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! all things are made new. 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)."
Our minds have been established by the culture and the world around us, so that we've been held captive from the realm of the Spirit. We've acknowledged very little of the Spiritual Life we received when becoming born-again. Some of us have been Baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues, but still have little understanding of what this opens up for us, in Kingdom. Many, even after receiving the Gift or language of the Spirit, simply cease speaking in tongues after a short period of time. Paul teaches in 1Corinthians 14:2 (Amplified), "For one who speaks in an (unknown) tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the Holy Spirit he utters secret Truths and hidden things (not obvious to the understanding)."
This Gift of the Spirit is a doorway into the things of the Spirit realm, into which we were born in Christ Jesus. Here is where we learn who we are and how to function in this new creation. These "secret Truths and hidden things" are the Source of learning how to operate in the Kingdom we've been birthed into. The world (or even those who are saved, but still carnal minded), continues to deny this aspect of our new creation life.
We were born again, not by "corruptible (seed, sperm) but from that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God," according to 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified). The Law of Genesis tells us that "everything produces after kind." Thus, Genesis 1:12 (Amplified) says, "The 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."
We seem to understand the above Truth in the natural realm, while not doing so concerning our being born again by Incorruptible Seed, the Word of God. If everything produces after kind, then we were born again in His Image. We witness this Law operating around us in the natural world, but fail to see it in the Spirit realm. The Law of Genesis demonstrates how foolish the Theory of Evolution is. Monkeys stay monkeys and men stay men. Men have never produces monkeys and monkeys never turn into men, because everything produces after kind.
If this Law is true and we can observe it's validity all around us, then having been born from the Seed of God, we are born of the God class or of His Spirit. That's what God's Word says about us and what the Law of Genesis says about us. An unrenewed mind that is still being taught by the world (the foster parent) cannot believe this Truth when it comes to monkeys and men. How can we expect it to teach the Church, who we really are in Christ? This sounds sacrilegious to the carnal, unrenewed mind, but it is Spirit and Truth. How could God and His Seed, produce something other than what He is? This would be like my dog producing kittens. It won't happen!
We are produced and born of God, so we have the attributes and character of the One Who fathered us. It can't be any other way. We've allowed the world to foster and raise us in it's image. Men are flesh and blood and men sire children who are flesh and blood. After we were born-again we still bear the image of the natural man, but the Law of Genesis says we were born again. We bear the image of the natural and are created new in the Spirit, after the Image of the Spirit. We now have dual citizenship, with the rights and authority in two realms. We actually have the rights and authority in three realms, as ambassadors of Christs, according to 2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) which says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were, through us, we (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the Divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God."
We are citizens of Heave and representatives with God's authority on earth, according to Romans 8:17 (Amplified) which says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, (sharing His inheritance with Him) only we must share in His suffering if we are to share His glory." Jesus speaks about "His suffering,"in John 15:18-19 (Amplified) saying, "If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as it's own. But because you are not of the world (no longer one with it) but I have chosen (selected) you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you."
Jesus reiterates this in Mark 16:17 (Amplified) where He says that as fellow heirs with Him, we've been given the Power of Attorney in His Name and have the authority over demon spirits and rulers of this present age. Thus, Jesus says, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; in My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; they will pick up serpents; and (even) if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well."
Through the new creation birth, we have been given the authority in His Name (Heaven's authority) to cast out demons (spiritual authority) and to lay hands on the sick and heal them (earth's authority). These are the three realms that the new creation have inherited, in order to bring the plans of the Father to pass. Very little has been taught about this, because very little has been known about it. Our foster parent (the world) doesn't have any revelation about this. We've been "loved by the world" (our foster parent) as one of it's own. The world doesn't see us to be much different than they are. A carnal Christian is a child of God, but mostly operates on the same plain that the world does. Even though Tarzan was a human being, he didn't differ much from his foster parents (the apes) and lived like an ape.
If you're someone who has received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and received your prayer language, then use it like Paul instructed, "Praying always in the Spirit" for revelation, understanding, anointing, ability and the authority that has been given to this new creation by God through Jesus. Allow the Father to use you to change and be the Light and Salt to this world. If the Church continues allowing the world to tell us who we are, then we won't be much different than the world, other than we will go to Heaven when we die.
We are a new creation and are a species of being who has never existed on this planet before. We were born-again by God's Own Seed and have been born into the Kingdom and family of God Himself. Remember the Law of Genesis that says, "Everything has seed and every seed produces after kind."
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