learn and grow up into, by renewing your mind by the laws governing heaven and are expressed through your Spirit (through the Holy Spirit), by your representation of God's kingdom here on earth.
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