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 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 unto Him)."
The new creation people must pattern themselves after Jesus, Who is the Example and "the Firstborn of many brethren," according to Romans 8:29 (Amplified) which says, "For those whom He foreknew (of whom He was aware and Loved and Loved beforehand) He also destined from the beginning (foreordained them) to be molded into the Image of His Son (and share inwardly His Likeness) that He might become the Firstborn of many brethren."
The above scripture tells us that we are to be "molded into the Likeness of Jesus" ad become the family of the Firstborn. This isn't saying that we are to be "the Savior," but we're to be like Jesus was and is. He is our Pattern. Some will have a problem with this statement, but I didn't write it, I only copied it. If this scripture is True (and you know it is), then Jesus was and is what the Father expects us to become.
I don't believe this scripture is referring to "when we die and get to Heaven," but it's for those whom God can speak through and to and carry out what He wants done here in the earth. In order for us to grow up in Him and be able to hear and carry out His instructions, we must go beyond what the world has told us we are. We must develop into what the Father expects of us.
Romans 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness that God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith (dis clothed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith) as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith." It's plain to see here, that we're to grow and mature in our new life in Jesus, intothe maturity of son-ship for the us of the Father.
2Corinthians 3:18 (Amplified) tells us, "And all of us, as with unveiled face, (because we) continued to behold (in the Word of God) as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His Very Own Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; (for this comes) from the Lord (Who is) the Spirit."
After being born-again, we are to grow up in Him, because we are His sons and family. The Father needs us to be able to hear Him when He speaks and be able to do what we hear Him direct us to do (through Him). Our Heavenly Father needs to reveal His glory in the earth, through us. The world tells us that "we can only do these things, when we get to Heaven." This has held the Church in the place of neutrality, for over two-thousand years. We've only adapted to the outer-man and restrained from the sins of the flesh. We've never grown into the new creature that we've become, in our spirit man.
Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) says, "The spirit of man (the factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the Lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts." It's our spirit man, by which illumination from God comes. This is the real you, that God created in this new creation, in order to hear and obey His Voice and leadings. The spirit man was severed from GOd, by Adam's fall from grace. It was God's way of directing His children, from the very beginning. When Adam fell, God lost the way into man's lives and death came from the separation from the Spirit of God, Who is Life.
Through this new creation man, God has once more, a direct Voice and and way to lead mankind. God's Own Spirit lives inside the born-again, newly created spirit, through Jesus. The Father has never changed from what His heart desired from the beginning. It has always been the desire of God's heart, to have a family. This isn't for when we arrive in His Presence, after our mortal bodies die, but is for while we're here on earth. He wants us to bring others into His family. We are still His Source of "Sowers of the Kingdom of Heaven" and through Him, we're the reapers for the harvesting of more children in His Kingdom.
Isaiah 54:13 (Amplified) says, "And all your (spiritual) children shall be disciples (taught by the Lord and obedient to His will) and great shall be the peace and undisturbed composure of your children." The spiritual children would receive the ability to once again "hear God's Voice and know and obey His will." The only way the outer man could hear, was like Paul spoke about in Hebrews 1:1-2 (Amplified) saying, "In many separate revelations each of which set forth a portion of the Truth) and in different ways God spoke of old to (our) forefathers in and by the prophets, (But) in the last of these days, He has spoken to us in (the Person of a ) Son, Whom He appointed Heir and Lawful Owner of all things, also by Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time, (He made, produced, built, operated and arranged them in order)."
The Father is speaking to us (those of the last of these days), through Jesus, Who is the Living Word and by the new creation man who has been born of this Word, making us in His Image. We find the Law of Genesis in Genesis 1:11-12 (Amplified) which is that "everything bears seed after kind." Thus, it says, "And God said, Let the earth put forth (tender) vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit, trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind upon the earth, and it was so. Then earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it."
This Law of Kind, has prevailed even until now and everything bears fruit after kind. Apple seed only produce apple trees and fruit. Acorns only produce Oak trees and their fruit. Horses produce horses, people produce people and spirits produce spirit after kind, according to the Seed. After Adam's fall in the Garden, he still produced mankind (not only in this human body, but also the spirit of mankind). In His earthly ministry, Jesus described Himself as "a Seed," in John 12:24 (Amplified) where He said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and it dies, it remains (just one grain) it never comes more but lives by itself alone. But, if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest." 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."
If the Law of Genesis holds true (and we know from the natural things around us that it does), then the Seed (Who is Jesus) will only "produce after Kind." Galatians 3:16 (Amplified) says, "Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his offspring, his Heir). God doesn't say, and to seeds (descendants, heirs)," as if referring to "many persons." He says, "And to your Seed (your Descendant, your Heir)," obviously referring to One Individual, Who is none other than Christ Jesus, the Messiah.
If Jesus is the Seed and the Law of Genesis holds true, then God (through Jesus' Seed) has produced children in the Same Likeness. You're not the same seed the was sown (only Jesus is that), but you came through that Seed. You are the same as the Seed that was sown, which is a new creation spirit being, just like the Seed that spawned you.
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