2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus, he is a new creation (a new creature altogether). The old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
In order to understand this new creation being that we've become after being born-again, we must first study Jesus. He is not only our Lord and Savior, but He is also the Head of the Church and we are His Body. He is also the "Firstborn among many brethren," according to Romans 8:29 (Amplified) which says, "For those whom He foreknew (of those HE was aware and loved beforehand) He also destined from the beginning (foreordained them) to be molded into the Image of His Son (and share inwardly His Likeness) that He might become the Firstborn among many brethren."
Because Jesus was the Firstborn and we, as God's new creation sons and daughters, must be like He is. No Father ever sires many different types of children, from the same seed. The Law of Genesis has set a precedence about this already, in Genesis 1:12 (Amplified) which says, "The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to its own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was (suitable, admirable) and He approved it." In John 15:1-2,3(Amplified) Jesus said, "I Am the true Vine, and My Father is the Vine dresser. Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit (that stops bearing) He cuts away (trims off, takes away) And He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit." I also wish to include Verse 3, which describes how He prunes and cleanses, saying, "You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the Word which I have given you (the teachings I have discussed with you)." I included this verse, because of the false teachings in the Church. Many have been taught that God "prunes and cleanses" by sickness and hardship. Jesus said, though, that we are "cleansed and pruned by the Word."
Paul writes about the relationship between the husband and wife, in Ephesians 5:32,25-26 (Amplified), saying, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning (the relationship of) Christ and the Church." He also speaks about this relationship in Ephesians 5:25-26 (Amplified), "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her. So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word."
The pruning and cleansing is done by the Word. Do not let anyone subject you to the wiles of satan into believing otherwise. Remembering that every seed produces after its kind, let's read 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) which says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." Since every seed produces after kind, we are of the same Seed and the Same Origin as Jesus. The Word cannot produce any other kind.
God's new creation family is after the same Likeness, as the One Who brought us into His family. Religion hasn't dared to believe this and has by false humility, kept the Church under bondage with it's lack of faith in the Truth. It's impossible to the carnal mind, that man could ever truly be made in the Image and Likeness of God. Those with renewed minds of the new creation, can never fathom anything but the Truth. Ephesians 4:23-24 (Amplified) tells us, "Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind (having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude) And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's Image (God Like) in true righteousness and holiness."
It's become easy to see why Paul instructed us to "renew our minds," in Romans 12:2-4 (Amplified) saying, "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 its new attitude) so that you may prove (for yourselves) what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His sight for you)." When we continue thinking in the carnal and religious way of thinking, we will never know what His "perfect good and acceptable will for us" is. We then, find ourselves living in confusion, instead of faith.
Our entire covenant with the Father is based on faith, according to Ephesians 2:8 (Amplified) which says, "For it is by free Grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through (your) faith. And this (salvation) is not of through your own striving) but it is the Gift of God." Romans 5:1-4 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, since we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith; let us (grasp the fact that we) have (the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy) peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) through Him also we have (our) access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God's favor) in which we (firmly and safely) stand. And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God. Moreover (let us also be full of joy now) let us exalt and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and hardship produces patient and unswerving endurance and endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity and character (of this sort) produces (the integrity) and character (of this sort) produces (the habit of) joyful and confident hop of eternal salvation."
Romans 4:16 (Amplified) also says that all the promises come by faith, "Therefore, (inheriting) the promise is the outcome of faith and depends (entirely) on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of grace (unmerited favor), to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all His descendants." We can better understand Romans 1:7 (Amplified) better, after reading the above scripture. Thus, it says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed both springing from faith and leading to faith (disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live, and shall live by faith."
It is through faith that we are "declared and justified and made righteous." As the new creation people, living by faith, we were once dead in sin and trespass, and have now been made alive by faith in Jesus. We are now living by faith in Him. This is what the new creation is all about. Those who live, are righteous, are justified, are reconciled, are enjoying access and entry into God's Presence by faith in Jesus, are the new creation.
We're born of the Same Seed as the "Firstborn of many brethren" and we've been created in His Likeness and Image. We are filled with His Spirit and we are the very branches of the Vine, Who is our Life. This earth has never seen such people as God has created. Satan's biggest fear is that this new creation will discover who they truly are and then we'll turn his kingdom upside down. Alleluia!!!
Do not let the world's idea of what "faith people" are, hold you back. It's simply a way of keeping us from finding out and walking in, what the Father has sired us to be. Allow your faith to grow, even like the small mustard seed, into a large herb that covers and into a Garden of Eden that expands until God's Kingdom covers this earth.
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