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)."
We've been seeking wisdom from God's Word, about who we truly are as new creations in Christ Jesus. We've accepted the world's teachings and traditions for far too long, about our true identity. As we venture through the Word, we find we were created by the Same Word that created the Heavens and the earth, in the beginning. This Very Word became flesh and Jesus was the proof of what the Word produced.
We've been taught to see and walk more by our senses (our flesh), rather than by our new being created in the Image and Likeness of Jesus. The Law of Genesis says that, "Everything produces after kind." An apple seed only produces an apple tree and the fruit, is the proof of the seed. If we plant corn, then we will only produce corn, because this is the Law of Genesis. This Law continues into everything that was and is created. We might have different sorts of apples, but they are all produced from an apple seed.
As the First Seed died and was planted or buried in the earth, Jesus became the First Fruits of the new creation. Jesus declared in John 15:1-11 (Amplified) that, "He had now (by Himself being the Seed) become the Vine that produced the fruit of this new being." As the Father if the Husbandman (or Owner) of this new Vine and Fruit, we would be the product of this Vine. The Seed produced a new creation when Jesus was raised from the dead. Everyone who was and is ingrafted in this Vine, is just like the Seed Who produced this fruit.
We seemingly recognize this as Truth, in every other realm of our lives, except in the realm that matters most. According to John 6:63 (Amplified), "This is Spirit and Life." At the time Jesus said these things, He was the Only Product of this Word (Seed) and He was the Fruit of it. Now, through the Seed of this new Living Fruit, "we who were dead unto God, have been created new, by this New and Living Seed of the Word."
We often quote John 3:16 (Amplified) which says, "God gave His Only Begotten Son." Jesus was "The Only Begotten Son," at the time, but after His death and resurrection, He is now called the First Fruit and the First Born of many brethren. We are the product or family of the First Seed, sown unto the family of our Heavenly Father.
We never knew any other way of life in the Spirit before being born-again and we settled for tradition and everything it says we are. We are a Super-natural family, produced by a d Super-natural Seed and that Seed (Jesus) is the Word of God Himself. We read these Truths and mentally accept them as being True, because "they are in the Bible, but we never receive the revelation of the fullness of their Truth in our new lives through Christ Jesus.
We've tried teaching our new being (the new creation spirit), by the outward teachings of the flesh. This has resulted in changing some of our moral habits and conduct, but only in the same manner that the Law of the old covenant did. This has also result in our new being remaining in the infant stage of our new life. We lead others to Christ, but they also remain in the infant stage. we are spirit beings and must feed this new being on Spiritual Food, in order to develop in maturity and growth.
In Matthew 4:4 (Amplified), Jesus said, "Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every Word that comes forth from the Mouth of God." 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again) not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." 1Peter 2:2 (Amplified) reveals to us what Jesus meant when He said that, we do not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the Mouth of God." Thus, it says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) Spiritual Milk (the Word) that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto (completed) salvation."
Babies don't require only bread or natural food for their bodies to grow. Newborn babies in Christ, must feed our spirits with the Word of God, in order to grow and develop. Feeding the intellect on the Word, only produces religion to the senses. Feeding the new creation man on the Spirit and Life of revelation, produces the maturity and submission to the Truth, without the Law of Moses to have to govern.
We have few examples of how and what this new creation being is or does. The image of this new man has almost been lost to the Church, except by the Word and the Holy Spirit. History and tradition only reflect to us, what the world's religions could produce, but the Holy Spirit will reveal the new man from the revelation of the Word Himself.
The things we do as God's Church today (giving, feeding the hungry,caring for widows and orphans, giving to the poor, going into the world and producing Christians by preaching, and governing the outward man) all all noble and necessary for the Church to day. I'm not saying th we've been completely wrong in what we're doing, but there is a maturity that we haven't reached yet. The maturing of the new creation Church, is that which comes from the Super-natural man, within us.
The time has come for the Church to bring forth fruit from the inward man, that the outward man cannot produce. Don't stop doing the good works, but add to them by the Higher Law of the Spirit. We aren't to use only the bread we have to feed the people, but we're to multiply it and feed more people. It's good to take five loaves and two fishes and be willing to give these to the hungry. It's much better though, to take these small gifts of the natural and by the Spirit, multiply them into a feast for thousands or millions. This can only be done by the maturing of the new creation being, who is born of the Super-natural Seed of the Word of God.
Don't wait for someone else to do the growing up, but be willing to have the Spirit bring you to maturity and the rest will follow you (like they did for Joshua and Caleb). Most of us are waiting for someone to lead the way, into the Spirit realm of Truth. Paul had to be willing for this new man to lead him into a new realm for the Gentile. Many have followed into what he revealed, since then. There must always be someone who will step out of the boat, go into the furnace, sing the jail down, walk into the lion's mouth and even build an Ark, when it had never rained before. The people who ridiculed these leaders, didn't do so after they saw the results that followed these leader's faith. They might have laughed at Abraham and Sarah, after he he declared he was the "Father of Many Nations." No one is laughing now, though.
We must dare move by and in the Holy Spirit, into the realm of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Father is always bringing us into a place where we cannot accomplish on our own. We can only reveal Him to the world, by Him and the power of His might. This requires mature people in the spirit and Word of God. We've been created by the Same Seed and we are nourished by this Vine that produces Life and ability (both to and through us), to His glory and praise.
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