The Church has lost out on our true identity, because we've been taught the things of God, by carnal minds. We were born-again and became new creations in Christ, but weren't taught how to be a new creation. I remember how such movies as, "Tarzan," were popular when I was a kid. Tarzan was a human boy, who was raised by apes in the jungle, because he was separated from his parents who died there. A mother ape found him and raised Tarzan as her own.
Being raised by apes, didn't change the truth that Tarzan was a human being. He was raised to swing from trees, speak in grunts and screeches, and ran half-naked through the jungle. Tarzan's only understanding about life, came from his adopted mother. He had lost his true identity. Tarzan knew there was something than made him different from the apes and the apes knew he was different, but that didn't change how he lived.
We have lived the way we were trained, which came from religious teachings instead of Spiritual teachings. Proverbs 22:6 (Amplified) says, "Train up a child in the way he should go and in keeping with his individual gift or bent, and when he is old he will not depart from it." In other words, "When a person doesn't know their own identity, they will become what they've been trained in." I realize that the Word is saying, "Train your children in the Lord," but the principle works in every other area too.
God's Church has been taught so many ways, by so many people, that we've lost our true identity as new creation people and have become denominational people instead. If our denomination teaches that, "These things aren't for today," then that's what we believe. All of these teachings aren't wrong, but are not complete. Tarzan lived an okay life as an ape, but not as a complete man.
Jesus said that, "I came to give you Life." Everyone who heard Him say this, was alive already, but were dead in their spirits. We still don't know how to actually live in the Spirit and only God's Word and the Holy Spirit can teach us "how to live." Even after being born-again, we still walk and live mostly by our carnal ways, because that's how we were trained to be. We lived in the world for so long, that we really don't know any other way to be. We've cleaned up our lives morally, stopping our drinking, cussing and other things, but we still don't know how to live this Life, that Jesus came to bring us.
This is the Identity Crisis I'm speaking about. The Life that came to us through Jesus, had nothing to do with the outer-man/woman, but the new creation man/woman that is now alive again to the Father. Jesus tells His followers 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 that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." Jesus went on in John 10:10 (Amplified), saying, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
Jesus said that, "The Holy Spirit is the Life-Giver" and "The Words that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." We were born-again by God's Word and must learn how to live out the rest of this new creation Life. We've read in the Gospels, about Jesus making the lame walk, the blind see, the dead raised to life and the seas and winds calmed at His command. We say, "Yeah, but that was Jesus!" This is Truth, but we can see how the principle of "Training up a child in the way they should go" worked in His Life. Jesus spent 31/2 years training up His disciples or children, "In the way they should go" and they did just that. We too are to take up this teaching and continue like they did. This is the Life of the Spirit and our real identity in the Father.
When the Life-Giver comes into our spirit man/woman, He creates a new creation. We've been created new in Jesus Christ, by the Same Life-Giver and we're to learn how to live in this new Life of God. Of course we are to clean up our act and become morally right, but by the Guidance of the Life-Giver and not just the flesh. The flesh can be trained to stop it's bad habits, but only the Spirit can produce the Life that comes through our new creation person and heal, deliver, and bring Life to the world.
Like Tarzan, we've been trained up by the flesh, which is far below that standards of the Life-Giver. Tarzan lived a life that was far below his form as a man, but it made interesting movies. We still walk and conduct ourselves like before we were born-again and were created new by the Life-Giver. This walk in the flesh is far below the standards of the new creation Life that Jesus came to deliver us into.
Every person who is born-again, has the same Life sown into his/her new creation spirit and are back into what God made His family to be, in the beginning. Paul says that, "Every child of God is to imitate God as imitators of children after their father." Every born-again person has the Very Same Spirit of God in our new creation spirit. Every born-again person has the same abilities that the First Born Son. We are not Him, but we are heirs of God and joint heirs with the First Born, Jesus Christ. And, we know that, "Everything produces after kind."
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