Jesus said in John 3:6-7 (Amplified), "What is born of, from the flesh is flesh (of the physical is physical); and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not (do not be surprised, astonished) at My telling you, You must all be born anew from above." Notice how He said, "You must all be born anew from above." Adam was born from above, when God created him in the Image and Likeness of God. At his fall from the Presence and Likeness of God in the Garden, Adam lost what he was "born with" and it was replaced by the spirit and likeness of his new father, the devil. Adam forfeited his Likeness and birthright for something he couldn't fix or change.
Adam watched the Blessing become a curse and what he had at his hand before, was given into the perverted hands of his foster father, the devil. We were born into sin by Adam's transgress and had lost all contact with God, by this transfer from Life into death. The Blessing was gone from mankind, by Adam's fall. When we were born-again, it was more than some religious experience. It was like any born being, it was Life. We had been "Dead in trespass and sin, without covenant, and without God in this world," according to Ephesians 2:12.
Most of us have never really considered the Truth of being born-again. We believed we were saved, but didn't know what we were saved from. We've understood that "being saved," meant "going the Heaven, instead of going to hell, when we die." This is True, but being saved is so much more and deeper than that. We were dead in our spirit and needed to be reborn, born anew, and born-again. We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're completely new creation children of God, like Adam was in the first creation.
We weren't recreated, but were created anew from the Incorruptible Seed or Word of God, Jesus, Who was slain on our behalf. We're to bring forth a harvest of new members into God's family. Jesus said in John 12:24 (Amplified), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just one grain; it never becomes more, but lives by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest."
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." This is the Law of Genesis, "Everything produces after kind." Jesus speaks of Himself as, "A grain of wheat and the harvest is a rich harvest, in John 12:27. The harvest comes from the grain of wheat (Jesus, the Seed) and it produces after kind. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again) not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
Galatians 3:16 (Amplified) says, "Now the Promises (covenants, agreements), were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir)." God doesn't say, "And to his seeds, descendants, heirs," as if referring to many persons, but "And to your Seed, your Descendant, your Heir," obviously referring to One Individual, Who is none other than Christ Jesus, the Messiah.
Jesus is the Seed and called Himself "a grain of wheat," and this Seed, also produces after kind. We were created by this Seed and were created just like Him (after kind). We're not Him of course, but we're just like Him. We are children of God, the righteousness of God, the just and pure and holy creations of God, beings that didn't previously exist and holy creations of God. Jesus, the Seed produced us after kind. We're born from above by the Spirit. Everything that was in The Seed, is reproduced into the harvest and produces after kind.
A watermelon has many seeds and each will produce other watermelons that are like the original watermelon. The Church still functions as though we weren't born-again from above and continue living the way we were before, in this natural realm of flesh. Through the new creation Seed, we are like Jesus was, a living God born child of God, living in a house of flesh, but with Kingdom rights and privileges and with the ability to walk above this earth and this realm. The Seed produced after kind, like the Law of Genesis has declared it to.
We were raised in this world, without God or covenant with Him. We really knew very little about God or His ways of doing and being right. Most of what we did know about God, came from carnal knowledge and man's religion, instead of from the Revelation of Who He really is or what He has truly done through Jesus. We learned about the forgiveness of sin, but probably didn't learn why He did that. The sin was Adam's and the results were transferred to all mankind through him, because the seed produced after kind.
It was never really about what you or I had done, but about what Adam did. The wages of sin is death. Adam's sin sowed death into the spirit of everyone born of his seed, which is all of us. The only way to change this, was through our Lord Jesus. When Jesus died, we all died with Him and when He was buried, we were all buried with Him. When Jesus rose from the dead, we were raised with Him. When Jesus became the new creation, we also became new creations, who are just like Him, according to the Law of Genesis.
This is why God's Word tells the new creation persons that we were crucified with Christ, buried with Him in our baptism and raised with Him at His Resurrection. We're not just forgiven, but we're brand new creations, according to 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) which says, "Our old previous moral condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come." We are created by God through Jesus. We're brand new creations, born of God by the Seed of God, into God's Kingdom as His Own children. All God sees in you, is Jesus.
We've never learned to actually walk in the Spirit, because we've only ever known this realm of the flesh and the world. Walking in the Spirit is walking like Jesus did, above the realm that the First Adam delivered to us, by his fall from God's Presence. We inherited the Curse, bondage, death of the spirit and body, and fear, from the First Adam's sin. We also inherited a lack of understanding of what the Father's intention, when He created mankind in the beginning.
Paul instructed us to "Renew our minds." This doesn't mean we're to stop sinning in our lives, but includes learning who we've become through Jesus, so we can walk like God created us to be. We were created to lay hands on the sick, speak in tongues, enter God's Presence, take authority over satan and demonic spirits, be righteous with certainty,and inherit the Promises. These things are Spirit and Super-natural. Only those who truly know who we are in Christ Jesus, can walk in this realm with Him, in full assurance of answered prayer.
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