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."
Millions of people from all around the world, have come to America for a new start or a new way of life. Some have become Americans, but still hold to the old way of life from their homeland. We try living in this new land, by the old laws and customs of our homeland. Our loyalties and hearts have never accepted the laws and customs of our new country. If you gave up your citizenship fro Ireland, to become a citizen of America, then you must learn to live by the laws that govern this nation. Living by the laws of Ireland, can get you in trouble in America. Drivers in Ireland drive their cars on the opposite side of the road than we do here. Driving on the wrong side of the road, can lead to disaster!
Continuing to govern our new creation lives by the old laws we walked in before being saved, can cause many of the problems Christians face daily in this world. We can continue trying to drive on the wrong side of the road, while being angry with the traffic laws and the police who stop and hand us a citation. We can get angry with our insurance company, because they've raised our insurance rates. We can get angry with oncoming traffic, but still continue driving on the wrong side of the road.
We don't become a new creation being, when we get to Heaven. We became new creations, when we were born-again and received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. In John 17:16 (Amp) Jesus says, "They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), just as I am not of the world." We've already become citizens of God's Kingdom and must learn to walk in the new creation life according to God's Laws. The old way of doing things is like driving on the wrong side of the road.
Jesus says in Matthew 6:33 (Amp), "But seek, aim at and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), then all these things taken together will be given you besides." The Kingdom of God has Laws that govern and hold His Words and Promises safe for us. God's way of doing and being right aren't just suggestions, but are Laws that govern whether or not we receive the Kingdom things. We can't drive on the wrong side of the road and expect to reach our destination, without causing problems and wrecks along the way. Most of us haven't sought out God's way of doing and being right. We've followed the same traditions that have held God's people in bondage for centuries.
We've tried living under the old ways that world has imposed upon us, while still trying to receive the Blessings and Promises that only come by doing things under the Laws and government of God's Kingdom. The Kingdom of God isn't some fantastical place, where little baby angels play harps on clouds, but is the True pattern this planet is made from. The Laws of the Blessing and dominion the Father gave Adam, are the same ones He expects us to operate in, through the Last Adam Jesus.
God's way is the only way we can and will function in, as citizens of the Kingdom. God won't change the Laws of His Kingdom. If we refuse to drive on the correct side of the road, then God won't force the other drivers to adapt to our ways. We must take God's Kingdom Word and walk in His ways, now that we've given up our citizenship of this world, like Jesus said in the above scripture. We stubbornly hold onto our old religious laws and traditions, trying to make the work, instead of "seeking first of all, God's way of doing and being right." The true form of insanity, is to keep doing the same wrong thing over and over, expecting to have different results.
Paul said, "If it is not be either the Law of Moses, or by the Laws of the religious, world, then touch not, taste not, and handle not," in Galatians 3:1-3 (Amp). Thus, he says, "O you poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom-right before your very eyes- Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you this one question; Did you receive the Holy Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing it by works, or was it by hearing the Message of the Gospel and believing it? Was it from observing a Law of rituals or from a Message of faith? Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun your new life Spiritually with the Holy Spirit, are you now reaching perfection by depending on the flesh?"
We step out on God's Word in faith when we first receive Jesus into our hearts and are on fire for Him, but then we become dependent on the works for our receiving from Heaven. Instead of returning to God's Word and His Holy Spirit, we make excuses for why the Word isn't working, like God said it would. God will not change. Jesus only "Did what He saw the Father do, only went where the Father said to go, and only said what the Father told Him to say." Jesus didn't accomplish the things He did, because He was Jesus. It was because He walked in the Laws that govern God's Kingdom. Jesus stayed on the right side of the road, which was God's way of doing and being right.
We've already become new creations and are expected to live like God's new creation people, by His Kingdom's Laws.
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