Lesson 78 The New Creation

     2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) tells us, "If any man if (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus, he is a new creation (a new creature altogether)."
     Let the words "a new creature altogether" sink down into your spirit and think about what this means to the believer.  This means, that as far as God is concerned, you never existed before meeting Jesus.  We've been born into the household and family of God.  God is no longer just God, but now this awesome God has become our Father and we are His family.
     Everything God has is now available to the believer, because of this relationship with Him.  It must be heartbreaking for God, when some believe He is the source of all the calamities occurring in their lives.  We've been taught that we cannot trust Him for much of anything, even though He has given us everything.  Most of us have heard other Christians say such things as, "You never know what God is going to do" and "God uses sickness and disease for our good."
     Personally, I've never found anything good about sickness or disease.  We speak a lot about "The Love of God," but we understand very little about it.  Our Heavenly Father brought about this new creation, in order to restore communion and fellowship with His children.  God needed to restore His children to where they were before the fall of Adam.  He needed a man who had no sin and who was pure and clean enough for Him to indwell with His Own Spirit.  The blood of goats and bulls only covered the people's sins, for a short amount of time.  God required One Whose Blood (Jesus,God Himself) was sinless, in order to pay the penalty for sin altogether and not simply cover them.
     We feel like God sees us the way we were, when His Word says differently.  We continue to see ourselves as the old man, more than the new creation we've been made to be.  When Paul said, "Renew your mind," he was beginning to think like God thinks.  Paul was telling us to begin thinking like God thinks, see ourselves like God does.  He "forgot" who we once were and sees us as we are now.  We're to take the Word of grace and believe it, so that we can walk in the fellowship with God, that He created us for.
     Do we only acknowledge or seek fellowship with Him, when we're in need?  God says that, "If we learn His ways, then we wouldn't need for anything, because He's supplied it for us already."  There is a drastic difference between what the Holy Spirit teaches and what the world has taught us.  We've become "conformed " to the world in our understanding of God, just as Paul admonished us not to do.  Jesus said that, "When you see Me, you have seen the Father."  Still, though, we cannot seem to connect those two things in our eyes.  We've never look at Jesus as being the source of sickness, but only as THE CURE.
     We lack trust in God, because we've looked more to men to teach us, rather than the Holy Spirit.  I recall the instance where God told me, "Son, My grace has supplied much more than faith has ever received."  I wasn't sure exactly what the Father was talking about, for a long time.  One day, it settled in my spirit, that it would take faith even to activate the blessing.  Our faith has been more in the Curse to discipline us, rather than the blessing.  We've acted like our lives have been predetermined and we have nothing to say about it at all.
     Some have taught that some people are predetermined for destruction and cannot even be saved.  Worse yet, we've might be among them, according to those teachers.  Even if this was true, who are we to determine who goes or who stays?  We concocted such dumb teachings as, "Your number will be called and when your time is up, you're just gone."  We seem to forget Psalm 91  where God says, "With long life will I satisfy you, and show you My Salvation."
     Many slander those of us who step out in faith of God's Word, calling us "fools" and "cultists."  We were taught that prosperity was wrong, healing has ceased and miracles aren't for today.  Some have even taught that these things were only for "starting the early Church," like the super-natural wasn't needed for building God's Church since then.  It might seem like that's true sometimes, because we argue among ourselves, accept only what our designated denomination teaches and have nearly forgotten about praying for our nation.  Some would even have us believe that the chaos and mess the world is in today, is in God's hands.
     We've seemingly turned around the things satan does as being the things of God, and the things God does have now become the things of satan.  As new creation family, we're to listen to, imitate and learn to hear from our Heavenly Father.  We are to be like Jesus in our walk and let Him be our Example.
     We've previously discussed "How far is too far with God."  I've heard it said before that, "Too much of the Bible, will make one crazy."  We were already crazy, but God restored our sanity.  It's not crazy to try being like God wants us to be.  This is why the new creation has come about, to restore our relationship with Him and no longer be separated from Him.  Without understanding who we have become, we can never hope to accomplish God's will here on earth.
     The job we have to do, will require the restoration of God's ability in and through His new family.  God doesn't need our ability, only our availability, because He already has all the ability He needs.  God only needs for us to, by faith, allow Him to show Himself to the world like He really is.