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."
This is more than just a "hopeful" scripture. This is our new identity into and unto the family of the Most High God. Hebrews 11:1 (Amp) says, "NOW FAITH is the assurance, the confirmation, THE TITLE DEED OF THE THINGS WE HOPE FOR, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."
We need to have hope mixed with faith, in order to give it substance, so we can walk in the true identity we have in Christ, in this life. There's much more that we can't currently see, but faith in God's Word is still revealing them to us when we have faith in His Promises. You are NOW as much a child of God, as you will be when Jesus returns or when we die and go to be with Him in Heaven. When you go to Heaven, you'll understand more of what the new creation family of God already has here on earth, but it won't take faith to walk it out, because you won't need faith to believe what you can already see. We need to have faith here, in what God has already done in us and for us. We must understand our new identity in Christ to have faith.
It's no surprise that the Church doesn't know who we really are. Many men and women in this generation, don't know what sex they are. Some men believe they are women and some women believe they are men, while some can't decide what sex or even species they are. The Church widely accepts that we are saved, but disagrees with the Father, as to when salvation comes. Many question whether we're saved after we die or when Jesus died. Does salvation come after we're raised from the dead and go to Heaven or are we now saved and made to be what God created us to be in Christ Jesus?
The enemy has diligently worked to cause God's people to wonder when we're saved. Many believers still struggle with the Truth that our sins are gone and that God remembers them no more. We still walk under the condemnation of the mistakes we made in our past lives. 1Corinthians 6:11 (Amp) says, "And such were some of you, But you were washed clean, purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin; and you were justified (pronounced righteous), by trusting in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit of God."
Many people say that, "They're trying to find themselves." The only way believers can find themselves, is to look into God's Word and by faith, believe who we are in Christ Jesus. James 1:23-25 (Amp) says, "For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in a mirror. For he thoughtfully observes himself and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the faultless law (the Law of Liberty, the Word of God, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in his doing, his life of obedience."
2Corinthians 3:17-18 (Amp) says, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom) 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."
We are new creation and the only way to understand the creation, is to go to the One Who created it. We must find out what God has made us to be, by going to His Word and listening to His Spirit. If you ask people what the new creation is supposed to be, then you'll receive many opinions. The more people you ask, the more opinions you'll end up with. God's Word is the Manufacturer's Handbook, on what the new creation is to be and how it's supposed to function. The world and religion have tried telling us what the new creation is,, but they've done so with carnal minds.
Romans 8:7 (Amp) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes, is hostile to God for it does not submit itself to God's Laws; indeed it cannot." This is why Paul writes in Hebrews 11;1, "Now faith is the substance of things we hope for." A carnal mind can't understand our new creation identity. We must have faith in the Perfect Law of Liberty and God's Word, which is Spirit, in order to do so.
The "things we hope for," is right standing with God and the ability to come into His Presence without guilt or shame, as His family. Even though this is already Truth, if we don't have faith in this hope, then the carnal mind will hold us back and we'll forget the Perfect Law of Liberty, which requires faith in Jesus and His Sacrifice and not our good works. We were created in and by and through Jesus' Own Righteousness and that can't be improved upon. We must accept this by faith. This is what we hoped for and faith in Him has give us the title deed and substance of our hope. When you look into the mirror of God's Word, you must accept what it says your true identity in Jesus is.
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