We've mostly been taught that we will become a new creation, only after arriving in heaven. Or, we're awaiting to become a new creation when the rapture occurs and we are "changed in the twinkling of an eye." We've failed to realize that the moment we were born again, we became (or were made to be) a new creation.
1John 3:1-2 (Amplified) says, "See what (an incredible) quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should (be permitted to) be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him." Verse 2 goes on, "Beloved, we are (even here and now God's children. It is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be (here after), but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall (as God's children), resemble and be like Him, for we shall Him just as He (really) is."
We don't really know what our Father looks like. Jesus said, "No man has ever seen the Father, but the Son." We really have no idea what we'll look like in glory, but we shall look like and resemble Him. My children look like and resemble me. Even though they are individual beings, they still have a resemblance to their father. The Word says that, "Now we are God's children." It doesn't say that we will be God's children when we get to have, but we are now His children. We are already a new creation.
After His resurrection, Jesus was no longer referred to as "The Only begotten Son," but as the "Firstborn of many brethren." Romans 8:29 (Amplified) says, "For those whom He fore-knew (of whom He was aware and loved beforehand) He also destined from the beginning (fore ordained them) to be molded into the Image of His Son (and share inwardly His likeness), that He might become the firstborn among many brethren."
Inwardly, we are like Him. His appearance might now look different on the outside, but inwardly, we are like Him. When Jesus was on earth as a Man, He took upon Himself, flesh and blood in order to die as a Man on our behalf. After He rose from the dead, Jesus took upon Himself the glorified appearance of His Father. We are now, already, a new creation. Inwardly, we are just as He is. At His return, we will be even outwardly as He is.
We are given God's ability to walk as Jesus did, by this new creation birth that came from God's Spirit now living in this tabernacle of flesh and blood. Satan has been very cautious about how much of this new creation he would allow us to see. He has tried keeping it under religion and his control, for a long time. In these last days, though, the Holy Spirit is revealing the knowledge of this truth to God's people.
Some will see this as some sort of self-exaltation or as foolishness, but to those who are led by the Spirit of God, they will become the sons of God. Romans 8:14 (Amplified) tells us, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."
There is a work to be done in the earth, in these last days, that will require God's being manifest to the world like never before. Through His children (or sons), God will reveal Himself to the whole world. The Joshua and Caleb generation or the new Jesus generation, the Church, will be the vehicle God reveals Himself through. 2Corinthians 3:18 (Amplified) says, "And all of us, as with unveiled face, (because we) continued to behold (in the Word of God) as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very Own Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; (for this comes) from the Lord (Who is) the Spirit."
We read in 2Corinthians 4:6-7 (Amplified), "For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as (to beam forth) the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the Majesty and Glory or God (as it is manifest in the person and is revealed) in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). However, we possess this precious treasure (the divine Light of the Gospel) in (frail, human) vessels of the earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves." Everyone knows that these miracles had to be from God, and not from man, because man can't do these things on his own. "Christ in us, our hope of glory."
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