The new creation that we've become through Jesus, is truly a new being. The old body of sin (the flesh) has died with Him in His death and the new creation has come into being. If you are a new creation, then you have no past, because if you have a past, then you're not new. We're like a newborn who has no past, we cannot go back into what never was and judge what never took place. This is what the Spirit of God is endeavoring to get the Church to see.
The devil came to "Steal, kill, and destroy" the new creation, by bringing up and accusing us about a past that isn't there. When you were born again in Christ Jesus, you were born without sin and a past. Now, the schooling in your spirit is to renew your mind by the Word, so you can see who you are, instead of the lie of the devil. This is what he has come to steal. Even though you are "dead" to sin, he wants to steal this truth from you, in order to keep you in bondage, as though your new creation doesn't exist.
Now that you're truly in likeness of Christ Jesus, the devil wants to keep you in bondage with lies, as though salvation and you're being born again didn't work. His mission is to never let you see the truth about the total salvation in Jesus. We saw the truth about our going to heaven someday, but not the truth that heaven has now come to us.
Satan has been diligently working to stop the Church from seeing what happened on the Day of Pentecost. Many see the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as only a way of speaking in tongues and not much more. We seldom saw the power of this new language. In Genesis 11:6-7(Amplified) God said, "And behold, they are all one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech."
Immediately after God "confounded" their language, all work on the Tower of Babel ceased. On the Day of Pentecost, God restored back to His new creation, the power of communication, to insure that now through the Holy Spirit, nothing we (the Church) can imagine will be impossible to us as well. Romans 8:26-27 (Amplified) says, "So too the Holy Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance." Verse 27 goes on, "And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the Holy Spirit (what His intent is) because the Spirit intercedes and pleads (before God) in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will."
Through the outpouring of His Holy Spirit, God has once again brought unity by our communication with Him. We're to be in one language and in one accord to build, not a tower, but a Kingdom of God. For many, the Gift of Tongues has been distorted by religion, as though only a few can do this. If we are speaking of ministerial gifts in 1Corinthians 12 as truth, then we are just speaking of God's children speaking to Him and that's not true.
We've all been born again by the Spirit of God into a new creation. As new creation people, we have a language we speak by and through the Holy Spirit. It's to bring us back into "all one language," so we can build the Kingdom of God. In our own language, we don't always know how to communicate with our Heavenly Father, but the Holy Spirit always know what is His will.
We've spent so much time having the world's idea of tongues and have missed the entire concept of the message. Don't confuse the new creation language from the ministerial language. If you are born in Mexico, then you probably speak Spanish, if you're born in China, then you probably speak Chinese, if you are born in Germany, then you probably speak German and if you are born of the Spirit, then you speak spirit (or tongues) by the Spirit. It's simply the means of communication by which we, as new creation people, communicate.
We've allowed the world to dictate to us (the Church) how we operate in the Kingdom. Do not lump all the things in the Spirit, into one big lump. Separate the Gifts of the Spirit from the privileges of the new creation people. Through the new birth, we've entered into the realm of the Spirit and the Kingdom of God. This would be like only having certain people in America speaking English, when all American citizens have the right and privilege. That's how we build and become "One Nation Under God."
Jesus said in Mark 16:15-18 (Amplified), "And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the Good News (the Gospel) to every creature (of the whole human race). He who believes (adheres to, and trusts in, and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth) and is baptized will be saved (from the penalty of eternal death) but he who does not believe (who does not adhere Him Who sets it forth) will be condemned. And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents; and (even) if they drink anything deadly; it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."
Did you notice that these things are for "those who believe in His Name?" He never said anything about how "only certain persons" could do these things, but those were born again into the super-natural Spirit of God. Why would only just a few need to have this ability to reveal Jesus in His glory? 1Corinthians 12 lists the Gifts of the Spirit, while 1Corinthians 14 speaks primarily of Ministry gifts, not the natural ability of the super-natural child of God. How could we be effective, if we had to "wait upon" one of these choice persons to come and do what needed to be done in someone's life? Jesus simply said, "Go and preach the Gospel and if they believe it, then it will work for those who believe."
We can lay hands on the sick, by faith in His Name, and expect results. We can simply, by faith in His Name, receive the Holy Spirit and praise His Name in the Spirit (or the language of the new birth). This might sound too simple for some, because of the multitude of things men have taught, but we must allow the Holy Spirit to be our Teacher and trust Him. I've witnessed thousands of people speak in the Spirit, who aren't in ministry, but are simply children of God. Jesus said it wasn't Him, "but the Father in Him Who was doing the work," who healed the multitudes who were healed when Jesus laid hands on them. The same Father will do the work through us. don't let the world, religion or fear prevent your moving in the power and Spirit of the new birth. We must return to Jesus' Own Words in Mark 11:22 (Amplified) which says, "And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God (constantly)."
When Jesus said that, "The thief comes to steal," He meant that the thief comes to take what God has given you, from you. Don't allow the enemy to delude or deceive you into believing like the world has taught the Church, that healings, miracles, tongues and the super-natural things of the new creation have passed away. As long as Jesus remains Lord, none of these things can pass away. We've simply stopped believing in them. Nothing has changed since these things were given by the Father.
We've been striving to walk into the new creation things of the Spirit and have the world's wisdom dictate what we can have or do. The old doctrine of passed away must be stricken from the heart of the Christian and replaced by faith in God's Word again. Many good Christians have been deceived by man's ideas of what is actually true. For many in these last days, we have believed some things, in our longing to walk close to God, that others find strange.
Many things have crept into the Church that are received in error. Many things actually taught by the Holy Spirit, have been removed from the "modern" Church today. Many new Bible translations have been printed, in order to appease the ego of mankind and have replaced the Word by what mankind wants. From the very first sentence in God's Word, until the last word, God has always been super-natural. We can see the hand of God in the old covenant, that the natural man can never understand, except by faith.
In God's Kingdom, things work on a different scale and principle than the world's kingdom. It doesn't matter how hard you try "learning" the Word of God, without the Holy Spirit as your Teacher, you will never receive the truth. The world will never allow you to see the truth. Jesus said in Mark 4:14-19 (Amplified) that, "The sower sows the Word." The following verses tell how such things came to steal the Word out of your heart (spirit), as persecution, the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches and the offenses. In Verse 14 Jesus said that, "Satan comes at once to take by force, the Word that was sown in them."
These things are from the thief that comes to steal, kill and destroy. Notice how stealing comes first!
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