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."
Every person has to come to the cross and receive the Sacrifice of Jesus, in order to become a new creation. There is no more sacrifice, by which mankind can be saved. Jesus was our Substitute for the forgiveness of sin, our Redemption and our Righteousness with God. Many believers have never dared to go beyond the Cross, into what the Word calls the new creation.
Paul writes about who Christ has made us to be in Rom. 6:3-5 (Amp), saying, "Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glorious Power of the Father, so that we too might habitually live and behave in newness of Life (the new creation man). For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be one with Him in sharing His Resurrection by a new life lived for God."
We were Spiritually raised from the Law of Sin and Death, into a new creation life lived in Jesus. This resurrection isn't the "glorified body," but the resurrection of our dead spirit into the Life of God again. We read about this resurrection in Eph. 2:12 (Amp), which says, "Remember that you were at that time separated, living apart from Christ, excluded from all part in Him, utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic Promise with no knowledge of our right in God's agreements. And you had no hope (no Promise), you were in the world without God."
Col.2:12-13 (Amp) says, "Thus you were circumcised when you were buried with Him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him to a new life through your faith in the working of God as displayed when He raised up Jesus from the dead. And you were dead in trespass in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), God brought to life together with Christ, having freely forgiven us all our transgressions."
The new creation man/woman was raised from Spiritual death in sin and trespasses, into a completely new creation being who was made one spirit with Jesus. 1Pet.2:2 (Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation." We feed the new creation baby with the Spiritual milk of God's Word, so we may grow into maturity in God. We must go on in Jesus, from who we were at the cross and became new creation, in order to find out who we've become by Him and grow-up in Him as sons and daughters of God.
Milk will sustain babies for a time, but then a baby will need solid food. James writes in Heb. 5:11-13 (Amp), "Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your Spiritual hearing and sluggish, even slothful in achieving Spiritual insight. For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of Righteousness, of conformity to the Divine will and purpose, thought, and action, for he is a mere infant not able to talk yet."
Many believers today are still living as "mere infants," and not going beyond being saved and growing into mature children of God. Jesus was still God's Son, even in His earthly Body, with the Life of God in His Spirit. We're likewise, sons and daughters of God, by our newborn spirit. We're still in our physical bodies, so we can do the works of God on earth. Paul tells us in the above scripture that, we've become "one Spirit with Christ."
Jesus said that "Signs will follow those who believe," in Mark 16. This is the Super-natural Power and ability to heal the sick and cast out demons. The Power of God's Spirit that created us in this new creation, is the Same Holy Spirit Who lived in Jesus, during His earthly ministry. God Himself now lives in us and we're supposed to walk in the Super-natural Power, like Jesus did.
We're not Jesus and will never be, but while we're here on earth, we're His Body and we're to do the things Jesus did. This wasn't just for the twelve disciples or the early Church, but is to be continued until Jesus returns. We've discarded the Super-natural ability of the Holy Spirit living in us, for rituals and traditions. Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work." The Same Father, by the Holy Spirit, is now living in us!
We're not the ones doing the work, but the new creation person who is one Spirit with God, who does the work. We're only required to believe in His Ability in us. We've been talked out of the new creation privilege and ability and have been content to remain babes in Christ, instead of becoming who we were born again to be. The old man/woman has been crucified with Christ and have been created new, just like Jesus was on this earth. We're physical men and women who are filled with God Almighty. The Same Word and Holy Spirit Who created this universe now lives in us, in order to do the things that only God can do. We must allow Him to do it and believe in what He created us to be.
We're no longer sinners, but are new creation children of God. Our old way of doing things is gone and has been replaced by the new creation children of God. We must accept what Jesus has done for us and be who He has made us to be. 2Cor.5:17 (Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is 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." We must stop thinking about who we used to be and begin learning about who Christ has made us to be now. We need to live in God and let Him live in us. Jesus said in John 10:10, "I have come to give you Life in abundance." He wasn't speaking about the life we had, but about His Life in the Father, which allows us to live above this life of the flesh and live in the new creation person He made us to be.
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