1Peter1:23 (Amp) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." Jesus tells us in John 10:10 (Amp), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
The abundant Life that Jesus came to give and the Seed we've been born-again from, are both the Life and Essence of God's Spirit Who now lives in our new creation spirit, as one Spirit. This is God's Own Life and Presence in our born-again spirit. We didn't have God's Life living in our spirit, until Jesus. We read about the life we lived before being born-again in Eph.2:12 (Amp), which says, "Remember that you were at that time separated, living apart from Christ, excluded from all part of 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 or right in God's agreements (His covenants), and you had no hope, no Promise, you were in this world without God."
The Life we now have in Christ Jesus, has put us in right standing with God and has put us "in God." This is God's Life living now in us. It's startling and unthinkable to even think about being in this world without God, to the carnal mind. The entire time we were here before receiving Jesus, God wasn't part of us and we were dead. When I write about developing the new creation person, I'm speaking about our learning to Live in and through, Life with God.
When we were born into this earth as babies, we had the life of the flesh already in us, but it was undeveloped. We couldn't do things on our own and relied on others to feed, change, and care for us. As we grew, we developed the skills and learned how to live here in the carnal realm. We had to learn and develop the skills of life, on an individual basis. Some learned the skills needed to become physicians, carpenters, preachers, teachers and other occupations.
When we are born into the Spirit and Kingdom of God, as citizens and children of God, we must develop the ways and skills of the new creation we're born into. If we remain babes in Christ, then we won't be useful citizens and others will have the burden of caring for us until we leave this planet in death. We will all leave this planet in death, unless Jesus comes first. We will still have to develop into the Life Jesus came for us to live, if we enter God's Kingdom as babes in Christ. We can't simply live in God's Kingdom as babies, for eternity.
The skills and trust we've received in the new birth, are to be developed here and in Heaven. Most of the things we learn about the Life Jesus came to give us, are to be used here on earth, on behalf of other who are in this world without God. They think they already have life and are living, just like we once did before receiving Jesus as our Lord and Savior. The life we had before Jesus, wasn't the Life of God, but was actually the death that came through Adam, the day he died in the Garden.
We know from Gen.1:11 (Amp) that, everything yields "fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to it's kind." The seed of Adam, was the seed of sin and death and contaminated every human born. Rom.5:12 (Amp) says, "Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as a result of sin, so death (spiritual and natural) spread to all men; no one being able to stop or escape it's power because all men sinned." Everything produces after kind. Adam's transgression resulted in Spiritual death, which was transmitted to every human being born into this earth.
Rom.5:18 (Amp) tells us, "Well then, as one man's trespass (one man's false step and falling away) led to condemnation for all men, So One Man's act of Righteousness leads to acquittal and right standing with God and Life for all men." We couldn't do anything about what we were by the natural seed of Adam which brought death, but we can by receiving Jesus and being born-again by the Seed of Life and Righteousness.
We now have Life again in our spirit and are born from Above by His Spirit. We need to develop and learn what this new Life has given us. Will we just continue in the same manner as we did when we were dead or does our Heavenly Father expect us to grow and develop into the people He intended us to be? God gave us this New Life, in order to elevate us out of the Law of Sin and Death that we were born into by the seed of the First Adam.
God didn't give us this new Life only for when we leave this earth, but for us to live while here on earth for Him and through Him. Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me." This new Life is the Life that God intended His family to enjoy and have in abundance, when He created mankind in the Garden, God made us in His Image and Likeness and He never intended for us to be without Him. God intended us to acknowledge His Presence and not be ignorant of His ability. We must make a decision to acknowledge Him, in order to develop into what and whom He has made us to be again through Jesus. We're not supposed to remain like we were before receiving this Life in Christ Jesus. Like we did in the worldly life, we must study and learn from God's Word and His Spirit how to live this new Life He has given us by His Seed, Jesus the Word.
We've been born into royalty, because Jesus is our Lord and Savior, is the King of Kings, and He is our blood Brother. We've been born into the Kingdom of Almighty God Himself. Paul writes about who we are now and what our purpose is in this earth, in 2Cor.5:20 (Amp), saying, "So we are Christ's Ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We, as Christ's personal representatives, beg you for His sake to lay hold of the Divine favor now offered you and be reconciled to God."
As new creations and ambassadors from the Father and His Kingdom, we are to reveal God's favor and Life in this world, in order to bring those who are in this world without hope, without covenant and without God. Eph.2:12 says we're to "give life and hope by speaking God's Word (Seed) into the hearts of those still living under the Law of Sin and Death, through the seed of Adam." We've become the sowers of the Seed of Life through Jesus. Jesus tells us in Mark 4, that "The sower sows the Word." We're to sow the Word of Life through Jesus, into the hearts of those who are lost.
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