2Corinthians 5:10-17 (Amplified) says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). (No) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh). Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away, behold, the fresh and new has come."
1Corinthians 2:9-15 (Amplified) says, "But, on the contrary, as the scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man (all that) God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him (Who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed)." Verse 10-12 go on, Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them b and through His Spirit, for the Holy Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine councils and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny) For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man's thoughts except the man's own spirit withing him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not revealed the spirit (that belongs to the world), but the Holy Spirit Who is from God, (given to us) that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts (of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly) bestowed on us." Verses 13-16 say, "And we are setting these truths forth in Words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Holy Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language (to those who possess the Holy Spirit) But the natural man, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are fully (meaningless nonsence) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them (of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them) because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated. But the spiritual man tries all things (he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things), yet is himself to be put on trial and judged by no one (he can read the meanings of everything, but no one can properly discern or appraise or get an insight into Him) For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart."
The above scripture tells us that without the Holy spirit, man doesn't know and cannot know the thoughts and the purposes of what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1Corinthians 2:9 (Amplified) says, "Man's wisdom and understanding of what God has done on our behalf, is simply limited to education and not revelation." Man builds great libraries and writes countless teachings on the religious aspect of God, but very little comes from the "revelation of the Spirit of God."
Without revelation into our spirit by the Holy Spirit, we cannot know the mind of God or the heart of God. We read the historical, sequential things written in the Bible, and relate them to stories and not truth. Carnal Christians are still debating over the flood, the Exodus, and even the existence of King David. They look at it from only a human viewpoint and say it is impossible.
When they eliminate the super-natural God from it, man cannot explain or even accept the Bible as "truth." I've tried watching television programs about the Bible and almost always, they result in my getting upset. It's impossible to explain the plagues of Egypt or such other things as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by man's natural standards. These simply can't be explained by man's own wisdom.
Many in today's Church reject the super-natural things of God, because we won't allow them to be Spiritually discerned. The power of God is ever present to do what He says, but we continue trying to harness God's power by our own standards. I find miracles in God's Word that are done by the hands of men, but only by his allowing the Word to guide those hands.
In Luke 9, we find where Jesus blessed and broke the loaves and fishes and then distributed a handful to each disciple. No one had more than a handful to give the multitude. As each disciple went into the groups seated, each must have wondered whether his handful would be enough. As the disciple passed the bread to the first person, who passed onto the next person, his handful of bread and fish didn't diminish. The disciples actually "worked" the miracle, by allowing the Spirit to multiply what they had. They must have been astonished when they returned to Jesus, holding more in their hands than when they began.
We read about the wedding feast in John 2, where Jesus instructed the servants to "Fill the pots with water and then dip out from the pot to the wedding manager," in Verses 9-10. When the manager drank of the water, he discovered it was "good wine." Those who filled the pots, knew that they only filled the pots with water. I imagine they were more surprised than anyone there.
These miracles only support what Jesus said in Mark 11:22 (Amplified) saying, "Have faith in God (constantly)" and that's what brought the miracles. The super-natural power and presence of God, needs no help, only faith in what He says to do. In John 5:30 (Amplified) Jesus says, "I am able to do nothing from Myself (independently, of My Own accord, but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders)."
Some time ago, God called me into the ministry, saying, "Son, I don't need your ability, I only need your availability. I have all the ability I need." It seems like everything is coming to the super-natural, except the things of God. We see countless T.V. shows featuring the super-natural. Many are quick to believe these foolish things, but then fail to believe the things concerning God. It's like we've stopped believing God could do anything else after He created the heavens and earth. We have limited God to only what we can see, hear, feel, smell and touch in this natural realm.
We've been born-again to be able to "Hear with our spirit, what the Spirit of God is saying to us," just like Jesus did. 1Peter 1:23-25 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God. For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like (the) flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off, But the Word of the Lord (divine instruction, the Gospel) endues forever; And this Word is the Good News which has been preached to you."
This "seed" of God is ever lasting and ever living. This is what "birthed" us into the very Likeness and Image of God, once again. We're not merely natural men who have been forgiven, but we're new creations who have no past at all. We've been born again into the super-natural, in order to do the super-natural. We're not simply mere men any longer, but a new creation people.
We don't have to do the super-natural, but only let the Father Who is in us, do what He wants to do. We must simply have faith enough to take the handful of bread and fishes to give to the multitude. We don't have to "heal the sick," but must only lay hands on them and let Him do His will in them. We don't even need to "make" the wine, but just pour the water into the pots. He will take care of the rest! Ephesians 1:11 (Amplified) says, "In Him we also were made (God's) heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His (Own) will."
We don't seem fully aware of the place where we've been born into, through Jesus. When our Heavenly Father planned and created everything we now see, it was for us. He wanted His children, those in His class of being, to fellowship and walk with. There was so much love in Him that He needed someone to share it with and to walk with. He made us to walk in two realms simultaneously, for His pleasure and ours as well. He created (made) man in His Own Image, according to Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) which says, "Male and female created He them." Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified) that, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
After creating man in the spirit realm, God formed a body from the "dust of the earth" for this spirit man to live in and contact the natural realm. God mandated in Genesis 1:28 (Amplified) to, "Be fruitful and multiply, and to fill the earth, and subdue it (using all its vast resources in the service of God and man)." God gave man the privilege of siring His Own family and God was able to walk with His man by the spirit of man. God would teach His children by their spirit and allow them to have dominion over the works of His hands.
When Adam fell and separated man from the Spirit of God (internally), man had to learn how to walk in his natural state of being. God was only able to contact His family from the outside and could no longer walk with them by their spirit. As God set up the Means and Way (Jesus' Sacrifice) to bring His children back to Him in the full, He set up the blood covenant through the blood of bulls and goats, to illustrate that death had been Paid by Blood. The "wages of sin is death," so an animal needed to die as payment for the penalty of sin, until God could bring Jesus into the earth.
Romans 6:5 (Amplified) says, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we also shall be (one with Him in sharing) His resurrection (by a new life lived for God)." Paul goes on in Verse 11 saying, "Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God (living in unbroken fellowship with Him) in Christ Jesus." God has done through the new creation, what He began in the beginning. He now has a family of people He can talk with, walk with, and fellowship with Him again in the spirit realm. He can enter into the natural realm, through us, and direct the natural man again by His Spirit.
The natural man still doesn't understand that God directs us through our spirit and not in our flesh. This is why we cannot understand the super-natural things of God. We're still trying to make sense of spiritual things by our intellect (or senses).
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