2Corinthians 5:17-18 (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. But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself) and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation (that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him)."
Just as God created man in the Garden as His Own son (Adam) and family, He creation a new creation in Christ Jesus. The first Adam was to "father" a family, in the household and the Kingdom of God. God's Kingdom was to be populated with son and daughters who would be blessed, taught, provided for and cherished by the Lord God Himself. When God brought mankind into existence, He took all responsibility for His Own children to raise and provide for them, in His union through the spirit in which they were created.
Man was created a spirit like God is a Spirit, he was to indwell a natural body in order to function in the natural or earthly realm. Man was to rule by and through his spirit and the natural sense realm was to be subject to the spirit, which was to be led by the Spirit of God Himself. God's plan for His family, was in His heart before He created the Heavens and the earth. Man was the reason fro the creation altogether. God created or formed a home for His family to reside, before He created man.
When the home for His family was complete and God approved of it, then He planted a Garden in the midst of what He created for them. Not only was this earth and all it contained created by God for His children, but even in the beauty of His creation, He planted a special place for His family. It was in this "hand planted Garden," that God placed His greatest and most loved part of creation, which was His son Adam and the companion and fulfillment for him, his wife Eve.
Now, all was complete in God's plan for fellowship and a recipient of His love. God had already laid the plan for His creation and the plans for His family, in this earth. There was nothing man would need, that the love of his Father hadn't already foreseen and provided for. The Father gave this Kingdom or earthly creation over into the hands of His family, for them to rule and have dominion over. This was supposed to be "God and sons" or "God and family", running creation. As the Head of all things, the Father was to teach and train up His family, to rule over everything created for them.
Satan was never to be a problem, because God had already given His man complete authority over everything that creeps upon the earth. As an outlaw spirit, satan had been dismissed and cast out of the Kingdom of God. Satan took many of the angelic hosts of Heaven with him, when they rebelled against God with him. Adam had been given complete dominion and the authority of God, in order to rule and keep the Garden and to expand it to cover the whole earth. Since God had given him complete authority, Adam tried redeeming his wife through a diplomatic trade for Eve. In this temptation or negotiation, Adam not only traded his life, but the life of every child birthed of his seed the Law of sin and death entered into God's most highly loved creation.
Adam not only lost his dominion and authority, but his very life was separated from His God, Who is his Life and the "Length of his days." I don't believe that Adam foresaw the fullness of his transgression, but was only thinking of the loss of his wife. The damage was done, nonetheless, and the earth was now under the dominion of an outlaw spirit, satan. We almost immediately see the spirit of death, begin making its mark on the perfect home (earth), that Love had prepared for His family.
God was unwilling to give up the Love He had for His family and began setting up a way to gain His family back. God couldn't return to the contaminated dust of the earth that was under satan's control, in order to form another man. God needed to created another Man Who wasn't contaminated. So, God used the very thing He created everything with in the beginning and that was His Word, Jesus.
Immediately following Adam's treason, God began to form this Man, by His Word. He began by speaking of "the seed of a woman." God speaks the new Man into the form of His Perfect Man of the redemption, in every book of the old covenant. God's Perfect Man was brought into into existence in John 1:14 (Amplified), which says, "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Everything needed for the new creation man, was formed by God's Word, which was "Spirit and Life," according to John 6:63.
This new creation man was without sin and death and He wasn't only created by the Word, but He was the Word of God. He was spoken out of God's Own Spirit and formed by His Word, just like the Light, universe and everything else was created. John 1:1-5 (Amplified) says, "In the beginning (before all time) was the Word (Christ) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He (the Word) was present originally with God, All things were made and came into existence through Him' and without Him was not anything made that has come into being. In Him was Life and the Life that was the Light of men And the Light shine on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it (put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it)."
The one thing God needed to form (a new creation man) was the thing that created all things, which was His Word. God's Word is Life and Light and Truth and it created the Perfect Man. God did something that changed everything forever, when He filled this new creation Man with His very Own Self in the Holy Spirit. The connection to Himself was complete. Man again became a living and being and could again hear instructions from the Father. The new creation man in Christ Jesus, was a being who was "free from the Law of sin and death," according to Romans 8:2 (Amplified) which says, "For the Law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus, has freed me from the Law of sin and death."
Paul says in Romans 8:3-4 (Amplified), "For God has done what the Law could not do, (its power) being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit). Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh (subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that Sacrifice) So that the righteous and Just requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit, (our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit."
This new creation is "dead" in the flesh (dead men don't sin) and is made alive again in "righteous and justice" by Jesus. The new creation is once again alive, "not only in the spirit, but alive unto the Spirit." The new creation is now created by the Word and is held in place by the Word, just like everything the Word has created are held in place. The "Just shall live by faith" and our faith in Jesus has made us alive, "who were dead in trespass ad sin." As the new creation, we are living by faith already.
Let's reread Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified), "For we are God's (Own) handiwork (His workmanship) recreated in Christ Jesus, (born anew) that we may do those 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)." Simply said, the things God prepared for His family from the very beginning, has now been put back into the will and order of the Father. Everything God had in His heart for man from the first of creation, He has now, through the new creation, has been restored like nothing had ever happened.
Now we can understand 1Corinthians 2:10 (Amplified), which says, "Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them (the things that God has prepared, made and keeps ready for those who love Him)--through His Spirit, for the Holy Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny)." As new creation people, we have access to the things natural man could never see or know, the secret things and divine counsels. This was God's plan for man, from the beginning.
These things were predestinated and put in place beforehand and are the paths, which God prepared ahead of time for His family. This is a continuation of God's will from the beginning and we were put in the blessing He held in His heart for His children, before He created the Heavens and earth. Everything God held in His heart then, is ours NOW.
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