Lesson 117 The New Creation

     2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creature (a new creation altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
     Awhile back, the Lord gave me a revelation, that I entitled "Return to Eden," about the extent of our salvation.  The removal of sin needed to be the first thing God had to deal with, because it was Adam's sin that separated mankind (God's intended family) from Him.  Sin brought about the spiritual death or separation from God, Who is Life, and plunged mankind into the chaos we're witnessing on earth today.
     The Father's heart desired to create a family for Himself.  We were created as a people who were on the same level of creation as Himself, for fellowship and share His Love with.  When He created mankind, God created him as a spirit being, made in the Likeness and Image of Himself.  Since a spirit being is eternal like God, God had a family to Love.  When satan came to Eve to tempt her and cause her fall, Adam tried becoming his own redeemer and buy her back, by forfeiting all he had received from his Father.
     1Timothy 2:14 (Amplified) says, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but (the) woman was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression."  If Adam wasn't deceived, then he knowing exchanged everything the Father had given him, for his wife.  This included his authority and blessing, as well as the dominion God had pronounced upon Adam.  From this deception, came the truth of what the Father spoke, "The day you eat of this tree, that day you shall surely die."  Genesis 5:5 (Amplified) tells us, "So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died."  When God said, "That day you shall surely die," Adam died that day.
     Adam's death first took place in his spirit, which was separated from God (Who is Life) through the first sin of transgression.  This spiritual death was what the Father needed to deal with, and He had to deal with it on the legal terms of His Word.  God would have lost everything His heart had created in the way of a family, if He just destroyed everything and started over.  Adam and Eve would have been gone forever, as well as the family that was in Adam's loins.
     The Father set in motion, from that moment, what was needed to bring Life and unity once again to His family, according to Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) where He tells satan, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring, He will bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will life in wait and bruise His heel."  God made a clear distinction between the natural seed and the Divine Seed of Mary, Who was to come many years in the future, from that time.
     Jesus said in Matthew 3:27,33 (Amplified), "Woe to you, Scribes and pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites) for you are like tombs that have been white washed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure."  Although they looked to be "right on the outside," their spirit (which is what the Lord was speaking of) was still dead in sin and trespasses.  Jesus went on in Verse 33 saying, "You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in Hell (Gehenna)?"
     This is the distinction God spoke about in Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) where He said, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring."  "Her Offspring" was to be the new creation, while satan's offspring was the dead spirit which produced only natural man and a continuation in death and sin.  As a dead spirit, satan cannot produce life in the spirit, any more than he can produce righteousness by his own style of redemption.  He tried bringing worship to himself, by his own religious style of being god over natural man.
     Until Jesus came as the First Born from the dead and brought the source of God's Own Life back into the born-again spirit of this new creation man, death ruled from Adam unto Jesus.  Jesus is the source of Life and restoration to God, Who is Life.  Without man's accepting Jesus and this Door into the new creation, he will remain in death and sin, regardless of the outside traditions of "whitewashing their tombs" of the flesh (that houses the dead man's bones and the corruption from within).
     Sadly, this has been difficult for many to accept as Truth.  Could our own Jesus suffer spiritual death?  Could Jesus actually die and be separated from the Father, suffer all of our penalty, and be born again as a New Creation as the Last Adam?  Could He seed an entirely new Genesis Return to Eden, as the First Born of many brethren?  It's difficult for many to see Jesus in this "Fullness of Sacrifice."
     The extent of God's Love for us, is reflected in the length and depth of what He did, in order to gain His family back to Himself in fullness.  We still see ourselves more like we were, rather than what He has birthed us to be.  This brings a great injustice to Jesus' Sacrifice, by not seeing Him in the Fullness of the "Offspring" of the woman in Genesis 3:15.  This "Offspring" is the Fullness of the Promise of Life.  This isn't the natural offspring, but God's Offspring, through a woman who would conceive the promise (by faith in God's Word) and bring forth a New Creation.