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.
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