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."
The new creation is (and was) God's original intent, when creating man from the start. God intended to have children and family to share in His Love and the glory of His creation. The serpent brought corruption into the Garden of Eden, but that didn't stop God's original intent for His family. God is the Alpha and Omega and His original intent remains His objective and goal, today. God's heart continues longing for the restoration of His children into His Likeness and Image.
One cannot possible believe that pornography on the web, was part of God's original intent. Neither can anyone possibly believe that the Freedom of Speech was created for obscenity. The Founding Fathers didn't create Freedom of Religion, so that we could have satanic churches or orgies set up to worship satan and other gods. The original intent of these freedoms was for good, but they have become perverted. What God intended when bringing man to this planet, was not what we witness today, but man transformed into this with the fall of Adam.
The new creation is the realization of God's original intent being restored to earth again. He is still in "infant form," like Jesus in the manger and is growing into what Jesus became as a mature Son. When Paul spoke about "renewing our minds," he wasn't saying to become what the world teaches, but we were to renew our minds and learn to think with the Mind of Christ. Romans 12:2 (Amplified) says, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs) but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (by its new ideals and its new attitude) so that you may prove (for yourselves) what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His sight for you)."
The world's idea of God will and the Mind of Christ's idea of what God's will is for us, aren't even close to being the same. The unrenewed mind (the carnal mind) has ideas concerning the will of God, tells us that God uses sickness, disease, death, hardship and even torture, in order to teach us. God's Word declares that, "Jesus bore the curse of the Law, so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles."
The unrenewed mind might say, "There is a God," but then stumble at the Truth that He is now our Father. The only way of transforming your mind, is to hear the Word in your spirit (and not just in your senses). Your natural mind cannot even conceive the things of God in any true sense, except with the "education" programmed into it. Education is a great thing to operate in, as long as it pertains to the natural things in life. We need the senses to reach into this natural God created for us.
With Adam in the beginning, God made a natural man to contact the natural world He created on earth and in order to know how to function in this world. God created Adam first in the spirit, though, to be in contact with Himself. Adam was supposed to live in the spirit (to be led by his spirit) and his natural body was to be in submission to his spirit. God taught, trained, informed and maintained fellowship with Adam, by His Spirit.
Because of the fall, Adam lost fellowship and contact with God through the spirit. Then, Adam's natural body and mind took control of his destiny. As the new creation, we have been made alive again, to the guidance and wisdom of God by His Spirit now living in us. We must renew our natural mind by the Holy Spirit and let Him teach us how to operate in this natural world and its customs. We already know that what the world teaches, is contrary to God's Word, we don't know how to function by His Word. And, because we have allowed the world's ideas about God to rule instead of God's Word, we hold preconceived ideas that are contrary to the Truth. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefits whatever (there is no profit in it) The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
Since the Words Jesus spoke are "Spirit and Life," our spirit first must receive them, before our flesh could understand them. The things Jesus said and did, were impossible to the natural mind. But, to their spirit, they were Truth. Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit in John 14:17 (Amplified) saying, "The Spirit of Truth Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him, But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you (constantly) and will be in you."
The unrenewed mind might have "heard" about God, but because the sense cannot see, touch, smell, hear or taste God in this natural realm, the senses (natural man) rejects the things the sense cannot perceive. We are born-again in the Church, but the senses still speak more to us than our new spirits. Your mind of the world, cannot and will not, accept anything beyond the senses. They will not believe without actually seeing them.
The world has taught us more about how we are to accept God, than our spirits have. Our unrenewed minds can't understand the laying of hands onto the sick and we've determined "This isn't for us today." Only the Mind of Christ, the mind that is renewed by the Word, can grasp and operate in this realm.
When Paul writes about "being transformed by the renewal of our mind," this is a Word for metamorphosis. When a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly, it becomes a completely form of being. When we begin to think like God and Jesus by the renewing our minds with the Word, it will cause such a change in our lives, that we become this new creation in visible terms. We've always had the potential of becoming the "butterfly" that God intended, but we haven't allowed the metamorphosis to occur. In order for this to happen, the caterpillar must become dominant, so the transformation can take place. We must "still the voice of the senses" and allow God's Word to bring out the beauty of the new creation.
. Our carnal minds can't understand anything beyond their realm of the five senses, that have ruled them. Satan has spent nearly two-thousand years, trying to educate the senses away from the spirit. He has dictated to the Church, the things we can and can't believe, through the natural man that is still controlled by satan. He has ruled mankind for millennia by the senses and refuses to change his program. The new creation man has been returned to fellowship with our Father, by the new birth. The new creation people are to receive instruction from the Holy Spirit and not from the world's spirit.
The unrenewed (carnal) mind can't and will never accept the Super-natural realm of God, only our new being can reach into this realm of understanding. We have been taught education, instead of revelation. This allows us to read the Word of God, without knowing what it says. Jesus said that, "Having ears, we still don't hear." We can hear the words that are spoke and comprehend the message, by educating our senses to read, but the Truth and Life of the Words are filtered out by natural thinking. Babies can hear what is being said to them and still not know what is being said. But, as we train them up into adolescents and young adults, they come to understand. The Church has heard the Word and still doesn't understand what it says, because of lack of teaching the Truth.
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