2Corinthians 5:17 (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."
We've nearly lost the Truth of the new creation reality, because we've been taught by the world system for so long. It seems like many have put the things of their new man or woman into the future after we die and get to Heaven. The Truth is that we've been reinstated by our relationship with the Father through Jesus and have inherited our position that belonged to man from the beginning. Jesus taught and spoke a Truth in Matthew 6:31-34 (Amplified) that is so far above what we've ever come to believe and what we know of our Christian faith, but without revelation from the Holy Spirit, it's difficult for us to understand. The people had been listening to Jesus speak about the covenant and giving Kingdom teachings. He spoke not only about "Heavenly things," but about the provision and care of God's people here on this earth.
Thus, Jesus said, "Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying; What are we going to eat? or, what are we going to have to drink? or, what are we going to have to wear? For the Gentiles (heathens) wish for and crave and diligently seek all those things, and your Heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. But seek (aim at and strive after) first of His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble."
We have gleaned many things from the above scriptures, but I don't believe we've reached the full Truth of them. God, Who is now our Father, has declared that He intends to take care of us, not only in Heaven, but also while we're on earth. Food, clothing, drink, and shelter aren't things we will "seek" in Heaven. These are things we need, while we're here on earth. Jesus said that, "The Father knows we need these things" and told us to "seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and all of these things taken together will be given to you besides."
Jesus didn't say that we could have "one or the other of these things," but He said, "All these things taken together." This includes both our Heavenly home (where we'll live for eternity after leaving earth) and our here on earth. Many will say this is "foolishness" and some will call it "crazy nonsense," but to Jesus, it was a matter of fact and Truth. When Jesus preached about the new covenant and relationship with God, the people found these things difficult to understand. Today, the new creation people can understand that we're not like the covenant people of the Law. Through revelation of the Holy Spirit, we understand the Truth about our being sons and daughters of faith.
God's "way of doing and being right" is our way of life, by the birth of the new creation in Jesus. God's new creation family isn't only covenant, but we are family. We are "His way of being right," because we've been made right or now by faith in Jesus, stand righteousness or in right standing as the Father's children. Jesus said that, "When we seek first of all God's way of doing and being right (righteous), then all these other things would also come to us."
Our Father has a way of doing things and being right, in His Word and in His Kingdom. The words, "being right" are simply the "way of righteousness" that returns us to right standing with our Father and the Kingdom we are now part of, by the new birth. This is so different from what many have been taught, that many will dismiss it as "carnal or foolish." God took care of the people of the old covenant, for the duration of the old covenant. He fed them manna, gave them non-bitter water to drink, provided shelter and beyond. He took them into a Land that "flowed with milk and honey." All these things are needs we have, while on earth every day.
God speaks about the Israelites in the Wilderness, who wouldn't believe Him to care for them and to rest in His provisions for them in Hebrews 4:9-10 (Amplified). God was displeased at their lack of faith in His ability to provide for their daily needs, saying, "So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete, Sabbath-rest reserved for the (true), people of God. For he who has once entered (God's) rest also has ceased from (the weariness and pain) of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His Own."
I believe that our Father wishes to do far more for His children, than He could do for those of the old covenant. If God took care of them under the blood of bulls and goats, then isn't the relationship we have with Him through the Blood of Jesus stronger? Somehow, we've put God off as being only God after we leave here. If God could provide for His people here on earth, who were under the old covenant, then don't we think He can and will care for His Own children today? Has God lost something over the years, that has weakened His ability to deal with things here in life?
God's way of doing and being right (His righteousness) is seeking first the Kingdom of God. As new creation children of God, we've obtained His righteousness, through faith in Jesus. We must learn about His way of doing." The Amplified Bible simply says, "Seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right)." God has a way of doing and He also has a way of being right. God's Kingdom that we now belong to, there is a way of doing things that must be His way. His Kingdom works of different Laws and principles, than this world's system operates in. All of His Laws are more sure and superior, to man's laws that govern here.
We came into Jesus' righteousness, when we received Him as our Lord and Savior. We couldn't become righteous or in right standing with Him, by any other means. Now that we've come into His Kingdom and His righteousness, we must learn to operate in His way of doing and being right. There is a way of doing right and being right, in His Kingdom. This isn't a religious term or some teaching of man, but an actual way that is right and lawful, according to the Terms and Laws that govern God's Kingdom (of which we now belong).
Have you ever noticed that Jesus walked in a different set of Laws, than the other people of His time did? Jesus walked in the Laws of the Kingdom. He walked in God's way of doing and being right. We've never learned how to walk in "His way of doing." We've barely begun to understand His way of righteousness.
We've been waiting to become His sons and daughters and waiting to become righteous. We haven't understood that we are now already His sons and daughters and that we are His righteous ones. We don't inherit the Kingdom when we get to Heaven, we have already inherited the Kingdom of God and are to bring it to this earth. Through our new creation, we have a way of doing, that is superior to the world's way of doing.
We must call upon the Holy Spirit to reveal to us, how to walk in the Kingdom Laws and way that liberate mankind, instead of being content to walk in what the world tells us we're to walk in. We already have His way of being right, righteous, in right standing, the right to stand in His Presence, through our union with Jesus Christ. Now, we must seek after His way of doing and bring the Kingdom of God into focus, for the world to see.
In Luke 10:8-9 (Amplified) Jesus instructs, "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you. And heal the sick in it and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come close to you." This is His way of doing and this is how the Kingdom functions. The Kingdom could only "come close" to them then, but through Jesus and the new creation, the Kingdom has now come to do "on earth as it is in Heaven."
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