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.
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