2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old, previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Most Christians have never fully understood what God made the new creation man to be. Genesis 1:26 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness)." Mankind was created in God's Likeness. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified), "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth (reality)."
Adam was created a spirit being, like God. Ephesians 2:4 (Amplified) says, "Even when we were dead (slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses), He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; He gave us the very Life of Christ Himself, the same new Life with which He quickened Him." We've been created in God's Likeness and Image, but we've also been created in Him. Our natural body has become His Temple. 1Corinthians 6:19,17 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the Temple (the very Sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you; Whom you have received as a Gift from God? You are not your own." Verse 17 says, "But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him." We're no longer sons of Adam, but we're sons and daughters of God Himself.
Our old body of sin or our m, was s and crucified with Jesus. We were born anew by His Spirit, in Righteousness and pure holiness. Through Jesus, we've been elevate to a higher place than the First Adam and we're seated together in heavenly places, with the Last Adam,Jesus. We're no longer like God, Who is a Spirit, but we're now in God, One Spirit, according to Ephesians 1:13 (Amplified), which says, "In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth (the glad tidings of your salvation), and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long Promised Holy Spirit."
Our spirit man is no longer dead to God, but is now alive in Christ Jesus. We've been made one with Him. Sin doesn't have dominion over us any longer, because our life in God is settled. The enemy can only test or try our flesh, using circumstances to make us falter. So long as we don't yield to satan's tests and trials, then our faith in God's Blessings will deliver us to God's safe place of landing. Our spirit isn't dead or under satan's control any longer.
When Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, he forfeited Life from God, for death in satan. His spirit was cut-off from the Father, so the only way God could deal with mankind, was from the outside. Through Jesus, our spirit has been restored to life and God Himself resides in our spirit and we reside in His Spirit. The control satan had over the First Adam, has been taken from him. We've been bought and paid for, by the Sacrifice of our Lamb Jesus. Through Jesus, our union with God has been restored and we've been restored to God's Original Intent and to dominion and authority.
1Corinthians 6:20 (Amplified) says, "You were bought with a Price (purchased with a Preciousness and paid for), made His Own. So then, honor God and bring Glory to Him in your body." 2Timothy 2:21 (Amplified) says, "So whoever cleanses himself from what is ignoble and unclean, who separates himself from contact with contaminating and corrupt influences, will then himself be a vessel set apart and useful for honorable and noble purposes, consecrated and profitable to the Master, fit and ready for any good work."
1Timothy 6:12 (Amplified) says, "Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the Eternal Life to which you were summoned and for which you confessed the good confession of faith before many witnesses." When the enemy comes to pressure you, you must hold fast your faith in the Holy Spirit within you. God will deliver you, if you stand fast and don't back down. You're no longer under satan's control, but are under the control of the Holy Spirit Who lives in you. You've been made one with Him, the Holy Spirit of God and "Greater is He Who is in you, than he who is in the world."
Don't allow satan to pressure you and cause you to lose your faith in God's ability to deliver and fulfill your prayer and petition. We often fold and surrender to the outside pressure, which makes our faith dormant. Satan no longer has access to our spirit, like he did with fallen man. He can only put pressure on our flesh, along with our soulish minds, to try you. God sees you as still pure and in unbroken fellowship with Him, by your new creation man.
Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and it's vital that we don't allow the enemy to violate that temple. This doesn't just mean that we don't sin, but that we don't allow the enemy to sow seeds of doubt in our lives. Your spirit is infused with God's Holy Spirit and your body can only do what it is told to do or allowed to to. Your carnal mind (soul) will be the testing place for the enemy, in your life. This is why Paul instructed us to "renew our mind, by the Word of God." Adam allowed his carnal mind to rule over his spirit, which caused him to lose everything.
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