2Corinthians 5:17 (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) is passed away. Behold! The fresh and new has come."
I've had several persons approach me saying, "You never deal with the real problems of life, but you always teach about the spiritual life." The entire reason for my teachings about the new creation, is so we can be capable of applying the Truth of what God has done, to what so many refer to as "the real problems of life." so many Christians have taken the "real world" problems and exalted them above the real truth of this new creation.
What we call "the real world" isn't something God has never thought of, because He has thought of everything. On the other hand, though,we have separated the real world from the plan of God. Can you even imagine God not knowing about the things occurring on earth? Or, that He has left us in a place where He is unable to reach us? The problem isn't that God doesn't care or cannot do anything to help us, but that we have never learned how to apply the Laws governing Heaven to this realm of life.
Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and of death."
There are spiritual laws that function all of the time. The Law of sin and death still functions on this earth at all times. The new creation man must know he is no longer under this Law, but under a new Law, which is the Law of Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. The new creation's new Law is operated by the Holy Spirit to lift the new creation above the old Law of sin and death. If we remain carnally minded and believe God's laws only apply to when we die and go to Heaven. This new Law doesn't operate in our lives, like is should, because we fail to apply it in our lives in this "real world."
Those who don't understand like they should, this isn't the "real world." The real world where Jesus is, has created this real world we now live in our fleshly body. The Creator is always Greater than the creation. When we learn how to function by the Higher Laws God has given us in Christ Jesus, then we can walk above the lower laws that previously governed us. Heaven has laws that operate above all else and we have simply never learned how to function in them in this realm.
Jesus came as an Example of how a new creation Man can walk here on earth, by operating in the Higher Laws of God. We've always been taught that Jesus could only do the things He did in His earthly ministry, because He was Jesus. But, this isn't true. We watched as mere not born-again men, walked in these laws by simply faith in what He told them to do. We see another view into the new creation man and how he is to be led now by his renewed mind and not by our carnal mind, in Romans 8:4-5 (Amplified) which says, "So that the righteousness and just requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit (our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit. For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh [this doesn't mean sin, but simply fleshly things] but those who are according to the Spirit, and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit, set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Spirit."
The above scripture tells us it's a choice whether we renew our minds and seek after spiritual things or we continue thinking of this as the real world and believe spiritual things are for "someday in Heaven." We are called to live in two different worlds simultaneously. We have a natural body to live and govern here and we have a new creation body body to govern heavenly laws in this earth. God never intended us to just live like we always have until we go to Heaven. He intended us to "bring Heaven" and the Laws that He governs by, into this earthly realm. This is why God left us in our natural bodies, when He created this new creation man. He gave dominion to man, when He created this natural realm and He still intends for man to rule it. He created this new creation man to live through Him and govern here, by Heaven's Law of rule. Now, through the new creation man, God has a new creation that can be filled with God Himself to have Heavenly rule through a natural body of a man, like He did with Jesus.
Jesus taught us to pray that God's "will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." Jesus intended this new creation being that He was going to bring into existence, would do like He did and not His Own will, but the will of the Father. We've remained carnally minded and have believed that everything happening on earth was God's will. If this was true, then Jesus wouldn't have needed to heal, restore of change anything, but He would have left things like they were. Jesus did God's will, which was to restore this realm to the Heavenly Image God had intended before man's fall.
Obviously, the way things happen on earth aren't how Heaven functions. As new creation people, we are supposed to seek the things of the Spirit and not get side-tracked by the real world things. When we do this real world thing, we're being controlled and governed by the flesh and are under the lower law of sin and death, instead of the Higher Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus. We are in Him and the Law of Heaven is supposed to operate and govern us, as well as governing the lower law of sin and death that has held the world captivated, until now.
As new creation people, we're called to learn the Higher Las that govern all things and then apply them here. We're faced with a spiritual outlaw (satan) who refuses to turn loose, until someone forces him. He knows that what he's doing is unlawful according to spiritual laws, but until we enforce the laws, he will continue on like he has. We know that here on earth (at least in America), it's unlawful to manufacture and sell harmful drugs, but we still have criminals doing it. They will continue doing these things, until someone enforces the law and stops them. We can't blame the President for the flow of drugs into our country, he has determined that it's unlawful and has delegated authority to the Law Enforcement agencies to stop it. We cannot blame God for satan's unlawful actions here, because God delegated and gave us the authority to stop satan's unlawful works of sin and death that operate against Heaven's laws here. Ephesians 6:12 (Amplified) says, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents) but against the despotisms, against the power, against (the master spirits who are) the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the Heavenly (super-natural) sphere."
These forces can't be controlled by mere natural man, but by the new creation man God has set forth into this earth, by the new birth. God has made laws that satan refuses to obey. Unless God's people enforce those laws, then this is the real world. Only God's new creation people can act on these laws, because one must be born-again to be able to do so. For man to establish laws on this earth and expect satan to accept them, is foolishness. He will only obey the commands of laws, when they are enforce and only God's new creation people have the authority to enforce them.
There is so much more for this new creation, than just going to Heaven when we die. In order to bring Heaven to this earth, we must allow the Father to work because Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me that does the work." The Same Father is now living in His new creation people, to do the same work the He did in Jesus and restore things to the Laws that govern Heaven. We are simply "tools and vessels," in the Hands of the Master. Tools left in the toolbox, don't do the mechanic much good while he is working. Tools that don't want to get dirty don't do much good for the Father either. We must be there, when He needs us to do the job.
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