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."
Many of today's younger generation are searching for their heritage, using DNA technology and family lineage sites. Many are doing so, because they are mixed-up and are "trying to find themselves." As Christians, we should also be searching to discover who we've become as this new creation. Finding out who we've become doesn't make us a Christian, but it will aid in our understanding of what a Christian is all about.
If you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then you are already a new creation. Find out who this new creation people is, will supply you with the knowledge and understanding as to the reality of this new creation. Since Adam and Eve, we've heard such things as "We are all God's children" and "We all have one Father." God's Word tells us that we have a "first Adam" and a "Last Adam."
The first Adam was God's crowning Glory and was to be the "seed" of God's Own family. From the beginning, satan was determined to destroy or steal the seed from which God's family would rule. Adam was the first of the creation of family and Jesus is the Seed of the new creation. Jesus is the Word of God and the Seed of Promise. And, He is the Seed of the new creation family. Since God's Word is "forever settled in Heaven" and is eternal, as well as incorruptible. So then, the family that is born of this Seed are as well.
God formed the first Adam, as the seed to father His Own family. Eve was to be the fertile soil of the seed and was to bear fruit and "replenish the earth." Satan successfully stopped this family from being fruitful for God's Kingdom, so God brought forth a new creation. Jesus is the incorruptible and sinless Seed of this new creation. We, the Church, are to be the fertile soil used to bring forth fruit, to multiply and be fruitful for God's Kingdom.
Jesus said in John 15:5 (Amplified), "I am the Vine, you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me) you can do nothing."
Without the Seed, there is no vine or branches. And, without this, there is no fruit from this union. Adam was the vine and Eve was the branch that would bear fruit. Jesus is now the Vine and the Seed that produced the Vine. You and I are like Eve was, the branches that bear the fruit.
Paul spoke about the husband and wife relationship in Ephesians 5:32 (Amplified) saying, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." The analogy of husband and wife, like in Genesis (Adam and Eve), has now become the reality of Jesus and the Church. Jesus is the Seed and as the branches, we bring forth fruit to the glory of the Husbandman, Who is the Father.
The new creation family is no longer of the seed of natural man (Adam), but is from the Super-natural Seed of the Living God. Unlike the first seed (Adam), this Seed comes from the Spirit of God into the spirit of man and has brought forth a new creation that has joined the two into one. The dead spirit that produced the seed of the first Adam, has now been born into a new creation that created a new living, infused spirit with and through God Himself.
The first Adam was made a spirit like God and the Last Adam has created a Spirit in God. The first was an eternal independent spirit and the Las is an eternal joint spirit in the Holy Spirit. Jesus prayed in John 17:21 (Amplified) saying, "That they all may be one (just) as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You sent Me."
Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) tells us, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God, He created him, male and female, He created them." This scripture tells us that God made a man in His Own Image, which is a spirit. We were in the Image of God, even before we were saved. We were like Adam was, a spirit. Through Adam, we took upon ourselves a spiritual death, which was being separated from God in sin. We were, though, still in His Image as a spirit. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified) that, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
We were still a spirit, even when we were dead in sin. The new creation is a spirit that has been raised from death by Jesus, made one with Jesus in His resurrection, and joined together with the father in Life, as one new creation spirit. The new creation spirit is no longer a separated spirit, but now one with God Himself. The new creation is better, stronger and more glorious than the former or first creation, because now, God Himself indwells this new man. We have now become the actual temple of God, according to 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified) which says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received (as a gift) from God?" YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN.
We've heard these things for so many years, but we have never traced our heritage as new creation beings. Satan uses the very same line on us, that he used with Adam, to make us doubt who God created or made us to be. This God-man or temple God has chosen as His Own, this new sinless, Holy, righteous, sanctified, and accepted temple, is the new creation. It is by God, from God, chosen of God, created by God, declared righteous by God and is now, already one with God.
Jesus called Himself the Son of man and the Son of God. We, too, can lay claim to this truth, because we are the sons of man (by our natural flesh and blood body) and we are sons of god (by our new creation co-joined, infused spirit by the Seed of God Himself). 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
Jesus is the Seed (the Word of God) that has brought forth a brand new creation. It's no longer a mortal Seed, but One that is Immortal (the Word, Seed of God). It's been difficult for us to see ourselves like the Father see us, because we've never traced our DNA back to the source, which is God Himself. He sees us as sinless, holy, righteous and as sons, like Jesus is a Son. I'm not sure we've ever thought of Adam's not being co-joined with the Holy Spirit, but as an independent spirit. Adam was like God, in the fact he was s spirit, but he was not filled with God's Spirit.
The infilling or indwelling of the Holy Spirit, is what has made us the new creation. The joining of our new spirit with the Holy Spirit, is a new creation. God has fulfilled the Law of sin and death by Jesus and has established the Law of the Spirit in Christ Jesus in place, for this new creation. Sin and death have no hold on the new creation being, because Life now abides in us for eternity, through our being made "one with Jesus and the Father," according to John 17:21 (Amplified). If we are "one with Jesus and the Father" and They live in us and we in Them, then how can a Law of sin and death abide in us? Sin and death cannot live in a man who God Himself abides in.
Truly, the body of flesh will suffer the wages of sin and will ultimately die, but the new creation is free from the Law of sin and death and has Eternal Life living inside him.
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