2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Those who are (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus, are a new creation, a new creature altogether."
The above scripture was inspired by the Holy Spirit, not only as revelation, but education. It's because of education that we can read the Words of the above scripture with understanding in the natural man. We have revelation of the truth, beyond our natural man in order to train up our new man. We cannot train up our new being in truth, until we realize who we have now become in Jesus.
We've all met people who live a clean and moral life, but who aren't born-again. Our focus has been mostly on living a moral and clean life after we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Of course, this is something expected of Christians, but our Father doesn't stop there. As new creation people, we are to have an understanding of who we've become and to be led by our spirit again, by the Word and by the Holy Spirit.
Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is; get wisdom (skillful and Godly wisdom) For skillful and God wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)."
God's Word itself is wisdom, but the understanding of this wisdom comes from the Holy Spirit into our spirit. Someone who isn't born-again can be educated, by teaching them to read. Even the unsaved person can be taught to read God's Word, but they can only have the discernment of wisdom after they are saved. We have been educated by the world, to read the Word of God. But, many remain without discernment of the truth the Word teaches.
We've established laws and tradition in the church, in order to live morally right before God. That's how it should be. But, we've neglected to teach the new man (the real you) how to live in the spirit. This has brought about more of a religion, instead of a relationship with our Heavenly Father. The Word is truth, but only the Holy Spirit can convey this truth into our spirit.
We see how Paul relates this to us (by the Holy Spirit) in 1Corinthians 2:9-11 (Amplified) saying, "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). Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the (Holy) Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding 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 within Him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."
We can read the Word and understand what is says by education, but we can't "comprehend the bottomless and the divine counsels, and hidden things," unless it is spiritually discerned. This is why we have so many different doctrines and traditions in today's Church. We can only do what we have learned and been taught to do by our own understand, without the discernment of the Holy Spirit.
In these last days, we must move on into the understanding of the "divine counsel and hidden things" that have been beyond man's scrutiny. The Church (us) has been tasked with reaping the end time harvest for God. The old religious and traditional manner of doing things will not do what must be done in these last days.
God is unveiling and revealing these things to His children, now by the Holy Spirit, according to 1Corinthians 2:10. This is because we must show our Super-natural God to the eyes of the world. Too many in today's world, haven't seen the Church as anything other than "just another religion." This is mainly because we haven't learned by the Holy Spirit, the things needed to reveal our God in any other way.
As we begin training up our new creation being into what our Father birthed us to be, then God will truly be glorified in the eyes of the world. Ephesians 3:9-10 (Amplified) 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. (The purpose is) that through the Church the complicated, man-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."
Satan has never been afraid of religion, because he started it. He fears God's Word being revealed to the people of this new creation about who and what we really are. This is what God is going to use in these times, to bring these "principalities and powers" (written about in Ephesians 6:12) into the subjection of God's rule and reveal Himself to them (through His Church).
We were held in reserve by our Heavenly Father for such a time as this. There was an appointed time for His unveiling on an overall basis to His people and THAT TIME IS NOW. We're about to know more, hear more, see more and move more by the super-natural things of God, than we have in any other time since the birth of the Church. We have a mandate from God in these last days, that we're about to fulfill by His Spirit to reveal God to the world in glory, power and presence like never seen before. Time has come to "Feed on the pure unadulterated milk of His Word and grow thereby," like 1Peter 2:2 says.
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