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 into harmony with Him)."
In order to understand the new creation you've become, you must first understand that you are a spirit. You do not have a spirit, but you are a spirit. It was your spirit that was born by God's Word, into a new creation being. Your spirit was always living within you, but was no longer connected to Life, Who is the Father. Man has always been a spiritual being, from the very beginning. When the Word said that we "were dead in trespass and sin," we were alive in our spirit, but not "alive unto God."
When Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, his spirit was cut off from the Father, because of his sin. God is Life. Spiritual death became the very essence of death. Adam could only produce sin and death, after his separation from the Father, Who is Life. The Father lost His communication with His family and needed to find a way to bring them back to Him. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified) that "He came only to bring Life." He was speaking about the Life of God. When you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you were born-again from death unto Life.
In your new creation man, your spirit is infused by and with the Spirit of God. The resurrection from death has already occurred, in the life of the believer. We were virtually raised from death unto Life in God. This new creation man is the living spirit, that the Word of God has given new Life. Your body wasn't made new and your soul (mind, will, emotions) wasn't made new. Your physical sense weren't made new, but only your spirit was made new. We're now brought into a place with the Father, where we can be led by and hear His Voice once again. We were designed to walk with God in our spirit, not with our senses.
We've accepted the Truth, that when a Christian leave earth in death, he has gone to be with the Lord. I could take you to a cemetery and who you that, they're still here. Your response would probably be, "Their spirit has gone to the Lord." You would be 100% right. My question would then be, "When did they become a spirit?" Was it after they died or were they always a spirit? The Truth is, that they were always a spirit, but we fail to recognize this fact while we're still alive in the body.
Your new creation spirit man, is the real you. The outer-man is only the "house," where he lived while on this earth. We've been trying to walk in the spirit, by the same carnal mind that led us before we became this new creation. We've never trained or taught our new creation man to take dominion of the flesh and become the dominant being that hears and leads us in the things of the Father. We've walked by our senses, instead of our spirit being. Now that he has been made alive once again into and unto God, he is the way that the Lord will communicate with us.
We've been double-minded, concerning the Super-natural things of the Father, because our carnal mind (our senses) have been leading us for so long. We've lost our ability to hear the Father's Voice, because He speaks to our spirit and not our minds or intellect. Only our new creation man has the ability to hear from God. You might hear a preacher say something one hundred times and still not get any revelation from his words. Your spirit can pick up on it after one time and bring revelation to the preacher's words. This is the Holy Spirit speaking into your new born spirit. Now, it is a living Word in you, when before it was just carnal learning and intellectual information that has no power for change.
Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and Life." Only your spirit can receive revelation by Spirit Words, they are simply "words," until then. We must learn to train ourselves to hear, by our new creation man again. I find myself speaking to myself in an audible Voice, from the Father. Many times He speaks to me in my spirit, that is communicated to me in my own voice.
Some might say that I'm speaking to myself and they would be right. The Words don't come from my intellect though, they come from my spirit. You might ask, "How do you know the difference?" I know the Voice of the Shepherd and I follow His Voice. While the Father speaks to me through my own spirit, my carnal mind must be silent while my mouth is speaking. Then, I have only the thoughts of my spirit speaking through the renewed mind of my new being man.
The best way to make your carnal mind be still, is when you are speaking. When the words come from your spirit, your mind must be still in order to hear what you're saying. Now, you are renewing your carnal mind to receive God's Word and renewing itself. You must be in God's Word, in order to hear His instructions. He isn't limited to the written Word, but He will never contradict it. You new creation spirit will know and understand Him, because He lives in your new spirit. When you read and listen to God's Word, your spirit will grow incrementally stronger. God's Word is food for your newborn spirit, just like milk is to a newborn baby.
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