2Cor.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."
In order to understand the above scripture, we must believe what it says and put faith in the new creation being we've become. The "new" you, is the one that is reflected back to you, by the mirror of God's Word. If we're new creations, then who we were before, isn't who and how we are unto the Lord. In God's eyes, our past is gone. He sees the new creation beings we've become, with no past at all.
This is difficult to understand with our carnal way of thinking. We still see who and what we were before Jesus, and it's difficult to erase the memories locked into our carnal natural minds. We must spend time in God's Word and accept who we are now in Christ Jesus. Paul instructed us in Rom.12:2(Amp), to "renew our minds by God's Word, in order to see ourselves the way God sees us." We know that in this natural world and form, we were not right with God and were unworthy and unrighteous. Through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the old man/woman hasn't just been cleansed, but he/she has been made a new creation.
Our new creation man/woman was created in and by the Spirit. Our outer man/woman wasn't changed and must be brought into subjection by our new creation feeding, by feeding on God's Word. Our flesh will never simply surrender and become submissive, but must be trained by our new creation spirit, which must be trained by God's Word and His Spirit. The more time we spend in the Word and in fellowship with the Lord, the more dominion we'll have over the old habits of the flesh.
We must learn what God's Word says about who we've become in Jesus, is more true than what our carnal mind and the world says about us. We must have more faith in God's Word, than we have in our senses and feelings. We must begin to accept by faith, the Truth of His Word, instead of our feelings and what others say about us. This is a gradual process that can be advanced by hearing and studying God's Word for ourselves.
It's important what baby Christians hear and how much faith is put into what we hear. Jesus said in Mark4:24(Amp), Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be give to you who hear." We know from this "Parable of the Sower," that "all had ears on their heads and heard Jesus' Words," but not all of them allowed the Word to enter into their hearts, in order to produce what He said. It's not enough to just hear with our ears, but we must hear in faith, with our new creation spirit man/woman and allow the Truth and virtue to be multiplied to us. When we read or hear God's Word, we must let it be the Holy Spirit speaking a personal Message just for us.
When we hear others say we're "unrighteous, unworthy and a sinner." then we can't let that into our hearts, because that will stop our faith in asking and seeking God in prayer. We must stay on what God says about us, instead of what the world says about us. God's Word tells us who we've been created to be and declares that we're righteous by the Power of the Blood of Jesus, in our new creation man/woman. 2Cor.5:21(Amp) says, "For our sake He made Christ virtually to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become endued with, viewed as being in and examples of the Righteousness of God, what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him by His Goodness." Jesus did it for us, because we couldn't do it for ourselves. He is our Righteousness.
It's difficult for our natural selves to believe and accept that we are actually righteous in God's eyes. Paul says we must, "renew our minds by God's Word," in order to see ourselves like God sees us, even in this world. It's not being prideful, when we believe the work God has done in us, but it's prideful when we deny what His Word says about us now in Christ. Are we going to believe the Truth of God's Word or what our carnal mind and the world says about us? God's Word is Truth and how we might feel about it doesn't change it. The entire universe is still held in place, by the Truth of God's Word.
Our carnal mind will tell us that "God's Word isn't True," because it's the enemy to Truth, according to Rom.8:7(Amp), which says, "That is because 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 Laws, indeed it cannot." We must renew our minds with God's Word and believe it with the mind of Christ and the Spirit of God. We can only overcome the mind of the flesh, by God's Word and faith in His Word. Heb.11:3(Amp) tells us, "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed (fashioned, put in order and equipped for their intended purpose), by the Word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible." We only need to look at the heavens and universe, to see God's Word is more True than what our carnal minds can conceive. It must be view by faith. The carnal mind looks at these things as being "the Big Bang Theory," which isn't faith in God.
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