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."
While delving into who the new creation is, we've learned that the new creation is not for "When we get to Heaven," but for the here and now. The new creation man is already, one who is "born from on High," according to Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) which says, "He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the Heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
Living in the Kingdom and the Kingdom authority, are virtues granted to the new creation people. This grace came upon us, when we were born-again. A baby has no idea of who they are or what they are, until they grow up or mature in their identity. As new creation people, we have very little insight and understanding about who we truly are. Many people remain under the bondage of the old covenant, because they don't understand the new covenant.
The new covenant is more than just a working relationship with God, but is a family relationship with our Heavenly Father. The difference between these two relationship, is what has held down God's new creation family. We get a much better look and understanding of who we are in Christ, in Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) which says, "For we are God's (Own) handiwork (His workmanship) recreated in Christ Jesus, (born anew) that we may do those good works which God predestinated (planned beforehand) for us (taking paths which He prepared ahead of time), that we should walk in them (living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live)."
The Father declared He would make man "in His Image," making us His family. God gave Life to His children and made preparation for them in His Own will and His Love. The Words from the above scripture, "living the good Life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live" are exactly what the Father planned in the very beginning, when He said that, "Everything was good and it was very good."
God made a paradise for His family to abide forever, in the Garden of Eden. His family was to live on earth with Him as our Father and have our every need met, by His Love for us. We were meant to walk with Him, talk with Him, learn from Him and have all our needs met by Him. God would teach us, by His Holy Spirit, to "Do the good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us (taking paths which He prepared ahead of time) that we should walk in them (living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live)," like the above scripture says.
This was and is still today, His will for His children. A "will" is something that is even today, hard to break. God's will is unbreakable, because "He changes not." Jesus said that, "He came to do His Father's will" and we should know what that will is. Galatians 3:14-15 (Amplified) says, "To the end that through (their receiving) Christ Jesus, the blessing (promised) to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles so that we through faith might (all) receive (the realization of) the promise of the Holy Spirit To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, (If) even a man makes a last will and testament (a merely human covenant) no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed)."
We need to read God's Last Will and Testament and find out what it states, so that we can perform His will. He has arranged and ratified His will, by the Blood of Jesus. Hebrews 9:16-18 (Amplified) says, "For where there is a (last) will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive. So even the (old) first covenant (God's will) was not inaugurated and ratified and put in force without the shedding of Blood."
Why would it be the New Testament or the new and last will, if it wasn't His Last Will and Testament? In order to know what God's will is, we must read the will and know "to whom that will" is written. If you don't know "who you are," then how would you ever know if this Last Will includes you? Romans 8:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "The Spirit Himself (thus) testifies together with our own spirit, (assuring us) that we are (His) children, then we are (His) heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, (sharing His inheritance with Him)."
The above Verse ends by saying, "Only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory." In order to know what kind of "suffering" Christ endured, we must also learn to read His will, without coming to some "theological idea' about what His will is. God's will is what He said. We've invented all sorts of weird things about the will of God, most of them are simple foolishness and man's way of determining spiritual things. Even in this realm of human reasoning, a man can write a will, sign it in the presence of a witness and that will is legal and binding. No one decides "Billy can have this" and "Suzie can have that," this is left to the will of the Testator.
When God's will was drawn up, He decided who would get what. If we are "joint heirs with Christ," then you received what Jesus received, because this is the way the will was written. Even when the virgin Mary received the Word or "will of God," it was already a written will and was the Last Will and Testament of God. In Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) God says, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring. He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruis His heel."
God began laying out the terns of His Last Will and Testament, at this moment. His will isn't hard to know or determine, if we would only read this will with as much integrity we would give our earthly father's will. How can we believe the will of a mere earthly father and disregard our Heavenly Father's will for His children?
I hear how some heirs of God, "Got things that others didn't" and are jealous over "Who got what?" I've even heard some heirs say, "That should have been mine, instead of so-and-so" or "I deserved that more than they did." I've even seen others who believe that the "Testator is unfair." Truthfully, no one "deserves" it and it's not our place to decide who should or shouldn't be an heir. The things left to us in the will, weren't ours to leave. They belonged to the One Who made out the will. It was His and it was up to Him, to give it as He wills.
If I left my earthly belongings to someone in a will, then I left them to those I wished to receive them, because that is my will. God did the very same things. He gave to "the Jew and Gentile alike." That was His will and He decided to whom He would leave His inheritance to. God made us "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ," and said that "His will is to be "Done on earth as it is in Heaven." This will is iron-clad, Blood bought, ratified by the resurrection and is recorded in the book we call "The Last Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." This is the New Testament for the new creation.
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