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 has 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)."
The new creation beings have not yet understood the great miracle that the Father has done in Jesus. We've been taught, trained, preached to, and raised to see we are "just old sinners," and we've overlooked the truth of the new creation. What the Father did through Jesus, was a wholly Spiritual thing. We still identify more with our flesh and our senses, while overlooking the Truth of the new creation.
We were made to the "Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus," according to 2Corinthians 5:20-21. This righteousness is the Very Righteousness of Jesus Christ. It is complete and entire, that no one can improve upon it. It is the Very Right-standing of Jesus, in the Presence of God.
The new creation man is so perfect in Jesus, that God Himself can now indwell and tabernacle in us and walk in us. We know that God cannot/will never co-exist with sin in the same Temple and then declare it to be "Holy." We must accept what He did to declare us to be a new creation Temple for Himself. We can only receive and understand this Truth, in our spirits. Our unrenewed mind and senses only sees this as being carnal religion, and will not receive or walk in this Truth.
We are constantly reminded of who we used to be, instead of who we are. Many take one part of Romans 8:28 out of context and use it to include all the things our carnal minds and guilt ridden senses required from us, saying "All things work together for good." This isn't what this chapter says, but we've been taught to believe that "all things-good or bad, sick or well, early death or long life-work together for good."
If you will allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you when reading the above chapter of Romans, then you'll see that through Jesus, those who are in the new creation are clean, pure, holy, righteous, and justified by His Sacrifice and we're not just "forgiven," but have actually died, been resurrected, been raised up together with Christ and made to be sons after the Image of Jesus Himself.
When we fail to understand this Word of Truth in the Spirit, we will continue walking under the same guilt and condemnation as before being born-again. In Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) Paul says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit and Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and death.
Paul is simply stating how, "If we allow the Spirit to lead and teach us, instead of the world and the senses, then we can walk in the total liberty of the new creation." You are already free (even if you don't know it), but your senses will keep you from the liberty of operating in your new creation righteousness. Your sense will keep you from the liberty of enjoying your fellowship with the Father.
Allow me to pose a question to you and then let yourself answer truthfully. Romans 8:1 says, "We are in Christ Jesus," but do you believe this? If we are in Him, then we must be new creation who are without sin or iniquity, in order to truly be in Him. If we are what the senses tells us and are not "clean, pure, holy, righteous, and new in Him," then impurity, unholiness, uncleanliness and unrighteousness and sin would have to be in Him as well. We know that there is no sin or unrighteousness or "Shadow of turning" in Him.
This is what Paul says in Romans 8:1 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk NOT after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit." If you allow your flesh or senses (which are taught by the world) to dictate your walk, then you will continue walking in condemnation and guilt from the old man of the world. If you allow the Holy Spirit to dictate this new life to you, then you can walk in the perfect Law of liberty, which allows you to feel free to have faith in your new creation through Christ.
Satan and our senses will reduce the entire chapter of Romans 8 to saying that "All things work together for good" and keep us walking under the dictates of the flesh (senses). We've missed the Truth of our liberty in Christ and the new creation. If we read this chapter in the Truth of the Spirit, then we'll see how it's one of the most liberating scriptures in the entire New Testament. Paul explains the dictates of the senses as "carnally minded, the senses of the flesh and the guilt of religious worldly ideas about the scriptures." Through the Holy Spirit, Paul explains the difference concerning Verse 1 in Romans 8:7-8 (Amplified) saying, "(That is) because the mind of the flesh (with its carnal thoughts and purposes) is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's aw; indeed it cannot. So then those who are living the life of the flesh (or as Paul described in Verse 1 "after the dictates of the flesh) (catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature) cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him."
"Catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature" doesn't mean "sinning," but also denying the full act of the new creation and living in the carnal act of not receiving the full cleansing of Jesus' Sacrifice. The carnal man remains more aware of his carnal nature, instead of the new creation cleansing of being in Christ and made pure. You can't be in Him, while still being in sin. The two are incompatible. When you understand this Truth in your spirit and not with your carnal mind, then you will be free to fellowship on a different level, with your Heavenly Father and you will be open to revelation knowledge and Wisdom. You'll have faith in the fact that He hears you and you will stop doubting yourself. You will begin trusting in who He has made you to be, instead of who the world and satan tells you, you are.
You will then realize that Romans 8:28, doesn't mean sickness, defeat and satan's intended misery, are "for your good." You will see receive the Truth of the Holy Spirit Who says, "God has deprived the power of sin over us, by the death of the flesh. The flesh no longer dictates our limits, but the Spirit, We now can set our minds and seek after the Spirit, the mind (now controlled by the dictates of the Spirit) is Life and (soul) peace now and forever. You are not living the Life of the flesh, but the Life of the Spirit," in Romans 8:3-9 (Amplified). Throughout this chapter, the Holy Spirit is speaking about the new creation and how when we understand this in our spirit, we will be set free. He is saying that "All these things are working together for the good to those who are in Christ Jesus." Let God lead you in the Truth of this Word. Romans 8:28 has nothing to do with all the carnal things that have been read into it, but with the Spiritual things of the Spirit of God. This includes our prayer lives too. When we don't know how to pray like we should, then the "dictates of the Spirit" or understanding of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus will release all guilt and condemnation of the flesh, allowing us to pray correctly. Our new creation spirit is filled with the Righteous Spirit of God and can pray through us, "The perfect prayer of faith," without the flesh holding us back by carnal reasonings of the old, dead man.
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