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 new creation is a NEW CREATION. Other than Jesus Himself, we're a people who never existed before in all of God's creation. We're elevated by faith in the Finished Work of Jesus and made new creations that aren't like the First Adam. We've been grafted into and created in and like the Last Adam Jesus. This is nearly impossible for the carnal mind to conceive. The only way to truly understand the full impact of what our Father has done for us, is to receive it by the Revelation knowledge of God's Word through the Holy Spirit.
We find very few in the history of the Church, who have moved in the Truth of this Revelation. We have assumed though, that only a few have been chosen to do the things they did. The Truth is that we have all been chosen to walk in this realm of Revelation, but it requires spending time in God's Word and in fellowship with the Father, in order to see it. God doesn't have a few special people, but all are special to Him. John 1:1-5 (Amp) says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word (Christ), and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it, put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it."
We have the God-Head fully dwelling within us, Who is God, Jesus the Word made flesh and the Holy Spirit Who is also the Word. We often view them as three separate Beings, but they are all different manifestations of the Word. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amp), "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)." Jesus went on to say in John 6:63 (Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
We see in these scriptures that God, in Spirit and in the flesh, are all the Word. John 1:14 (Amp) says, "And the Word (Christ), became flesh (human, incarnate), and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh), lived awhile among us, and we actually saw His Glory, His honor." We look for a person or a feeling, that we can identify with, instead of identifying with the Word. When we identity with what God's Word says about us, then we begin to identify with the new creation Word, Spirit, Christ-like being that we've been created to be, by God's Word Jesus. Jesus never prayed for God to do something, but prayed to find out what God would have Him do, with what what He had already said.
Jesus and the Word, are One and the Same. 1Peter 1:23 (Amp), "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal seed (origin, sperm), but from One that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." Jesus is the Word and God's Word is Spirit and Life. John 1 tells us that, "The Word was with God and the Word is God." When we spend time reading God's Word, then we're spending time in Life and fellowship with the Father. Reading God's Word isn't a religious duty, but it's Life to all our flesh. God says in Proverbs 4:22 (Amp), "My Words are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." Your life isn't in your flesh, but the Word and God's Spirit are the Life of your flesh.
Reading God's Word isn't something we should do, but it's something we must to, in order to keep in fellowship with God and walk in the Light. 1John 1:7 (Amp) says, "But if we really are living and walking in the Light (the Word), as He Himself is in the Light (the Word), we have true unbroken fellowship with one another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses, removes us from all sin and guilt (keeps us cleansed from sin in all it's form and manifestation)."
Jesus said in Luke 4:4 (Amp), "It is written, Man shall not live and be sustained by bread alone, but by every Word and expression of God." Jesus says that it's important for the natural body to have bread and food, but the True Life comes from God's Word, which is Spirit and Life. Reading God's Word isn't a religious ritual or Law which must be performed, but is our very Source of Life, in itself/ Food brings nourishment to your body, but doesn't feed the spirit. We are Spirit and must feed on God's Word, in order to keep Life flowing into our spirit and flesh.
Reading God's Word and understanding what His Word says about us and what it is doing in and through us, is spending time in fellowship with God. Jesus tells us in John 10:20 (Amp) that, "I and the Father are One." The Word, which is God, the Word Who became flesh, and the Word by which we were born-again, are also One. We are of the Word of God and born of that Word, like Jesus was. We are one with Him and One in the Father. We don't have Life, if we don't have God's Word, which is Spirit and Eternal, living in us. The more we're in God's Word, the more we'll experience the God Kind of Life in our spirit. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amp), "I have come that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the fill, til if overflows)." The more Word we have in us, the more we'll have the Overflow of God Himself in us. When hard times come, we draw from the Overflow of God Himself and the Abundance of Life through the Spirit operating in us, like it did in Jesus. Jesus said that, "The Words I am speaking to you are Spirit and they are Life." These are the Words of Life spoken by the Word Himself, to all who would hear Him.
If we're unable to understand the difference between the old and new covenants, then we won't have the enjoyment and overflow that Jesus Promised, even though the Promise is still there. The Law will continue to accuse us and make us feel guilty, limiting the joy of fellowship through our natural man/woman of the flesh. We must know that we're born of and in the Likeness of the Truth of God's Word. The Law of Genesis says, "Everything produces after kind, and everything has Seed in itself to bring forth after kind." We're born of the Seed (Word), which is God Himself and produced after Kind. We're not the same apple, but like it.
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