2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation man, lives in a different realm and Kingdom than those who aren't born-again. This isn't a religious state of mind, but an entirely different realm than any other person on the planet. As Christians and new creation persons, we are actually from another world altogether. We're not simply forgiven sinners struggling through until we get to Heaven, but we're brand new entities who are citizens of Heaven now.
We have been so deceived by satan and so misled by his rendering of God's Word, we have come to believe we are "the tail and not the head, beneath and not above." The Holy Spirit directed the writer of Deuteronomy 28:12-14 (Amplified) saying, We are to "Be the Head, and not the tail and you shall be above only and you shall not be beneath, if you shall heed the Commandments (or His Word) of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them. And you shall not turn aside from any of the Words which I command you this day. To the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them."
To Word continues to say that' If we don't heed His Words, and follow other gods or other teachings of the Word or covenant, then all this other curse can and will come upon us." Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) says, "Christ purchased our freedom (redeeming us) from the curse (doom) of the Law (and its condemnation), by (Himself) becoming a curse for us, for it is written (in the scriptures) Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified) To the end that through (their receiving) Christ Jesus, the blessing (promised) to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we, through faith might (all) receive (the realization of) the promise of the Holy Spirit."
We've been taught that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 was the "promise and the blessing" and that they were all simply spiritual. The promise of the Spirit was for bringing forth the new birth, the new creation and the promise God gave to Abraham and his seed. This was indeed a spiritual fulfilling of this promise, because now through and by the Holy Spirit and Jesus (the Last Adam), everything God blessed Adam, Noah, and all God's men with since the beginning, could now be united in Abraham and his seed. Now, as the Seed of Abraham, Jesus could receive this mandate and Law of Genesis that was promised from the beginning and transfer it to those who would believe it by faith. God could once again, bless all who would believe in Him.
For awhile, God could bless One Man and through Him, transfer His blessing and His Law of blessing to the next generation, one generation at a time. Through Jesus (the Seed of Abraham), God can once again transfer His Own blessing upon all who are in Christ Jesus, by faith. This generation is eternal and all encompassing to God's family. The promise of the Spirit is that now through Jesus, we have received Him and are living spirits. This means that now, we can receive the blessing again of the Living Spirit, through Christ Jesus.
The Law of Genesis is still in effect, as long as Jesus is Lord (which is for eternity). The Holy Spirit has come through Jesus' resurrection and the new birth (or resurrection Life) has returned us into Life with God. The Spirit of Life (the promise of the Holy Spirit) has placed us into God's Own blessing and family again. Until Jesus came, the old covenant people could only walk in a limited part of the Blessing, depending on their obedience to the Law. Through the One Time Only Sacrifice of Jesus and His Blood, we have a new Law that was from the beginning, which according to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) is, "The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus."
The Law is above every other natural and spiritual law. In this Law, death was abolished by the Spirit of Life and now, the promise of the Spirit has been set in motion for all who will believe. Under this Law, which was from the beginning, we have only one Law by which we need to enter into the Blessing of the Spirit (the Blessing promised through Abraham) and that is the Law of faith. Romans 3:27 (Amplified) says, "Then what becomes of (our) pride and (our) boasting? It is excluded (banished, ruled out entirely) on what principle? the principle of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith." The King James Version says it like this, "No, but on the Law of faith."
Faith is a Law coming from the very beginning and it reigns in God, even until now. His promise came through faith and is still received by faith, operated by faith and upheld by faith. All satan needed to do with the new creation, is was to do like he did in the Garden of Eden, which was to get us "out of faith" and into deception. When we doubt the promise, then faith will no longer produce what the blessing has decreed for it to do.
Using religion, the devil has taught us to have faith in what man says about us, instead of what God has said of us. In so doing, he has placed us back under the Law and being blessed by our own works and not grace, which is being blessed by faith in the works of Jesus. The law of faith always works for good or bad. Whatever you apply faith to, it will work. God isn't made at us, when bad things happen to us. The law of faith will work all the time.
What have we applies the Law of faith to? Do we have faith in the blessing to work for us? Or, do we have faith that if we don't always "do right," then bad things will happen to us? One is faith in the Promise, while the other is faith in our works. Both will work by the same law. The Law of Gravity works in our, for both the Christian and the world. It is a Law. If a Christian leaps from the Empire State Building, then he will come down. If a sinner does the same, then he will come down. The Law of Gravity isn't arbitrary, but is constant. It works all the time.
God didn't stop the Law of sin and death. It is still a Law and still works today. What God did, was superseded this Law with a Higher Law of the Spirit of Life, which is in Christ Jesus. God didnt say that the curse isn't here any longer. He simply provided a way, through faith in His Word and Christ Jesus, to walk in the Blessing. The choice remains ours to make, just like it was our choice to be saved by faith.
We broke the Law of sin and death over our lives, when we applied our faith to a Higher Law, which is the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Both Laws were already in effect, but we by faith, chose the Higher Law over the Law of sin and death. Now, through this same Law of faith, we must make a choice about the rest of the Promise. When you make this choice, then nothing can stop it from working, because it is a Law and it works all the time.
We can by faith, choose to walk in whatever we put faith into and it will come to pass in our lives. Gravity works for both the saved and unsaved, because it is a Law. We been taught using man's ideas, that "God uses the curse to teach us" and we have put the Law of faith to work in this area of our lives. The Promise of the Spirit is that, the Spirit Who now lives in us and through us, will be our Teacher and Guide. He will always lead us into the Blessing, because that was the Promise God made to Abraham and his seed.
Matthew 18:18 (Amplified) says that, "What we declare to be lawful or unlawful depends on knowing what Laws we are operating in, and our understanding of those Laws." Find out what Laws Jesus operated in and then follow His lead. He walked in the Law of the blessing of the first Adam, which was before the curse came through Adam's disobedience.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Monday, November 28, 2016
Lesson 129 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition). Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Many times, we read over certain scriptures, without seeing the Truth in them. This results in receiving carnal knowledge versus revelation knowledge from the Spirit. We read the Words, but miss their True meaning. Jesus said that, "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and Life." Unless they are revealed to you in your spirit, they are just words.
The Truth of the new creation hasn't been fully revealed to the spirits of God's family, by the Holy Spirit yet. It doesn't mean He doesn't want us to know this, but we have been so blinded by the religious way we've been taught and learned it. Many of us have read the above scripture and applied it to the future tense, instead of the "now" sense. We believe that when we have died and gone to Heaven, we will come into this new creation person. It's true we will have a new glorified body, but our spirit is already the new creation in this house of flesh.
It's because we are a new creation and from a new Kingdom, we have certain rights and privileges over the old earthly realm we came out of. There are laws governing in the new Kingdom that are unchangeable, because God will not change His Laws of governing to govern here on earth. Many of us have tried walking in this new creation Kingdom, by the Laws we have learned in this world. We have petitioned Heaven, using the things we've learned from the world, instead of what the Word teaches.
In Matthew 6:23 (Amplified), Jesus said, "But seek (aim at, and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things will be given you besides." "His way of doing and being right" means that God's ways are different somehow, than the way we've been doing them. The people Jesus spoke to, were still relying on the Law and sacrifice of bulls and goats. That was "their way," of doing and being right. They were not born-again, and could not be born-again, until Jesus was resurrected and the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost.
Jesus was speaking about the new creation being, who would work in an entirely different way. He made reference to the new creation in many different ways and times. Jesus demonstrated the coming ability and authority the new creation being would have after being given the authority in His Name, even under the old covenant. We read in Luke 10:8-9 (Amplified), "And He said to them, I saw satan falling like a (lightning flash) from Heaven. Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and (physical and mental strength and ability) overall the power that the enemy (possesses) and nothing shall in any way harm you."
So, the power of Jesus' Name was undisputed, even under the old covenant. As "servants sent forth," these men operated in delegated authority over satan, his abilities, and his powers. Jesus went on in Luke 10:9 (Amplified) saying, "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you [Notice, that Jesus was lifting them above the Law here, because under the Law, they couldn't eat certain things]. And heal the sick in it and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come close to you."
Even though it wasn't set up on earth yet, Jesus said that this "coming Kingdom" was close and coming soon. This new Kingdom would operate in a different manner and by different Laws. Jesus also said in Matthew 18:18 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you; Whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth, must be what is already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth, must be what is already permitted in Heaven."
The Laws of the Kingdom are the laws we are to operate in, as new creation people on this earth. These are "His way of doing and being right." Paul lays out this entire thing for us in Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) saying, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong). [His way of doing and being right] 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 is a law of sin and death that continuously operates in this world system. This is the Law that Jesus, by the power of His Name, gave His disciples authority over in Luke 10:9. Jesus transferred His authority to the subjects of the new Kingdom to come. This authority of His Name was not only for His new creation, but "in" them. Now, we have become citizens of this Kingdom and have become children of the King Who rules there. We've not only seen the Kingdom "come close," but we have seen it come altogether.
In Matthew 24:7 (Amplified), Jesus spoke about the "closing of this age," saying, "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place." We are presently witnessing the clashing of the kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of Heaven, vying for the lives of humanity.
We have protested, complained and even prayed about some of these things, but we are not operating by the "Laws governing the new Kingdom." We cannot get things done here, while operating in the laws that govern the world system. Jesus gave guidelines for the laws of earth and the laws of Heaven. The laws governing the Kingdom of Heaven, supersede the worldly laws and God will not change His Laws of His Kingdom for us. We are to operate in the Law of the Kingdom, in order to overcome.
The restoration of God's Kingdom consists on laws that still govern the entire universe. These are not the Ten Commandments or the Law of Moses, but are the remaining creative Laws that hold the universe in place. These are the Laws of God's Kingdom and are the Laws of His Spirit, by which we conduct our warfare over the enemy.
Jesus understood the governing laws of this realm. He didn't deny these laws, but superseded them by a much Higher Law (the Laws of God's Kingdom). Jesus didn't make gravity cease to work, when He walked on water. This law obviously still worked, because Peter began to sink. Jesus understood the Kingdom Laws and simply superseded the Law of Gravity with a Higher Law and then, walked above it.
Jesus overrode the world's laws and the things of satan, by operating in God's Heavenly Laws and bringing them into this realm. He overrode everything satan tried doing. As new creations in Christ Jesus, we've been placed in God's Kingdom and are to function as citizens of that Kingdom. We are no longer to be controlled by the dictates of the flesh, but "the dictates of the Spirit," according to Romans 8:1 (Amplified). The Law of sin and death, can now only operate in the new creation citizens, if we continue operating in the carnal realm. If we will operate in the dictates of the Spirit, the we will supersede the laws satan has used since Adam, to rule over mankind.
2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us." We are representatives on earth, of The King and His Kingdom. We have diplomatic immunity from the laws governing satan's kingdom, through the Laws of God's Kingdom. These are Kingdom laws and principles, that God established from the beginning and these Laws of Heaven are eternal. When we seek after, to know how these governing laws are to operate through us, then we can be of more use by the Father than ever before.
Ephesians 3:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Also to enlighten men and make plain to them what is the plan (regarding the Gentiles and providing for the salvation of all men) of the Mystery kept hidden through the ages and concealed UNTIL NOW in (the mind of) God Who created all things by Christ Jesus. (The purpose is) that through the Church, the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the Heavenly sphere." Ephesians 6:12 (Amplified) goes on, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents) but again the despotisms, against the powers, 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."
We must learn how to walk in the Higher Laws of our new Kingdom, instead of simply relying on the carnal knowledge, gained from the world we came from. We've been granted the privilege of being God's ambassadors and His representatives, using His grace and His Name here in this world realm. We operate in Kingdom Laws (while not dismissing certain God givens laws among men) and not laws that are raised up from the god of this world.
Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) tells us, "Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom! but with all your getting, get understanding!" The Amplified Version says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, Get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom)! (for skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing) And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)."
Many times, we read over certain scriptures, without seeing the Truth in them. This results in receiving carnal knowledge versus revelation knowledge from the Spirit. We read the Words, but miss their True meaning. Jesus said that, "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and Life." Unless they are revealed to you in your spirit, they are just words.
The Truth of the new creation hasn't been fully revealed to the spirits of God's family, by the Holy Spirit yet. It doesn't mean He doesn't want us to know this, but we have been so blinded by the religious way we've been taught and learned it. Many of us have read the above scripture and applied it to the future tense, instead of the "now" sense. We believe that when we have died and gone to Heaven, we will come into this new creation person. It's true we will have a new glorified body, but our spirit is already the new creation in this house of flesh.
It's because we are a new creation and from a new Kingdom, we have certain rights and privileges over the old earthly realm we came out of. There are laws governing in the new Kingdom that are unchangeable, because God will not change His Laws of governing to govern here on earth. Many of us have tried walking in this new creation Kingdom, by the Laws we have learned in this world. We have petitioned Heaven, using the things we've learned from the world, instead of what the Word teaches.
In Matthew 6:23 (Amplified), Jesus said, "But seek (aim at, and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things will be given you besides." "His way of doing and being right" means that God's ways are different somehow, than the way we've been doing them. The people Jesus spoke to, were still relying on the Law and sacrifice of bulls and goats. That was "their way," of doing and being right. They were not born-again, and could not be born-again, until Jesus was resurrected and the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost.
Jesus was speaking about the new creation being, who would work in an entirely different way. He made reference to the new creation in many different ways and times. Jesus demonstrated the coming ability and authority the new creation being would have after being given the authority in His Name, even under the old covenant. We read in Luke 10:8-9 (Amplified), "And He said to them, I saw satan falling like a (lightning flash) from Heaven. Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and (physical and mental strength and ability) overall the power that the enemy (possesses) and nothing shall in any way harm you."
So, the power of Jesus' Name was undisputed, even under the old covenant. As "servants sent forth," these men operated in delegated authority over satan, his abilities, and his powers. Jesus went on in Luke 10:9 (Amplified) saying, "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you [Notice, that Jesus was lifting them above the Law here, because under the Law, they couldn't eat certain things]. And heal the sick in it and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come close to you."
Even though it wasn't set up on earth yet, Jesus said that this "coming Kingdom" was close and coming soon. This new Kingdom would operate in a different manner and by different Laws. Jesus also said in Matthew 18:18 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you; Whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth, must be what is already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth, must be what is already permitted in Heaven."
The Laws of the Kingdom are the laws we are to operate in, as new creation people on this earth. These are "His way of doing and being right." Paul lays out this entire thing for us in Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) saying, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong). [His way of doing and being right] 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 is a law of sin and death that continuously operates in this world system. This is the Law that Jesus, by the power of His Name, gave His disciples authority over in Luke 10:9. Jesus transferred His authority to the subjects of the new Kingdom to come. This authority of His Name was not only for His new creation, but "in" them. Now, we have become citizens of this Kingdom and have become children of the King Who rules there. We've not only seen the Kingdom "come close," but we have seen it come altogether.
In Matthew 24:7 (Amplified), Jesus spoke about the "closing of this age," saying, "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place." We are presently witnessing the clashing of the kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of Heaven, vying for the lives of humanity.
We have protested, complained and even prayed about some of these things, but we are not operating by the "Laws governing the new Kingdom." We cannot get things done here, while operating in the laws that govern the world system. Jesus gave guidelines for the laws of earth and the laws of Heaven. The laws governing the Kingdom of Heaven, supersede the worldly laws and God will not change His Laws of His Kingdom for us. We are to operate in the Law of the Kingdom, in order to overcome.
The restoration of God's Kingdom consists on laws that still govern the entire universe. These are not the Ten Commandments or the Law of Moses, but are the remaining creative Laws that hold the universe in place. These are the Laws of God's Kingdom and are the Laws of His Spirit, by which we conduct our warfare over the enemy.
Jesus understood the governing laws of this realm. He didn't deny these laws, but superseded them by a much Higher Law (the Laws of God's Kingdom). Jesus didn't make gravity cease to work, when He walked on water. This law obviously still worked, because Peter began to sink. Jesus understood the Kingdom Laws and simply superseded the Law of Gravity with a Higher Law and then, walked above it.
Jesus overrode the world's laws and the things of satan, by operating in God's Heavenly Laws and bringing them into this realm. He overrode everything satan tried doing. As new creations in Christ Jesus, we've been placed in God's Kingdom and are to function as citizens of that Kingdom. We are no longer to be controlled by the dictates of the flesh, but "the dictates of the Spirit," according to Romans 8:1 (Amplified). The Law of sin and death, can now only operate in the new creation citizens, if we continue operating in the carnal realm. If we will operate in the dictates of the Spirit, the we will supersede the laws satan has used since Adam, to rule over mankind.
2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us." We are representatives on earth, of The King and His Kingdom. We have diplomatic immunity from the laws governing satan's kingdom, through the Laws of God's Kingdom. These are Kingdom laws and principles, that God established from the beginning and these Laws of Heaven are eternal. When we seek after, to know how these governing laws are to operate through us, then we can be of more use by the Father than ever before.
Ephesians 3:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Also to enlighten men and make plain to them what is the plan (regarding the Gentiles and providing for the salvation of all men) of the Mystery kept hidden through the ages and concealed UNTIL NOW in (the mind of) God Who created all things by Christ Jesus. (The purpose is) that through the Church, the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the Heavenly sphere." Ephesians 6:12 (Amplified) goes on, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents) but again the despotisms, against the powers, 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."
We must learn how to walk in the Higher Laws of our new Kingdom, instead of simply relying on the carnal knowledge, gained from the world we came from. We've been granted the privilege of being God's ambassadors and His representatives, using His grace and His Name here in this world realm. We operate in Kingdom Laws (while not dismissing certain God givens laws among men) and not laws that are raised up from the god of this world.
Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) tells us, "Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom! but with all your getting, get understanding!" The Amplified Version says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, Get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom)! (for skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing) And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)."
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Lesson 128 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition has passed). Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation is a being born out of Love, operates by Love and is directed by Love. We can all probably recall some teaching about Love from John 3:16, but these teachings haven't been brought down to a personal level and telling us how much God Loves each and every one of us (even those in the world). Although most of us know God Loves us individually, we've never comprehended this in reality and have lived with the reasoning, "If I do (or don't do) certain things, then God will do things to me or will allow things to be done to me, to teach me."
We're reluctant to lay hands on the sick or reach out into the Power Gifts of the Holy Spirit, because we fear failure. 1John 4:18 (Amplified) tells us, "There is no fear in Love (dread does not exist) but full grown (complete, perfect) Love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and (so) he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love (is not yet grown into Loves complete perfection)."
We have some faith in God's Love for us, but don't seem to have much faith in His Love through us. The very same Love that healed my body, wants to reach out through us and heal others. Today, we don't witness many healings and miracles is because we are afraid that it won't work. This is primarily caused from a lack of maturity in the Love that lives in and through us.
The above scripture told us that "perfected, mature Love will cast out fear altogether." Do we really believe in this Love to maturity and allow Love (God is Love) to reach out through our hands and lips? Jesus was constantly reminding His followers, that it "wasn't Him, but the Father in Him Who does the work." Do we believe that the very Same Father Who lived in Jesus, wished for the work to continue through us? We are His Body, we are the only hands He has to lay on the sick, the only Voice He has to speak to the lost and the only feet Has has to carry Him into the homes of the sick and lost.
We've repeated the adages, "If God wants something done, then He will just do it," but the truth is that if God wants something done, then we are to be the vehicle used to carry Him to where the need is. 2Corinthians 4:6-7 (Amplified) says, "For God Who said, Let Light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as (to beam forth) the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God (as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed) in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). However, we possess this precious treasure (the divine Light of the Gospel) in (frail, human) vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not ourselves."
Now, we can understand what Jesus meant when He said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work." Even while in His earthly Body, Jesus was careful to reveal that it was "the Father in Him Who brought healings and miracles" to the people. Only fear and lack of understanding the greatness of God's Love for others, has kept the world in bondage and prevented His working through us and in us. We have this Precious Treasure, the Light and Glory, God's Love and His Presence living in these "earthen vessels," so we can give the Glory.
The revelation of God in us, has been downplayed throughout the ages, by the world and the carnality the Church has walked in. We've majored more on Paul's tribulation, instead of the Revelation the Holy Spirit gave to him. We have an enemy of God and man, who cannot afford to let this revelation be manifested in the hearts of God's family. The Truth of this revelation will "Loose on earth, that which is already loosed in Heaven," according to Matthew 18:19 (Amplified).
We have been given the authority to declare "lawful on earth," which is already declared "lawful in Heaven." Satan has no ability to stop what God has declared "lawful in the heavens or the earth." He can only try to confuse the laws governing, so that we cannot understand them and walk in them. The old saying, "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse," applies here too. Even though we're ignorant of these Laws, they are still Laws and we only need to apply them in the Name of Jesus.
Satan might be insane, but he isn't stupid and knows the Law better than we do. His greatest fear is that Church finally having the revelation of the Laws and operating in them. He has taught the Church, using culture and religion, so that we believe more in his lie that "God is holding back on us, instead of it's us holding back on God." Satan didn't have the chance to pervert the Gospel right away, with the early Church. After several years of hearing satan's lies, the Church became convinced that the works of the Father are not for us today.
There were martyrs in the early Church (as well as in today's Church), who refused their deliverance for a greater resurrection, according to Hebrews 11:35-40 (Amplified) which says, "(Some) women received again their dead by a resurrection. Others were tortured to death by clubs, refusing to accept release (offered on the terms of denying their faith) so that they might be resurrected to a better life. Others had to suffer the trial of mockery and scourging and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death (to renounce their faith) they were sown asunder, they were slaughtered by the sword; (while they were alive) they had to go about wrapped in the skins of sheep and goats, utterly destitute, oppressed, cruelly treated." Verses 39-40 go on, "And all of these, though they won divine approval by (means of) their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they (these heroes and heroines of faith) should not come to perfection apart from us (before we could join them)."
The revelation of "God in us," is what the were waiting for. Satan tried to prevent this revelation for the new creation. I marvel at the faith of people who would suffer such things at the hands of satan and demon controlled men. We can honor such faith and bring this revelation into focus for the Church and the world today. Many in the Church are confused by the things happening across the world today and are asking, "Where is God, while all these things are happening/" Or, they ask, "Why doesn't God put a stop to all the injustice occurring today?" It all comes back to, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work."
There was plenty of justice occurring in Jesus' day and only those He could reach were delivered. Many people remained sick, crippled and were being killed in the time of Jesus. Those who were delivered, were delivered when Jesus brought "the Father in Him" to them, while all of the others, were not healed. Was God still God? Of course He was, but He had chosen to be presented to the world through Man, in Jesus. The new creation is God's choice and His means of operating and being shown to the world. Remember, that "We have this glory in earthen vessels, so that the glory may be of God, and not ourselves."
The Word says it is "Christ in us, our Hope of Glory." What glory is Paul speaking about here? He's speaking about the Glory of God, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit in us. This is the "glory in earthen vessels" we contain. It's not us, but the Father in us Who does the work. We can better understand what Jesus taught in John 14:12 (Amplified) saying, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, If anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do, and even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
The "greater things" are the ability to bring forth the new creation, the new birth. Jesus never had the privilege of seeing the new birth in His earthly ministry. The new birth required His death and His resurrection to accomplish this miracle.
As the new creation, we cannot only get the body healed, but by the Gospel, we have the privilege of giving life to a spirit by the power of the Word of Life, the Seed of God that brings the new birth. In Jesus' time, the Church did not exist, but only came about after He was raised from the dead. As The Seed, Jesus brought forth the harvest of the family, unto the Father. The Father has now chosen to make this new creation His dwelling place the the vessel He has chosen to contain His glory on earth. We must not only learn to have faith in His Love for us, but also to have faith in His Love through us. God still does "So Love the world," but now He is able to reveal Himself in all of His Glory, through us (His chosen vessels)."
The new creation is a being born out of Love, operates by Love and is directed by Love. We can all probably recall some teaching about Love from John 3:16, but these teachings haven't been brought down to a personal level and telling us how much God Loves each and every one of us (even those in the world). Although most of us know God Loves us individually, we've never comprehended this in reality and have lived with the reasoning, "If I do (or don't do) certain things, then God will do things to me or will allow things to be done to me, to teach me."
We're reluctant to lay hands on the sick or reach out into the Power Gifts of the Holy Spirit, because we fear failure. 1John 4:18 (Amplified) tells us, "There is no fear in Love (dread does not exist) but full grown (complete, perfect) Love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and (so) he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love (is not yet grown into Loves complete perfection)."
We have some faith in God's Love for us, but don't seem to have much faith in His Love through us. The very same Love that healed my body, wants to reach out through us and heal others. Today, we don't witness many healings and miracles is because we are afraid that it won't work. This is primarily caused from a lack of maturity in the Love that lives in and through us.
The above scripture told us that "perfected, mature Love will cast out fear altogether." Do we really believe in this Love to maturity and allow Love (God is Love) to reach out through our hands and lips? Jesus was constantly reminding His followers, that it "wasn't Him, but the Father in Him Who does the work." Do we believe that the very Same Father Who lived in Jesus, wished for the work to continue through us? We are His Body, we are the only hands He has to lay on the sick, the only Voice He has to speak to the lost and the only feet Has has to carry Him into the homes of the sick and lost.
We've repeated the adages, "If God wants something done, then He will just do it," but the truth is that if God wants something done, then we are to be the vehicle used to carry Him to where the need is. 2Corinthians 4:6-7 (Amplified) says, "For God Who said, Let Light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as (to beam forth) the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God (as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed) in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). However, we possess this precious treasure (the divine Light of the Gospel) in (frail, human) vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not ourselves."
Now, we can understand what Jesus meant when He said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work." Even while in His earthly Body, Jesus was careful to reveal that it was "the Father in Him Who brought healings and miracles" to the people. Only fear and lack of understanding the greatness of God's Love for others, has kept the world in bondage and prevented His working through us and in us. We have this Precious Treasure, the Light and Glory, God's Love and His Presence living in these "earthen vessels," so we can give the Glory.
The revelation of God in us, has been downplayed throughout the ages, by the world and the carnality the Church has walked in. We've majored more on Paul's tribulation, instead of the Revelation the Holy Spirit gave to him. We have an enemy of God and man, who cannot afford to let this revelation be manifested in the hearts of God's family. The Truth of this revelation will "Loose on earth, that which is already loosed in Heaven," according to Matthew 18:19 (Amplified).
We have been given the authority to declare "lawful on earth," which is already declared "lawful in Heaven." Satan has no ability to stop what God has declared "lawful in the heavens or the earth." He can only try to confuse the laws governing, so that we cannot understand them and walk in them. The old saying, "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse," applies here too. Even though we're ignorant of these Laws, they are still Laws and we only need to apply them in the Name of Jesus.
Satan might be insane, but he isn't stupid and knows the Law better than we do. His greatest fear is that Church finally having the revelation of the Laws and operating in them. He has taught the Church, using culture and religion, so that we believe more in his lie that "God is holding back on us, instead of it's us holding back on God." Satan didn't have the chance to pervert the Gospel right away, with the early Church. After several years of hearing satan's lies, the Church became convinced that the works of the Father are not for us today.
There were martyrs in the early Church (as well as in today's Church), who refused their deliverance for a greater resurrection, according to Hebrews 11:35-40 (Amplified) which says, "(Some) women received again their dead by a resurrection. Others were tortured to death by clubs, refusing to accept release (offered on the terms of denying their faith) so that they might be resurrected to a better life. Others had to suffer the trial of mockery and scourging and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death (to renounce their faith) they were sown asunder, they were slaughtered by the sword; (while they were alive) they had to go about wrapped in the skins of sheep and goats, utterly destitute, oppressed, cruelly treated." Verses 39-40 go on, "And all of these, though they won divine approval by (means of) their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they (these heroes and heroines of faith) should not come to perfection apart from us (before we could join them)."
The revelation of "God in us," is what the were waiting for. Satan tried to prevent this revelation for the new creation. I marvel at the faith of people who would suffer such things at the hands of satan and demon controlled men. We can honor such faith and bring this revelation into focus for the Church and the world today. Many in the Church are confused by the things happening across the world today and are asking, "Where is God, while all these things are happening/" Or, they ask, "Why doesn't God put a stop to all the injustice occurring today?" It all comes back to, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work."
There was plenty of justice occurring in Jesus' day and only those He could reach were delivered. Many people remained sick, crippled and were being killed in the time of Jesus. Those who were delivered, were delivered when Jesus brought "the Father in Him" to them, while all of the others, were not healed. Was God still God? Of course He was, but He had chosen to be presented to the world through Man, in Jesus. The new creation is God's choice and His means of operating and being shown to the world. Remember, that "We have this glory in earthen vessels, so that the glory may be of God, and not ourselves."
The Word says it is "Christ in us, our Hope of Glory." What glory is Paul speaking about here? He's speaking about the Glory of God, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit in us. This is the "glory in earthen vessels" we contain. It's not us, but the Father in us Who does the work. We can better understand what Jesus taught in John 14:12 (Amplified) saying, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, If anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do, and even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
The "greater things" are the ability to bring forth the new creation, the new birth. Jesus never had the privilege of seeing the new birth in His earthly ministry. The new birth required His death and His resurrection to accomplish this miracle.
As the new creation, we cannot only get the body healed, but by the Gospel, we have the privilege of giving life to a spirit by the power of the Word of Life, the Seed of God that brings the new birth. In Jesus' time, the Church did not exist, but only came about after He was raised from the dead. As The Seed, Jesus brought forth the harvest of the family, unto the Father. The Father has now chosen to make this new creation His dwelling place the the vessel He has chosen to contain His glory on earth. We must not only learn to have faith in His Love for us, but also to have faith in His Love through us. God still does "So Love the world," but now He is able to reveal Himself in all of His Glory, through us (His chosen vessels)."
Friday, November 25, 2016
127 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) 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."
We've previously established how as the new creation, we are a new species of being. We've never truly seen ourselves as a whole, the way God sees us. The world culture has lent to the watering down of the Word and has kept us in the dark about who we really are. Satan would rather keep us bound by religion, rather than our knowing the Truth.
Being made in the Image and Likeness of our Father and being part of His family, we have the ability to walk in a new and different realm of power and authority. The revelation of this authority has been satan's nightmare since the Upper Room. We've been told that these things have passed away and were only for the early Church. We've heard many lies to prevent our shedding this idea and walking in the son-ship rights that came to us through Jesus.
The enemy has also convinced many that these things were fanatical and too far out or that it would be prideful to want these things. Many have been taught that these things are not necessary to get into Heaven. Many are content to remain "in the wilderness, instead of pressing on to the Promise." The enemy will use anything to keep our finding out who and what we've been created to be. Church has been pressed into some formal gathering for Sunday morning, but isn't always a meeting with our Heavenly Father.
The people being taught and led this way are part of the born-again family of God, who don't know what their purpose here on earth is supposed to be. We were created in Christ Jesus to not only be with Him for eternity, but to be with Him here too. Our ultimate goal is to preach salvation to the lost world and getting them born-again, but what else are we to do?
The Lord is the only way of changing things here on earth. Mankind is still controlled by satan's evil influences, as the god of this world. He isn't god of the earth or the Church, but of this world system and it's culture. The only thing on this planet that has the authority over this system, is the Church that God Himself now lives in and functions through on earth. Now, God can move into all nations and people simultaneously, through His fleshly Body, the Church, His family created new in Christ Jesus.
Jesus was the First Born of the dead and through Him, we have also been born-again from death unto life in God. Now, this new creation is a vehicle for the actual touch and Voice and Love of God to reach from beyond the Spiritual realm into this natural realm. Through the Church, the unsaved natural man can actually feel, see, hear and become acquainted with God, here in this earthly realm.
Jesus reminded His followers on many occasions, that "When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." This is also true for the new creation believers, since it's Christ in us (the Hope of Glory), the world is supposed to see the Body of Christ, like when they saw the Father through Jesus and in Him. We are actually Love, because "God is Love," according to 1John 4:16. We are now, supposed to not only demonstrate Love, but be Love.
When Jesus said that, "He and the Father are One," He became Love in action. Through Jesus, the Love that is God, could now walk unrestricted among the people. Under the old covenant of blood, God was limited in how and who He could deal with. Because Jesus was a living Man and was without sin, God could move outside His covenant into the Gentiles in Love.
The thing that upset the Scribes and Pharisees, was Jesus moving into the Gentile nations, with the same blessing that was available to them. They were trying to contain God's Love (which is God), by not offering their own God to those outside of the old covenant, like Jesus instructed. The covenant God had with Israel and the Hebrew people, was also offered to Gentiles, if they would accept the God of Israel in blood covenant.
Exodus 12:48-49 (Amplified) says, "When a stranger sojourning with you wishes to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the Land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it." Verse 49 goes on, "There shall be one Law for the native-born, and for the stranger or foreigner who sojourns amonge you." God intended for the Hebrews to take of His covenant and then expand His Word and Presence into the world.
God gave this commission to Adam at the beginning in Genesis 1:28 (Amplified) which says, "And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it (using all its vast resources in the service of God and man) and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
Now, through Jesus, when we accept this new covenant offered by His Sacrifice, we're not only covenant, but actually new creation people who will never need to offer up sacrifice for our acceptance again. We are not only declared "righteous with His righteousness," but we've been created brand new, having no past or blemish or stain.
Now, through the Very Father Who gave us new life through His Seed (the Word), we are Sowers of the Seed of Life and have the privilege of bringing forth His new creation family to Him. Because of the Last Adam (Jesus), we are given the same command as the first Adam and are to bring forth and multiply the creation the Father gives us as an inheritance. This is for both Jew and Gentile, bound and free, male and female, black and white and every other species on this earth.
The same Law God spoke to Moses in Exodus 12:49 (Amplified), now extends to the new creation to declare to the world, saying, "There shall be one law for the native-born and for the sojourners and strangers among you." This is the Law of Faith from Romans 1:17 (Amplified) which 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."
Thus, all who have received of this covenant of Love, are now through Jesus, once again alive to god and are living this life because of faith. We are all now "living by faith." This is a covenant of Love that has been offered to "whosoever will believe." We are not only to bring Life into God's family by His Seed (the Word), but also to "raise then in the nature and admonishment of the Lord." This is done by teaching and revealing our Father (not only God, but our Father), through Love and not fear.
The only reason for teaching and revealing the Father Image to His children, is so that we can come into the maturity of the faith in Him and be like Jesus saying, "It is not us, but the Father in us that is doing the work." It's only faith in the indwelling Presence of the Father's Love in us, that all who satan has bound in sin can be set free. This includes healing, deliverance and the breaking of satan in and on their lives. This is the mandate of God's new creation family.
Give Him thanks for what He has done and thanks for what He is doing, not only for us, but also through us.
We've previously established how as the new creation, we are a new species of being. We've never truly seen ourselves as a whole, the way God sees us. The world culture has lent to the watering down of the Word and has kept us in the dark about who we really are. Satan would rather keep us bound by religion, rather than our knowing the Truth.
Being made in the Image and Likeness of our Father and being part of His family, we have the ability to walk in a new and different realm of power and authority. The revelation of this authority has been satan's nightmare since the Upper Room. We've been told that these things have passed away and were only for the early Church. We've heard many lies to prevent our shedding this idea and walking in the son-ship rights that came to us through Jesus.
The enemy has also convinced many that these things were fanatical and too far out or that it would be prideful to want these things. Many have been taught that these things are not necessary to get into Heaven. Many are content to remain "in the wilderness, instead of pressing on to the Promise." The enemy will use anything to keep our finding out who and what we've been created to be. Church has been pressed into some formal gathering for Sunday morning, but isn't always a meeting with our Heavenly Father.
The people being taught and led this way are part of the born-again family of God, who don't know what their purpose here on earth is supposed to be. We were created in Christ Jesus to not only be with Him for eternity, but to be with Him here too. Our ultimate goal is to preach salvation to the lost world and getting them born-again, but what else are we to do?
The Lord is the only way of changing things here on earth. Mankind is still controlled by satan's evil influences, as the god of this world. He isn't god of the earth or the Church, but of this world system and it's culture. The only thing on this planet that has the authority over this system, is the Church that God Himself now lives in and functions through on earth. Now, God can move into all nations and people simultaneously, through His fleshly Body, the Church, His family created new in Christ Jesus.
Jesus was the First Born of the dead and through Him, we have also been born-again from death unto life in God. Now, this new creation is a vehicle for the actual touch and Voice and Love of God to reach from beyond the Spiritual realm into this natural realm. Through the Church, the unsaved natural man can actually feel, see, hear and become acquainted with God, here in this earthly realm.
Jesus reminded His followers on many occasions, that "When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." This is also true for the new creation believers, since it's Christ in us (the Hope of Glory), the world is supposed to see the Body of Christ, like when they saw the Father through Jesus and in Him. We are actually Love, because "God is Love," according to 1John 4:16. We are now, supposed to not only demonstrate Love, but be Love.
When Jesus said that, "He and the Father are One," He became Love in action. Through Jesus, the Love that is God, could now walk unrestricted among the people. Under the old covenant of blood, God was limited in how and who He could deal with. Because Jesus was a living Man and was without sin, God could move outside His covenant into the Gentiles in Love.
The thing that upset the Scribes and Pharisees, was Jesus moving into the Gentile nations, with the same blessing that was available to them. They were trying to contain God's Love (which is God), by not offering their own God to those outside of the old covenant, like Jesus instructed. The covenant God had with Israel and the Hebrew people, was also offered to Gentiles, if they would accept the God of Israel in blood covenant.
Exodus 12:48-49 (Amplified) says, "When a stranger sojourning with you wishes to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the Land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it." Verse 49 goes on, "There shall be one Law for the native-born, and for the stranger or foreigner who sojourns amonge you." God intended for the Hebrews to take of His covenant and then expand His Word and Presence into the world.
God gave this commission to Adam at the beginning in Genesis 1:28 (Amplified) which says, "And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it (using all its vast resources in the service of God and man) and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
Now, through Jesus, when we accept this new covenant offered by His Sacrifice, we're not only covenant, but actually new creation people who will never need to offer up sacrifice for our acceptance again. We are not only declared "righteous with His righteousness," but we've been created brand new, having no past or blemish or stain.
Now, through the Very Father Who gave us new life through His Seed (the Word), we are Sowers of the Seed of Life and have the privilege of bringing forth His new creation family to Him. Because of the Last Adam (Jesus), we are given the same command as the first Adam and are to bring forth and multiply the creation the Father gives us as an inheritance. This is for both Jew and Gentile, bound and free, male and female, black and white and every other species on this earth.
The same Law God spoke to Moses in Exodus 12:49 (Amplified), now extends to the new creation to declare to the world, saying, "There shall be one law for the native-born and for the sojourners and strangers among you." This is the Law of Faith from Romans 1:17 (Amplified) which 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."
Thus, all who have received of this covenant of Love, are now through Jesus, once again alive to god and are living this life because of faith. We are all now "living by faith." This is a covenant of Love that has been offered to "whosoever will believe." We are not only to bring Life into God's family by His Seed (the Word), but also to "raise then in the nature and admonishment of the Lord." This is done by teaching and revealing our Father (not only God, but our Father), through Love and not fear.
The only reason for teaching and revealing the Father Image to His children, is so that we can come into the maturity of the faith in Him and be like Jesus saying, "It is not us, but the Father in us that is doing the work." It's only faith in the indwelling Presence of the Father's Love in us, that all who satan has bound in sin can be set free. This includes healing, deliverance and the breaking of satan in and on their lives. This is the mandate of God's new creation family.
Give Him thanks for what He has done and thanks for what He is doing, not only for us, but also through us.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
126 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) 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."
We cannot judge or determine how this new creation being is to operate by the old standards of man or covenant. Until Jesus rose from the dead and entered into the Holy of Holies on our behalf, this new creation never existed in all of previous time. The new creation is the first of his kind to ever actually have God's Own Spirit living in his spirit, making him one with God Himself.
Since this kind of man had never before been alive, it is only through the Holy Spirit and God's Word that we can know how we are to live and function. We've tried governing this new creation after the pattern of the old covenant and have failed. The old covenant operated by external Laws to govern the flesh, but the new creation has God's Word living in his own spirit to live and hear by. God Himself in Spirit form, has taken up residence in the very spirit of the new creation man.
We don't need external Laws to govern us, because we have the Word of God born into our own spirit. We are born by the Word and are living by the Word. We are directed and instructed by the Word, through the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. We've tried controlling the flesh by external rules of religion, because we haven't understood the function of the new creation. This has worked to a small degree, through shear willpower. We have "willed" our flesh into subjection, to religious formality. The new creation was supposed to be led from within by God Himself, through our now living spirit. The new creation man (the born-again spirit) was to be submitted to and infused with God's Own Spirit, to the place of controlling the flesh by that strong and submitted spirit.
Jesus was the First Born of the dead and was also led in the same way. Man couldn't hear in his spirit or be led by his spirit, because of the sin of the Garden that had separated him from the Spirit of God. As a result of the fall in the Garden, man's spirit was "dead in sin and trespasses" and couldn't be trusted to lead man any longer. God then, had to deal with man from the outside, by Laws and sacrifice instead of from man's spirit.
We can now fulfill what man couldn't fulfill under the Law. We can "Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, all thy mind, all thy strength and all thy soul." Man couldn't completely fulfill this command, until the new birth, the new creation man came into being. With God's Own Spirit living within our new born-again spirit, we can love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. We have been filled with God's Own Super-natural Love to do this.
We no longer serve and follow God because of Law and fear of disobedience, but because we can now love Him like He Loves us. Jesus spoke about this in John 13:34 (Amplified) saying, "By this shall all (men) know that you are My disciples, if you love one another (if you keep on showing love among yourselves)." This God kind of Love was to be the thing distinguishing the new creation from every other kind of species of mankind on the planet.
This Love was God's Own Presence, living in us and directing our lives through His Life within us. This kind of Love was something that many heard about, but didn't understand or operate in. This Love was actually God Himself flowing through a person's newborn spirit and was exactly what Jesus walked in and explained to His followers, saying, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work." The Father was living Love and was controlling the voluntary submission of Jesus' Own Spirit. Through the indwelling Spirit of God Himself, by submitting our spirit to His Spirit, Love can now flow unrestricted to the people. Mark 6:34 (Amplified) says, "As Jesus landed, He saw a great crowd waiting, and He was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things."
The indwelling Love isn't just an "emotion" ruled by the flesh, but is "a motion" ruled by the Spirit. Love will "move" you, even when your emotions run contrary to what God's asking you to do. We have lived so long by our soulish parts (our mind, will and emotions), that we have forgotten how to be led by our spirit. Love is not an emotion, but a Person, the very Person of the Father Himself. Having this ruling Love, is what distinguishes the new creation people from all others.
We've operated by the fleshly part of our new being and have done the charitable things that the flesh needed. It is good and right to feed, clothe and care for the needs of others, but the Love (God Who lives in our spirit) wishes to move this Love deeper into our lives, as well as the lives of those around us. Love is God and God is a Spirit. He also wants to bring His Love and mercy into the spiritual part of those who we minister to. Jesus never stopped at the outside (the flesh), but He dealt with the spirit too, when He brought healing, deliverance, and "set at liberty, those who were bound." Love compels us to go forth and to follow instructions, then Love will perform the works from within us. When the heart of the new creation man is submitted unto the Father (Love) as one, then He can "do the works" that He did through Jesus. This Love is what makes us one, like Jesus and the Father are One. Jesus prayed in John 17:23 (Amplified), "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me."
The Love that has become ours through this new creation, is the same Love by which He Loved Jesus. This Love is given so the world might be able to see the Father through us. The world had not and still doesn't see the Father without this Love. God's Love set people free without their being Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, male or female or with nothing placed on them for payment. It extended to not only earthly comfort, but to spiritual comfort as well. Love reached beyond the outside man and brought healing and deliverance to their spirit. We read about a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years, because of a spirit (a demon of sickness) in Luke 13:11-17 (Amplified). In Verse 12 we read, "Jesus then loosed her from this bond." This was Love reaching beyond the natural comforts of food, clothing and shelter, into the depth of the spirit. In Verse 17 we read, "Even as He said this, all His opponents were put to shame, and all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him."
This is the Love of God and the God of Love, flowing from one Man into another, to set them free. This is the revelation being unveiled in these last days. This is the restoration of the super-natural Love of God (signs and wonders and miracles) can be brought back to the forefront and back in action again. The new creation family is the vehicle used to transport the very Presence and glory of Love (God the Father) so the people can rejoice again over all the "Glorious things that were being done by Him."
We cannot judge or determine how this new creation being is to operate by the old standards of man or covenant. Until Jesus rose from the dead and entered into the Holy of Holies on our behalf, this new creation never existed in all of previous time. The new creation is the first of his kind to ever actually have God's Own Spirit living in his spirit, making him one with God Himself.
Since this kind of man had never before been alive, it is only through the Holy Spirit and God's Word that we can know how we are to live and function. We've tried governing this new creation after the pattern of the old covenant and have failed. The old covenant operated by external Laws to govern the flesh, but the new creation has God's Word living in his own spirit to live and hear by. God Himself in Spirit form, has taken up residence in the very spirit of the new creation man.
We don't need external Laws to govern us, because we have the Word of God born into our own spirit. We are born by the Word and are living by the Word. We are directed and instructed by the Word, through the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. We've tried controlling the flesh by external rules of religion, because we haven't understood the function of the new creation. This has worked to a small degree, through shear willpower. We have "willed" our flesh into subjection, to religious formality. The new creation was supposed to be led from within by God Himself, through our now living spirit. The new creation man (the born-again spirit) was to be submitted to and infused with God's Own Spirit, to the place of controlling the flesh by that strong and submitted spirit.
Jesus was the First Born of the dead and was also led in the same way. Man couldn't hear in his spirit or be led by his spirit, because of the sin of the Garden that had separated him from the Spirit of God. As a result of the fall in the Garden, man's spirit was "dead in sin and trespasses" and couldn't be trusted to lead man any longer. God then, had to deal with man from the outside, by Laws and sacrifice instead of from man's spirit.
We can now fulfill what man couldn't fulfill under the Law. We can "Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, all thy mind, all thy strength and all thy soul." Man couldn't completely fulfill this command, until the new birth, the new creation man came into being. With God's Own Spirit living within our new born-again spirit, we can love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. We have been filled with God's Own Super-natural Love to do this.
We no longer serve and follow God because of Law and fear of disobedience, but because we can now love Him like He Loves us. Jesus spoke about this in John 13:34 (Amplified) saying, "By this shall all (men) know that you are My disciples, if you love one another (if you keep on showing love among yourselves)." This God kind of Love was to be the thing distinguishing the new creation from every other kind of species of mankind on the planet.
This Love was God's Own Presence, living in us and directing our lives through His Life within us. This kind of Love was something that many heard about, but didn't understand or operate in. This Love was actually God Himself flowing through a person's newborn spirit and was exactly what Jesus walked in and explained to His followers, saying, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work." The Father was living Love and was controlling the voluntary submission of Jesus' Own Spirit. Through the indwelling Spirit of God Himself, by submitting our spirit to His Spirit, Love can now flow unrestricted to the people. Mark 6:34 (Amplified) says, "As Jesus landed, He saw a great crowd waiting, and He was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things."
The indwelling Love isn't just an "emotion" ruled by the flesh, but is "a motion" ruled by the Spirit. Love will "move" you, even when your emotions run contrary to what God's asking you to do. We have lived so long by our soulish parts (our mind, will and emotions), that we have forgotten how to be led by our spirit. Love is not an emotion, but a Person, the very Person of the Father Himself. Having this ruling Love, is what distinguishes the new creation people from all others.
We've operated by the fleshly part of our new being and have done the charitable things that the flesh needed. It is good and right to feed, clothe and care for the needs of others, but the Love (God Who lives in our spirit) wishes to move this Love deeper into our lives, as well as the lives of those around us. Love is God and God is a Spirit. He also wants to bring His Love and mercy into the spiritual part of those who we minister to. Jesus never stopped at the outside (the flesh), but He dealt with the spirit too, when He brought healing, deliverance, and "set at liberty, those who were bound." Love compels us to go forth and to follow instructions, then Love will perform the works from within us. When the heart of the new creation man is submitted unto the Father (Love) as one, then He can "do the works" that He did through Jesus. This Love is what makes us one, like Jesus and the Father are One. Jesus prayed in John 17:23 (Amplified), "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me."
The Love that has become ours through this new creation, is the same Love by which He Loved Jesus. This Love is given so the world might be able to see the Father through us. The world had not and still doesn't see the Father without this Love. God's Love set people free without their being Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, male or female or with nothing placed on them for payment. It extended to not only earthly comfort, but to spiritual comfort as well. Love reached beyond the outside man and brought healing and deliverance to their spirit. We read about a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years, because of a spirit (a demon of sickness) in Luke 13:11-17 (Amplified). In Verse 12 we read, "Jesus then loosed her from this bond." This was Love reaching beyond the natural comforts of food, clothing and shelter, into the depth of the spirit. In Verse 17 we read, "Even as He said this, all His opponents were put to shame, and all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him."
This is the Love of God and the God of Love, flowing from one Man into another, to set them free. This is the revelation being unveiled in these last days. This is the restoration of the super-natural Love of God (signs and wonders and miracles) can be brought back to the forefront and back in action again. The new creation family is the vehicle used to transport the very Presence and glory of Love (God the Father) so the people can rejoice again over all the "Glorious things that were being done by Him."
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Lesson 125 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) 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."
It may very well be, that the most amazing thing about this new creation (new creature we've become), is that we now have the ability to love as God Loves. This might be too much for some to believe, but not for those who will listen to the Voice of the Spirit.
It's true that we are endowed with super-natural ability by our new birth, but there seems to be very little evidence of it in our lives. The answer for this dis-ability, can be found in 1Corinthians 12:31 (Amplified), where Paul is speaking about the Gifts of the Spirit. Thus, he says, "earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best Gifts and graces (the higher Gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way (one that is better by far and the highest of them all-Love)."
I've wondered many times, what Paul was actually saying in the above scripture. He was speaking about the Gifts that the Spirit gives to the new creation people. In 1Corinthians 12:11 (Amplified) he writes, "All these (Gifts, achievements, abilities) are inspired and brought to pass by One and the Same Holy Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually (exactly) as He chooses."
Speaking by the Holy Spirit, Paul says we should "desire and zealously cultivate" these Gifts. So, it's not wrong for us to want to operate in this new super-natural way of living. Some have sought after these Gifts for personal gain and some have sought after them with good hearts (but wrong heads), in order to build a larger church or ministry. We've often heard it said and have said ourselves, that "If God would only do a great miracle in our church, then it would draw more people in." This is true, but our motives for wanting this might be wrong.
God doesn't give miracles to gain crowds, He gives them because His great Love cannot stand for them to be sick or maimed by disease and satan. God doesn't need to prove He is God. He does these things, because HE IS LOVE. Paul instructed us to seek after the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. This means that they are available to us, if we seek them. Then, though, Paul said there was a "better way to obtain these Gifts." He said that "Love was the better way." Paul didn't say that "Love was one of the Gifts", he said that "Love gave us access to any (or all) of the Gifts."
We often misunderstand the meaning of Romans 5:5 (Amplified) which says, "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us."
This isn't just God's Love for us, but it's also God's Love through us." John 3:16 (Amplified) tells us, "God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that we should not perish but have everlasting life." The Love of God came through and in Jesus. Jesus was Love in motion. In the four Gospels, we see Love walk on water, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, open the eyes of the blind and perform many other miracles. Even today, many might say about this move of Love, "Yes, but He was Jesus, Son of God."
Yes, Jesus was moved by compassion to heal the multitudes, but He was mostly moved by His Love for and by His Father. Paul said that if we would "see to walk in this Love, then it would bring us into a place where the Holy Spirit (Who gives these Gifts as He chooses) would be able to give any and all these Gifts, at any times."
The Love that has been "shed abroad in our hearts," is God Himself taking up residence within us. It's not just Love, but God Who is Love, according to 1John 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "And we know (understand, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in, and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us. God is Love, and he that dwells and continues in Love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him."
The better we understand that God's Love for us is so great, the more we respond to it and the Author of it. We mostly have no idea, how strong this Love for us is. If we did, then it would be simple for us to allow it to flow from us, to those who desperately need it. We wouldn't just talk about His Love, we would demonstrate His Love and set them free.
This Love (Who is God), is what allows the Gifts to operate wherever they are need, in order the "Set at liberty, those who are bound." These Gifts are God Himself, without having any restrictions on His Love nature. This is why Paul said that "This is a better way." But, a better way for what? A better way to obtain these Gifts, than to "earnestly covet them," like we read in 1Corinthians 12:31. It's certainly not prideful to seek the Gifts like scripture says we should, but it's motivation of heart that makes them flow.
We often fail to read Galatians 5:6 (Amplified) in it's fullness. Thus, it says, "For (if we are) in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through Love." We often read this to say, "If we are not in Love, then faith doesn't work." This is certainly true, but moreover, if we don't understand this Love for us and through us, our Love isn't as strong for others as it should be. When we understand the full extent of God's Love for us, we have faith in His Love through us, because He is Love.
Our faith is actually His faith, given to us by Himself, Who is Love. We still think of Love as being an emotion, instead of the very source of Life. When this Love was "shed abroad in our hearts," it was the very entrance of God's Spirit into our new creation spirit. We are born of Love. This Love is the most powerful thing in the universe, because it is the Creator of the universe.
Love "motivates the Gifts," Love directs the Gifts, Love decides who operates in these Gifts and Love is the power of deliverance through these Gifts. Paul writes about the difference between the religious use of the Gifts and the real purpose of the Spirit in these Gifts, in 1Corinthians 13. The Holy Spirit will not stop someone from being healed by the Gift of Healing, even though the person operating in this Gift isn't operating in Love, but some other motive. Love looks beyond the natural mind and man and still sets the person free because it's God's Love and not man's love, operating in deliverance.
It's obvious to any who will honestly look and see, how religion has tried determining who and how these Gifts function through. Because we took the Gifts out of Love and then cloned something similar in religion, these Gifts fail to work like they should. These Gifts are actually only different manifestations of Love displayed through someone who allows God to work through them. Even Jesus said, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the work." It was Love in Him, Love through Him, Love guiding Him, and Love revealing Him (God) as Father, through Jesus Himself. How much more are we to learn to allow God (Who is Love), to flow through us, like in Jesus?
Religion dictates terms and reasons to explain why the Gifts don't work like they should and did in Jesus. The real reason for this failure, is that we don't understand what Love has done in us and this causes us to not allow Love to be done through us. You are Love manifested into this world, as a vehicle of God and His Presence to be presented through. This Love doesn't "hover like fog in the air," but it was infused into our spirit, when we were born-again. This is the reason we are a new creation. Until now, Love was separated and only sparsely revealed. Now, it talks, walks, moves in and through the new creation, who is a new creature born of Love. As new creations, we are guided and directed by Love to "Only say what the Father says, only go where the Father says, Only do what I see Him do." We are new creatures who like Jesus say, "When you have seen Me, you have seen Him (Love) the Father Himself."
It may very well be, that the most amazing thing about this new creation (new creature we've become), is that we now have the ability to love as God Loves. This might be too much for some to believe, but not for those who will listen to the Voice of the Spirit.
It's true that we are endowed with super-natural ability by our new birth, but there seems to be very little evidence of it in our lives. The answer for this dis-ability, can be found in 1Corinthians 12:31 (Amplified), where Paul is speaking about the Gifts of the Spirit. Thus, he says, "earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best Gifts and graces (the higher Gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way (one that is better by far and the highest of them all-Love)."
I've wondered many times, what Paul was actually saying in the above scripture. He was speaking about the Gifts that the Spirit gives to the new creation people. In 1Corinthians 12:11 (Amplified) he writes, "All these (Gifts, achievements, abilities) are inspired and brought to pass by One and the Same Holy Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually (exactly) as He chooses."
Speaking by the Holy Spirit, Paul says we should "desire and zealously cultivate" these Gifts. So, it's not wrong for us to want to operate in this new super-natural way of living. Some have sought after these Gifts for personal gain and some have sought after them with good hearts (but wrong heads), in order to build a larger church or ministry. We've often heard it said and have said ourselves, that "If God would only do a great miracle in our church, then it would draw more people in." This is true, but our motives for wanting this might be wrong.
God doesn't give miracles to gain crowds, He gives them because His great Love cannot stand for them to be sick or maimed by disease and satan. God doesn't need to prove He is God. He does these things, because HE IS LOVE. Paul instructed us to seek after the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. This means that they are available to us, if we seek them. Then, though, Paul said there was a "better way to obtain these Gifts." He said that "Love was the better way." Paul didn't say that "Love was one of the Gifts", he said that "Love gave us access to any (or all) of the Gifts."
We often misunderstand the meaning of Romans 5:5 (Amplified) which says, "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us."
This isn't just God's Love for us, but it's also God's Love through us." John 3:16 (Amplified) tells us, "God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that we should not perish but have everlasting life." The Love of God came through and in Jesus. Jesus was Love in motion. In the four Gospels, we see Love walk on water, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, open the eyes of the blind and perform many other miracles. Even today, many might say about this move of Love, "Yes, but He was Jesus, Son of God."
Yes, Jesus was moved by compassion to heal the multitudes, but He was mostly moved by His Love for and by His Father. Paul said that if we would "see to walk in this Love, then it would bring us into a place where the Holy Spirit (Who gives these Gifts as He chooses) would be able to give any and all these Gifts, at any times."
The Love that has been "shed abroad in our hearts," is God Himself taking up residence within us. It's not just Love, but God Who is Love, according to 1John 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "And we know (understand, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in, and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us. God is Love, and he that dwells and continues in Love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him."
The better we understand that God's Love for us is so great, the more we respond to it and the Author of it. We mostly have no idea, how strong this Love for us is. If we did, then it would be simple for us to allow it to flow from us, to those who desperately need it. We wouldn't just talk about His Love, we would demonstrate His Love and set them free.
This Love (Who is God), is what allows the Gifts to operate wherever they are need, in order the "Set at liberty, those who are bound." These Gifts are God Himself, without having any restrictions on His Love nature. This is why Paul said that "This is a better way." But, a better way for what? A better way to obtain these Gifts, than to "earnestly covet them," like we read in 1Corinthians 12:31. It's certainly not prideful to seek the Gifts like scripture says we should, but it's motivation of heart that makes them flow.
We often fail to read Galatians 5:6 (Amplified) in it's fullness. Thus, it says, "For (if we are) in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through Love." We often read this to say, "If we are not in Love, then faith doesn't work." This is certainly true, but moreover, if we don't understand this Love for us and through us, our Love isn't as strong for others as it should be. When we understand the full extent of God's Love for us, we have faith in His Love through us, because He is Love.
Our faith is actually His faith, given to us by Himself, Who is Love. We still think of Love as being an emotion, instead of the very source of Life. When this Love was "shed abroad in our hearts," it was the very entrance of God's Spirit into our new creation spirit. We are born of Love. This Love is the most powerful thing in the universe, because it is the Creator of the universe.
Love "motivates the Gifts," Love directs the Gifts, Love decides who operates in these Gifts and Love is the power of deliverance through these Gifts. Paul writes about the difference between the religious use of the Gifts and the real purpose of the Spirit in these Gifts, in 1Corinthians 13. The Holy Spirit will not stop someone from being healed by the Gift of Healing, even though the person operating in this Gift isn't operating in Love, but some other motive. Love looks beyond the natural mind and man and still sets the person free because it's God's Love and not man's love, operating in deliverance.
It's obvious to any who will honestly look and see, how religion has tried determining who and how these Gifts function through. Because we took the Gifts out of Love and then cloned something similar in religion, these Gifts fail to work like they should. These Gifts are actually only different manifestations of Love displayed through someone who allows God to work through them. Even Jesus said, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the work." It was Love in Him, Love through Him, Love guiding Him, and Love revealing Him (God) as Father, through Jesus Himself. How much more are we to learn to allow God (Who is Love), to flow through us, like in Jesus?
Religion dictates terms and reasons to explain why the Gifts don't work like they should and did in Jesus. The real reason for this failure, is that we don't understand what Love has done in us and this causes us to not allow Love to be done through us. You are Love manifested into this world, as a vehicle of God and His Presence to be presented through. This Love doesn't "hover like fog in the air," but it was infused into our spirit, when we were born-again. This is the reason we are a new creation. Until now, Love was separated and only sparsely revealed. Now, it talks, walks, moves in and through the new creation, who is a new creature born of Love. As new creations, we are guided and directed by Love to "Only say what the Father says, only go where the Father says, Only do what I see Him do." We are new creatures who like Jesus say, "When you have seen Me, you have seen Him (Love) the Father Himself."
Monday, November 21, 2016
Lesson 124 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation, new creature is an entirely different kind of being altogether, that has never before existed on earth. There was never a man who had God's Own Spirit living withing him, until now. The Firstborn of the new creation was Jesus and He alone was more than satan could handle. Now, because of the new birth, we have millions of God-filled people throughout the planet.
Satan couldn't prevent the new creation from taking place and tried stopping the revelation of who they really are. He tried using religion and tradition to convince them that they're no different tan they really were, with the exception of being different in Heaven when we die.Satan has worked diligently from the very first day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, to stop the Church. He has established a culture of lies and deception, in order to blind the Church and causing them to believe very little of God's Word.
We've been deceived into believing that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the power from it, ceased after Pentecost and was only for the early Church. This lie has left the Church in a powerless place. Jesus said in Acts 1:8 (Amplified), "But you will receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth."
1Corinthians 12:1 (Amplified) says, "Now about the spiritual gifts (the special endowments of the supernatural energy) brethren; I do not want you to be misinformed." The main source of "misinformation" comes from the carnal minded Christians who have been misled by man's understanding, instead of the revelation of the Holy Spirit. After the Holy Spirit was poured out from Heaven to indwell God's people, God has never withdrawn or limited His ministry. More specifically, God has turned the whole ministry of the Church over to the hands of the Holy Spirit now.
When Jesus was here in His earthly ministry, He spoke about the time He would leave and return to His Father. The future event to come that Jesus spoke about, would be for the Church. Thus, He said in John 17:16-18 (Amplified), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world) (just) as I am not of this world. Sanctify them (purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy) by the Truth, Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."
Jesus delineated what this worldly task was for the Church in Mark 16:9,15,17-18 (Amplified) saying, "Now Jesus having risen (from death) early on the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons." Jesus directed those who were present to "Go into all the world and preach this Good News t all mankind," in Verse 15. Then Jesus said to them in Verses 17-18, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they shall drive out demons, they will speak in new languages, They will pick up serpents, and (even) if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well."
Jesus spoke again in John 17:18 (Amplified) saying, "As You have sent Me, I also have sent them. This was to be the very beginning of the new creation, the super-natural family God Himself would live in and walk. He was to be our God and we were to be His people. This was the time He prophesied about in John 14:12 (Amplified), when He said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, these attesting signs will accompany those who believe (Mark 16:17)." In John 14:12 (Amplified) He says of the new believer, "He himself will be able to do the things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
Jesus spoke in the scripture above from John about the time after His death. In Mark 16, He was speaking to His followers after He had risen from the dead. In John, He spoke about the future, when He would go to the Father. In Mark, it was no longer a future thing, but a now thing. This promise from Jesus was for "Those who believe." One might ask, "Believe what?" Certainly, it was believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, but what all are we to believe in this Gospel?
Jesus did not say that "Those who believe will be saved and those who don't believe will be damned" but He said that "These signs will follow those who believe." So, Jesus was speaking about more than just being saved. He said that we would do the works that He did, including setting others free from sin, sickness, disease and death.
The new creation, new creature is an entirely different kind of being altogether, that has never before existed on earth. There was never a man who had God's Own Spirit living withing him, until now. The Firstborn of the new creation was Jesus and He alone was more than satan could handle. Now, because of the new birth, we have millions of God-filled people throughout the planet.
Satan couldn't prevent the new creation from taking place and tried stopping the revelation of who they really are. He tried using religion and tradition to convince them that they're no different tan they really were, with the exception of being different in Heaven when we die.Satan has worked diligently from the very first day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, to stop the Church. He has established a culture of lies and deception, in order to blind the Church and causing them to believe very little of God's Word.
We've been deceived into believing that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the power from it, ceased after Pentecost and was only for the early Church. This lie has left the Church in a powerless place. Jesus said in Acts 1:8 (Amplified), "But you will receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth."
1Corinthians 12:1 (Amplified) says, "Now about the spiritual gifts (the special endowments of the supernatural energy) brethren; I do not want you to be misinformed." The main source of "misinformation" comes from the carnal minded Christians who have been misled by man's understanding, instead of the revelation of the Holy Spirit. After the Holy Spirit was poured out from Heaven to indwell God's people, God has never withdrawn or limited His ministry. More specifically, God has turned the whole ministry of the Church over to the hands of the Holy Spirit now.
When Jesus was here in His earthly ministry, He spoke about the time He would leave and return to His Father. The future event to come that Jesus spoke about, would be for the Church. Thus, He said in John 17:16-18 (Amplified), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world) (just) as I am not of this world. Sanctify them (purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy) by the Truth, Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."
Jesus delineated what this worldly task was for the Church in Mark 16:9,15,17-18 (Amplified) saying, "Now Jesus having risen (from death) early on the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons." Jesus directed those who were present to "Go into all the world and preach this Good News t all mankind," in Verse 15. Then Jesus said to them in Verses 17-18, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they shall drive out demons, they will speak in new languages, They will pick up serpents, and (even) if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well."
Jesus spoke again in John 17:18 (Amplified) saying, "As You have sent Me, I also have sent them. This was to be the very beginning of the new creation, the super-natural family God Himself would live in and walk. He was to be our God and we were to be His people. This was the time He prophesied about in John 14:12 (Amplified), when He said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, these attesting signs will accompany those who believe (Mark 16:17)." In John 14:12 (Amplified) He says of the new believer, "He himself will be able to do the things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
Jesus spoke in the scripture above from John about the time after His death. In Mark 16, He was speaking to His followers after He had risen from the dead. In John, He spoke about the future, when He would go to the Father. In Mark, it was no longer a future thing, but a now thing. This promise from Jesus was for "Those who believe." One might ask, "Believe what?" Certainly, it was believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, but what all are we to believe in this Gospel?
Jesus did not say that "Those who believe will be saved and those who don't believe will be damned" but He said that "These signs will follow those who believe." So, Jesus was speaking about more than just being saved. He said that we would do the works that He did, including setting others free from sin, sickness, disease and death.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Lesson 123 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) 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."
Paul speaks to the Church about something that we still have occurring today in 1Corinthians 3:1-3,10,12-15 (Amplified) saying, "However brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual (men) but as to no spiritual (men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates), as to mere infants (in the new life) in Christ (unable to talk yet). I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough (to be ready for it) For you as still (unspiritual, having the nature) of the flesh (under the control of ordinary impulses); For as long as (there are) envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?"
As new creation people, we have a new life and nature in which to operate in for, in the Kingdom. In the above scripture, Paul spoke about what in today's lingo, we would call the different denominations and in the different teachings in them. In Verse 10, Paul makes a statement we should pay special attention to. Thus, he says, "According to the grace (the special endowment for my task) of God bestowed on me, like a skillful and master builder I laid (the) foundation, and now another (man) is building upon it. But, let each (man) be careful how he builds upon it."
Paul goes on to say that "Jesus is the Foundation" we should build upon and "there can be no other foundation." In Verses 12-15 Paul says, "But if anyone builds upon the Foundation, whether it be with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, The work of each (one) will become (plainly, openly) known (shown for what it is); for the day (of Christ) will disclose and declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test and critically appraise the character and worth of the work each person has done. But if any person's work is burned up (under the test) he will suffer the loss (of it all, losing his reward) though he himself will be saved, but only as (one who has passed) through fire."
Many of the things being taught in today's Church, are coming under scrutiny. The trial by fire has now begun and some of the structures built on the "foundations" of men are falling. God has declared that the Church is now His sanctuary, the Temple He has chosen to dwell in. We have learned or known how, "Christ in us, is our hope of Glory" and we are the Temple of God. And, even though we read and say we believe this, we continue living like He isn't there at all.
One of the greatest revelations coming to the Church in these last days, is found in Jesus' prayer just before His going to the cross. Jesus spoke to the Father about the events that would happen, after His resurrection and the birth of the Church. Jesus speaks to the Father about how God would actually live in each person who will accept this truth and they would become the Church or Temple of God on earth. Thus, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, saying in John 17:22-23 (Amplified), "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One." The "glory and honor" He speaks about, is the Holy Spirit, God Himself, Who was living in Jesus' flesh and blood body. Now, through His death and resurrection, all who will believe, can become God's Temple on earth.
Jesus went on to pray in Verse 23 saying, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me." This prayer was (and still us) being answered in the Upper Room and is still "filling the believer (the Temple of God)" today. Much of the building we have built on the Foundation of Jesus Christ, has denied the Presence and power of the indwelling Person of the Holy Spirit, God in us. We have tried to build a man-made structure on a God-made Foundation, so the structure is always in need of repairs.
God is in the process of building a house of prayer and a house of praise, so He can dwell in His fullness like He was able to do through Jesus. Jesus spoke to the Father about the new creation, that would arise out of His death and Sacrifice in the Garden. The new creation was a being (individually and collectively) who would be like He was, both a natural man of flesh and bone and filled with the Super-natural Spirit of God Himself. The new creation was to be a permanent House of the Glory and Life of Almighty God, according to John 14:12 (Amplified), where Jesus said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these because I go to the Father."
Only a mind that is renewed by the Word and the Holy Spirit, can grasp what Jesus was saying in the above scripture. A carnal mind simply cannot reach into this realm of Truth. Jesus was speaking about not being just "one Man or Body," but about many men becoming one Body, His Body on this earth. Now, there isn't only One Man filled with the Father, but millions of men who are filled with the Father and that it's not us, "but the Father in us, Who does the work." The world marveled at the things the Father did through Jesus and they would marvel again at the things God will do through the Church, the Body of Christ here on earth. The very same Father Who worked through Jesus,would now be able to work through His Body, the Body of Christ living in the midst of mankind. The greater works (bringing the new birth) and the same miracles the Father performed through Jesus as a Man, could and would be done through His Body which is made up of many "living stones," born-again men and women who are the new creation people of God's Temple and His dwelling place on earth.
This message isn't for building up men's ego, but it is a message of Truth from the lips of Jesus. Our ego has nothing to do with it, because ego cannot enter in where we will receive the Mind of Christ. We must always remember that, "It's not us, but the Father in us, Who does the work." This will keep you from both ego and fear. You won't fear that "I can't heal them," but will do like Jesus did and allow the Father in you to do the work. The new creation people started out alright, when the House that was being built on the Firm Foundation was truth. For many years after Jesus' resurrection, men did great and mighty things in His Name. Eventually though, we stopped building on the Foundation and began putting up prefab houses on it. Prefab houses aren't built over time, but are made to move into instantly. They will keep us dry, but are not as strong as stone structures, made with living stones.
God is building His Temple out for stones that are not cut by man, but from living stones on the Foundation of Truth, who will fill the earth. Religions and philosophies cannot remain strong enough to remain intact, when storms arise. Only those who are anchored securely with the revelation of the Father in us, Who does the work will remain. As the Body of Christ, we are now God's hands to lay on the sick, the Voice of God to go into the world and proclaim Jesus, the feet of God to carry Him into the homes and towns of men and we are His vehicle of Truth, bringing Him into contact with the world.
It is not you, but the Father in you, Who does the work. God came to the sick in the person of Jesus, Paul, Stephen, Phillip, Peter, John, Smith Wigglesworth AND YOU.
Paul speaks to the Church about something that we still have occurring today in 1Corinthians 3:1-3,10,12-15 (Amplified) saying, "However brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual (men) but as to no spiritual (men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates), as to mere infants (in the new life) in Christ (unable to talk yet). I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough (to be ready for it) For you as still (unspiritual, having the nature) of the flesh (under the control of ordinary impulses); For as long as (there are) envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?"
As new creation people, we have a new life and nature in which to operate in for, in the Kingdom. In the above scripture, Paul spoke about what in today's lingo, we would call the different denominations and in the different teachings in them. In Verse 10, Paul makes a statement we should pay special attention to. Thus, he says, "According to the grace (the special endowment for my task) of God bestowed on me, like a skillful and master builder I laid (the) foundation, and now another (man) is building upon it. But, let each (man) be careful how he builds upon it."
Paul goes on to say that "Jesus is the Foundation" we should build upon and "there can be no other foundation." In Verses 12-15 Paul says, "But if anyone builds upon the Foundation, whether it be with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, The work of each (one) will become (plainly, openly) known (shown for what it is); for the day (of Christ) will disclose and declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test and critically appraise the character and worth of the work each person has done. But if any person's work is burned up (under the test) he will suffer the loss (of it all, losing his reward) though he himself will be saved, but only as (one who has passed) through fire."
Many of the things being taught in today's Church, are coming under scrutiny. The trial by fire has now begun and some of the structures built on the "foundations" of men are falling. God has declared that the Church is now His sanctuary, the Temple He has chosen to dwell in. We have learned or known how, "Christ in us, is our hope of Glory" and we are the Temple of God. And, even though we read and say we believe this, we continue living like He isn't there at all.
One of the greatest revelations coming to the Church in these last days, is found in Jesus' prayer just before His going to the cross. Jesus spoke to the Father about the events that would happen, after His resurrection and the birth of the Church. Jesus speaks to the Father about how God would actually live in each person who will accept this truth and they would become the Church or Temple of God on earth. Thus, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, saying in John 17:22-23 (Amplified), "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One." The "glory and honor" He speaks about, is the Holy Spirit, God Himself, Who was living in Jesus' flesh and blood body. Now, through His death and resurrection, all who will believe, can become God's Temple on earth.
Jesus went on to pray in Verse 23 saying, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me." This prayer was (and still us) being answered in the Upper Room and is still "filling the believer (the Temple of God)" today. Much of the building we have built on the Foundation of Jesus Christ, has denied the Presence and power of the indwelling Person of the Holy Spirit, God in us. We have tried to build a man-made structure on a God-made Foundation, so the structure is always in need of repairs.
God is in the process of building a house of prayer and a house of praise, so He can dwell in His fullness like He was able to do through Jesus. Jesus spoke to the Father about the new creation, that would arise out of His death and Sacrifice in the Garden. The new creation was a being (individually and collectively) who would be like He was, both a natural man of flesh and bone and filled with the Super-natural Spirit of God Himself. The new creation was to be a permanent House of the Glory and Life of Almighty God, according to John 14:12 (Amplified), where Jesus said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these because I go to the Father."
Only a mind that is renewed by the Word and the Holy Spirit, can grasp what Jesus was saying in the above scripture. A carnal mind simply cannot reach into this realm of Truth. Jesus was speaking about not being just "one Man or Body," but about many men becoming one Body, His Body on this earth. Now, there isn't only One Man filled with the Father, but millions of men who are filled with the Father and that it's not us, "but the Father in us, Who does the work." The world marveled at the things the Father did through Jesus and they would marvel again at the things God will do through the Church, the Body of Christ here on earth. The very same Father Who worked through Jesus,would now be able to work through His Body, the Body of Christ living in the midst of mankind. The greater works (bringing the new birth) and the same miracles the Father performed through Jesus as a Man, could and would be done through His Body which is made up of many "living stones," born-again men and women who are the new creation people of God's Temple and His dwelling place on earth.
This message isn't for building up men's ego, but it is a message of Truth from the lips of Jesus. Our ego has nothing to do with it, because ego cannot enter in where we will receive the Mind of Christ. We must always remember that, "It's not us, but the Father in us, Who does the work." This will keep you from both ego and fear. You won't fear that "I can't heal them," but will do like Jesus did and allow the Father in you to do the work. The new creation people started out alright, when the House that was being built on the Firm Foundation was truth. For many years after Jesus' resurrection, men did great and mighty things in His Name. Eventually though, we stopped building on the Foundation and began putting up prefab houses on it. Prefab houses aren't built over time, but are made to move into instantly. They will keep us dry, but are not as strong as stone structures, made with living stones.
God is building His Temple out for stones that are not cut by man, but from living stones on the Foundation of Truth, who will fill the earth. Religions and philosophies cannot remain strong enough to remain intact, when storms arise. Only those who are anchored securely with the revelation of the Father in us, Who does the work will remain. As the Body of Christ, we are now God's hands to lay on the sick, the Voice of God to go into the world and proclaim Jesus, the feet of God to carry Him into the homes and towns of men and we are His vehicle of Truth, bringing Him into contact with the world.
It is not you, but the Father in you, Who does the work. God came to the sick in the person of Jesus, Paul, Stephen, Phillip, Peter, John, Smith Wigglesworth AND YOU.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Lesson 122 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether) the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
If the above scripture written by the Apostle Paul is true (and you know it is), then everyone who is born-again is different from any other being who has ever existed before on earth. We've tried patterning our lives after previous generations, without realizing we are not like them. We can't try establishing the Body of Christ (the Church) after anyone, not even those who lived under the Law.
Although the people under the Law were in covenant with God, they weren't like the new creation people in God's family today. These people were still spiritually dead and shut off from the Spirit of Life (God) in their spirit man. They were spirit people, because they were made in the Image and Likeness of God and God is a Spirit. When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, they were severed from God and therefore, Life Himself.
Under the new covenant, we've not only had Life restored into our spirit man, but we have God's Own Spirit (which is Life) infused into our new spirit man. Through Jesus, we've become one with Him and the Father. This isn't like it was in the Old Testament, where the Holy Spirit would come upon the men and women and they would do miraculous things. Now, the Holy Spirit, Who is God, is now intertwined with our spirit and has made us one spirit with God Himself. There couldn't be a Body of Christ, if we are not one with Him.
We are one with God and His spirit is one with our spirit. We have the same God Who created everything, living within us, in our spirit man. We are infused together with God and have an awesome power and responsibility to not only proclaim Jesus by our actions, along with the responsibility to watch over the very words we speak.
When Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River and filled with the Holy Spirit, He could then (and only then) to speak things that came to pass. Before the Holy Spirit was infused with Jesus' Spirit, like ours is now, Jesus never said or performed a miracle. Since we are His Body and are one with Jesus and the Father, we have the responsibility to say things that have power in the earth. Jesus simply spoke healings and miracles, by His Words that came out of God. Now, we have God's Word written down, so that we too can speak God's Word like we should, and get results like we should.
There have been many teachings about the confession of our mouths. Some of those contained truth, while others didn't. We are to know the Truth and the "Truth will set us free." There have been any who simply dismissed this revelation completely, but if we are in the Likeness and Image of God, then we have at least some of His attributes operating in our new creation spirit man.
We are not Jesus and we are not the Lord, but don't confuse the fact and the truth that we are still like Him. I am not my earthly father, but I was born with his DNA and have his attributes operating in me. We are not God, but we are His children and have been made in His Image and Likeness. The power of words, control this entire universe and everything in it. God spoke this entire world into being and He holds it in place by His Word.
I wrote another blog about the power of words and the use of them. The universe still operates by Words. The Constitution is nothing more than words and the Declaration of Independence is only words. If we hold fast to and stand for these words, then we have liberty. If we allow someone to change the meaning of these words, then we will lose liberty. The laws of our Land are only spoken, written words, to be enforced. God's Word is the very same thing.
One would think that the new creation people would understand the power of the words that are spoken from our spirit man and understand what these words could do. Instead of speaking God's Words of blessing, healing, victory and liberty, we speak sickness, death, cursing and bondage and then wonder why nothing is working in our lives. I'm not talking about our creating a new universe, but we can make changes in the home, family, town and even the country we live in. Do you think it was an accident that we have political correction to alter our speech? Or, do you think it has something to do with what we've been speaking?
When we alter our words, we alter the power of what we say. We have the ability to speak God's Word, while we have God living in our own spirit. Do you think that God or His Word has changed? If Jesus only said, "What the Father said" and got the Father's results, then do you think God doesn't "Watch over His Word to perform it" anymore? You might not change the universe with your speech, but you can change your life by it. Didn't we go from death to Life, by speaking and confessing Jesus as our Lord? Do you think salvation is the only part of God's Word we can depend on, to work in our lives? As the new creation, we have God's Own ability to speak His Word and get results.
We've been so programmed by the world for years, that we don't pay attention to what we say and how we say it. Jesus told His disciples in Mark 11:23 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart, but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
You might not "Throw a mountain into the sea" (even thou you could), but do we believe in our hearts that our words will take place? Because what we "believe in our hearts, come out of our mouths," are we to have faith that whatsoever we say will happen? Jesus didn't say that "only good things," but "whatsoever" we believe in our hearts. Do we believe and speak words from our hearts, about our children? Do you speak good or bad things? Do we confess the curse or the blessing, sickness or health? Do you really believe that words can shape our lives or do you believe they make no difference and we can simply say whatever we wish to?
Paul wrote in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) that, "Their throat is a awning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to be misled and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps i beneath their lips." These are evil doers who change men by their words. How much more power must there be in the Word of God spoken from new creation people (who are filled with God Himself)? Why have evil doers discovered the power of words, while God's people have not?
Instead of speaking the things the world says and think, why don't we simply listen to the Holy Spirit and keep our words lined up with God? Words made the grass, the trees, the water, all the animals, the mountains, the stars, the sun and the universe. Words created mankind and everything we see or don't see. The "Word was made flesh and has lived among us," and now this Word has made a new creation, to bring about a new kingdom by words, preaching a new creation.
Stop, listen sometime to what you are saying and see if your faith filled words are creating good and blessing or sickness and chaos in your life. You have the Holy Spirit to "tame your tongue," according to James 3:8-9 (Amplified) which says, "But the human tongue (natural man) can be tamed by no man, it is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison with it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse men who were made in God's Likeness." Words coming from the heart of the new creation, have power to bless and curse. We can even bless or curse our own lives, by yielding our tongues over to the devil and the world and speaking what they speak, instead of what God speaks. The power if in the words.
If the above scripture written by the Apostle Paul is true (and you know it is), then everyone who is born-again is different from any other being who has ever existed before on earth. We've tried patterning our lives after previous generations, without realizing we are not like them. We can't try establishing the Body of Christ (the Church) after anyone, not even those who lived under the Law.
Although the people under the Law were in covenant with God, they weren't like the new creation people in God's family today. These people were still spiritually dead and shut off from the Spirit of Life (God) in their spirit man. They were spirit people, because they were made in the Image and Likeness of God and God is a Spirit. When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, they were severed from God and therefore, Life Himself.
Under the new covenant, we've not only had Life restored into our spirit man, but we have God's Own Spirit (which is Life) infused into our new spirit man. Through Jesus, we've become one with Him and the Father. This isn't like it was in the Old Testament, where the Holy Spirit would come upon the men and women and they would do miraculous things. Now, the Holy Spirit, Who is God, is now intertwined with our spirit and has made us one spirit with God Himself. There couldn't be a Body of Christ, if we are not one with Him.
We are one with God and His spirit is one with our spirit. We have the same God Who created everything, living within us, in our spirit man. We are infused together with God and have an awesome power and responsibility to not only proclaim Jesus by our actions, along with the responsibility to watch over the very words we speak.
When Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River and filled with the Holy Spirit, He could then (and only then) to speak things that came to pass. Before the Holy Spirit was infused with Jesus' Spirit, like ours is now, Jesus never said or performed a miracle. Since we are His Body and are one with Jesus and the Father, we have the responsibility to say things that have power in the earth. Jesus simply spoke healings and miracles, by His Words that came out of God. Now, we have God's Word written down, so that we too can speak God's Word like we should, and get results like we should.
There have been many teachings about the confession of our mouths. Some of those contained truth, while others didn't. We are to know the Truth and the "Truth will set us free." There have been any who simply dismissed this revelation completely, but if we are in the Likeness and Image of God, then we have at least some of His attributes operating in our new creation spirit man.
We are not Jesus and we are not the Lord, but don't confuse the fact and the truth that we are still like Him. I am not my earthly father, but I was born with his DNA and have his attributes operating in me. We are not God, but we are His children and have been made in His Image and Likeness. The power of words, control this entire universe and everything in it. God spoke this entire world into being and He holds it in place by His Word.
I wrote another blog about the power of words and the use of them. The universe still operates by Words. The Constitution is nothing more than words and the Declaration of Independence is only words. If we hold fast to and stand for these words, then we have liberty. If we allow someone to change the meaning of these words, then we will lose liberty. The laws of our Land are only spoken, written words, to be enforced. God's Word is the very same thing.
One would think that the new creation people would understand the power of the words that are spoken from our spirit man and understand what these words could do. Instead of speaking God's Words of blessing, healing, victory and liberty, we speak sickness, death, cursing and bondage and then wonder why nothing is working in our lives. I'm not talking about our creating a new universe, but we can make changes in the home, family, town and even the country we live in. Do you think it was an accident that we have political correction to alter our speech? Or, do you think it has something to do with what we've been speaking?
When we alter our words, we alter the power of what we say. We have the ability to speak God's Word, while we have God living in our own spirit. Do you think that God or His Word has changed? If Jesus only said, "What the Father said" and got the Father's results, then do you think God doesn't "Watch over His Word to perform it" anymore? You might not change the universe with your speech, but you can change your life by it. Didn't we go from death to Life, by speaking and confessing Jesus as our Lord? Do you think salvation is the only part of God's Word we can depend on, to work in our lives? As the new creation, we have God's Own ability to speak His Word and get results.
We've been so programmed by the world for years, that we don't pay attention to what we say and how we say it. Jesus told His disciples in Mark 11:23 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart, but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
You might not "Throw a mountain into the sea" (even thou you could), but do we believe in our hearts that our words will take place? Because what we "believe in our hearts, come out of our mouths," are we to have faith that whatsoever we say will happen? Jesus didn't say that "only good things," but "whatsoever" we believe in our hearts. Do we believe and speak words from our hearts, about our children? Do you speak good or bad things? Do we confess the curse or the blessing, sickness or health? Do you really believe that words can shape our lives or do you believe they make no difference and we can simply say whatever we wish to?
Paul wrote in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) that, "Their throat is a awning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to be misled and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps i beneath their lips." These are evil doers who change men by their words. How much more power must there be in the Word of God spoken from new creation people (who are filled with God Himself)? Why have evil doers discovered the power of words, while God's people have not?
Instead of speaking the things the world says and think, why don't we simply listen to the Holy Spirit and keep our words lined up with God? Words made the grass, the trees, the water, all the animals, the mountains, the stars, the sun and the universe. Words created mankind and everything we see or don't see. The "Word was made flesh and has lived among us," and now this Word has made a new creation, to bring about a new kingdom by words, preaching a new creation.
Stop, listen sometime to what you are saying and see if your faith filled words are creating good and blessing or sickness and chaos in your life. You have the Holy Spirit to "tame your tongue," according to James 3:8-9 (Amplified) which says, "But the human tongue (natural man) can be tamed by no man, it is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison with it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse men who were made in God's Likeness." Words coming from the heart of the new creation, have power to bless and curse. We can even bless or curse our own lives, by yielding our tongues over to the devil and the world and speaking what they speak, instead of what God speaks. The power if in the words.
Friday, November 11, 2016
Lesson 121 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We were born of the Spirit, filled with God's Spirit and are to be led by the Holy Spirit, in order that we might know and do His will. Jesus said that, "He and the Father are One" and that "He didn't come to do His will, but the will of the Father." We are to know The Shepherd's Voice and not follow the voice of a stranger. In order to know the Father's will, we must know Jesus. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to know God's will and do His will on earth.
Many might say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit," but I would answer, "You have the Spirit Who has the Gifts." God gives His Gifts severely as He wills and if we go in His will, then God will manifest the Gifts to profit those in need. We've somehow forgotten, that the Greater One lives in us and it's not us, but the "Father in us, Who does the works." If we will only put faith back into what God has now created for us and go about to do His will, then God will still confirm His Word with signs and wonders following.
You are not the healer and never have been, but you are the messenger who brings the Healer to the sick. As new creation people, our responsibility is to know God's will and be where He directed us to be when He needs us to be there. We've tried making the Holy Spirit our messenger boy, instead of going to the sick, we "send Him." Don't we know that where we go, God goes? Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
Even with my "lightning fast mind," I can tell that the way the earth if functioning, isn't the way Heaven functions. If God's will is being done here and we're seeing the results of this, then Heaven must be in real trouble. When we stop looking to the religious order and return to righteous order, things will change. The power of the Holy Spirit will confirm God's Word, as we bring the Word the world just like Jesus did.
We were created to know our Father's will, by knowing His Son and then executing His will on earth. We have the same mandate Adam was given, "To go forth and replenish and take dominion over the earth." Adam was to spread God's blessing from the Garden of Eden, to the ends of the earth. Now, we have the Father living inside us, through Jesus. The Holy Spirit and our spirit are one spirit in God. How can we not be victorious, if we will only go forth?
Jesus told His disciples to "Wait in Jerusalem until they receive power from on Higher." Satan did his best to talk us out of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and this power. God gives this power to demonstrate His Kingdom to those on earth and it is very much available to "all who will believe." The new creation is the antidote for sin, sickness, despair and death. Jesus said that we are "Of this world, but not of this world." Jesus said that He was"Sent down from above, to do the will of the Father." We have come down from above, to do the will of the Father, too. We were born from above by His Spiirt and we are to function like one from above, by His Own Spirit living in us.
We were born of the Spirit, filled with God's Spirit and are to be led by the Holy Spirit, in order that we might know and do His will. Jesus said that, "He and the Father are One" and that "He didn't come to do His will, but the will of the Father." We are to know The Shepherd's Voice and not follow the voice of a stranger. In order to know the Father's will, we must know Jesus. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to know God's will and do His will on earth.
Many might say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit," but I would answer, "You have the Spirit Who has the Gifts." God gives His Gifts severely as He wills and if we go in His will, then God will manifest the Gifts to profit those in need. We've somehow forgotten, that the Greater One lives in us and it's not us, but the "Father in us, Who does the works." If we will only put faith back into what God has now created for us and go about to do His will, then God will still confirm His Word with signs and wonders following.
You are not the healer and never have been, but you are the messenger who brings the Healer to the sick. As new creation people, our responsibility is to know God's will and be where He directed us to be when He needs us to be there. We've tried making the Holy Spirit our messenger boy, instead of going to the sick, we "send Him." Don't we know that where we go, God goes? Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
Even with my "lightning fast mind," I can tell that the way the earth if functioning, isn't the way Heaven functions. If God's will is being done here and we're seeing the results of this, then Heaven must be in real trouble. When we stop looking to the religious order and return to righteous order, things will change. The power of the Holy Spirit will confirm God's Word, as we bring the Word the world just like Jesus did.
We were created to know our Father's will, by knowing His Son and then executing His will on earth. We have the same mandate Adam was given, "To go forth and replenish and take dominion over the earth." Adam was to spread God's blessing from the Garden of Eden, to the ends of the earth. Now, we have the Father living inside us, through Jesus. The Holy Spirit and our spirit are one spirit in God. How can we not be victorious, if we will only go forth?
Jesus told His disciples to "Wait in Jerusalem until they receive power from on Higher." Satan did his best to talk us out of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and this power. God gives this power to demonstrate His Kingdom to those on earth and it is very much available to "all who will believe." The new creation is the antidote for sin, sickness, despair and death. Jesus said that we are "Of this world, but not of this world." Jesus said that He was"Sent down from above, to do the will of the Father." We have come down from above, to do the will of the Father, too. We were born from above by His Spiirt and we are to function like one from above, by His Own Spirit living in us.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Lesson 120 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person in (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) 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."
As new creation Ambassadors for Christ, we are sent by the King of our New Kingdom, to reveal Life to the dead and to bring them into this new creation family of God. We've been created new by the Life that is in the Word and we are commissioned to go forth, administering Life to those who are still dead in sin and trespasses. We were never commissioned to "start a new religion," but to bring Life to a dying world.
The Church's entire purpose for being here on earth, is to minister Life to those who are still dead. 2Corinthians 5:19 (Amplified) says, "It was God (personally present) in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against (men) their trespasses (but cancelling them) and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor)." This is our commission as ambassadors of Christ, to minister reconciliation to the world.
God's Word is the source of Life for the new creation, according to 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." We preach that everyone must be forgiven of sin and trespasses and strive to live upright. However, we haven't been preaching how God presents all with the choice of Life, by the new creation. Every person on this planet, has been presented with the choice to live or die and with the choice to be blessed or continue in the curse. When presented in wisdom and the Anointing, it's difficult to reject Life, but when presented in the spirit of religion (even by well meaning people), many will choose to continue in the curse.
The world and to some degree, the Church tend to judge after the flesh and not after the Spirit. We tend to judge people for their past or for their actions we deem to be wrong. We've been given the choices by God and He will allow us to make wrong choices. He will speak to us, guide us and even plead with us, but He allows us to make our own choices and direction.
The Word of Life and reconciliation that we preach, isn't to become items of debate or argument to persuade, but it is the demonstration of power from God's Kingdom. The Life that we are to minister, is to be accompanied with Life Itself, to heal, deliver and restore the new creation into God's Kingdom. When we preach Life, then Life is the proof of God's Kingdom for the entire world.
Jesus sent out His disciples with instructions on how to announce the Kingdom of God in Luke 10:8-11 (Amplified) saying, "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. But whenever you go into a town and they do not receive and accept and welcome you, go out into the streets and say, Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we are wiping off against you; yet know and understand this; this Kingdom of God has come near you."
Somehow, we've made the Gospel so unappealing that it's not very hard to reject the favor of God. We've made it seem lifeless and dull, so that the people only see lifelessness and bondage. We preach liberty and freedom, then we bind them with religious traditions that have no life in them. When we minister Life, there should be Life confirmed by the signs following. Otherwise, this message is simply words.
We are to walk in demonstration of power released in us and through us by the King of the Kingdom we represent. We've become the "religious" people of Timothy's day, who Paul called the "future religious order," in 2Timothy 3:5 (Amplified) saying, "For (Although) they hold a form of piety (true religion) they deny and reject and are true strangers to the power of it (their conduct belies the genuiness of their profession) Avoid (all) such people (turn away from them)."
We have many things today, that are outer showings in the Church and are still "unsaved (dead) in spirit, making the Church in their own liking." This is a worldwide occurrence and isn't happening only in America. There are and always have been, many religions throughout the world. People worship many gods and have many ways of reaching those gods. We must have the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrating God's Kingdom and our King, in order to reach these people and overcome the demonic teachings and culture. Without the power of the Kingdom backing us, we seem like just another way to heaven, to the world.
As new creation people, we've been united with God by His Spirit within our own spirit. Within this union, we've been granted all that is needed to demonstrate the Kingdom we represent. We are to demonstrate healing to the sick and to bring (speak) peace into their homes and lives by God Himself. We've become carriers of Life and "capsules" of the very Life of God for a dead world. Their future and our futures are determined by how we choose, when the choice is presented. Do they choose Life and blessing? Or, do they remain ignorant, choosing death and cursing? Their choice might come down to how we present the Message of Life to them. If we present Jesus in the power of God's Spirit, then we will be successful in steering their choice for Life. If we present Jesus like other religions present their gods, then we will not succeed in our mission.
It's difficult to believe that some will choose death and cursing, if they truly understand the Truth being presented. Most people I led to the Lord, came because of the demonstration of power that God's Kingdom I represented. It's hard to deny God's Kingdom when you've witnessed the Presence of our Heavenly King to those who are unsaved. God comes in power, peace, deliverance, and Light that expels darkness in every area of our lives.
The commission and work of the new creation people, is to bring Life (by Word and power) to dead men. We're to bring the Life of God into their spirit again, by revealing Jesus is ALIVE. He is not some god who cannot speak or hear, but He is a Living God Who is always attentive to the choice He bestows to us. God sired the new creation people into a realm, unlike any other on this planet.
We were born of the Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit,and led by the Spirit of God Himself. We are not only called to know His will and to do His will. Jesus didn't come to do His Own will, but the will of the Father. As new creation people, we are supposed to be like Jesus was in the earth. We are to know the Voice of our Shepherd and not follow the voice of a stranger. Many will say to God, "Thy will be done," but then do not do His will. Many mistakenly call evil, ungodly things "God's will." In order to know God's will, we must KNOW JESUS.
Jesus said that, "The Father and I are One." How much more do we need to see, in order to know what God's will is and then do His will? Did Jesus ever make anyone sick? Of course not. Is sickness, then, God's will for us today? If it is, then Jesus wasn't doing the Father's will. If healing was the work Jesus came to do, then healing must still be God's will for today, because He and the Father are One. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to not only know God's will, but to go forth doing God's will in the earth.
Many say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit." I say, "You have the Spirit Who has the gifts." God gives these Gifts "severely as He wills" and if we go in His will, then He will manifest the power (or Gifts) to profit withal," according to 1Corinthians 12.
As new creation Ambassadors for Christ, we are sent by the King of our New Kingdom, to reveal Life to the dead and to bring them into this new creation family of God. We've been created new by the Life that is in the Word and we are commissioned to go forth, administering Life to those who are still dead in sin and trespasses. We were never commissioned to "start a new religion," but to bring Life to a dying world.
The Church's entire purpose for being here on earth, is to minister Life to those who are still dead. 2Corinthians 5:19 (Amplified) says, "It was God (personally present) in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against (men) their trespasses (but cancelling them) and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor)." This is our commission as ambassadors of Christ, to minister reconciliation to the world.
God's Word is the source of Life for the new creation, according to 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." We preach that everyone must be forgiven of sin and trespasses and strive to live upright. However, we haven't been preaching how God presents all with the choice of Life, by the new creation. Every person on this planet, has been presented with the choice to live or die and with the choice to be blessed or continue in the curse. When presented in wisdom and the Anointing, it's difficult to reject Life, but when presented in the spirit of religion (even by well meaning people), many will choose to continue in the curse.
The world and to some degree, the Church tend to judge after the flesh and not after the Spirit. We tend to judge people for their past or for their actions we deem to be wrong. We've been given the choices by God and He will allow us to make wrong choices. He will speak to us, guide us and even plead with us, but He allows us to make our own choices and direction.
The Word of Life and reconciliation that we preach, isn't to become items of debate or argument to persuade, but it is the demonstration of power from God's Kingdom. The Life that we are to minister, is to be accompanied with Life Itself, to heal, deliver and restore the new creation into God's Kingdom. When we preach Life, then Life is the proof of God's Kingdom for the entire world.
Jesus sent out His disciples with instructions on how to announce the Kingdom of God in Luke 10:8-11 (Amplified) saying, "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. But whenever you go into a town and they do not receive and accept and welcome you, go out into the streets and say, Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we are wiping off against you; yet know and understand this; this Kingdom of God has come near you."
Somehow, we've made the Gospel so unappealing that it's not very hard to reject the favor of God. We've made it seem lifeless and dull, so that the people only see lifelessness and bondage. We preach liberty and freedom, then we bind them with religious traditions that have no life in them. When we minister Life, there should be Life confirmed by the signs following. Otherwise, this message is simply words.
We are to walk in demonstration of power released in us and through us by the King of the Kingdom we represent. We've become the "religious" people of Timothy's day, who Paul called the "future religious order," in 2Timothy 3:5 (Amplified) saying, "For (Although) they hold a form of piety (true religion) they deny and reject and are true strangers to the power of it (their conduct belies the genuiness of their profession) Avoid (all) such people (turn away from them)."
We have many things today, that are outer showings in the Church and are still "unsaved (dead) in spirit, making the Church in their own liking." This is a worldwide occurrence and isn't happening only in America. There are and always have been, many religions throughout the world. People worship many gods and have many ways of reaching those gods. We must have the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrating God's Kingdom and our King, in order to reach these people and overcome the demonic teachings and culture. Without the power of the Kingdom backing us, we seem like just another way to heaven, to the world.
As new creation people, we've been united with God by His Spirit within our own spirit. Within this union, we've been granted all that is needed to demonstrate the Kingdom we represent. We are to demonstrate healing to the sick and to bring (speak) peace into their homes and lives by God Himself. We've become carriers of Life and "capsules" of the very Life of God for a dead world. Their future and our futures are determined by how we choose, when the choice is presented. Do they choose Life and blessing? Or, do they remain ignorant, choosing death and cursing? Their choice might come down to how we present the Message of Life to them. If we present Jesus in the power of God's Spirit, then we will be successful in steering their choice for Life. If we present Jesus like other religions present their gods, then we will not succeed in our mission.
It's difficult to believe that some will choose death and cursing, if they truly understand the Truth being presented. Most people I led to the Lord, came because of the demonstration of power that God's Kingdom I represented. It's hard to deny God's Kingdom when you've witnessed the Presence of our Heavenly King to those who are unsaved. God comes in power, peace, deliverance, and Light that expels darkness in every area of our lives.
The commission and work of the new creation people, is to bring Life (by Word and power) to dead men. We're to bring the Life of God into their spirit again, by revealing Jesus is ALIVE. He is not some god who cannot speak or hear, but He is a Living God Who is always attentive to the choice He bestows to us. God sired the new creation people into a realm, unlike any other on this planet.
We were born of the Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit,and led by the Spirit of God Himself. We are not only called to know His will and to do His will. Jesus didn't come to do His Own will, but the will of the Father. As new creation people, we are supposed to be like Jesus was in the earth. We are to know the Voice of our Shepherd and not follow the voice of a stranger. Many will say to God, "Thy will be done," but then do not do His will. Many mistakenly call evil, ungodly things "God's will." In order to know God's will, we must KNOW JESUS.
Jesus said that, "The Father and I are One." How much more do we need to see, in order to know what God's will is and then do His will? Did Jesus ever make anyone sick? Of course not. Is sickness, then, God's will for us today? If it is, then Jesus wasn't doing the Father's will. If healing was the work Jesus came to do, then healing must still be God's will for today, because He and the Father are One. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to not only know God's will, but to go forth doing God's will in the earth.
Many say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit." I say, "You have the Spirit Who has the gifts." God gives these Gifts "severely as He wills" and if we go in His will, then He will manifest the power (or Gifts) to profit withal," according to 1Corinthians 12.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Lesson 119 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) 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."
The "fresh and new" isn't something that has been held back for another time, but has now already come. When we received Jesus as our Savior, the new creation was instantly born from above. We've spent many days and years trying to become what the Father has already done. We don't need to try becoming a new creation, you are already a new creation. Now, we study the Word of God to discover what the new creation was born to do.
2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God." As ambassadors of Christ, we are sent forth from the Kingdom of God into a foreign country, to reveal the new Kingdom to those who are outside of this realm. This Kingdom has resources and privileges that the earthly kingdom cannot offer to the people.
As personal representatives of Christ, we're not only to show the world a different religion, but Life itself. In John 10:10 Jesus didn't say that He would show the people a different way to live, but He said that without Him, they couldn't and didn't live at all. These people were eating, drinking, building home and raising families, but they were not alive. They had no concept of "spiritual death" and had no idea of what He was saying. For much of today's Church, we still have no concept of what Jesus was saying. It's true that sin brought death, but this death was separation from God Who is Life. The flesh still had life, because we were created by God as spirit beings and spirit beings are eternal. It wasn't that the spirit wouldn't live forever, but where it would live, according to Revelations 20:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Then death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. Verse 15 goes on, "And if anyone's (name) was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the Lake of Fire."
This isn't just a source of punishment. For those who didn't have their names in the Book of Life, they were already dead before the judgment. These were those who rejected the offer of Life and decided to remain children of transgression. Their father is the devil, he is transgression itself.
Since spirit beings are already eternal beings, not confining these outlaw spirits from the new heaven and new earth, would be equivalent to opening all of our prisons and setting all of the prisoners free into society.
If you can imagine the results of releasing satan and his works into the new heaven and earth, then what would be different in the future from what it is now? Would Jesus have to come and die again and again pay for perpetual sin? Hebrews 10:26-27 (Amplified) says, "For if we go on deliberately and willingly sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to atone for (our) sins (no further offering to which to look forward) (There is nothing left for us then) but a kind of awful and fearful prospect and expectation of divine judgment and the fury of burning wrath and indignation which will consume those who put themselves in opposition (to God)."
The above scripture speaks about those who put themselves in opposition to God. We all have God's grace operating for us to bring us to the place of salvation, but if we deliberately set ourselves to oppose God, then we have counted Jesus' sacrifice as nothing and have made a mockery of the price grace paid for our deliverance. There is nothing left to pay for spiritual separation from God and we would remain in this eternal place of separation from Him forever.
There would have been no need for Jesus to come at all, if God simply put all who opposed Him back into His new kingdom, to start over again with this demonic realm of rebellion. Satan would recruit more of the rebels to overthrow God and His Kingdom. And, the rebellion in the Garden of Eden would be put on a loop, over and over again throughout eternity.
Many believe that a Just and Righteous Judge wouldn't sentence mankind into such a place, but God has done above and beyond everything that is possible to prevent this judgment. We will all have to choose whether to say, "I need You, God" or "I don't accept Your Son or Your forgiveness" or say, "We don't want You, God." Choosing "death and cursing" is the most ignorant decision one could possibly make, but there are those who will choose these things. God doesn't make this choice for man, but allows man to choose for himself.
God set the choice before all of mankind in Deuteronomy 30:11-14,19-20, that continues today. The things God spoke about in Verses 11-14 are the same things recorded about salvation in Romans 10:8-10. God said in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (Amplified), "For this commandment which I command you this day is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off. For it is not (a secret laid up) in Heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us that we may hear and do it. Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it? But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in mind and in your heart, so that you can do it. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil."
God goes on in Verses 19-20 saying, "I call Heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curses; therefore choose Life, that you and your descendants may live and love the Lord your God, obey His Voice, and cling to Him, For He is your Life and the Length of your days."
If we do not choose Life, then the only thing remaining is death and cursing for now and hereafter. This is the choice that each person must make on a personal level. When we choose to receive the Gift of Jesus Christ, we choose Life and God, Who became our Father again. When we choose Jesus, we are instantly born-again and become new creations. In this new creation, we have chosen to walk in Life and blessing. This is the choice we all must make on this side of natural death. When we choose Jesus, we also choose Life and blessing. The blessing goes with the choice.
Throughout the years, many have been taught that things happening to the new creation people are from God and not from the Curse. This isn't true, but satan uses this deception to try controlling the new creation. I suppose that we still have the right to choose what we will receive or reject, even after we are born-again. Many have erroneously chosen the curse of sickness, poverty and despair, believing God was putting these things on them for a purpose. This is the believer's responsibility to accept or reject. God gave us the right to choose and He will respect our choice. The "Word is still near us, in our heart and our mouth to choose as we will." If this is your choice, then understand that in these Last Days, those who reject salvation were granted the same choice and have chosen what they have.
The "fresh and new" isn't something that has been held back for another time, but has now already come. When we received Jesus as our Savior, the new creation was instantly born from above. We've spent many days and years trying to become what the Father has already done. We don't need to try becoming a new creation, you are already a new creation. Now, we study the Word of God to discover what the new creation was born to do.
2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God." As ambassadors of Christ, we are sent forth from the Kingdom of God into a foreign country, to reveal the new Kingdom to those who are outside of this realm. This Kingdom has resources and privileges that the earthly kingdom cannot offer to the people.
As personal representatives of Christ, we're not only to show the world a different religion, but Life itself. In John 10:10 Jesus didn't say that He would show the people a different way to live, but He said that without Him, they couldn't and didn't live at all. These people were eating, drinking, building home and raising families, but they were not alive. They had no concept of "spiritual death" and had no idea of what He was saying. For much of today's Church, we still have no concept of what Jesus was saying. It's true that sin brought death, but this death was separation from God Who is Life. The flesh still had life, because we were created by God as spirit beings and spirit beings are eternal. It wasn't that the spirit wouldn't live forever, but where it would live, according to Revelations 20:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Then death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. Verse 15 goes on, "And if anyone's (name) was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the Lake of Fire."
This isn't just a source of punishment. For those who didn't have their names in the Book of Life, they were already dead before the judgment. These were those who rejected the offer of Life and decided to remain children of transgression. Their father is the devil, he is transgression itself.
Since spirit beings are already eternal beings, not confining these outlaw spirits from the new heaven and new earth, would be equivalent to opening all of our prisons and setting all of the prisoners free into society.
If you can imagine the results of releasing satan and his works into the new heaven and earth, then what would be different in the future from what it is now? Would Jesus have to come and die again and again pay for perpetual sin? Hebrews 10:26-27 (Amplified) says, "For if we go on deliberately and willingly sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to atone for (our) sins (no further offering to which to look forward) (There is nothing left for us then) but a kind of awful and fearful prospect and expectation of divine judgment and the fury of burning wrath and indignation which will consume those who put themselves in opposition (to God)."
The above scripture speaks about those who put themselves in opposition to God. We all have God's grace operating for us to bring us to the place of salvation, but if we deliberately set ourselves to oppose God, then we have counted Jesus' sacrifice as nothing and have made a mockery of the price grace paid for our deliverance. There is nothing left to pay for spiritual separation from God and we would remain in this eternal place of separation from Him forever.
There would have been no need for Jesus to come at all, if God simply put all who opposed Him back into His new kingdom, to start over again with this demonic realm of rebellion. Satan would recruit more of the rebels to overthrow God and His Kingdom. And, the rebellion in the Garden of Eden would be put on a loop, over and over again throughout eternity.
Many believe that a Just and Righteous Judge wouldn't sentence mankind into such a place, but God has done above and beyond everything that is possible to prevent this judgment. We will all have to choose whether to say, "I need You, God" or "I don't accept Your Son or Your forgiveness" or say, "We don't want You, God." Choosing "death and cursing" is the most ignorant decision one could possibly make, but there are those who will choose these things. God doesn't make this choice for man, but allows man to choose for himself.
God set the choice before all of mankind in Deuteronomy 30:11-14,19-20, that continues today. The things God spoke about in Verses 11-14 are the same things recorded about salvation in Romans 10:8-10. God said in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (Amplified), "For this commandment which I command you this day is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off. For it is not (a secret laid up) in Heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us that we may hear and do it. Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it? But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in mind and in your heart, so that you can do it. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil."
God goes on in Verses 19-20 saying, "I call Heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curses; therefore choose Life, that you and your descendants may live and love the Lord your God, obey His Voice, and cling to Him, For He is your Life and the Length of your days."
If we do not choose Life, then the only thing remaining is death and cursing for now and hereafter. This is the choice that each person must make on a personal level. When we choose to receive the Gift of Jesus Christ, we choose Life and God, Who became our Father again. When we choose Jesus, we are instantly born-again and become new creations. In this new creation, we have chosen to walk in Life and blessing. This is the choice we all must make on this side of natural death. When we choose Jesus, we also choose Life and blessing. The blessing goes with the choice.
Throughout the years, many have been taught that things happening to the new creation people are from God and not from the Curse. This isn't true, but satan uses this deception to try controlling the new creation. I suppose that we still have the right to choose what we will receive or reject, even after we are born-again. Many have erroneously chosen the curse of sickness, poverty and despair, believing God was putting these things on them for a purpose. This is the believer's responsibility to accept or reject. God gave us the right to choose and He will respect our choice. The "Word is still near us, in our heart and our mouth to choose as we will." If this is your choice, then understand that in these Last Days, those who reject salvation were granted the same choice and have chosen what they have.
Monday, November 7, 2016
Lesson 118 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has come. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We've never truly been able to see ourselves the way God created us to be, in the "Mirror" of God's Word. We only see what man's idea describes us as and not what our Father has sired us to be. The old, false pride of the world has not given way to the glory of Truth.
The carnal mind is in enmity to the Truth of God's Word and has kept the Church from entering into our true calling and ability. Even in the Church, we hear how we're a loathsome, low, worm, but if anyone on the street called us these things, then there would be a brawl. In our hearts, we never really believed that God was our problem, but we still received the world's accusations of our being substandard people.
Our Father brought into being a new creation that isn't unlike anyone or anything encountered on earth previously. Jesus was the Only One they had seen. Not even satan could prevent our believing that Jesus was and is the Son of God, so the best he could do was to make us believe that Jesus was the Only One Who could do the works of the Father. By spreading this deception into those we led to the Lord, satan could hold back the power and ability in the Church.
Many in today's Church, still do not believe they have the Commission from the Father, to do the works that Jesus did through the Father. Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he himself will be able to do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." If Jesus said these things, then they are true. In John 6:63 (Amplified) Jesus said, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it), the Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
Both of the above scriptures are Truth, Spirit and Life. It has been the "non-profiting flesh" that has held the Truth from the believer, just like the flesh and the lying devil, have held back the Truth of salvation from the world. If satan can't keep you from becoming born-again, then he will try to make us helpless by his lies.
The heart of the Church is the have the Father's will be "done here on earth, as it is in Heaven." This is what we pray and hope for the world, as well as for our lives. The most important thing the Body of Christ needs to do, is adjust our will to His will and then do His will. We continuously pray for God's will to be done, but Jesus didn't say that He was praying for the Father's will to be done. Jesus said that He came to do the Father's will.
Thus, Jesus said in John 6:38 (Amplified), "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me." Of course, the Sacrifice of Jesus was the will of the Father and neither you or I can do that, but everything else that Jesus did, was also the Father's will. It had to be the Father's will to heal the people, to raise up those who were broken and disabled, to free those who were bound by demonic spirits and to comfort those and set free all who were oppressed by the devil.
This is still the Father's will to be done here on earth, that we (the new creation people) are subject to do not our will, but the Father's will. In order to have God's will done here, God needs someone to do His will. God isn't going to force His will upon anyone.
Jesus didn't make the people get healed, nor did He make them do what He wanted them to do. He only revealed to them the will of the Father and then did His will, as they believed. Jesus spoke the prophecy from Isaiah 61:1-2 in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) where He proclaimed this is God's will. Those who heard Him, made the decision in their hearts, to believe His will and so it was "done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
We have somehow believed that Jesus was unable to follow His Own will and reject the Father's will. In the Garden of Gethsemane, before His death though, Jesus prayed, "Father, if You are will remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but (always) Yours' be done," Luke 22:42 (Amplified). As a Man, Jesus had a will of His Own, just like we have our own will. He wasn't some puppet Who had no choice about what He did. Jesus was a Son and Servant, Who gave up His will to the Father as an act of Love and obedience.
The act of surrendering our will over to do God's will, is still what holds back the full glory of the revelation of God to the world. Philippians 2:8 (Amplified) tells us, "After He (Jesus) had appeared in Human Form, He abased and humbled Himself (still further) and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross."
We have yet to submit our will in obedience to God's will, to actually have His will be done like He wishes. In order to have God's will be done here, Jesus had to submit His will to God. Because God now had a Man Who would yield to His will, God could bring His will "to earth, as it is in Heaven." Now that He has brought about the miracle of the new creation, through the subjection of Jesus' will, God wants to carry out the rest of His will, through those who have been newly created by Jesus' will.
The new creation people are to be like Jesus and are to be those who will yield their will over to His will. When we yield our will to His, God can carry our His plan for mankind. We have been double-minded about God's will for centuries and that has made it difficult for God to find those who are able to do His will through. How can we expect to do His will, when we've been blinded to what His will truly is?
Any true believer would certainly do God's will, if he only knew what God's will was. We pray, "Not my will God, but Your will be done," but we don't know what God's will is and it never gets done. The only way we can know God's will, is by watching and following Jesus and not the Old Testament way of life.
Under the new covenant and as new creation people, we are able to hear, know and to do God's will, just like Jesus did. It's not a matter of wanting to see God more, but a matter of yielding our will over to His will, in order to allow it to come to pass.
The new creation has held much confusion about what God's will is. It should be obvious about what God's will for our personal lives is. We should know that adultery, lying, homosexuality, stealing and other such sins are not God's will for us, but what is His will for others, through us? Jesus walked in God's will for His Own will, but He also yielded Himself for God to do His will, through Him, for other people's lives. Many in today's Church, still don't know if it's God's will to heal the sick and walk in confusion.
We have allowed the world to determine what God's will is. We've accepted so many things into the Church, that are not (and never have been) God's will. We have searched for answers in so many places, about what is God's will and have come up short, because His answers for the new creation are in His Word (not man's wisdom). This is why Jesus said that we would have the Holy Spirit to teach us. Man's idea of God's will, is warped at best.
Jesus said that, "When we see Him, we have seen God." Jesus only did what He heard, saw and was led by the Father's will. The only way of ever knowing God as "Father," is to see Him in the Presence of Jesus.
We've never truly been able to see ourselves the way God created us to be, in the "Mirror" of God's Word. We only see what man's idea describes us as and not what our Father has sired us to be. The old, false pride of the world has not given way to the glory of Truth.
The carnal mind is in enmity to the Truth of God's Word and has kept the Church from entering into our true calling and ability. Even in the Church, we hear how we're a loathsome, low, worm, but if anyone on the street called us these things, then there would be a brawl. In our hearts, we never really believed that God was our problem, but we still received the world's accusations of our being substandard people.
Our Father brought into being a new creation that isn't unlike anyone or anything encountered on earth previously. Jesus was the Only One they had seen. Not even satan could prevent our believing that Jesus was and is the Son of God, so the best he could do was to make us believe that Jesus was the Only One Who could do the works of the Father. By spreading this deception into those we led to the Lord, satan could hold back the power and ability in the Church.
Many in today's Church, still do not believe they have the Commission from the Father, to do the works that Jesus did through the Father. Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he himself will be able to do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." If Jesus said these things, then they are true. In John 6:63 (Amplified) Jesus said, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it), the Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
Both of the above scriptures are Truth, Spirit and Life. It has been the "non-profiting flesh" that has held the Truth from the believer, just like the flesh and the lying devil, have held back the Truth of salvation from the world. If satan can't keep you from becoming born-again, then he will try to make us helpless by his lies.
The heart of the Church is the have the Father's will be "done here on earth, as it is in Heaven." This is what we pray and hope for the world, as well as for our lives. The most important thing the Body of Christ needs to do, is adjust our will to His will and then do His will. We continuously pray for God's will to be done, but Jesus didn't say that He was praying for the Father's will to be done. Jesus said that He came to do the Father's will.
Thus, Jesus said in John 6:38 (Amplified), "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me." Of course, the Sacrifice of Jesus was the will of the Father and neither you or I can do that, but everything else that Jesus did, was also the Father's will. It had to be the Father's will to heal the people, to raise up those who were broken and disabled, to free those who were bound by demonic spirits and to comfort those and set free all who were oppressed by the devil.
This is still the Father's will to be done here on earth, that we (the new creation people) are subject to do not our will, but the Father's will. In order to have God's will done here, God needs someone to do His will. God isn't going to force His will upon anyone.
Jesus didn't make the people get healed, nor did He make them do what He wanted them to do. He only revealed to them the will of the Father and then did His will, as they believed. Jesus spoke the prophecy from Isaiah 61:1-2 in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) where He proclaimed this is God's will. Those who heard Him, made the decision in their hearts, to believe His will and so it was "done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
We have somehow believed that Jesus was unable to follow His Own will and reject the Father's will. In the Garden of Gethsemane, before His death though, Jesus prayed, "Father, if You are will remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but (always) Yours' be done," Luke 22:42 (Amplified). As a Man, Jesus had a will of His Own, just like we have our own will. He wasn't some puppet Who had no choice about what He did. Jesus was a Son and Servant, Who gave up His will to the Father as an act of Love and obedience.
The act of surrendering our will over to do God's will, is still what holds back the full glory of the revelation of God to the world. Philippians 2:8 (Amplified) tells us, "After He (Jesus) had appeared in Human Form, He abased and humbled Himself (still further) and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross."
We have yet to submit our will in obedience to God's will, to actually have His will be done like He wishes. In order to have God's will be done here, Jesus had to submit His will to God. Because God now had a Man Who would yield to His will, God could bring His will "to earth, as it is in Heaven." Now that He has brought about the miracle of the new creation, through the subjection of Jesus' will, God wants to carry out the rest of His will, through those who have been newly created by Jesus' will.
The new creation people are to be like Jesus and are to be those who will yield their will over to His will. When we yield our will to His, God can carry our His plan for mankind. We have been double-minded about God's will for centuries and that has made it difficult for God to find those who are able to do His will through. How can we expect to do His will, when we've been blinded to what His will truly is?
Any true believer would certainly do God's will, if he only knew what God's will was. We pray, "Not my will God, but Your will be done," but we don't know what God's will is and it never gets done. The only way we can know God's will, is by watching and following Jesus and not the Old Testament way of life.
Under the new covenant and as new creation people, we are able to hear, know and to do God's will, just like Jesus did. It's not a matter of wanting to see God more, but a matter of yielding our will over to His will, in order to allow it to come to pass.
The new creation has held much confusion about what God's will is. It should be obvious about what God's will for our personal lives is. We should know that adultery, lying, homosexuality, stealing and other such sins are not God's will for us, but what is His will for others, through us? Jesus walked in God's will for His Own will, but He also yielded Himself for God to do His will, through Him, for other people's lives. Many in today's Church, still don't know if it's God's will to heal the sick and walk in confusion.
We have allowed the world to determine what God's will is. We've accepted so many things into the Church, that are not (and never have been) God's will. We have searched for answers in so many places, about what is God's will and have come up short, because His answers for the new creation are in His Word (not man's wisdom). This is why Jesus said that we would have the Holy Spirit to teach us. Man's idea of God's will, is warped at best.
Jesus said that, "When we see Him, we have seen God." Jesus only did what He heard, saw and was led by the Father's will. The only way of ever knowing God as "Father," is to see Him in the Presence of Jesus.
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