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."
Most believers in the Body of Christ, only see ourselves as being only human. Paul wrote about the differences between the unsaved world and those who are a new creation in 1Corinthians 6:11 (Amp), saying, "And such were some of you once. But you were washed clean, purified by a Complete Atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin, and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified (pronounced righteous) by trusting in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit of God."
Most believers don't see ourselves as purified, free from the Curse, set apart, hallowed, justified, and pronounced righteous and washed clean. Man's ideas and the world's ideas about Christianity, have left us in the place where we see ourselves more as we once were, rather than who we've been created to be in Jesus. We need to renew our minds with God's Word and trust in what Jesus has already done for us now. We need to see ourselves, the way God sees us, which is through the Blood and Sacrifice of our Lord. We need to see ourselves as clean and holy, while we still live in this body of flesh.
Romans 5:1-2 (Amp) says, "Therefore, since we are justified, acquitted, declared righteous and given a right standing with God through faith, let us grasp the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation to hold and enjoy, peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Through Him also we have our access, entrance, introduction by faith into this Grace (state of God's favor) in which we firmly and safely stand. And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the Glory of God."
Many Christians today, consider our experiencing and enjoy the Glory of God while we're here in these earthly bodies, is just a dream. God Himself has taken up residence in our body and declared it to be "the Temple of the Holy Spirit Himself," according to 1Corinthians 6:19 (Amp), which says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received as a Gift from God, you are not your own."
The Holy Spirit of God can't live in a temple that is unclean. God's Word says we're pure, clean, holy, consecrated and righteous and we must believe this to be True or the Holy Spirit couldn't live in us and call us His temple. Without Revelation, our carnal selves believe "it's humble" to confess we're unworthy and old sinners saved by Grace. The ears of the world and natural realm, seemingly see this as being humble, but to the Father, it sounds like we're saying "the Sacrifice of Jesus wasn't enough to cleanse us and make us worthy." What sounds humble to unrenewed minds, sounds prideful to God.
It requires faith in the Finished Works of Jesus, to understand who He's made us to be now. The only way to obtain this faith in God's Grace, is by agreeing with what His Word says about us, instead of what the devil or the world thinks. Jesus wasn't being prideful or boastful, when He said that, "The Father and I are One" and that He is "the Son of God." Jesus was speaking the Truth, when He said, "I only say what I hear My Father say." This means that Jesus only repeated what the Father in Him said. Humility is saying what God says about us. We must agree with Him, despite how we feel about it, because He is the One Who has created us as new creations. God knows more about who we are, than we do.
When God made us new creations in Jesus, He created us in His Image and Likeness and He is Perfect. Our fleshly bodies might not be perfect, but if we renew our minds by God's Word and His Spirit, then it will bring our bodies into subjection to Truth. Jesus said, "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and Truth." God's Word and His Spirit will bring the flesh into subjection to our new creation spirit and submit them to God as His temple and Glory.
Do we still have flaws in our flesh? Of course we do, but we're no longer after the flesh, but after the Spirit of God. There's nothing our Heavenly Father cannot fix and make right, if we yield to His Word and Spirit. Don't give up because you still have flaws in your old house of flesh, because you have overcome already in Jesus. We're making progress and growing up in Him, so we're making fewer mistakes. All babies need to grow up and become adults, if they're to be useful in society. They make mistakes, even as adults, but they're not the same mistakes. We're still growing past the old way of thinking and living, while Living in the new Life Jesus has given us.
Jesus came so that we "have Life and have it more abundantly." Now that we have Life, we need to learn how to live this Life of the Spirit, by His Word, just like we learned how to live our earthly life of the flesh. Just being born into this earthly realm isn't enough to bring us through this world. We must learn how to navigate the world, by the teachings and rules that our parent taught us. We learned to be responsible spouses and parents from those who gave us life. The same is Truth in the Life that Jesus gave us. Staying babes in Christ, won't equip us to do the work of the ministry and build up the Body of the Church. Ephesians 4 tells us that we have the responsibility to grow into "the stature of the fullness of Christ Jesus." The only way to do so, is by growing by and through God's Word and accepting what He says and having faith in the Truth, even if we don't feel like it. You are a new creation and must grow into what He created you to be.
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