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 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 being is the spiritual being that was born in us, at the moment we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. This Life is now the very Life of God, that's now living in our new creation spirit. This is the same Holy Spirit, Who was living and functioning in Jesus during His earthly walk. He is much more than just "speaking in tongues" or being religious. God Himself fashioned us into something that never existed before Jesus' Ascension into God's Presence, on our behalf.
This new creation man is a being that only the Father knows and understands. 1Corinthians 2:10-11, 13-16 (Amplified) says, "Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the Holy Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the Divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny) For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a mans thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just as no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."
According to these scriptures, only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us, who we really are as new creation family. Let's read on in Verse 13 which says, "And we are setting these truths forth in Words not taught by human wisdom, but taught by the Holy Spirit; combining and interpreting Spiritual Truths with Spiritual language (to those who possess the Holy Spirit." Even though these Words are now written in English (for those of us who understand English), they aren't merely natural Words for education, but are Spiritual Words for revelation. Verse 14 goes on, "But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the Gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are fully (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them (of progressively better acquainted with them) because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated."
There have been many people who've been born-again over the years, but they remain carnally minded in their understanding of the new creation. Because we've been taught spiritual things by carnal men, we haven't received what Paul refers to in Verse 11, "Words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Holy Spirit." This has left us in a carnal state and not knowing who we were created to be in God. Paul says in Verse 15, "But the spiritual man tries all things (he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions and discerns all things); yet is himself to be put on trial and judged by no one (he can read the meanings of everything, but no one properly discern or appraise or get an insight into him)."
These are things that the Holy Spirit is doing and revealing into a person's own spirit and others (without the Holy Spirit's showing them) do not see or understand. These things are revealed only by and through the Holy Spirit, into your new creation spirit and no one else can get an insight into this man. Jesus did the same thing during His earthly ministry. No one knew what was in Jesus' Spirit, only the Holy Spirit. 1Corinthians 2:16 (Amplified) continues, " For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and DO HOLD the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart."
Only those who will allow the Holy Spirit to reveal this new creation to them, will ever come to realize (in this age) who God has really created us to be. We were never left in this world and in this natural body, to simply start another religion. We are to change this system to the Kingdom relationship.
For many, when new revelation comes to bring change, the Church fights against it, because it passed their natural ability to comprehend (just like the old covenant Jews fought the Church). Jesus made a statement in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), that most do not understand still today. Thus, He said to the people, "SEEK (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these THINGS TAKEN TOGETHER will be given you besides."
God's Kingdom has a "way of doing and being right." God has a way His Kingdom functions and operate (according to the Laws of the Spirit), in which the new creation people are supposed to learn and operate in. We're not o learn and operate in man's reasonings.
We can no longer receive from the Spirit realm, the things that God has "laid up for us," by functioning in natural man's reasonings. We must "seek, strive for, and listen to the Holy Spirit," in order to walk in this new creation spirit man. This is available to all who will receive of it. Not everyone will even make an attempt to understand, as we've become content in our own idea of what God expects and who we are.
We witness the state of religion and the state of most of today's new creation people of God, in Romans 10:2-3 (Amplified) which says, "I bear them witness, that they have a (certain) zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to (correct and vital) knowledge. For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes (which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought and deed) and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness."
One of the most quoted scriptures in the Church, is probably Romans 3:10,22 (Amplified) which says, "As it is written, None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, No not one." The King James Version says, "None are righteous, No not one!" Paul goes on in Verses 21- 22, ""But now the righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although it actually is attested by the Law and the Prophets. Namely, the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah) (and it is meant) for all who believe. There is no distinction."
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, then God declares you "to be righteous and just, and upright, and truthful, and conscientious in His sight." This righteousness is the Gift of God, which comes to the new creation man and woman of God, by grace. Not receiving this righteousness by faith and declaring you're "not righteous before Him," amounts to those who have a "zeal for God, but without knowledge" and trying to establish their own righteousness by works and religion.
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