2Cor. 5:17 (Amp) tells us that any person "who is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), is a new creation (a new creation altogether)." Most believers believe that they are forgiven sinners after being born-again in Jesus, but don't understand that we are new creations in Him. We continue to identify more with our old selves, instead of new creation beings. We believe we are saved and going to Heaven when we die, but don't believe we are new creatures altogether while we're in these bodies and are here on earth. God's Word tells us that we have become citizens of God's Kingdom, as heirs and children of God.
Jesus instructed His followers in Matt. 6:33 (Amp) to, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right)." This is completely out of character for most of today's Church. We keep trying to establish our own righteousness, by our own works and how we live. Many believe it's "sacrilegious," to even think we're righteous. God made us to be the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, when He made us new creations.
We are no longer who we used to be, because Jesus has made us new. Our Heavenly Father and His Kingdom have a way we're now to live here on earth, that is completely new to us. We're to "seek first, God's Kingdom and His way of doing and being right." We can only be right or righteous before God, by being made righteous by the new creation in Christ Jesus. Rom. 3:10 (Amp), says, "None is righteous (just and truthful and upright and conscientious), no, not one." When we try to be righteous by our own works and efforts, then we will fail.
God's Kingdom has Spiritual Laws that govern it, just like those on earth have laws to govern us. The Laws of Physics that govern here, are also Spiritual Laws that God created. He created gravity and other laws that govern this entire planet. These laws came under the influence of a fallen angel (satan), after Adam's transgression. Satan is "the god of this world", according to 2Cor.4:4 (Amp). The Laws that God created are still present, but they've been perverted by the demonic forces in high places, according to Eph. 6:13 (Amp), which says, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, contending only with physical opponents, but against the despotism, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere."
We must fight against these spiritual forces, by Spiritual Laws and means. We must seek first, God's Kingdom and His way of doing and being right. The tornadoes, hurricanes, plagues and other things that we have on earth, weren't present at God's creation and they don't belong here now. Jesus calmed storms, cured sickness and disease, and cast out demons by God's way of doing and being right. Both Good and evil spiritual things, can only be dealt with by Spiritual Laws. The Laws of God's Kingdom aren't like the Law of Moses. The Law of Moses was Spiritual,but the people were not.
The Laws that God gave to Moses, are still in effect today, but they don't carry the threat of punishment. God's Grace has given the new creation people, the ability to walk them Laws out. Adultery is just as wrong now, as it was in the old covenant, but we can rise above what those in the old covenant couldn't overcome, if we seek God's way of doing and being right and walk in His Grace. God's way says that by His Grace and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the new creation persons can overcome the lies and forces of satan. We dwell in God and He dwells in us, when we seek His way of doing and being right and are made righteous in Christ Jesus.
Everything of earth was created by Words and still reacts to the Words that created them. The Fig tree reacted by Words, the storm on the Sea of Galilee reacted to Words, sickness and disease reacted to Words and the dead reacted to Words. Heb. 11:3 (Amp) says, "By faith we understand that the worlds during the successive ages were framed, fashioned, put in order and equipped for their intended purpose by the Word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible." I wonder how many of us are conscience of the power our words hold, in our everyday life.
Jesus is our Example and as the First Born of many brethren, but He needed to learn how to function as the First Spirit-filled man in a physical form, in order to govern what God sent Him to do, by God's way of doing and being right. John 3:34 (Amp) says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message). God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit."
Do you suppose that if God could trust fully in the words we speak, then the Gifts of His Spirit might be more boundless in our lives? What do you suppose would happen in our lives, if everything we spoke was as powerful as Jesus' Words? How many dead trees or people might come to life? How many storms would cease to form, if instead of repeating what the news media says, we spoke God's Words, saying, "Peace be still?" Many think it's foolish to watch our words, but God's way of doing and being right, is and always was, by His Words.
We are now new creations, made in the Image and Likeness of our Father. So, do you suppose that the words we speak are our powerful as the Words Jesus spoke? We should say, "By Jesus' striped, I am healed," instead of speaking fear about Covid-19 and other ailments which are promoted by the god of this world. We believe that it's lying to speak healing when we are sick, but is it lying when God says we're healed?
Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower," in Mark 4:14 (Amp) and tells us that, "The Sower sows the Word." Did this Word work for us, when we were dead in trespass and sins? Didn't this Word make us new creations in Christ, when we were saved and born-again? Even when we showed no sign of being new creation persons at that time, the Word still created exactly what it said it would. We don't look any different, but we are new creations and are new creatures altogether, because we simply believed what God says. Do you think salvation is the only way God's Word works for us? If we believed God's Word made us new creations, when we asked Jesus to come into our hearts and forgive our sins, then we should believe that all of God's Word will work.
This seems so contrary to what we learned before being saved, but we must now speak God's way of doing and being right. John 1:1-3 (Amp) says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word, Christ, and the Word was with God, 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 one thing made that has come into being."
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