2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, any person who is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) is passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We became a new creation, the moment we were born-again. This doesn't mean that things won't be different when we leave this body, but it does mean that the spirit man who lives in this body, is alive unto God now and can (and should) walk in a different realm than we have been walking in. To what degree we are to walk, seems to vary from person to person. Jesus instructs us in Matthew 6:31,33 (Amplified) to, "Seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all of these things (what we are to eat, what we are going to drink and what we are going to wear Vs. 31) taken together will be given you besides."
Jesus indicated that God wants to meet our natural needs, as well as our spiritual needs. We've never learned how to obtain this kind of relationship with the Father. God's way of doing and being right, means that the Kingdom has another way of functioning that we've never reached into. Obviously, God's way of being right (His righteousness) is a gift of grace given when we receive Jesus as our righteousness. Romans 3:24 (Amplified) says, "(All) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy) through the redemption which is (provided) in Christ Jesus." In order to seek His righteousness, we must by faith, believe that Jesus is our righteousness. If we believe what Jesus told instructed in Matthew 6:33, "Seek first of all His righteousness," then we will by faith, cease trying to obtain our own righteousness by works.
His way of doing and being right, is something we've not understood. Religion says that, "In order to do His way of being right, we must simply change our way of living and stop allowing sin to operated in our natural body." It's very true, that we should bring our natural body into subjection to the Word and the new creation spirit, but is this all there is to "doing and being right?"
In the life of Jesus and those we read about in the Word, we see how they didn't just stop at simply not sinning anymore. His way of doing right, extended into reaching the masses of people who had things which didn't comply with His Kingdom. His way in the Kingdom, also deals with the natural position of mankind, as well as their spiritual lives. Seeking first of all His way of doing and being right, means bringing them closer to God's Kingdom, through our works of the Spirit in this new creation.
We were created in Jesus, in order to bring about God's will here on earth again. Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." In order for God to express His will here on earth, He needs for His new creation to operate in the Laws that govern Heaven, to function again on earth, through His very Presence in His new creation.
This isn't a condemnation to those who are simply "living right," here on earth, but to challenge us to reach farther into Who our Father has created us to be, how to operate in His Kingdom instead of the kingdom of darkness that we'd previously been raised in. What we have been doing isn't wrong, it's just short of "His way of doing and being right." He has so much more for us to operate in, we haven't seen yet, because we haven't allowed the Holy Spirit to teach us His ways.
The Church has reached the age of maturity, where God will raise up such leaders as Moses, Joshua, Jesus, Paul and those who stepped out of the ordinary into the super-natural Kingdom of God. This is for us today.
"Seeking and doing the things of His Kingdom" also means that everything that was out-of-order in the Kingdom, was to be restored to God's original plan for man. Jesus stood in the Synagogue, reading from Isaiah 61:1-2, in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) saying, "The Spirit of the Lord (is) upon Me, because He has anointed Me (the Anointed One, the Messiah) to preach the Good News (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are trodden down, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity) To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord (the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound)."
His way of doing and being right, is for the time when righteousness was restored again to mankind. His way of doing right, was for the new creation people, to restore His way back to the earth. Jesus told His disciples in Luke 10:8-9 (Amplified), "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you, and heal the sick in it and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God has come close to you.'" Is this His way of doing and being right, in the Kingdom?
If it were different, then Jesus would have done it differently. Is this then, as it was then "For us to seek first of all His way of doing and being right?" Is this what brings us close to the Kingdom of God by our works of the Spirit in this new creation?
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