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."
Genesis 5:1-2 (Amplified) says, "This is the book (the written record of the history) of the offspring of Adam. When God created man, He made him in the Likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them and name them (both) Adam (man) at the timethey were created."
John 4:24 (Amplified) says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spiritual and in truth (reality)."
When Adam was created, he was created first of all a spirit, in the Likeness of God Himself. And the part of this new creation that is like the Father, is our spirit. Our body is nothing more than a house for our spirit to live in this earth. In order to have contact with natural things, we needed a natural body. This house was only to be a covering and the way of operating in natural things. Our soul, which is a part of the spirit, is much like the natural organs that make up the natural body. Our mind (not our brain) was to be the control center that would regulate and direct the natural brain of our flesh. Our mind, will and emotions are part of our soul, that operates the body.
It's imperative that we understand these principals and that's why I regularly repeat them. When we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we were born-again and became a new creation. The first Adam was made a spirit like God and wasn't one with God, but a spirit like God. He was an individual spirit, separate from God, but fully in contact with God. He could see and hear in the spirit, even before he had a natural body. Adam wasn't dependent upon his body for anything, at his creation. Adam only received his five physical senses, after he had a body or house for his spirit to live in, in the natural realm. These five senses were developed by his soulish parts.
As God directed him in wisdom and taught him how to live, Adam developed his body in order to operate and function in the natural realm. God taught Adam, just like we would teach our own children. Adam learned and trained his physical body, by touching, smelling, tasting, seeing and hearing. In order to do this, Adam needed to transmit spiritual information from his spirit and soul, to the physical components of his natural body. He was feeding the very wisdom of God (Spiritual Truth) into a natural brain and storing up data, in order to function in the natural realm.
Adam brought the wisdom of the Spirit, into the mind of the soul and developed the motor functions of the body, from his brain. That sounds wild, doesn't it? The body could walk, talk, feel, smell, hear and function in the natural, from the super-natural. As the mind of the spirit taught the brain of the body, all three realms of natural, super-natural man, operated fully from his spirit and his spirit operated from the Spirit of God. This is what it meant to be "spiritually minded and not carnally minded" at the time. Some make it sound as though, God created man that morning and by noon, Adam had fallen. We have no record of how long Adam and Even lived on earth, before transgressing and falling.
Science tells us that the earth is millions of years old. It might be that it's only been six thousand years since the fall of Adam, but the earth is much older than that. I believe that God worked together with Adam and Eve as a family, for millions of earthly years, before the separation in the spirit. I believe that God taught him how to live in both of the realms he was to occupy by his spirit. Adam was supposed to do like Jesus did in His earthly ministry. He was to walk naturally supernatural. Adam's soul and body were to be led by his spirit and his spirit was to "Only do what he saw his Father do," just like Jesus said.
Adam lived (in his natural state) for 930 years, according to Genesis 5:5, after his transgression and separation from the Spirit realm of Life in God.He didn't know how to "die," because all he had ever known was life and spirit. After losing contact from his Father and yielded himself over to another god (satan), Adam had to learn how to live by only his senses. He couldn't depend on his spirit to direct him any longer, because he only had the lies of the enemy and his carnal mind was dead to Spiritual Truth in God. Adam's soul was now leading his body and could only relay the things it knew of the natural realm to his body. Adam eventually walked more and more, in the carnal (fleshly) realm. There was no longer revelation knowledge flowing through and from his spirit into his mind, but only what he could accomplish by his own efforts.
After the fall, things didn't grow and replenish like they did before and Adam needed to till the land, to make it produce. God's blessing no longer worked through and for him, only the curse or rule of Adam's new god worked . Eventually, the blessing God pronounced on Adam, began to grow more and more distant. Adam was left to depend only upon his own devises, in order to live and eat and provide for Even and their family.
The reality of this curse or lack of blessing, began unfolding before Adam's eyes and his once strong, sound and well body, began growing weary and became sickly. Things Adam once took for granted, now became out of his reach. We grew up in the realm that Adam was just now beginning to witness. It was natural for us to have to work and labor for provisions and shelter and life, but it hadn't been this way before, for Adam. The fullness of his sin, began to set in for Adam, almost immediately. The longer he lived on earth, the more Adam witnessed the results of his foolish, costly mistake. The Word tells us that, "The woman was deceived." 1Timothy 2:14 (Amplified) though, says, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but (the) woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression."
Although he wasn't deceived by the same temptation that moved Eve, Adam tried redeeming his wife by his own efforts and he traded everything over for her. The very truth of what he did, wasn't apparent to Adam when he did it, but became more and more apparent to him daily. Even though Adam wasn't deceived like Eve was, his spiritual eyes were blinded to the depths of his transgression and its fullness.
As the new creation, our minds must be renewed once again by God's Word. Even though our spirit is created new and even though the Holy Spirit is made one with our new spirit, if we don't renew the mind (the soul) with the Word of God, then our soul (which is the rudder that guides our walk) will still lead us in the only thing it knows, which is a life without God. Everything about this new creation man, is now designed to operate from the inside out. Our salvation, our healing, our strength, our joy, our wisdom, our faith and everything, has now bee turned back to the new creation by the Spirit.
Because of an unrenewed mind (soul), our natural man (flesh body) can only operate by the carnality, that our lost soul had taught it. Because what our brain had been taught to accept from our canal mind it receives this information as truth and refuses to operate in the spirit and real truth. When your carnal being begins to hear (by natural ears) the Super-natural things of God, it simply rejects these things as foolishness. Renewing the mind of the new creation being, is the most important task the new creation man must accept.
When we are born-again and become new creations, our spirit becomes a new creature, our body is declared "dead with Christ on the cross," only the soul is left to deal with. Even when a new creation man hears the Word, that Word is still filtered through a carnal mind and unrenewed soul. The natural man, our body or house of flesh can only do whatever the soul (the mind) directs it to do. When the mind (soul) is left in it s fallen or deadened state, it cannot stop the body of flesh from walking in the things it knows. Our body must be taught or trained by the Word, which comes into our spirit, directed to our soul, and placed in dominion over the flesh.
Everything the Father has for His new creation family, comes once again, from the inside-out. It must come into our spirit, become the the Shepherd of our soul and keep our body as a living sacrifice, by Truth in the Spirit of God.
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