2Cor.5:17,16(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."
The above scripture says that those who are born-again are no longer who we once were with God, but who He has made us to be in Jesus. We learn even more about the new creation person and about the Risen Lordship of Jesus, in Verse16, which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a purely human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). No, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now we have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer in terms of the flesh."
Where do we get this knowledge of Him, which allows us to "see Him no longer as a Man, but as the Risen Lord of all?" We receive this Spiritual knowledge by the Revelation in God's Word, which reveals Jesus' Kingly position at the right hand of God. The Man Jesus, came as a Lamb for our Sacrifice. He is no longer a Man Who was to die in the place of those who have received Him, but Jesus is now our High Priest and Lord. He suffered as a Man and took the penalty for our sins. As our Lord, He gave us His rewards.
We've mostly viewed Christ and ourselves more from His human form, instead of seeing Him and ourselves in the Glory He provided for us, by His Own death and resurrection. In order to develop our new creation identity and learn to walk in it, we must see ourselves "no longer after the flesh," but after the Spirit.
We've mostly seen ourselves as sinners and not after the new creation man/woman who was born of the Seed, the Word of God. 1Pet.1:23(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." Gen.1:11(Amp) says, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth fruit, tender vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to it's kind upon the earth. And so it was."
We must not miss the Truth that "every Seed brings for fruit of itself." We were born or produced from the Same Seed that produced Jesus. John1:14(Amp) tells us, "The Word became flesh and walked among us." This Same Seed, the Word, is the Same Seed Who produced the new creation spirit man/woman, produced Jesus in His Human Form. We've been produced after Kind and our new creation spirit man/woman is just like the Original Seed.
Paul says that we "know no man after the flesh any longer (those who are born-again), but after the Spirit." We know longer see Jesus as a Man, but after the Risen Christ Who is seated in God's Presence, according to Eph.2:6(Amp), which says, "And He raised us up together with Him and made us to sit down together, giving us joint seating with Him in the Heavenly sphere, but virtue of our being in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
Jesus said in John15:5(Amp), "I Am the Vine;you are the branches. Whoever lives in Mes and I in him bears much abundant fruit. However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me), you can do nothing." Why is this? Because, every seed bears fruit after kind. There is no fruit, with a seed. We must know what fruit we are and what fruit we're to produce and bear after Kind. We're not who we once were, but are born after the Seed Who produced us. We're the fruit of the Vine and bear the same Seed and fruit after Kind. The fruit we bear is the same born-again child of God that the first fruit brought forth, which is the new creation child of God.
One might say, "I thought the fruit of the Spirit was in Gal.5:22-23. This is the fruit in us, which is produced by and through the Holy Spirit and makes us desired by others, allowing us to sow the Seed of that fruit into their hearts and produce after Kind. The rich, red fruit of an apple, is only a seed holder, which produces more apple trees. When the fruit is desirable and eaten, the seed of that fruit will produce another another apple tree, which bears more apples and more seeds. The Fruit of the Spirit makes others want to be like us, so that the Seed will reproduce in them too. Jesus told us that "He is the Vine and we are the branches." The Vine doesn't produce the fruit. It gives Life to the branches that bear the fruit. We are the branches who bear the fruit from the Vine, Who is the Original Seed, the Word of God.
We can count the seeds inside an apple, but we can't count the apples in the seed. The seed will produce another apple tree, which will produce more apples that hold more seeds to produce more trees and apples. The cycle continues for eternity. This is the incorruptible Seed or Word of God that endures forever. God watches over His Word to perform it. Every word is a seed in God's Kingdom. There are seeds of healing, seeds of Grace, seeds of comfort and many more. Each of those seeds will produce exactly what the Seed Promises, but they must be sown in our hearts. God says in Prov.4:2-22(Amp), "My Son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh."
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