2Cor.5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore if any person is ingafted 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."
We must know how a child of this new creation family is to live, in order to develop the new creation man/woman of God. The only way to do this is by God's Word and His Spirit. We must renew our minds with God's Word, according to Rom.12:2 (Amp) which says, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external superficial customs, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind."
Rom. 10:17 (Amp) says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." This is Truth and we put faith in something else, by hearing it. We are new creation persons, born of the Spirit of God, and we must discern what we are hearing. We're responsible for what we hear. People put faith in the theory of evolution, by hearing it taught over and over. What we're hearing will determine our faith in God's Promises and His Plan for us.
I'm careful about what I hear, even if it comes from ministers and saved people. In Rom. 12:2, Paul calls the things of "the world and this age," "superficial and external customs of the world." These things have found their way into the Body of Christ and have undermined the Truth of God for His people. Jesus tells us that "words are seeds" in the "Parable of the Sower" in Mark 4:24 (Amp) saying,
"Be careful what you are hearing." We're not to just plant whatever is sown, into the soil of our spirit.
Prov. 4:23 (Amp) says, ""Keep and guard your heart (your spirit), with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life." When words of doubt and unbelief are sown into our hearts, they diminish the Power of the Truth of God's Word and causes us to be "blown about like the waves of the sea." James 1:6 (Amp) says, "Being double-minded about what you are hearing will cause you to be unstable, unreliable and uncertain in everything he thinks, feels, decides."
We've learned many things throughout the years that have come from tradition and not Truth. Many of God's people say, "If it be Thy will," because they don't know enough about the Truth of God's will is. 1John 5:14-15 (Amp) says, "And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: we are sure that if we ask anything, make any request according to His will (in agreement with His Own Plan), He listens to and hears us . And if (since) we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge that we have granted to us our present possessions the requests made of Him."
Col. 1:9 (Amp) says this about God's will, "For this reason, we also from the first day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."
God has revealed His will for us, in the Person of Jesus Christ. Heb. 1:3 (Amp) says, "He (Jesus) is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light-Being, the outraying or Radiance of the Divine), and He is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding and propelling the universe by His Mighty Word of Power." We can know God's will for us, by the ministry and Life of Jesus. If Jesus did it, then it was and is, God's will for our lives. We struggle with understanding God under Law and God under Grace and how God needed to deal with carnal man and the way He can deal with the new creation person by the spirit. We've tried making both covenants work the same way, trying to take part of the Law and making it work under Grace. This is mixed seed and will not produce what it is intended to produce.
The Law won't work under Grace and Grace won't work under Law. When we try making these two separate covenants work together, then we're showing unbelief in what Jesus did on the Cross on our behalf. If we're still subject to the Law, then Jesus died for no avail and we're left looking for a way to be right with God, instead of accepting His Righteousness, by faith.
Gal. 5:4-5 (Amp) says, "If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be give a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from Grace (God's unmerited favor and Glorious Blessing). For we, not relying on the Law, but through the Holy Spirit's help, by faith anticipate and wait for the Blessing and Good for which our righteousness and right standing with God, our conformity to His will in purpose, thought and action causes us to hope."
It's impossible to walk in a half truth, because God doesn't work in half truths, but absolute Truth. Faith comes by hearing and we're responsible for what we're hearing. We will place our faith, in what we're hearing the most. We must rightly divide the truth we hear, and we must divide it at Calvary's cross. We live under a covenant of Grace and in full dependence on God's unmerited favor to give us what He wants us to have, instead of what we deserve. We must start screening what we hear and not just rely on what someone else says, in order to develop our new creation man/woman in faith and God's Truth.
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