2Corinthians 5:17-18 (Amplified) tells us, "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)."
When a child is born into this world, he doesn't need to try becoming a human being, because he is already a human being. He must though, learn to conduct himself and function as a human. Depending upon the culture he's raised in, he must adopt the teachings and grow into what the standards of a human being is expected to be. That child didn't become a human being, but developed as a human being, by the culture he was raised in.
When you were born-again, you didn't have to become a new creation, you already are one. Now, by the Holy Spirit and God's Word, we began to grow and develop into the maturity of what this new creation being is supposed to be. Depending on the culture and the teaching we receive, we grow into what that culture expects us to be. We're raised up into what differing cultures and denominations teach us to be as mature Christians.
The Church has developed according to what these cultures and denominations know about the Spirit realm. Most of us have never realized who we really are, by the standards of the Heavenly realm or sphere. As new creation people, we've allowed our lives to be governed by the same realm as those who aren't birthed into the new realm, we've been born-again into. We've been raised in a culture that mostly denied our Spiritual heritage and have functioned int the natural culture of this world.
Everything we feel, smell, see, hear or taste is from this natural realm of life. We've been born from and into a different realm, with different cultures. Because many in this culture are unable to see, feel, smell, hear or taste this invisible realm from which we've been born-again into, they put it off for "someday, when we get to Heaven." As citizens of Heaven, we've accepted the culture of the physical realm, instead of our Homeland (God's Kingdom).
The new creation people have only a few individuals, to follow as examples of our true heritage. The culture of our Homeland, is completely different from the natural culture, in which we've been raised. We've developed in some small areas of our Spiritual heritage. We've trained our natural bodies to behave by willpower and not from our spirit.
We don't need to try becoming a new creation, because we were born that way through faith in Jesus. We've lacked the Truth about who we really are and the culture that rules the Kingdom we are from. We've been waiting to become what God has already made us to be, by the new birth. We've been training our natural man, by the same standards we were taught, before being born-again.
Every new baby, born into this world, is already a human being. He doesn't need to be taught how to be a human, because he is already a human. However, he can be taught how to conduct his life, by the standards we live by. Billions of people throughout the world today, live by different standards and different cultures, according to where they were born. Even Jesus did this. Jesus dressed, ate, and lived like He did, according to how He was raised and where He lived. Jesus though, didn't allow this way, to be His only way. He took the way of the Heavenly culture from which He came and superimposed it on the earthly culture, thus combining the two into one. Jesus brought the natural culture, into subjection to His Heavenly culture and restored things to what they were meant to be. Jesus brought "Life in abundance, to the full, till it overflowed" and taught us the culture of His Father's Heavenly Kingdom.
Jesus was and is, the Example of the new creation. He was born of both realms and simultaneously lived in both realms. He operated as the First Born of many brethren in both realms. Jesus had a natural Body, but He functioned by His Spirit and not by the culture of the world. As a natural Man, Jesus could hear, feel, see, taste and smell, but He operated beyond these five natural senses. Jesus' natural Body, still became tired, and needed food and nourishment. Jesus' Spirit Man sustained Him, beyond the natural realm.
As the Sample Son, Jesus demonstrated how the new creation was to function in the natural and Spiritual realm simultaneously. God sent Jesus as an Example, to the new creation family He was going to bring into Life. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy." He wasn't simply talking about the thief taking our belongings. This thief is intent on stealing our heritage and culture of our new birth. Satan tries to kill, steal and destroy the new Life, or make it of no effect in this realm and confining it to the culture of natural man. He intends to rob us of the knowledge of who we have become (by this new birth), in order to maintain control he's had since Adam's fall. When the new creation discovers who he has become, satan cannot hold onto what he stole from Adam. Jesus went on in John 10:10 (Amplified), saying, "I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." The "abundant Life" Jesus spoke of, is the realm of the new creation man.
Through Jesus, the new creation was to born into this earth, from above, from the Spirit realm. Like Jesus, the new creation would develop from a different culture (the Spirit realm) and would control the culture of the natural, by this new Life. Jesus didn't flaunt this new Life, but walked in the wisdom of the culture of the Spirit realm, where He was from. Jesus didn't allow the culture of the natural man, to keep Him in the confines of the "thief." Jesus walked in a place, the thief couldn't control. Jesus walked in His True heritage.
Christians have allowed the thief to steal our heritage, kill our ability, and destroy the culture we have received as God's new creation family. We've grown into into the culture of the world and are still governed by the culture of the natural man.
We don't need to try being a new creation, because we were born that way, through faith in Jesus Christ. We've lacked the Truth of who we really are and the culture that rules the Kingdom we are from. We've been waiting to become, what God has already made us to be, by the new birth. We've been living the new life, by the standards of the natural realm,world.
Jesus wasn't limited to only the things He could see with His natural eyes, but could see into the Spirit realm. Jesus didn't only hear with His natural hearing, but could He could also hear the Father's Voice and guidance. Jesus wasn't only limited to what He could feel with His natural Body, but the presence of angels sent to comfort and encourage Him in the wilderness. Jesus was the Example for us to follow, as who the new creation family is supposed to be. We only need to change the culture that trained us and learn the culture of Heaven.
God isn't the problem in today's Church. The same "thief" of Jesus' day is. God is the Answer to every problem we encounter today. We continue walking as mere men, because of the culture that trains us. The same thief still wants to control us and have us see only what he wants us to see, instead of seeing who we are born (from Heaven) to be. Satan wants to restrain us to the first culture and not from the Kingdom. God's Word and the Holy Spirit are the Teachers of the new creation family.
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