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 (previous moral and spiritual) condition has passed away. Behold, the new has come."
The new creation is not like any other being that has ever been on this planet. We've operated and tried to fashion our lives after previous generations, but we haven't been right in our operating. We are truly a new creation and are as unique as the earth and stars were before God commanded them to come forth. There never was a creation like us, before the arrival of the Holy Spirit and the Truth of God living in our temple of flesh.
We operate from a completely new aspect and position, than any other being in the existence of mankind altogether. Jesus was the Only human being on the planet Who had at that time, "Life Again" by the Spirit of God Himself. All those at that time, were dead in trespass and sin, according to Ephesians 2:1(Amplified) which says, "And you (He made alive) when you were dead (slain) by (your) trespasses and sins."
Read further in Ephesians 2:5 (Amplified) which says, "Even when we were dead (slain) by (our own) shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; (He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him)." The Father has made the new creation people to be His family and Temple, in which to live in and among. There's never been a people like the Church. When we witness those who came before us in the Word, we try patterning ourselves after them. We see ourselves after the Old Covenant and envision God as the One Who chastises us in the flesh, like in the days of old. We fail to understand that in the eyes and mind of God, our body is dead by the same death that crucified Jesus. God now deals with us completely by our new creation spirit man.
The new spirit man is trained and corrected by his spirit and not his flesh. 2Timothy 3:16 (Amplified) says, "Every scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, (and) for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose, and action)." This scripture tells us how the new creation man is to function now. Our living spirit operates by the indwelling of God's Spirit and the Word (which is Spirit). Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."
We've had difficulty seeing ourselves like God sees us, mostly because we have been taught how to in recent history. I truly believe that when Paul preached this Gospel to the people, they received more than just the "go to heave" salvation message. They also received the Shalom that Jesus preached. I believe that when the early Church heard the Words of salvation, it brought healing and deliverance to them, just like it did when Jesus preached it.
Satan has labored to discredit the Gospel, until we've nearly lost sight of what Jesus actually preached to the people. Mark 16:19-20 (Amplified) says, "So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoke to them, was taken up into Heaven and He sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied (it) Amen (so be it)."
When Jesus' followers preached the Message they heard, signs and miracles closely accompanied it. This is the inheritance of the new creation people...the very Presence of the Father is inside us, like He was in Jesus. This is what has made us a new creation. Never before has there been a people who actually "housed and tabernacled" the very Presence of God Himself. The Spirit of God used to come upon the people or the Spirit of God Himself would actually speak to men, but not from within them.
We have God's Own Spirit and Life flowing out of us from withing, according to Ephesians 3:17-19 (Amplified) which says, "May Christ through your faith (actually) dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love. That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints (God's devoted people, the experience of that love) what is the breath and length and height and depth (of it) (that you may really come) to know (practically, through experience for yourselves) the love of Christ which far surpasses mere knowledge (without experience) that you may be filled (through all your being) unto all the fullness of God (may have the richest measure of the divine Presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself)."
The new creation is the light of the world and the salt of the earth. We are to walk in this earth with signs and wonders produced by "the Father in us, does the work." This is so the world can see the very glory of God through this new creation body of believers, by His Light in us. If we are to :pattern ourselves" after anything, then we are to pattern ourselves after the First of the New Creation Man, the Last Adam Who is Jesus Christ Himself. He is the Firstborn among many brethren and He is the Example for God's new creation family.
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