2Cor. 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."
God's people have read the above scripture many times, but only the Holy Spirit can reveal what it is saying to us. When we were saved and born-again, the Holy Spirit created a completely new man/woman living in our spirit. The spirit that was born anew by the Holy Spirit of God, has brought us from death to Life. Like babies birthed into the natural realm, we have all the things needed to grow into mature adults, but this requires time and teaching to do. We've spent lots of time and work, in order to grow our children into responsible adults. We've sent them to good schools and technical programs, but we haven't invested in the realm of the Spirit world.
We teach Spiritual principles to our children, that we learned from mostly denominational points-of-view. We taught them more about religion, than we did reality. We've dismissed the Super-natural things of the Spirit Life, because the natural man/woman can't understand them. Rom. 8:7,9 (Amp) says, "The mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes, is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot." Paul writes about the new creation in Verse 9, saying we have access to the mind of the Spirit. Thus, he says, "But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the Life of the Spirit, if the Holy Spirit of God really dwells in you (directs and controls you). But if anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he is none of His (he does not belong to Christ and is not truly a child of God)."
If we are truly born-again, then the Holy Spirit of God dwells within our spirit. We're not living the life of the flesh, but we're living the Life of the Spirit. This means that every person who is born of God, has access to the mind and Wisdom of the Holy Spirit. This changes the entire way we understand what God's Word says, because the Holy Spirit gives us Revelation knowledge. Carnally minded persons can read and understand God's Word, without truly understanding what is means in the Spirit. Unsaved people believe that they're already alive, but Jesus says in John 10:10 (Amp). "I came to give you Life." Our being able to understand and differentiate between natural life and Spiritual Life, comes from God.
It's only the Holy Spirit Who can reveal the Truth about the Spiritual death that happened to Adam, when he disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. The Holy Spirit can reveal the truth that this Spiritual death was sown into the spirit of everyone born in the natural realm after Adam. The Spiritual death was a Spiritual separation from God, caused by Adam's sin. Rom. 5:12 (Amp) says, "Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man (Adam), and death as a result of sin, so death spread to all men, no one being able to stop it or escape it's power because all men sinned."
This death was entered every person's spirit born into this world, from the time of our conception and comes from Adam's genes. We inherited this death from Adam and it has nothing to do with our actions. Some babies are born addicted to heroine, without their ever taking that drug. So too, sin was born into mankind from the First Adam. Jesus is the Only One Who can bring Life into our spirit and return us to our Heavenly Father, without sin and death. This is why Jesus said, "I came that you may have Life."
If you're born from above, into the Spirit of God, then you have access to what Adam knew before he transgress and so much more. You now have what Jesus knows and the Holy Spirit will reveal more to you. The new creation person has access to God's Own Wisdom and His Word is now a Living thing and not just words. When we understand this Truth, we can better understand what Paul was saying in Rom. 12:2 (Amp), saying, "Do not be conformed to this world or age (fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind, by it's new ideals and it's new attitude, so that you may prove for yourselves what is the Good and acceptable and perfect will of God (even the thing which is Good and acceptable and perfect in His sight)."
We can only get past the carnal way of seeing God and knowing His will for our lives, if we renew our minds to the Living Word, by our new and Living spirit of our new creation. The carnal mind still refuses to see God as He really is. We've fostered images of God in our minds, but it's only by our newborn spirits, that we can truly know Him. If we don't renew our minds by God's Word and His Spirit, then we'll hold onto the old traditional way of seeing and knowing God, even after we're born-again.
Jesus says 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."
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