2Corinthians 5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (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 above scripture tells believers that we are more than just forgiven sinners. The first human the Father created was Adam and He has made us new creations too. Adam didn't have a past, so there were no sin barriers between him and the Father. It was only after Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, that he and Eve lost fellowship with God. The Father could only cover their sin by the blood of animals, which the Father killed and went onto make tunics for them to wear.
The blood of animals could only cover the sin for a period of time, so it needed to be reapplied on a regular basis. When the Last Adam Jesus was born into this earth, His Blood (the very Blood of God Himself) brought Life instead of death to mankind and His Blood only needed to be applied by faith one time. The Blood of Jesus eradicated sin at it's very base and reapplied the Life again, creating a new creation people. We continue to see ourselves as merely forgiven sinners, instead of a new creation. We're every bit as new as Adam was, when God created him in His Image and Likeness. Mankind had never existed, before God created Adam.
As new creations, we're on a higher scale than the First Adam was, because we've been made to be the very Body of Christ Himself. We're not only made in the Image and Likeness of God, but we've actually become the temple of the Holy Spirit, 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." Adam was created in God's Image. We've been created to be one spirit and one Body, in Christ Jesus. We are more than like Him, we are one in Him.
My children were born to be like me. My DNA was in them. They were one in me and I in them, like Jesus said in John 17:22-23 (Amp), saying, "I have given to them the Glory and Honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One. I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and definitely recognize that You sent Me and that You have Loved them even as You have Loved Me."
The Glory and Honor given to Jesus, is the same Glory and Honor that God Himself is made of; it's His DNA. It's His Spirit, which is the Glory and Life in its fullness. We're given a glimpse of this Glory and Honor in Matthew 17:1-2 (Amp), which says, "And six days after this, Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them upon a high mountain by themselves and His appearance underwent a change in their presence; and His face shone clear and bright like the sun, and His clothes became as white as light." This is the DNA that we've received in this new creation, with the Living Spirit of God living within us. We just don't recognize yet, who we've become in Him.
God instructed the First Adam to "take dominion over everything on this earth." God wouldn't have told him to do this, if Adm didn't have the authority and ability to do so. The new creation people have been granted and inherited this authority and ability, in Jesus. We have more though, because we have the Name and Person of Jesus to back us up. We're a Super-natural being, created by and in Him. We're not just like Him, but we're in Him and have become one with Him.
The world and religion have told us that we're just forgiven sinners, instead of sons and daughter and heirs of God. God's Kingdom doesn't only extend into the heavens, but over all the earth and everything in it. There have been a handful of believers, like John G. Lake and Smith Wigglesworth, who have understood the Revelation of their true identity in Christ. Their teachings staggered the world and religion said that, "Only a few were chosen to do these things" and "God didn't allow everyone to walk in the things these men and women walked in." These believers chose God and rejected the world's idea of Who He really is. Most of us have accepted the world's idea of Who God is, rather than what His Word has said about Him and about us being in Him. I believe that God intended all of His Children to walk naturally Super-natural, like Jesus did on this earth. This Super-natural ability came into our new creation spirit, the very moment we received Jesus and the new birth.
We need to be sold-out to God's Word and His Spirit, in order to walk in who we've been created to be in Jesus. God has made this available to all His children, but it must be developed in our hearts by God's Word and the Revelation knowledge the Holy Spirit gives. We have the Same Holy Spirit and the Same Father that Jesus has, so we have the same potential of Genesis 1:11 (Amp), where God said, "Let the earth put forth tender vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, Each according to its kind upon the earth. And it was so."
This is still God's Plan and His way of doing today. Everything still bears fruit after its seed. We are heirs with The Seed Jesus and The Seed Principal above, is fulfilled in Him. We've been cautioned to "Be careful, so as not to exalt ourselves," instead of being told to "Be ourselves." We've been careful and have forgotten who we were created to be and what we are created for. Jesus told His followers, in John 16:14-15 (Amp), "God will honor and Glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine, that is what I meant when I said that He (the Spirit), will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose transmit) it to you."
God's Word says that, "Every seed bears fruit after kind." We're the fruit that came from the Seed Jesus, Who is God's Word. 1Peter 1:23 (Amp) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (Seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." The principal that, "Everything bears fruit after kind," is still True for us today. 1John 4:17 (Amp) says, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us; that we may have confidence for the Day of Judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world."
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