The idea of being a new creation isn't something new, as far as the Bible is concerned, but it's how the Holy Spirit is now revealing it to today's Church. For centuries, we have believed that we will become new creations when we get to heaven, instead of seeing ourselves as being new creations here and now. Our Heavenly Father sees us as being new creations, the moment we become born-again in Christ Jesus. We are a people who never existed on this planet and there will never be another people like us.
In order to walk in what we are and what our Father intended us to be, we must first know what that is. We've somehow overlooked the super-natural being we were intended and created to be. We've conformed to the way we were before being born-again and have become just "mere men." When the angel came to Mary in Luke 1:37 (Amplified), he told her she would have a child. Mary, being a natural woman, asked the angel Gabriel, "How can this things be, since I know not a man?" In the natural realm this would be a valid question, but in God, it is not. The angel responded saying, "For with God nothing is ever impossible and no Word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment."
When the Spirit of God revealed the truth of the new birth to us, our response was nearly identical to Mary's. We ask, "How can this be, after what I have done and who I am?" The Words the angel said to Mary, are true for us today and that is, "Nothing and no Word from God is without power or impossible of fulfillment." The same Word spoken to Mary is the same Word by which we (the new creations) were formed. 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 was preached to you."
The same Word that brought forth Jesus, is the same Word that brought us forth. Our flesh will not endue (as we know it), but the new creation born of the Word is eternal even now. god isn't dealing with our flesh, but with our new being that was born of the Word. Peter writes in 1Peter 1:2 (Amplified), "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto (complete) salvation."
We've mostly used the Word to tame our flesh, instead of using the Word to grow the spirit. We've all tried having more willpower to stop old habits in our lives, instead of applying the Word. We've been more aware of our flesh, which will "wither and die," rather than the new creation that will continue for eternity.
Peter instructed us in 1Peter 2:2 (KJV) to, "Desire the sincere milk of the Word that we should grow thereby." He didn't say anything about our using it for the flesh. When you fee the new creation man on the Word of God, he will become stronger than the flesh and will, by the super-natural strength of the Word, bring the flesh under submission to it. We've been trying to deal in spiritual things from the outside in, instead of the inside out. God's Word is made for the spirit and not the flesh. When we use the Word as a means of the flesh, it becomes as it was before Jesus came, just a Law of the flesh.
We seem to resort to traditions and religious activities that "profit nothing." We're leading a moral victory, but continue not to lead a spiritual one. We try preventing the flesh from having dominion over us, by flesh discipline. I'm not advocating that we allow the flesh to go undisciplined, but I am saying we should bring the flesh into the authority of our spirit, instead of our own willpower.
The new creation being isn't a fleshly being, but a spiritual being. He must learn who he is by seeking out his nature through spiritual means. We were created super-natural children and made in the Image and Likeness of our Heavenly Father, Who is Spirit.
The fleshly, carnal mind cannot accept the super-natural things we were born of and the super-natural things we are now capable of doing. We remain more controlled by the flesh and the world, instead of by the super-natural spirit we were born to be. In Ephesians 6:10-12 (Amplified) Paul says, "In conclusion, be strong in the Lord (be empowered through your union with Him); draw your strength from Him (that strength which His boundless might provides). Put on God's whole armor (the armor which God supplies) that you may be able successfully to stand up against (all) the strategies and deceits of the devil. For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood 9contending only with physical opponents), but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the (master spirits who are) the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere."
We cannot defeat a spiritual enemy by means of the flesh. The very works of your flesh that you may be battling with, are brought on by "master spirits" who are the "world rulers of this present darkness," and the "spirit forces of wickedness in the (heavenly, supernatural) sphere."
These supernatural forces are not match for the new creation family of God, if we understand who we are now in Christ Jesus. We cannot simply overcome the supernatural forces of the enemy, by natural means. The strategies and deceits of the devil have been working advantageously for him, until now. Satan has convinced God's Church that supernatural things (at least for us) have "passed away" and we have fallen back into the natural warfare of the flesh.
Satan can't prevent us from being born-again, but he's successfully kept us from seeing who we really are in Jesus. At our new birth, we were given all the power and authority in Jesus to overcome the devil and see through all of his strategies and deceits. His entire warfare is based on keeping the Church from knowing who we truly are. He's been in control of the things of this present darkness and world rulers, since the fall of Adam. Satan might be insane, but he isn't stupid. He knows that he is finished, when he comes up against those who know what their new creation status brings.
In 2Corinthians 4:3-4 (Amplified) demonstrates the "deceits and strategies" of satan working in the world and even (to a degree) in the Church. Thus, it says, "But even if our Gospel (the glad tidings) also be hidden (obscured and covered up with a veil that hinders the knowledge of God), it is hidden (only) to those who are perishing and obscured (only) to those who are spiritually dying and veiled (only) to those who are lost." Verse 4 goes on, "For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers' minds (that they should not discern the truth) preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ (the Messiah) Who is the Image and Likeness of God."
We often correlate the above verses with the unsaved, but this also applies to those who have been "blinded by the deceit and lies" taught to the Church. If satan can keep the Church blind, by preventing the truth of the "Illuminating light" of the new creation from reaching our born-again spirit, then he thinks he is safe. We are Spirit beings born of a Spiritual Father, to do warfare with a spiritual enemy. If satan can keep the Church in the flesh, then he doesn't need to worry about their battling him. We aren't much of a danger or a challenge to his place of authority in the flesh, because he is the "master of the spirits who are the world rulers of this present age."
We've been warring for two millenia with a demon spirit, who hates God and everything God stands for. Satan can't get God to hurt Him, so his warfare is meant to hurt God's children, by deceptions and strategies. Satan has been the entire source of hurt and misery on mankind, ever since the Garden of Eden.
The greatest fear satan has is that God's sons discover who they really are and bring that authority down on his head. When the Holy Spirit brings this Truth into the lives of the Spiritual family of God, things will dramatically change, according to Ephesians 3:9-10 (Amplified) which says, "Also to enlighten all men and make plain to them what is the plan (regarding the Gentiles and providing for the salvation of all men) of the mystery kept hidden through the ages and concealed until now in (the mind of) God Who created all things by Christ Jesus." Verse 10 goes on, "(The purpose is) that through the Church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere."
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