John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and favor upon favor and even Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
Yesterday, I asked the reader, "What is a Christian," hoping to evoke some thought. Some would say that "it's being born-again, saved or converted." These are all true, but what were we born into, saved into or been converted to? Now that you've been born-again, what are you? Some would answer, "I'm a child of God and going to Heaven when I leave this earth." That's true, but who are you now as a child of God?
God made man in His Image and Likeness and made him a spirit man. God formed a body from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils, the Breath of Life. God's Spirit man, became a living being, according to Genesis 2:7 (Amplified). Man was to walk simultaneously in two separate realms. He is a spirit living in a natural body and has life in both realms. Man's natural body was sustained by the life of the Spirit and his spirit was the center of his being. When Adam fell from his place in the Garden, his life in the spirit was shut-off from God and his natural sense began to dominate his entire existence. He was still a spirit, but was disconnected from the Life Source of God, in his spirit.
When we received Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, as our Lord and Savior, we were born-again or connected again to God, by His Spirit. What was the life of Adam supposed to be, before his sin in the Garden? Was he only human, as some still say today? Or, was he a different kind of man from the start? When we were born-again, we became the kind of creation made from the DNA of our Heavenly Father once again. We are no longer only human, but we're a new creation, according to 2Corinthians 5:17.
So, what is a child of God? What is it, that we were born-again to be? Are we only flesh and blood people or are we Spirit of God people, living in and ruling over the house of flesh in which we live? Who are we? We understand and know so little about the realm of the Spirit, that we function only in this natural state, until we die physically or leave this earth. We've spent very little time trying to understand who we have become, that we've settled for only being human.
When I was young, there was a movie called "Tarzan." It was about a boy who was raised by gorillas and believed he was a gorilla who wasn't covered with hair. As a human, Tarzan was a superior race, but he settled for being a gorilla, because he didn't know who he really was. He learned to excel at being an ape, but he was still beneath what he was supposed to be. You might excel at being a human being and live below the standards of a new creation man or woman. You might be living through your flesh, instead of your spirit.
We've done like those in the old covenant, using only certain things to correct and control the flesh. We've mostly failed to train our spirits to rule the flesh by the Spirit of God's Word. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it); The Words (Truths), that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." Jesus was speaking about the food of the spirit-born man and this is what reveals to us, "who we really are." The flesh has no idea who we are and the flesh and is the inferior part (ape-like man in Tarzan's case) that has raised us until now. We've been content to be just a better class of ape (like Tarzan did), because we haven't known who we really are now.
Through the Holy Spirit and God's Word (which is Spirit), we can finally come to the knowledge of our true identity in Christ Jesus. The Law of Genesis says that, "Everything produces after kind." We know this in the natural realm of life on earth. If we sow an acorn, then we will get an Oak tree, because the seed produces after kind. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (sees, sperm), but from One that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
We can see God's Law of Genesis is true in the natural realm, but do we think it's true in the Spirit realm? Dogs produce dogs and cats produce cats. Corn produces corn and acorns produce Oak trees, so wouldn't the Seed of God produce children like Him? Jesus knew Who He was and didn't depend on the Law of Moses or the Scribes to tell Him Who He was. In Luke 2:52, we read the account of Jesus being in the Temple at age 12, where "He was growing in Wisdom and stature and favor with God and man."
Jesus made it a priority in His life, to find out Who He was as the Son of God and not just the son of Mary and Joseph. He didn't stop being Mary's son, but He walked simultaneously in both realms with Mary and with God. We've never really understood what we were born to be in God's eyes. We still see ourselves as "old sinners, saved by Grace," instead of new creation children of God, who are filled by righteousness. We've never taken our rightful place on this planet, because we're still ruled by the world's idea of who we are. We've been walking by the dictates of the flesh, instead of the new creation man of God.
Tarzan felt inferior to the apes who raised him, until he came to the knowledge of who he really was. He finally came to the place of ruling over the apes, as King of the Jungle. He always was over the animals in the jungle, but he didn't know it. We've been made to rule over this world and everything in it by our new identity in the Father, but we just don't know this. The flesh is only the house that our new creation person lives in, while we're on earth. We're to live in and rule in two realms at the same time.
I've heard someone say, "It's hard to soar like an eagle like the Psalm says, when you live in a chicken house." God is revealing to His children in these Last Days, what our true identity is and who He has created us to be. Many are coming from religion to Revelation, in these Last Days. It's only natural that others will look at us and speak against us, because they don't understand us. Many spoke this way about Jesus, Paul, Peter, John and many others who saw their true identity, but many others rejoiced.
As the dimness wears off and the True Light of what Jesus has actually done dawns on God's children, this earth will see an awakening like never before. Romans 8:19 (Amplified) says, "For even the whole creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known (waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their son ship)." Could this be the time?
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