The Body of Christ has lost our Heavenly identity, because of the carnal teachings of the world. We've been taught to think of ourselves as "just old sinners saved by Grace." This is True, but we didn't remain old sinners, after being saved. 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."
Paul also writes to the Church in 1Corinthians 3:1-2 (Amplified), saying, "However, brethren, I could not talk to you as to Spiritual men, but as to nonspiritual (men of the flesh), in whom the carnal nature predominates, as to mere infants in the new life in Christ unable to talk yet. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough to be ready for it, but even yet you are not strong enough to be ready for it." Paul wrote this two-thousand years ago and here we are today, two-thousand years later, living as mere infants and nonspiritual men/women.
We've allowed the enemy and the world to talk us out of our new creation identity. We've remained as mere infants, like the Church in Corinth and are waiting to become new creatures in Christ Jesus after we get to Heaven, instead of walking as new creation people here and now. Paul writes in 1Corinthians 4:15-16 (Amplified), "After all, though you should have ten-thousand teachers, guides to direct you in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I have become your father in Christ Jesus through the glad tidings (the Gospel). So I urge you and implore you to be imitators of me."
There are many teachers and guides to direct us in Christ, but if their directions don't match the Revelation Jesus gave Paul, then we should follow what Paul said and imitate him. We believe that in the year 2020, we're smarter than previous generations and discard Paul's writings, even though Paul received this Revelation by the Lord Himself. After all, we're more educated than those "primitive people."
The Super-natural things of God are scoffed at by many today. The casting out of devils is "foolish." We have Wisdom, but no understanding. We've looked upon God's Word with only the natural eyes of men and have understood it by the same carnal minds that we had before being saved. 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."
You can't receive the Revelation of Spiritual Truths from God's Word by the carnal mind. They must be Spiritually discerned. We can read the Words and distinguish what they're saying, but still not understand what they're saying to us, by the Spirit. Jesus was the Greatest Teacher the world has ever seen and He tells us in Mark 4:22-23 (Amplified), "Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to Revelation. For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything temporarily kept secret except in order that it may be made known. If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend."
Many only hear with the physical ears on the side of their heads, while others hear with the ears of the Spirit and are able to perceive, understand and comprehend the Spiritual Wisdom of Jesus' Words that are Spirit and Life. It's not that we don't have Wisdom, because God's Word is Wisdom. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him, God, that you have your Life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine Plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as our Righteousness, thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God, and our Consecration, making us pure and holy, and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from Eternal penalty from sin."
God has provided His Wisdom for and to us by Jesus Himself, Who is the Word of God. Jesus is our Wisdom. Paul asked the Church in Corinth, "How be it brethren, I could not talk to you as to Spiritual men, but as to nonspiritual, men of the flesh in whom the carnal nature predominates, as to mere infants in the new Life in Christ, unable to talk yet."
Paul was writing to born-again people, who were Christians by the new creation Power of God. But, Paul needed to hold back Revelation knowledge from them, because they didn't have Spiritual understanding, but only had a head knowledge of the Truth. This is sadly prevalent in today's Church. We can only converse with them with the milk of the Word, because they don't understand the Spirit and Life in their spirit, but only understand with their carnal minds.
Many of the Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Importations are lost to the Church, because of carnal preaching and teaching. The Super-natural Importations of the Holy Spirit are what sets us apart from the world, natural men and religion. Prior to Jesus, no other religion manifested demonstrations from their gods. Only Jesus could portray His God and Father, before the eyes of man. Many preachers from other religions brought their gods before mankind, but all of them failed to show any different life. Only the demonstration of the Holy Spirit could and can bring mankind into a new creation being.
Rituals and traditions have no power to change or restore, but Jesus Christ and His being Risen from the dead does! When Jesus departed this earth as a new creation Being, He sent the same Holy Spirit Who demonstrated our God in His Life, so that we can demonstrate Him in our lives. Like Jesus, we are to demonstrate the Holy Spirit to a dying world, as the Proof of our Risen Savior. Satan has talked us out of much of the Super-natural demonstrations of the Holy Spirit. The world sees us as just another religion, because we're without Proof that the God we serve is different than the gods of the world.
We've listened to the voices of those who are carnally minded and have accepted satan's lies that, "God no longer does these things" and "These Gifts were only for the early Church and are not for us today." These teachings have kept us carnally minded and without the demonstration of our God and Father's Power.
The Lord is raising up a people in this Year of Understanding, who will come to Him with open hearts, seeking understanding that will usher in Jesus' Return. Many will be people we've never heard of before, but are those the Father has anointed and who've accepted the Revelation of who He's made us to be through Jesus Christ. This new creation people will show forth mighty exploits and demonstrations of the Almighty God Who. The world will see that there are no limits to His ability, because these people will dare to believe Him and will accept who they really are in Christ Jesus. They will walk in the identity of the new creation family of the Most High God, as His ambassadors.
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