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."