2Corinthians 5:16-17 tells us that we are "a new creation, a new creature altogether," after being born-again. This is what the Holy Spirit revealed to us through the Apostle Paul. Many of us have read this scripture, but have said, "That's for when we get to heaven" and "We'll become a new creature in heaven."
It's been a difficult process for us to realize that we have already become a new creation. We still look the same, speak the same and mostly, we still act the same. We never seem to walk in the super-natural or ever recognize whether or not we're hearing God when He speaks. Many jest and ridicule those who say, "God has told me this or that." That brings forth such comments as, "Oh! God speaks to you, does He?" Yet, we all proclaim that we have been born-again.
We learned earlier how the renewing of the mind is the only way of understand who we really are. We've spent years trying to become what God has already made us to be. No one needs to teach a horse how to be a horse, but someone needs to train him to ride. He was already a horse, but he didn't know how to lead, ride, stop or go. He is still a horse, even though he didn't know these things. We don't need to try to "become a new creation," we just need to learn what this new creation is supposed to do. We have a purpose on this earth and that is to do what our Heavenly Father needs done. We must understand who we are and then learn how to be obedient to what our Master needs and expects from us.
As our mind is renewed by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, we learn to be obedient to His will. Our mind, will and emotions are what makes our decisions in life, we must learn to subject them to the Word. When we try reasoning with the Word, instead of allowing it to become "FIRST PLACE" in our lives, we begin walking in this new creation man that we are.
We've mostly allowed our emotions and reasonings to determine whether or not things in the Word are true. We would argue with anyone who would deny that the Word is true, but we won't allow it to be the final authority. A renewed mind would simply determine the Word as the final authority, because this how we were meant to function in this new creation. It might be that the carnal Christian is the most deceived individual on the planet. A sinner knows he is a sinner and follows his emotions and mind tell him to do. But, a Christian who doesn't know who he really is, is in self denial.
We determined we are forgiven, but continue speaking about ourselves as "being lost." We say we are God's children, but act like we're orphans and God has left us to fend for ourselves. We've allowed the what the world thinks about us to be reality, instead of what the Word says about us.
Instead of feeding the hungry, we've become the hungry. Christians have been led to believe that in order to really love the Lord and be true Christians, we must learn to suffer. We've nearly dismissed what the Lord said and did on Calvary. Jesus bore the Curse of the Law, so that blessing would come upon us, but we deny we're blessed. We read where Jesus bore our sickness and disease, but we confess that, "He put the sickness on us, to teach us something."
The carnal things we've come to believe are the result of a mind that is still carnal and in enmity with God. We've chosen to walk in darkness rather than the Light of the Word of God. We fight and argue over super-natural things, when truthfully, we were created new to walk in the super-natural. Everything about our new being is super-natural by the Word of God. Even God's Word (by which we are born) is super-natural. We've somehow believed the lie of the enemy that we're only made to go to heaven when we die and not much else in our new creation being. We deal with the things of life by natural standards and see praying like it's playing the lottery (there's a 50/50 chance of them being heard or answered).
When you're born-again, you are supposed to read the New Testament from the viewpoint of "We are the redeemed of the Lord" and not someone who is trying to be redeemed. And, although we are saved and a new creation in Christ Jesus, we see ourselves the way we were, instead of what our new birth has made us to be. When your mind is renewed to who you are instead of who you were, you will begin walking in the new creation.
Only the Holy Spirit knows how many miracles and super-natural things the men of God actually performed in their lives. These men had their minds renewed by the Holy Spirit and they knew who they'd become. Only a few miracles are written in the Book of Acts, but that's enough for us to know that these were Spirit led men. Carnal minded men would never dream of doing some of the acts Jesus' followers did.
When your mind is renewed by the Word, you never question what the Holy Spirit leads you to do...you just do it. You never question how to do it or if it will work, this comes from our old carnal minds. The renewed mind knows God's Word is true and the final authority. I cannot imagine Jesus standing before Lazarus' tomb and saying, "I sure hope this works." Jesus simply did what "He heard from the Father."
We actually hear from the Father more than we know, but we question in our old worldly order, and then miss the miracle the Father wanted done. We question whether it's God or is it me or it is satan, because we forget we've become one with God. We miss it many times because we believe the thoughts were our own and not from the Holy Spirit. Fear and pride prevent our doing what God has for us to do. We FEAR it won't work and we're full of PRIDE of appearing foolish to others. We fear what others will think of us if it doesn't work.
This is the old, carnal unrenewed mind at it's best, it's in enmity with God. We must feed on the Word, until we become one with it. Jesus said in Luke 10:8-9,17 (Amplified), "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept you 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." Jesus continues in Verse 17, "They came back with this testimony, 'Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your Name." These men weren't born-again, but were men who allowed the Words Jesus spoke to them, to override the carnal way of thinking. Only days before this encounter, they marveled at how Jesus did things and now with the authority of His Word and Name, they could do these things. In Luke 11:28 (Amplified) we read, "But He said, Blessed (happy and to be envied) rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey and practice it." When you hear God's Word, you must practice it. Renew your mind to the Word and do not be conformed back into the image of the world. Do not return to thinking again, like you did before becoming a new creation.
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