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)."
To understand the new creation being, we must go to God's Word and discover who we've been made to be in Him. The Church has mainly functioned the way previous generations taught, but while some of these teachings still hold to the Truth, many do not. We've operated in traditions and religious orders those before us held too, but these things don't allow the new creation to function like God intended.
The new creation have government and Spiritual Laws that govern it, coming from the Kingdom of God we now belong to. These Spiritual Laws govern our new life in Him, and operate on a different level than the spiritual laws governing earth, since Adam's fall. Proverbs 16:25 (Amplified) tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death."
I don't believe that anyone who is now born-again, isn't trying to walk with God like they should and truly desire to. I don believer however, that we're walking in a way that seems right to us. Most of what we know comes from things taught through the years, by man. Some of these things are correct, while other things aren't. We've held to traditions, instead of the Truth of who we've become in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit says in Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified), "Where there is no vision (no redemptive revelation of God) the people perish; but he who keeps the law (of God, which includes that of man)-blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he."
Many believe this "redemption" comes only after we leave earth, in death. God's "vision of redemption" includes the time we are here as ambassadors for His Kingdom. We've never really exercised our new creation redemption on earth. This redemption is not for ourselves only, but for us to use and gain back what was stolen from us and bring the unsaved world back into covenant with the Redeemer. So many of the brethren, who have been redeemed from the curse through Jesus, have no idea of what this redemption entails.
We are to take the knowledge that things have been restored to us through Jesus, to the world in Truth and favor. Jesus preached this message, everywhere He went. His message to the world was, "The acceptable year of the Lord" was now here, through Him. Isaiah 61:2 (Amplified) says, "To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (the year of His favor)." Jesus completed the unfinished scripture and closed the scroll after speaking. Everyone present during the meeting (and every meeting to come) knew that the "acceptable year of the Lord" was the Year of Jubilee. This year of Jubilee meant that everything that had been lost or taken from someone, was to be restored.
The Gentiles had no idea of what this "acceptable year of the Lord" was about. We only understood what we'd learned from the previous generations. This doesn't disqualify what He preached as being Truth, just because we don't understand it. The things Jesus spoke weren't only "True" for those who heard Him preach it, but also for the Gentiles who would believe in Him, in the future, us. Many us us have lost relationship with our children or parents, because of past things. Jesus was saying to all of us, "Trust Me and walk in the Light of My Redemptive power, then this vision will come to pass in your lives." We've never had a clear vision of that redemption, because of a "lack of knowledge." We've walked in the way that seemed "right" to us, but this didn't restore things that had been lost to us. The way that seemed "right," still led to death.
Too many of our children were as good as dead to us, by the curse that still holds them and us. Without understanding the power of Blessing that was now on us, we've accepted things that are, believing they couldn't be changed. We've tried making our children attend church and to be better persons (which was the way that seemed "right"), but these things haven't worked. Instead of bringing liberty to our children, we've bound them with the laws and traditions of men, which caused them to rebel against God.
Jesus came to set men free, while religion binds them. The message that we can fellowship with the Creator of the Universe, should be the most exciting news anyone could ever hear. We've held to things that seemed right and have portrayed God as never being pleased with mankind, no matter how hard we might try. Many gave us and quit trying, believing God could never be pleased with them anyway.
We've mostly tried to please God by our own ways, because we learned this from previous generations. Hebrews 11:6 (Amplified) says, "But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come to God must (necessarily) believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him (out)."
We haven't stressed that faith in what God says in His Word, is Truth for our lives today. We've made excuses for why His Word doesn't work, instead of stressing that His Word is Truth and still does work today. This is the way that seems "right" to men, but the results aren't always Life to those who hear and do them. Many view God's Word as "The history of what God used to do," instead of what God still does today. We read about the things God did in the past and how He moved with His people, but forget that He is "The Same yesterday, today, and forever." God hasn't changed, we have. We must dare to step out in faith and believe that "HE IS" and that "HE IS still the Rewarder of those who seek Him out."
It doesn't matter what someone else does or believes. We must be like Abraham, who believed God when in the natural, there was no possibility the things God told him to do, could be possible. We must remember that, "With God, all things are possible and that all things are possible to he who believes."
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