According to 2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified), "We've been made a new creation (a new creature altogether)."
The new creation being we've become through Jesus, isn't like the old creature we were before. This new creation is a new spiritual being that didn't even exist until we were born-again. When a baby is born into the world, he is a new creature. He's like other babies, but in himself, he is a new creature. This new baby has no past, because he never existed before. What he becomes in later years, depends fully upon what he learns, eats and how he develops through time. Nonetheless, he is still unique in himself.
As new creation people in God's House and Kingdom, we are very much the same as those born into the world population. The main difference, though, is that we are "born of the Spirit." What you become depends on what you learn, eat and how you develop and progress in your relationship with the Father. You will always be a child of the Father, but to what degree, will depend on a number of things here in this world.
We continue trying to deal with this new creation being that we've become, from the outside-in, instead of from the inside-out. We are trying to discipline and grow by our carnal senses, through rules and regulations of religion.
Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives life (He is the Life-Giver) the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." Your life now flows out of your spirit, not your flesh. Sickness, depression, addiction, futility and many other things that hold us down in this world, can be dealt only through our new creation spirit and not the flesh.
Like you feed your flesh a healthy dinner and receive strength in your body, so it is with your spirit. If you only ate once a month, then your natural body would run out of energy and you'd get sick and fail to function properly. When Jesus said that, "[His] Words are Spirit and Life," He meant exactly that. Your real life is in your spirit. Even after the death of your natural body, your spirit will live on. It's the same while we are still alive in this body.
Your healing comes from the inside-out and not from the outside-in, according to Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) which says, "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart (or spirit). For they (My Words) are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life."
We are new creation children of our Heavenly Father (Who is a Spirit) and we're to live by His Words. The Word of God is food to your new spirit and with the Life of God now flowing from our spirit, it will also nourish the flesh and bring health and healing to it. We have somehow lost the understanding of who we've become. Thus, we've returned to the same old religious way of doing things.
Health and healing is already there in God's Word, for His family. This isn't some doctrine or denominational teaching, but TRUTH. When we "feed" our new spiritual body on spiritual food (the Word), we have what Jesus called "abundance and overflow" from our new creation spirit. He said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "I came that you may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
Jesus had just been touched by a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years in Mark 5:30 (Amplified) which says, "Jesus, recognizing in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth." Jesus could sense or discern the "overflow" of the Life depart out of His Spirit. The Life and Word that was in Jesus' Spirit, needed replenishment by "feeding" His Spirit on the Word and by His being in God's Presence and praying. One can only give what he has. If Jesus continued in His ministry of healing and miracles, without feeding on the Word, then He would have run short of the "overflow of Life" that proceeded out of His Own Spirit.
Being in the Word is more than some kind of religious thing we do out of obligation to God, but it is Spirit and Life. It even become difficult to minister words of salvation to the unsaved, if we have no Life in us. We've become spirit being and must feed our spirit on the nourishment to feed on. This isn't just a religious exercise, but a necessity that comes with out new creation.
We are supposed to "hear" our Father's Words, by our spirit. We're to be guided by our new spirit, by the Holy Spirit and we've to develop our spirit to govern our lives (not the other way around). We still allow our emotions and sense to guide us, instead of our spirits. Paul told the Church in Hebrews 5:14 (Amplified) that, "Solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental facilities are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law."
This is something for each individual to do. This isn't as some would say, "If God wants me to know something, then He will tell me." This is the only way to bring your flesh into subjection to your new creation spirit. It is trained by practice. Even in our own carnal senses, there are such things occurring in America like abortion, that haven't been trained by our spirit to distinguish.
We witness the moral decay occurring in our nation, from not "training and feeding" on Words of Spirit and Life. We simply follow after the flesh and go with the flow of government and the carnal mind. We were born into the Kingdom of Heaven, fashioned after our Father Who is a Spirit and are to be empowered and led by our spirit and the Word. All of our life, healing, power, ability, and vision or insight, comes from our new creation being, that we've become.
This isn't just behavioral modification of the flesh. I know many people who are morally good, who are not born again. We are to go much deeper than behavior modification. We are to be led by our spirit, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said in Matthew 4:4 (Amplified) that, "Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every Word that comes forth from the mouth of God."
The natural man can live for awhile with only the natural food for his body, but there is still Life in his spirit. And, because the Life is in the Spirit and the Word, the body will grow sick and "faint" until there is nothing left for it to do, except expire. For those who will feed their spirit on Words of Spirit and Life, their bodies will grow older, but they can maintain strength into old age. They can function like a younger man or woman even at an old age, because the Word, "[God's Words] are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh," according to Proverbs 4:22. Taken in the way God intended, the Word will sustain even the natural body into old age, with strength and ability.
The only way of knowing our Heavenly Father as He really is, is by allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal Him to us by His Word. The distorted view of God that we've held, comes from the carnal mind and the way the world has seen Him, rather than revelation knowledge given by God's Word or His Spirit. When we feed our spirit on the world's ideas of God, we feed contaminated food into our spirit that brings forth wrong things in our relationship with Him. That's led to the weird ideas about Who or what God is and what He does or wants done in our lives.
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