Lesson 88 The New Creation

     2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (moral and spiritual condition) is passed away, Behold, the fresh and new has come."
     Yesterday, I presided over a grave service for a dear friend and Brother in Christ.  Although he was ninety-three years old, I still feel like Ken went Home too early.  If it was possible, then we would hold onto our loved ones and never let them leave.  Even though I knew he was far better off with the Father than when he was here (especially over the last few weeks), I was being selfish and prayed for him to stay here.
     Standing at the grave, I began thinking about the new creation we've become after being born-again years ago.  Ken walked in the Word to the best of his knowledge and spent many, many hours in prayer, but there was still so much that he didn't know.  I began thinking about Ken's new creation being who is now in God's Presence, was the same new creation man who lived here in a flesh and blood body.  The only thing that changed was Ken's location.  Everything he is now, he always was.  The only difference is the lack of influence and tradition of this world in his life.
     As I stood by his grave, 1Corinthians 13:12 (Amplified) kept running through my spirit, saying, "For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection (of reality as in a riddle or enigma) but then (when perfection comes) we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly) but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood (by God)."
     Finally, the image began to clear in my mind, as to what the Spirit was saying.  Everything my friend now had, was what he already had, but we never knew the extent of it from here.  The Holy Spirit said to me, "Ken would be able to know the Father now, as the Father had known him."  What an awesome truth and revelation this was to see now.  The above scripture means to many of us, for "when Jesus comes."  To my friend, it was true when he went into God's Presence.
     I couldn't help but think, "If we only could understand more fully what the Father has already done, while we are here, then what a change it would make in the world around us."  We have put these things off for a time in the future when we meet Christ, but it is already ours now.  The same new creation being that left Ken's body, was the same new creation spirit that was already here in his body.  Nothing changed for him ,as far as who he was, except the understanding.
     When Ken left his natural body and fully entered into God's Presence, he could understand what he already had while residing in this world.  The same authority, power, anointing, ability and understanding was only only "blurred," according to Paul who said, "We now only see it like through a blurred window," but it was always there.  Satan's lies, along with the influence of the world, kept it hidden while he was here.
     I began seeing more clearly why the enemy uses everything he has to keep us in darkness.  If I knew and could see here and now, what Ken is now seeing, then I would and could walk in such a place with the Lord, that it would startle the world like Jesus did.  Jesus came down from the Father and knew what was His.  We, however, have to learn from the Word and the Holy Spirit, what is our inheritance from God.
     When we arrive into God's Presence, like Ken has done, we can see what the Father intended us to be here on earth.  No unbelief would cloud our thinking and satan couldn't influence us or hold us back.  The things Ken had here, are no longer of any use to the world, because without his body to hold him here in this world, he cannot engage in this realm.  He is no more a song of God or a new creation, than he was when living in his body on earth.  Now, though, he doesn't hold any influence to use on earth.
     I can hear what Paul said in my spirit.  Paul told the Ephesians in Ephesians 4:22-24 (Amplified), "Strip yourselves of your former nature (put off and discard your old unrenewed self) which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lust and desires that spring from delusion; And 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."
     By the Holy Spirit, Paul simply said that we must, "Understand now, who you really are and don't allow the world and the flesh cause us to become disillusioned."  He also simply said, "Do not quit in our commission and assignment in this earth."  The enemy and his kingdom would like to keep us blinded by the things around us, so we don't truly see who we are (until it's too late to be of any use in this earthly realm). 
     When we leave this body and come into the fullness of God's Presence, then what profit will my understanding of who I am as a new creation be to anyone on earth?  We've looked at ourselves and have accepted the world and satan has said about us, rather than listening to the Holy Spirit's revelations about who we are.  Why would we only need the ability of our new creation man when we leave this earth?  The Father left us here as His representatives in this realm.  He left us with the Super-natural, God-given, new creation ability, in order to function here and not when we go home.
     If my friend knew everything he now knows in Heaven, while he was here, then signs, wonders and miracles would have been part of everything he did here on earth.  Ken wouldn't have left anything undone, if he had only known everything his new creation was and is.  There's nothing functioning in his spirit (new creation being) that couldn't and wouldn't, have functioned while in his earthly body.  Our new creation man (born-again spirit) is fashioned by God, to work in and through our fleshly body, just like it would function in a glorified body.  Jesus proved this, in His earthly ministry and walk.
     Let's not wait to leave this earth, in order to discover our ministry and purpose is in this earth.  God mad our new creation being to work now, not when we get home.  No one in Heaven needs to see the power and glory of God, because they are living in it.  It is for here and this is where we need to know.