2Corinthians 5:17 (Amp) 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." The fresh and new has already come to those who've accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. 2Corinthians 3:18 (Amp) says, "And all of us, as with unveiled face, because we continue to behold in the Word of God as in a mirror, the Glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His Very Own Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit."
This is our new creation identity in Christ. The more we read and see the Revelation of Jesus and His Body in God's Word, the more we begin to understand who we've already become in Him. We still have imperfections in the flesh, but we've been delivered from our old self, when we were crucified with Jesus. The more we see our reflections from the mirror of God's Word, the more we'll mold ourselves into His Image.
We're more aware of who we used to be, than who we're now made to be in Christ. The enemy's lies hold us back from what the Father has planned and purposed in our new creation lives. So long as our past and imperfections of the flesh hold us back, the less we're being transfigured into His Image and splendor. The Father never called us to do something, that He didn't provide a way for us to do it. He Himself has called us and taken up residence within us, making us the Temple of the Holy Spirit. If we listen more to the Voice of the Spirit and God's Word, then we'll begin seeing our true image and identity.
The old covenant had the Promises and in the new covenant, we've had the reality of the fulfilling of these Promises in Jesus. Proverbs 29:18 (Amp) says, "Where there is no vision (no redemptive Revelation of God), the people perish; but he who keeps the Law (or Word) of God, which includes that of man,-Blessed, happy, to be enviable, is he." We can't have the redemptive knowledge of God, without seeing the Revelation that we're redeemed, because we'll continue struggling under the Curse that resulted from Adam's transgression. The Curse is still here, but not unto those who have the vision and Revelation of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. God says that, "Where there's no vision, the people perish."
We get our vision from the Revelation that the Holy Spirit provides, as our Teacher. The old covenant people didn't have such Revelation or vision. They were aware of the Promise, but didn't see it fulfilled until Jesus' Resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Paul preached this Revelation, but the people were afraid to trust in it, unless they had the vision of the Revelation in their spirit. We can read and intellectually comprehend God's Word as Christians in the natural, but we won't have any idea what it means in our lives, if we don't have Spiritual Revelation or the vision of redemption.
Churches around the world are facing this exact thing even today. Sadly, many born-again children of the Most High God, have no idea that our redemptive Promise was fulfilled in Jesus. We love God, but many struggle to believe that the fulfillment of the Promises has now become ours, because we've been taught that these things are "for when we get to Heaven." What good is the Promise of healing, in Heaven? There's no sickness or disease in Heaven, so we won't need healing. What good is being redeemed from the Curse of the Law in Heaven? There's no Curse in Heaven. These Promises are for us to enjoy and walk in, while we're here on earth. Jesus said, "Today, these scriptures are fulfilled in our ears," in Luke 4:21.
Those who heard that Message failed to believe it, just like many of us. We must not stand fast in and put faith in the world's view of God's Word, without taking responsibility for ourselves. Jesus accomplished more for at Calvary, than just removing our sins. He provided our way back into God's Presence, like we never sinned.
Isaiah 59:1-2 (Amp) says, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened at all that it cannot save, nor His ear dull with deafness that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His Face from you so that He will not hear." On Calvary's cross, Jesus removed our sins and iniquities and removed the separation between mankind and God. Now God's hand can save again and His ears can hear us again. God can again do what He had intended for us at the beginning, because there's no separation between us and Him. We've become one with God again.
Prayer is answered, the Blessing is restored, healing can now flow and we've been restored to righteousness again, by faith in what Jesus did. This is the new covenant of Grace, which gives us hope and faith that all of God's Promises have been fulfilled in Jesus. God's Grace and mercy are no longer held back from us, because we're not separated from Him any longer. It was never God's will to hold back on us, but Adam's sin separated us from Him. God couldn't change that, so He removed the barrier Himself, by paying the penalty for our sins and iniquities on Calvary. Jesus redeemed and restored us back, when He brought about the new creation family of God.
God took responsibility for the failure and sin that His first flesh and blood son committed and paid the debt for that sin. We continue seeing Him as the judgemental God Who dealt with fallen man, if we don't have the Revelation knowledge of Who He has once again become to mankind. When we fail, we won't be afraid of an angry God, but will now see Him in Christ, as being compassionate, Loving and forgiving.
Many in today's Church see God and Jesus as two separate Persons and don't see that they're One, like Jesus said, "When you see Me, you have seen the Father. He and I are One." We're afraid that God's anger and judgment will fall on us after we've sinned, because we don't understand that all of His judgment fell on Jesus, Who took our place. We've already been judged and found justified and are clean, by the Blood of our Sacrifice Lamb, Jesus.
This new identity was bought and paid for, by our union with the One Who paid it for us. Our righteousness is His Own Righteousness. Jesus took our place, in order to give us His place. God only sees Him, when He sees us. We are His Body now and throughout all of eternity. No one can judge the Body, without judging the Head. The judgment is the same. We've been judged and found pure, clean and righteous in Him.
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