2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ(the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creation altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The above verse describes who we have now (already) become, by our new birth in Christ Jesus. This isn't a future event, but one that has already been done. Our mortal body will still die and pass away until the final resurrection, but our inward man (the new creation) is already like our Heavenly Father. We've been born into the realm of the super-natural and into the very Kingdom of God.
We've been taught and always heard that this was something yet to come, but God's Word tells us differently. Because we've been taught this way, it is difficult for us to see ourselves differently. Part of the renewing of our minds and pulling down strongholds, is allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal to us, who we are now. 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 attitude) so that you may prove (for yourselves) what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the things which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His sight for you)."
We've already been born into the super-natural spirit realm, and are to operate in the Spirit Kingdom of God. We were created to walk like Jesus walked. He walked as a Man Who was filled with the very life and presence of God within us. Even Jesus declared, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the work." He says in John 14:10 (Amplified) that, "Do you not believe that I Am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? What I Am telling you I do not say of My Own authority and of My Own accord; but the Father Who lives continually in Me does the (His) works (His Own miracles, deeds of power)."
Jesus said that it was, "The Father Himself Who gave the authority to Jesus, for Him to say these very things to and for us and that it is the Father in Jesus Who is doing the miracles and works. this is the very Father Who now lives in us to say and do His works now, through us, like He did through Jesus.
Jesus also said in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
Jesus never would have said these things, if they were not true. He said in John 14:10 that, "What I Am telling you I do not say of My Own accord." So, it must be the Father in Jesus, Who spoke that verse for us, through Jesus. God intended for His children to continue revealing His Presence to all the world, would live in all those who became a new creation in Him, through the new birth.
We were born to walk in the super-natural presence and power of the Holy Spirit Who now resides in and through His new creation. We fin that Jesus always sent His disciples and His company into the world, in order to reveal His Father in super-natural ability. Jesus said in Luke 10:8-9,17 (Amplified), "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and welcome you; eat what is set before you; and heal the sick in it and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come close to you." He went on in Verse 17, telling the men returning with their testimonies, "The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your Name. And He said to them, I saw satan falling like a lightning (flash) from heaven. Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and (physical and mental strength and ability) over all the power that the enemy (possesses); and nothing shall in any way harm you."
I want you to read what Jesus said in Verse 21 (from the Amplified Bible), "In that same house He (Jesus) rejoiced and gloried in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have concealed these things (relating to salvation) from the wise and understanding and learned, and revealed them to babes (the childish, unskilled, and untaught). Yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will and choice and good pleasure."
Jesus declared that, "Healing, deliverance and authority was all a part of salvation," not only for those who were healed and delivered, but for those who took this Word and power to them. We have been taught that salvation simply meant that we were forgiven, but Jesus referred to it in a much greater way. These weren't born-again people (because Jesus hadn't died and rose again yet), but they were simply people who dared to believe Him.
These were old covenant people that Jesus sent out, they weren't yet born-again. We, however, are born-again and have become a new creation who was created new by the power of His resurrection and acceptance by the Father, on our behalf. This Word of power and authority, that Jesus gave them, has now become ours too, plus much more. We not only have His Name and His Word, but we have His very nature and Spirit. We are a new creation.
Satan has been successful at hiding the truth of the new creation from the Church. We've been taught that it's prideful and boastful to believe this truth. Jesus, though, is the One Who told us to go and do the very things we've been told only He could do. He is the One Who instructed the first new creation, after His resurrection, how to function on this earth. In Mark 16:15-20 (Amplified) Jesus said, "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 (who 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 to and trust in, and rely on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth) will be condemned. And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak with languages; they will pick up serpents, and (even) if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well." Verses 19-20 continue, "So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and He sat down at the right hand of God. And they went our and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied (it). Amen (So be it)."
We've been told often that these signs were only for the apostles and the early Church and only for a certain period of time. We've been assured that now the Church has been established, not everyone can do these things and these things have passed away. Jesus, though, said, "That these signs were to follow those who would believe."
We, as new creation people, already have this miracle ability placed within our new born-again spirits. They very Father Who was in Jesus, has also become our Father. The same Holy Spirit Who flowed through Jesus, now flows in and through us, to the point that we believe. Jesus said in Luke 10:21 (Amplified) that "These signs and wonders were things relating to salvation" and they were "Concealed from those who thought themselves to be wise, and revealed to the child like, unskilled, and untaught." Jesus also spoke about the spies who entered into the Promised Land and returned with evil reports from the so-called leaders. Numbers 13:32 (Amplified) says, "So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying we were like ants in their eyes." In Mark 16 Jesus commented on how the spies saw the Promised Land and informed the people that (for one reason or another) we still cannot enter in." Jesus said that we would have signs following those who would believe and enter into God's rest.
Joshua and Caleb believed and after forty years, they finally entered into the Promised Land. You might be someone who believes Mark 16 and the new creation and you might have waited forty years to "take the Land," but now is the time God is raising up His new creation family to reveal Himself strong to the world. We must, "Be not afraid of anything," but remember, it's not you, but the Father in You Who will do the works. We must believe like Joshua and Caleb did, that God is still able to do what He said He would and that giants make no difference to our God.
We've also been taught that we were never good enough for God to use in such a mighty way. In light of who we were, this is true, but in light of the new creation this isn't so. 2Corinthians 5:16-7(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)."
We know Jesus as the Head of the Church, as the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, as the Name above all Names, and as our right standing with the Father. Jesus is The Greater One Who lives within us. He is The Great High Priest of the new covenant with our Heavenly Father.
Jesus is the One Who will do God's works through the new creation people who believe we are what God says we are and not who we once were. God doesn't see us "after the flesh, but after the Spirit." God made our spirit so clean and new in this creation, that He can actually live in us and walk in us as the Temple of God. 1Corinthians 6:19-20 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received (as a Gift) from God? You are now your own." Verse 20 goes on, "You were bought with a price (purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His Own) So then honor God and bring glory to Him in your body."
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