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.