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 (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)."
As Christians, we are a new creation people. As surely as the Heavens and earth never existed before God created them, the new creation never existed before this spoken creation we've become. We were created by the Word of God, just like the Heavens and earth were created by God's Word. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a moral origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
We've somehow separated this new life from the natural life, making them two different lives. We've looked at the new creation life, as occurring after our new body has ceased living on earth. We've believed that we have a natural life and a spiritual life and they're to be separated by where we're living, but God's Word doesn't say this. Our new creation spirit man lives in this natural body and the spirit man is to dominate this natural life and the natural body. We're not supposed to wait until we die, to have union with God and the Heavenly realm, but we're to live in this house (body) and have Heaven rule the natural realm of earth. The Father designed us to bring the original purpose for creation, back into subjection to Him.
We are to us the Blessing that God pronounced on man from the first and use the authority given to the first Adam and the Last Adam, in order to subdue and replenish this natural realm. The Blessing would be used to supply life into this natural realm and sustain man's needs here. This Super-natural blessing would (by God's Words) would make things live and prosper. It was to be the physical manifestation of the Spiritual Kingdom of God.
God being God, could have made or created something else, if He had desired too. This creation came from His heart and His desire. God created this earth and the Heavens for His man and family and it was (and will again be), the beauty that He intended from the beginning. God didn't make us new creations, so that we'd struggle through an earthly maze, but so we could once again subdue and replenish the earth.
God connected the new creation spirit man to the earthly, natural man, in order to combine Heaven and earth again, unto the authority of the Spirit (not to separate them). In our carnal minds, we've separated them, by where we're living before death and after our natural bodies die. God (with the Mind of Christ) considers our natural man to be dead already and our new creation man is supposed to rule it , through and in Life by Christ Jesus.
We get a glimpse of what happened at Adam's transgression, in Romans 8:19 (Amplified), which says, "For (even the whole) creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made know (waits for the revealing, the disclosure of their sonship)." Notice, how the scripture says, "God's sons," which is plural. It doesn't just say "God's Son, Jesus," but it indicates God's sons who have been born-again through Jesus' life and resurrection. God has given us the same mandate He gave the first Adam, to His born-again sons and daughters (us). This mandate and Gift of God for His family, hasn't changed, but has been created anew through Jesus.
Some consider this foolishness, while others believe it's been given for the Millennial Reign. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of His earthly Body, Jesus brought both realms into the one realm of God's desire for man. Jesus walked in His natural Body, which He directed with His Spiritual authority, even unto nature itself. This was how the Father intended creation to function, from the beginning. When we try keeping these separate, we fail in both realms. We have enough of the worldly realm in us, that we don't function in the Spirit and we have enough of the Spirit in us, so that we don't enjoy the things of the world. This makes us a "house divided," within ourselves.
Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I come that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." The Father created this earth for the enjoyment of His family. This earth was to produce the overflow of Life, to God's family. Having the understanding of both realms as one, Jesus ruled the natural by the Spirit and brought them into the subjection man was given and Blessed with, from the beginning.
Many have confused the earth, with the world. We've mistaken what has happened through the world system and believe we're not supposed to enjoy this new life, until we get to Heaven. The world and the earth aren't the same things. The world is the fallen system that came into being after Adam's transgression. The earth is still the Lord's and the "fullness thereof."
The authority of the new creation family has been restored, so we could again use the Blessing and mandate to bring the earth back to the place God created it to be. As new creation, we are to be the Salt and Light again in this earth, changing the world system and re-establishing God's kingdom. We're called to bring many brethren into God's family. Through Jesus, we now have the capacity to res-establish God's Kingdom, over most of the earth.
It seems foreign to many Christians to think like this, because we don't see through the eyes of the Spirit, but with only our natural eyes. We've looked at the earth and world we see around us, as "the real world," instead of seeing that the Spirit created it. The Creator is always more "real" than the creation. The "real" or true world is the Spirit realm, where everything we can see, feel smell, touch, hear and enjoy came from.
We are to use the five senses in our lives, but our lives shouldn't be dominated by them. The Father gave these things to us, in order to contact this natural realm He placed us in. The new creation man is to bring the senses back into subjection to the spirit man and the Father. The new creation man is to restore creation, to what it was before Adam's fall.
We know there is a time coming when, "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish (sorrow or mourning) nor grief nor pain anymore, for the old condition's and the former order of things have passed away. And He Who is seated on the Throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible and trustworthy) and true (genuine)."
When Jesus walked as a Man on earth, He didn't change all of creation (or the natural surroundings), but only the parts where He was. Jesus didn't stop all storms, but He stopped the ones that impacted where He was on earth. Jesus was only One Man, Who was filled with the Holy Spirit. Now, through Him, we are a family (made up of millions of men and women) who are filled with The Holy Spirit of God. We are God's new creation family and have the ability to reach beyond only one person. God can live through many and reach beyond Jerusalem, into "all the world," (Mark 16).
I have no authority over your house and property, but through the new creation, I do have authority over mine. If each of us would display our new creation authority over our own, then the earth would once again be a Garden.
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