Developing the New Creation Lesson 53

      2Cor.5:17(Amp) tells us, "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 new creation is one in God's Own Spirit, made in God's Own Image by Jesus.  Jesus is the Seed from Whom we are born-again.  This is a being we have no idea of his/her potential or ability, because he/she is of a different Kingdom and Life altogether.  The only way to "know" the real you, is to know Jesus.  We don't know who we really have become in this new creation, until we fully know the One Who created us.

     We can see and imitate our earthly father in this natural realm, by watching and following his example.  Eph.5:1(Amp) says, "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow His Example as well-beloved children imitate their fathers."  We can read how our Example, Jesus walked with the Father in the flesh and we have God's Word which shows us how to walk before Him.  David wrote in Psalm 17:4-5(Amp), "Concerning the works of men, by the Words of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent (the paths of the destroyer) My steps have held closely to the tracks of the One Who has gone on before; my feet have not slipped."

     We can avoid the "paths of the destroyer (satan)," by watching Jesus and reading His Word.  When we walk in our own understanding, we walk in the way were were raised in the flesh and the world.  We had never walked in this new creation Life we now have in Jesus, so we must be instructed in how to walk it.  The world will try forcing us into a position, in order to control us and our actions.  God will free us from control and put us into a place where we submit and choose to walk with Him, because we love Him.

     Many today believe that God will make us do what is right or righteous, but the Truth of the Word says we're to "submit yourself," in James4:7-8(Amp) saying, "So be subject (submitted) to God, Resist the devil (stand firm against him), and he will flee from you. Come close to God and He will come close to you."  We've allowed the devil to have access into our lives, because we didn't know or submit to the instructions given us by the Word and the Spirit.

     Reading God's Word isn't to be a religious exercise, but is reading the instructions on how to imitate our Heavenly Father.  We've never seen God our Father with our natural eyes, but we can see Jesus in the Word.  We can imitate Jesus in our natural body and train our new creation person how to submit to the instruction given our spirit being, which we've been born into.  Before being born of the Spirit, we walked in what we were taught or learned on our own from the world.  Now we have the Holy Spirit to teach us.  

     Rom.8:14-15(Amp) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For the Spirit which you have now received is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but your have received the Spirit of adoption, the Spirit producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry Abba, Father, Father."  The spirit of the world is based on slavery and bondage, where the god of this world forced us to do his will.  The Spirit of our Father has loosed us from bondage and fear, so we can walk with Him and submit to Him in love and respect for Who He is.

     David told us in Psalm 17 that, "By the Words of God's lips, he avoided the ways of the violent, the paths of the destroyer."  God's Word is a path that leads to protection from enemy, if we walk in it and follow God's path.  If we follow the road signs, then we won't get lost, so we must read the Map.  Most of us drive vehicles with GPS built in, that tells us and shows us how to get where we are going.  Or, we use our phones to do so.  If we make a wrong turn, then we're told how to turn around and and get back on track.  God's Word and the Holy Spirit will do the same.  GPS in God's Kingdom, stands for God's Protection Service," which tells us how and where to go.

     The Lord speaks about the time of the new creation and how He will deal with them, in Isaiah30:19-21(Amp), saying, "O people who dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be Gracious to you at the sound of your cry when He hears it, He will answer you And thought the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself anymore, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher. And your ears will hear a Word behind you, saying, This is the way; walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left."

     We're only required to follow the Voice of God's GPS and we will be alright.  This Voice is the Voice of the Holy Spirit speaking in our spirit.  Psalm119:105(Amp) says, "Your Word is a Lamp unto my feet and a Lamp to my path."  God's Word illuminates the path we are to walk.  The Holy Spirit will keep tell us where to turn, if we will listen and watch where we put our feet.

     When we spend time in God's Word and listen to the Holy Spirit, we can walk in the protection and Blessing that His family covenant has Promised.  God will never force or drive us, like the world does.  He will lead us, as the Shepherd of Psalm23 declares.  Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice, and will not follow the voice of a stranger."  We need to learn His Voice (the Word) for ourselves. 

Developing the New Creation Lesson 52

     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 John10:10(Amp), Jesus said, "I have come that they might have Life and enjoy it to the full (in abundance, till it overflows)."  This new Life wasn't the natural life those who heard Jesus say this, but is the Life of the Spirit, God's Own Life.  This God Kind of Life was to be in the new creation spirit of man, after Jesus ascended to the Father and the Holy Spirit poured out from Heaven upon the earth, like a flood.

     We had no idea what the Spiritual Life of God was to be and we didn't know how to live it.  God gave us instructions for living in this new real of the Spirit, in His Word.  Man can't teach us how to live this Life, unless he/she received Revelation by and through the Holy Spirit.  One can read God's Words by his/her intellect, but couldn't understand the Truth of what was read, because God's Word is Spiritually discerned.

     Reading God's Word with a carnal mind resulted in carnal religion, based on man-made laws of the flesh.  We tried controlling the flesh by the flesh, according the the Law of Moses.  Paul said that "the Law was perfect, but mankind couldn't walk what was written, because the flesh still controlled those under the Law."  Jesus said, "I didn't come to do away with the Law, but to fulfill it," in Matt.5:17(Amp), saying, "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the Prophets: I have come not to do away with or undo the Law but to complete and fulfill them."

     Jesus' work on the cross perfectly fulfilled the Law and Redeemed the new creation man/woman from the Curse of the Law.  Through Jesus, we've been qualified by faith in what He has done, to walk in the Blessing of Abraham.  It's by fruit and not Law.  In order to develop our new creation being and walk in what Jesus has done for us, we must put faith in what Jesus has done for us.  We must believe God's Word and His Spirit, instead of trying to control the flesh by the flesh.  Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver): the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths), that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     As we develop and strengthen our new creation spirit by God's Word, it can rule over our flesh.  Our spirit will be in submission to Jesus as our Lord and not just our Savior.  God's Word rules our spirit and our spirit rules our flesh.  This isn't as simple as it sounds, because our flesh and carnal mind had been ruled by the world and the god of this world, who is "satan himself," according to 2Cor.4:4.  Not everything we had done was against God, but the world's mindset is not the way of the Word.

     Today, some are rising up to remove Jesus and His Word, from the eyes of the people.  Many in the Church, pacifically say, "It is what it is" and "That's just how things are."  God's new creation people though, aren't supposed to live by the superficial things of the world.  We're to change the accepted things of the world and bring the things of God's Kingdom to the world.

     We try to go along with the concept of others, without making waves, but this isn't our purpose in our new Life.  Believing these things aren't our concern, isn't what our Lord instructed.  I can live my life between me and God, without much conflict with others.  It would be easy to remain silent, but if God's Word is alive in us, then silence isn't an option.  Some warred against Jesus, but He didn't remain silent and we can't either.

     Standing against many of the things being taught in our schools, might not affect your children, but they do affect other children.  We're called to be a Light in the world and not just in our homes.  Some believe that we're only required to live in Christ for ourselves, but we're supposed to influence others and be examples of God's Life to them.  We can stand for God's Righteousness, by voicing our concerns about the ungodly things being taught, to the school board or running to be on the board.  We can educate our friends and neighbors about things being taught in our schools, so they can get involved too.  We're called to change the world by God's Word.  We probably won't get everyone to see what the Word says about the new creation, but we can bring them to salvation and morality, by the Word.

     As we develop our new creation man/woman, we might have have more zeal than others and grow into our place in God more than others, but we're still all one family in Jesus Christ.  When I got saved, I led my family to be born-again, but we're not all walking with the Lord at the same level.  Some don't take time to walk further in the things of God.  They stopped living their old lives and began attending church, but they didn't continue in their walk with God like I chose to do.  We're all new creation men and women by birth through the Spirit, but some remain babes in Christ.  Babies are alive and that's what matters.  Some have grown to adolescence, but never matured.  They're saved and are children of the Most High God, but they don't understand what salvation has in store for them. 

     Growing in our walk with God depends on how much time we spend in His Word and in fellowship and prayer with Him.  It's available to everyone who is born-again, but not everyone will understand what salvation consists of.  We must go on in our relationship with Jesus and enjoy what He bought and paid for us to have.  We need to continue growing in Him, so God can use us and do His bidding on the earth.  We are the salt and Light to this planet, in order to be a Blessing to God and others.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 51

     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."

     The new creation man/woman is a Spiritual being who is born of God and is superior to all other creatures on planet earth.  Our warfare has never been with mankind, but with the spirit of antiChrist that now works through mankind, in order to bring about satan's kingdom of darkness in the earth.  Our country isn't involved in a political fight, but in a spiritual warfare against God and His Church.  Only the Spirit of God, working through and in the new creation family of God, has dominion over the chaos enveloping our nation today.

     We must develop our new creation man/woman, by learning who we've become in being born-again.  Our church is called, "Living Word Christian Life Center" and is a "Boot Camp for God's Army."  Everyone in boot camp learns how to safely and effectively operate the weapons of warfare, setting him/herself for battle, even during peacetime.  Boot camp is preparation for a sudden attack from outside or within our nation.  We entered God's Kingdom when we were born-again and we're to protect and uphold His Laws and statutes.

     We live in a fallen world, which is being used against God's Laws and His Kingdom.  We are redeemed from the Curse of the Law, but it's evident that the Curse is still at work on the earth.  We must look to God's Word and Jesus, in order to make a stand and resist the lies, the world view and all obstacles of the enemy.  Most in the Church, have been taught that we're only required to live right and wait to go to Heaven when we die.  Jesus said, "I will never leave or forsake you, but will be with us until the End of the Age."  Jesus' work on this earth, was to destroy the works of the devil and He's called us to do the same works.  God's Church has been called to continue the spiritual warfare Jesus fought against the kingdom of darkness.

     Our nation is in a spiritual battle.  Evil forces that oppose God's Laws have prompted those in our government to pass unGodly laws and many media sources to promote secular vulgarities.  We need to learn how to proficiently use the weapons of our warfare, according to Eph.6:10-19.  Paul instructs us to use these against the unseen forces trying to rule over mankind and earth.  Jesus went about undoing what the enemy had bound mankind with.  He healed those who had fallen prey to disease and sickness and Jesus ministered the Life of the covenant they had forgotten.

     God made provision for their every need, but like today, the people had forgotten man of the things He had done and instructed them to walk in.  We're in warfare with and against "the god of this world," according to 2Cor.4:4.  We can't see him with our natural eyes and he must be dealt with by the Spirit.  We still have natural bodies and have been raised in a natural world, so our senses have become blind to the Super-natural things.  We've heard and said, "I'll believe it when I see it."  We can't see the wind, but we can see the evidence of it's reality.  We can't see gravity, but we'll believe in it, if we jump from a tall building.  Knowing God's Presence and the Power of His Word comes from accepting what they've already created in this universe.  The Same Word and Spirit that created the wind and gravity, will bring results, if we stop trying to see it and just accept it.

     There are many things which could and would be changed, if we would trust God's Word.  So long as we're on this earth, we'll need to use the Truth of God's Word to what God expects us to do.  This is a Spiritual warfare that's gone on, since Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden and will continue until the Lord's Return.  We must deal with the things of this earth, by Spiritual warfare.  Becoming proficient in this warfare requires prayer, study and faith in God.  God and His Truth will make us victorious.  We think that we only need to sit back and God will do everything on His Own.  Jesus didn't tell His disciples to "sit at home and I will go out and cast out devils, heal the sick, and speak in tongues."  Jesus told them to, "Go into all the world, do these things, and I will confirm what you do with signs and wonders," in Mark16.

     Praying isn't telling God what's wrong, He already knows that.  He wants us to go against what is wrong and He will work through and for us, in order to fix it.  We're not to pray the problem, but go into His Word, in order to find what God says about it and then we're to speak and pray the answer.  Faith stops at the question mark, where we question His Word in us.  If we don't know what God's will is, then we'll falter and stumble in our faith, without going forward.  God tells us that "He is the Lord of Hosts," which means "The God of Armies."  This is Who God is still today.

    God's Church is the earthly army filled with His Spirit and His Word and we're called to do His will here on earth, just like Jesus did.  We must learn to use the weapons of our warfare, so we can be successful in this combat.  We must arm ourselves with God's Armor and His Word, which is a two-edge sword, putting on that which He provided in Eph.6:10-19, so we can win the warfare satan declared against God.  King David converses with the Lord in Psalm17:4-6(Amp) saying, "Concerning the works of men, by the Word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent, the paths of the destroyer My steps have held closely to Your paths, the the track of the One Who has gone on before: my feet have not slipped. H have called upon You, O God, for You will hear me, incline Your ear to me, and hear my speech."

     We must learn to trust and walk by God's Word, in order to persevere in what He intends for us to have and do.  God will "watch over His Word to perform it" and God's Word will "not return to Him void."  The Self-fulfilling Power of God's Word will bring to pass, exactly what He said it would do and nothing can prevent it from manifesting it's Promise.   

Developing the New Creation Lesson 50

     2Cor.5:11(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."

     Many have made Jesus our Savior, but He is also to be our Lord.  We're required to do like Jesus says to do.  There are many things that don't sound "Spiritual," but are maybe the most important displays of His Lordship.  Eph.5:9-12(Amp) says, "For the fruit (the effect, the product) of Light, or the Spirit, consists in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart and trueness of life. And try to learn in your experience what is pleasing to the Lord, let your lives be constant proof of what is most acceptable to Him. Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead let your lives be so in contrast as to expose and reprove and convict them. For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that such people practice in secret."

     Making Jesus our Lord, is practicing what might seem to be carnal and it requires yielding to God's Word and His Spirit, in order to accomplish these things.  We've been taught today, to simply accept what the world thinks and says is "right."  Is.5:20-21(Amp) says, "Woe to them who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent and shrewd in their own sight."

     Today's Church has seemingly accepted the changing the meaning of words.  We're no longer supposed to address one another as "Brother" or "Sister," because it's insulting to refer to others according to our gender.  We're being taught things that change the meaning of the Truth of God's Word into a lie, without noticing.  We are denying the Lordship of Jesus Christ, when we make what He said and did, as though it means nothing.

     The crazy things the world is entering into, aren't political, but demonic.  People are being used by principalities and powers to deny and pervert the Truth of God's Word.  Our children are being taught Critical Race Theory in America's schools, which is the opposite of what God's Word and the Lord commissions in the Commission given to the Church.  We are called to be "one in Him, both Jew and Gentile, male and female, bond or free, are all one in Him."  The world is teaching things that will undermine the Truth in Jesus, just like Isaiah, by the Holy Spirit, prophesied so long ago. 

     The Church has been reluctant to speak up about how today's politics are secular and carnal, but things that oppose the Truth aren't political according to Eph.6:12(Amp), which says, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents), but against despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere."

     It makes common sense that if God uses people to speak and preach His Word, then satan would use people to speak and preach his words and perform his agenda.  We're not at war against the people, but against the spirits behind the ungodly agenda which is putting people in bondage and fear.  This isn't politics, but Spiritual warfare that the Church seems to be ignore.  The cancel culture is trying to cancel Jesus, so that people won't come to Him.

     If we speak out against this ungodly agenda today, then we become a target for reproach, even in some Christian circles.  We never closed our church, like others did, because I decided that Jesus was more critical to people than casinos or abortion clinics.  Some followed the science and mandate of politics, while other were encouraged to walk where their faith was.  If someone wished to stay home or wear a mask, then we encouraged them to do so.  We encouraged them to do what they think God would have them do though and not the enemy.  The Lord calls for unity of the Spirit.  If might surprise us to know that satan calls for the same thing, in his kingdom of darkness.  

     America isn't facing just "politics as usual," but a demonic invasion trying to remove God from our nation and her people.  This is what the above scripture is speaking of and is the Commission Jesus gave to the Church, by the Authority in the Name and Lordship of Jesus.  The world doesn't have the authority to remove unclean spirits, but the Church does.  If we don't make the stand against these and cater to the world, then it will spread like wildfire throughout our nation.

     Paul writes in Rom.12:2(Amp), "Do not be conformed to this world (age), fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs."  The Body of Christ is in danger of becoming more and more like the world, by adapting to and being fashioned after the world's customs and way of thinking.  We don't set our minds on the way the world views things, but we're to judge the customs, by the way God sees them. 

     What does the world say about abortion?  Does God's Word support what we've accepted and made legal where abortion is concerned?  Do we conform to cancel culture and remove or conceal parts of the Word that offend those who refuse to accept Jesus and His way of thinking and being right?  How does the Critical Race Theory fit into God's Word about becoming one and no longer Jew or Greek, male or female, bond or free?  We are all one Body.  The world doesn't conform or believe God's Word, but the Church should, instead of accepting and adapting to what the world says.

     When cultural things change in the world, God's people aren't to judge these things by the world's standards, but by the standards of God's Word.  We won't make disciples or change anything, if we agree with the world's view.  We just become part of the problem.  Where is the Church or those who stand against the things being taught in our schools?  

     The Church should stand and make our voices heard, against many of these things.  We don't need to be obnoxious, but we do need to at least let others hear the Truth of God's Word.  Jesus asked, "Why do you says to Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the thins I have said?"  We're not called to be like the world, but to be like the Lord.  There are more than enough Christians in this nation, to change our politics and leaders, when we united in prayer, vote and pray for righteous leaders.  God will supply the right leaders, like He's always done, according to the hearts of His people, according to 2Chron.7:14(Amp), where God says, "If My people, who are called by My Name."  God didn't say "If everyone."  God says that "If His people pray, then He will hear our prayers and heal our Land."  Are His people making a stand and voicing His Word in prayer?

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 49

      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."  

     This scripture should be established in our mind and spirit by now.  We are no longer who we once were, but we're new creation children of God.  1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk (of the Word) that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto completed salvation."

     These scriptures tell us that we're like newborn children of God, when we receive Jesus as our Lord and become new creations.  Paul tells us that we must feed on God's Word, in  order to grow into mature Christians and completed salvation.  As we grow in the Word, we realize that salvation is more than just going to Heaven and that it includes God's Promises for while we're here on earth.  We begin to understand that God has a purpose and plan for our lives here.  We learn to believe that all the Promises He gave us through Jesus, aren't just for when we go to Heaven.

     We learn and understand God's Promises by reading the Word and listening to the Holy Spirit, going from "faith to faith."  2Cor.1:18-20(Amp) says, "As surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes that might be No For the Son of God (Christ Jesus, the Messiah), Who has been preached among you by us, by myself, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in Him is always the Divine Yes. For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes Answer in Him (Christ). For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him (in His Person and by His Agency) to the Glory of God."

     Did you realize that simply believing the Promises God gave us through Jesus, brings Glory to the Father?  He didn't make these Promises to and for us in vain, but intended that we inherit all these Promises.  We must believe these Promises, like we believe that Jesus is God's Son and that if we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, then we would be saved.  This isn't the only "Yes Answer" to God's Promises, but is where we begin accepting what God Promised in Jesus.

     God's Promises are the benefits of being born into Royalty and help us grow up into mature Christians and children of God to the Glory of God.  We've been told that these Promises "aren't for everyone" or "for us today," but have "passed away."  Paul describes completed salvation as being on the course of a new life, and just like we mature and grow in the natural world, so it is in this new Life in Jesus.  Many still don't understand how to achieve and grow in this natural world.  They expect to succeed in life without working towards it and then they become discouraged by their lack of success.

     Many in the Body of Christ have accepted what others have accomplished, thinking that's all there is.  The body of Christ is made up of individuals and each is responsible for how much we believe in the Promises God has given us.  In Jesus, these Promises are no longer just Promises, but are now FACT.  When we trust in Him and discover that God has already made these Promises True for us now, we'll grow from faith to faith.  2Cor.1:22(Amp) goes on, "He has also appropriated and acknowledged us as His by putting His seal upon us and giving us His Holy Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee of the fulfillment of His Promise."  This is a Blood bought guarantee that all God has Promised us through Jesus, is guaranteed to and for us, by our faith in Him.

     Some in this natural world go on to do great things, but it's left up to those who persevere.  Some follow their heart's desire to have successful futures.  This is True for God's Promises too.  Some choose to accept all or part of them, but they're available to all who will believe.  We can stop at the Promise of being saved or we can go unto completed salvation.

     We're saved or born-again, when we receive Jesus as our Lord.  Heaven is our Home, God is our Father and we will be with the Lord after we die or when He takes us at His Return.  The rest of God's Promises are guaranteed to be ours too, we must choose whether or not to accept them.  Every individual believer must appropriate them by faith in what Jesus has done, so we grow into them, as we grow in Him.

     Don't allow anyone to talk you out of what Jesus has given us, by faith in Him and God's Grace.  This doesn't mean they're not good Christians and have missed God, but that you haven't received their full inheritance Jesus bought and paid for, by His Sacrifice.  We must study and discover what these Promises are and then begin applying them in our life, by the same faith that brought us to become new creation children of God.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 48

     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."

     1Pet.2;2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk (of the Word) that by it you may be nurtured and grown unto completed salvation."  Every baby needs milk, in order to grow and begin developing.  As the baby gets older, he/she must go from the milk to solid food or meat, in order to grow, strengthen and continue in life into adulthood.  The milk of God's Word lets us begin to understand who we've become in this new creation, while the meat of the Word, brings knowledge and understanding how to grow into the mature Christian child of God, we've been to be. 

     It's all the Word of God, but there's growth in it for all who desire to know and understand our Heavenly Father.  Heb.4:10-11(Amp) says, "For he who has entered into God's Rest also has ceased from the weariness and pain of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His Own. Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that Rest of God (to know and experience it for ourselves), that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience into which those in the Wilderness fell."  

     "Those in the Wilderness" were the people God delivered from Egypt's bondage, but who wouldn't trust Him to take them into the Promised Land.  God's Presence stayed with them and provided for their every need, but they failed to trust Him to deliver them to the Promised Land.  In order to grow up into mature Christianity, we must learn by the meat of God's Word that Jesus has provided everything by His Sacrifice and that our works of the flesh aren't needed to complete His Finished Word.

     In order to rest in what Jesus has already accomplished, without falling back into tradition and religious works to "make things work," we must simply rest in Him by faith in His Word.  We can't be righteous on our own or by our own works and must Rest in the Truth that in Jesus Christ, we've been made righteous.  We don't work for it, because Jesus has already provided it for us.  The Rest Jesus has provided doesn't only bring righteousness, but also our justification and total cleansing from sin and trespass.  We are already "Heaven ready," and pure in God's eyes, through Christ Jesus.

     This Rest is simple faith in Jesus and what He has already done everything needed to enter the Very Presence of God, without guilt or condemnation from our past lives.  We are new creations in Jesus and have no past at all.  This is only accomplished by Revelation of the full Truth of what the Sacrifice Lamb really means to the new creation people of God.  Eph.3:11-12(Amp) says, "This is in accordance with the terms of the Eternal and timeless purpose which He has realized and carried into effect in the Person of Christ Jesus our Lord. In Whom, because of our faith in Him, we dare to believe the boldness, courage and confidence of free access and unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear."

     We can come to the place in our walk with God, where we confidently know we can come directly into His Presence, by Resting and growing up into maturity in our new creation.  Jesus said in John10:9(Amp), "I AM THE DOOR: anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will Live), He will come in and he will go out freely and will find pasture."  Jesus is the Door by which we have boldness to come directly into the Father's Full Presence and our Assurance Rests in Him.  This is the Rest, by which we now live.

     It's no longer by sacrifice, religious works or by Law.  We must rest in the Truth that Sacrifice of our Lamb Jesus accomplished everything needed to make us righteous and acceptable to the Father.  We're only required to rest by faith, in our Sacrifice Lamb.  The carnal mind finds it difficult to totally rest in Jesus, but resting in Him is growing up into completed salvation.  Receiving the meat of the Word is comprehending all that Jesus' Sacrifice has given us and done for us, through His obedience to the purpose of God.  When we understand that we don't need to depend upon our own righteousness, then we can rest in assurance.  Jesus bore the entire Curse of the Law, which came upon the people for their lack of ability to be righteous before a Holy God.  Jesus has given us His Own Righteousness and ability, by His Sacrifice, so that we can rest in Him and enter God's Throne Room of Grace at any time.

     We've struggled with this Truth, because we look at our own weakness instead of relying on His Strength and Righteousness.  We still feel like we're unworthy and unable to enter God's Presence, but when we understand and know that it's Jesus' Righteousness and not our own, then we can boldly enter by faith in Him, God's Throne of Grace, to obtain Grace and Mercy to help when we need it.

     Faith isn't a "magical thing," but is simply trusting in Jesus, as the One Who has done everything needed to remove any barriers that stood between us and God.  The Blood of Jesus has removed all that mankind couldn't remove on our own and when we put faith in Him (not ourselves), we grow unto completed salvation. 

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     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."

     Walking naturally Super-natural becomes something we don't need to stop and think about, like when we were babes in Christ, because we learn and grow into mature Christianity and salvation.  It once seemed impossible solve math equations, but once we learned the principles of math, we could easily apply them and solve them.

     This applies to growing in the Lord too.  We must learn how to walk by the Word, instead of by the flesh.  The more we learn and know what the Word says, the easier it is to do as the Word and the Spirit teaches.  We need to renew our minds by God's Word, according to Rom.12:2, so we will no longer simply follow the impulses of the flesh, but walk naturally Super-natural by God's Word, without needing to stop and think about it.  

     It seems impossible at first, to know how to "walk pleasing to the Lord," until we know that He is already pleased with us and that it pleases Him while we're learning.  We don't punish our children for making a mistake when learning to count.  We simply correct their mistake and teach them how to do it.  We're pleased they're eager to learn and follow our direction.

     Contrary to common belief, God isn't always angry with us, when we make mistakes.  He understand what we go through and how difficult it is to learn to live in our new Kingdom Life.  It takes determination and patience, to function in our new creation life.  Even after we leave our lives on earth and enter into the Fullness of God, we'll learn that what we believed about Heaven is so far below what the Father has for us and that it was only His Grace and patience that got us through.

     Don't get discouraged and stop striving to walk with Him.  Be encouraged by the Truth of the Holy Spirit, our Teacher, knowing that He will lead and teach us to walk above our old nature.  This isn't some magical thing that only happens to certain people, but is a growing and learning process.  It's not something that we stand by and wait to happen either.  Paul said that he didn't "learn this by the teaching of men, but he learned his knowledge by Revelation from the Lord," in Gal.1:11-12(Amp), saying, "For I want you to know brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by men is not a man's gospel (a human invention, according to or patterned after any human standards), For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a direct Revelation given by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)."

     We might have been born with eyes, but it takes the Holy Spirit to let us "see" God's Word.  We might have been born with ears, but it takes the Holy Spirit to let us "hear" God's Word.  Mark4:22(Amp) says, "Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to Revelation, For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything temporarily kept secret except in order that it may be made known."  Many read the Word, without having revelation knowledge about what it says, because they're reading it in a carnal, natural sense.  When we read it without revelation of what we're reading, it's just words, instead of the Word of and from the Father Himself.  Different denominations have their own interpretation of what The Bible says and believe their interpretations are the way it's supposed to be.  These are all real born-again people who love God, but they will believe other denominations are "wrong," because they believe their interpretations are correct.  

     Most of us have revelation knowledge on some things, while others have revelation knowledge on other things.  The trouble is that when we receive some knowledge, we believe there's nothing more we can or even need to know.  How much do we not know about God or our place with Him by His Own Word and Spirit?  1John2:20-21(Amp) says, "But you have been anointed by (you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from) the Holy Once, and you all know the Truth, or you know all things. I write to you not because you are ignorant and do not perceive and know the Truth, but because you do perceive and know it, and know positively that nothing false, no deception, no lie is of the Truth."

     The Holy Spirit of God knows all things and is now living in our own spirit.  The Holy Spirit is God and knows all that God is and everything God has and says for us.  We must listen to the Spirit of God within us, to bring forth the same Revelation given to Paul, for us.  We have the letters the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church, but if we read them without the revelation of the things he delivered to us, then they're just "the man-made gospel."  God's Word isn't a "man's gospel or human invention, after human standards," according to Gal.1:11-12    

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     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." 

     We received God's very Own Life into our spirit, when we were born-again of the Spirit.  Jesus tells us in John10:10(Amp), "I have come that you may have and enjoy Life to the full (in abundance, till it overflows)."  Jesus was speaking of the new creation birth of the child of God, after He was raised from the dead on our behalf.  Our bodies weren't born-again, our spirits were.  Our bodies are still trained in the world and thinks and functions like the world.

      Paul writes about the need to renew our minds, because it strengthens our spirit so it can control the thinking and impulses of the flesh.  If we get saved and still think like the world, then we're in a constant moral conflict with God's Word.  Thus Paul writes in Rom.8:7(Amp), "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."

     In order to renew our minds by God's Word, we must submit to what He says about us, instead of what others and religious teachings might have taught us.  If God says that we are righteous, then we need to train our minds by His Word and accept His Truth, instead of what the carnal minds and the world says about us.  God's Plan was to give us the Gift of Righteousness, through the Sacrifice of Jesus.  Righteousness is a Gift, according to Rom.5:17(Amp), which says, "For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one (Adam), much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor) and the free Gift of Righteousness, putting them into right standing with Himself, reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."

     In order to receive this free Gift of Righteousness, we must renew our minds with the Word, so we can think about ourselves, like God thinks about us.  Our flesh and carnal minds will fight against this Truth, so might some friends or brothers and sisters in Christ, but we must stand our ground, because we have the right to either accept this Gift or refuse to believe in what Jesus has done for us.  If God says that through our receiving Jesus, "we are righteous", then who are we to tell God that  "Jesus wasn't enough and we need something more?"

     It takes faith in God's Word and spending time in it, to believe and receive what God has done for us in Jesus and to discover who we've now become in the new creation.  Only God's Word and the Holy Spirit can reveal this Truth to us.  We might hear it from the lips of men or women preaching the Gospel, but it's still up to us whether we believe or reject this Truth.  It takes faith in God's Word, in order to receive what Jesus has truly done for us, by His Sacrifice.

     The flesh and carnal mind wants to believe that all these Promises are True, only after we die and go to Heaven.  If righteousness is only available after we die, and that we're not righteous or in right standing with God now, then what makes us believe that an unrighteous person will suddenly become righteous after he/she dies?  If only the righteous can come before Him and we're not found to be righteous through Jesus, then the new creation God declared through Jesus, was a failure.

     Our flesh, with the carnal mind and the enemy, will try to condemn us about the life we lived before being born-again.  The enemy will try to prevent us from accepting God's Gift, but when we strengthen our spirit by God's Word and put faith in His Word, then our flesh will have to submit to our stronger spirit.  Our flesh will not be righteous, until it's replaced by the new glorified body and it will always need to be controlled by the spirit.  Our senses or carnal minds can be trained to obey our spirit, by the Word,

     Heb.5:14(Amp) says, "But solid food (weaned from milk) is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to distinguish and discriminate between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."  Abortion is acceptable, by human law.  Minds and faculties trained by God's Word, know it's the murdering of innocent, unborn children.  Full grown men and women in the spirit, know that just because it's accepted as man's law, doesn't mean it is God's law.  We are called to distinguish these things, by the Spirit and the Word.  Man's laws aren't always in right standing with the Truth of God.  James1:18(Amp) says, "But it was of His Own free will that He gave us birth as sons by His Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures, a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself."

     James4:6-7(Amp) says, "But He gives us more and more Grace, Power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others full [read this full chapter to see what this evil tendency is]. That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives Grace continually to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it). So be subject to God. Resist the devil, stand firm again him, and he will flee from you."

     How do we submit ourselves to God and how do we become humble?  By believing what God says about us, instead of what our carnal mind and satan says about us.  Pride would stop us from believing what God says is True and will keep us under the devil's control and will keep us operating only by our flesh.  The devil will only flee from those who know what God says about us, when we stand in the Power of His Righteousness.

     Jesus was the most humble Man.  He told us that He was meek and lowly of heart, but He knew and stood on Who He was.  He said that, "The Father and I are One," without being prideful.  He was in total submission to the Father, but never denied Who and What He was.  This is humility and submission by the Truth of God's Word.  It goes completely against the flesh, with it's carnal mind, but it is Spirit and Truth.  If God says this about us, then we must believe His Word is Truth, no matter what others might say about us.

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     Most of us would agree that America's politics have gone wild.  Please, pray and stand with us in the Authority of Jesus' Name.  The cancel culture cannot cancel Jesus Christ, as much as they'd like to.  Death, hell and the grave couldn't hold Him and they won't be victorious against Him either.  Warriors in God's army must take a stand, not against politics, but against the kingdom of darkness which has declared open warfare on the Kingdom of Light.  Eph.6:12(Amp) says, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending with physical opponents), but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere."

     This is a war against our God and satan has never been, nor never will be, victorious over Him.  We need to begin standing up in our place in Jesus and stand against the darkness, in order to bring others into God's Kingdom.  Those reading this in Communist countries, already know what the fight is about in America.  We refuse to bow to the darkness, like the three Hebrew children did.  The fiery furnace looks better than the bondage of satan.

     When the righteous make a stand and put Godly men and women into this nation's government, then we can bring the unity of the Holy Spirit to our nation.  If we allow our minds to be conformed to the world's way of seeing and thinking, then we'll be useless to God's Kingdom.  Satan has tried in the past, to make God's people feel useless, but our help comes from the Lord and cannot be stopped, if we'll come to God for Grace and help.  The Throne of God's Grace is open to His people and we have an invitation to come boldly before Him, with a sense of belonging and great expectation in our time of need.  Many in our government are controlled by the enemy and his evil agenda for our nation, but God has called and raised up our nation and her people as Light to the world.  

     This nation isn't a socialist country and with God's intervention and help, we will never be.  God entered into a covenant with our forefathers centuries ago, so we would be free to worship and serve Him in Spirit and Truth.  God will honor this covenant, because of those He made it with.  Ex.2:23(Amp) says, "And God heard their sighing and groaning and earnestly remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob."

     God will hear the groaning of this nation too and will remember His covenant with our forefathers.  And, like those in Egypt, He will deliver His people.  Our forefathers loved God and had enough faith in Him to cross the ocean in wooden ships.  God honored that and by so doing, created a unique nation for Himself, much like He did with Israel.  Our government today, is trying to be God and is printing money, in order to buy people with free money, but there's no such thing as free money.  Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have to pay this back.  No one can buy loyalty.

     Our Constitution didn't give us freedom, our freedom gave us the Constitution.  God's children have a place of authority that the world can't overcome, if we will only use the Truth of God's Word to stand against it.  We're not in this battle alone, anymore than Joshua was in Jericho.  What looked like foolishness to carnal men, was actually the Wisdom and Might of God on behalf of His people.  We were never called to submit to the world, but to overcome this world for the Kingdom.  Jesus prayed in John17:15(Amp), "Father, I do not pray or ask that You take them out of this world, but that You keep them from the evil one."  Many have lost sight of the Truth that satan is a real entity and enemy to God and His people.

     Satan's onslaught isn't just happening in America, but all over this earth.  The Covid-19 pandemic has swept this planet and is causing many to put their trust in mankind for our deliverance.  Jesus is still the Lord of all and He will turn our captivity into His Victory and will reveal Himself as Lord, in spite of what the world and satan might think.  I believe we're in the times of the greatest harvest of souls into God's Kingdom, that has ever been.  As the Lord's return grows closer, satan's fear is driving him to loose everything to stop Jesus from returning, like He said.

     No Word of God is without self-fulfilling Power, to bring it to pass.  What Jesus said is how it will be, no matter what.  We're God's Ambassadors and are to bring His Kingdom into this world and bring men and women into His family.  We can overcome, by trusting in God's Word and His Holy Spirit.  The enemy has loosed everything in his arsenal and has overplayed his hand, frantically trying to stop God's Word from doing what the Father sent it to do.

     We must hold fast to the faith, pray without ceasing, and we must not limit God in this final battle for mankind, before Jesus' return.  We must stand on God's Word and must not bow to the forces that would trying telling us, "It's useless."  Let's run the course, finish the race, hold the faith and rejoice in the deliverance of our God!

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      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."

     Many have settled for just being saved and remain carnal men/women, without seriously working to develop the new creation into the Super-natural person we've been created to be.  Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told the disciples this in Acts1:8(Amp), "But you shall receive power, ability, efficiency, and might, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of (the very bounds of), the earth."

     The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the Super-natural Power of God, to do the work that Jesus did.  Without the Holy Spirit, we would be just another religion.  Jesus gave a mandate to His followers in Mark16:17-18(Amp) to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel."  In Verse 17, Jesus said that, "These Super-natural signs will accompany those who believe in the Gospel, saying, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; in My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents, and even if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."

     This mandate hasn't been rescinded and this power is for those who believe, are filled with or baptized with the Holy Spirit.  The Super-natural manifestations are the Presence of the same Holy Spirit Jesus had in Him and is now in us.  There are no signs and wonders for the world to witness a Living Savior, without the Holy Spirit.  Jesus said in Luke11:15(Amp), "If you then being evil as you are [speaking to those who aren't born-again yet] know how to give good gifts (gifts that are to their advantage), to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask, and continue to ask Him."

     Receiving the Holy Spirit in the power of Baptism, is the main requirement for us to walk in the Super-natural ability of God.  Jesus Himself did no mighty works, until He received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Mark1:9-10(Amp), which says, "In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when He came up out of the water, at once he (John) saw the Heavens torn open and the Holy Spirit like a dove coming down to enter into Him (Jesus)."

     If Jesus needed the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, in order to begin His Own ministry, then how much more do we need the Power of the Holy Spirit today?  This Super-natural ability comes only by and through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit living within and upon us today.  Jesus spoke to His disciples about the Holy Spirit's coming and how important the Holy Spirit would be to them, after Jesus went to the Father, in John16:13(Amp), saying, "But when He, the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole Truth and full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father; He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."

     Many read the Word, without comprehending or receiving the Truth of it for their own lives.  The Holy Spirit is the One Who brings Revelation into our lives.  Jesus said in John16:7(Amp), "However, I Am telling you nothing but the Truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away, Because if I do not go away, the Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby, will not come to you, into close fellowship with you; but if I go away I will send Him to you, to be in close fellowship with you."

     Our Source of Super-natural ability and power, comes from the Same Source that worked in and through Jesus.  It takes the Holy Spirit in us, in order to demonstrate the visible Presence of God to the world.  Our Heavenly Father didn't say, "I was the Almighty God," but He said, "I Am Almighty God."  We speak like the awesome things He did before, are no longer available today.  He is the "same yesterday, today, and forever" and He does not change.  These attesting signs and wonders still follow the Message of the Gospel today.  The Church has been talked out of believing that the Power of the Holy Spirit is still available for us today.  

     When we believe in the Holy Spirit Who lives in us, then He will do what He came to do and perform the signs and wonders, so the world can see the True God.  It's not us who does the works, we only need to read God's Word, ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit and believe what God says is True.  We must listen and hear what He would have us do today.  He has done all the work for us, but we must believe, receive and go into all the world, like Jesus said in Mark 16:20(Amp), saying, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied it. Amen (so be it)."

     Let's receiving the Holy Spirit today.

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     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."  The new creation isn't our natural bodies, but our spirits which were not united with God, because of Adam's sin.  When our spirit man/woman is born of God, we're no longer sinners and we're new creations.  Our new creation person is born of God, just like our children are born of us.  The attributes and character of God are now living in our new creation man/woman.  We are born of and born into, the very Likeness and Image of God, our Heavenly Father. 

     The Same Seed that gave Life to Jesus, is the Seed that we've been born of, according to 1Pet.1:23(Amp), which 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."  John1:14 tells us that the Word produced Jesus.  We've been created by the Word, in the same sense that both the First Adam and the Last Adam Jesus, were brought into this world.

     1Cor.15:15-17,18(Amp) says, "Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam (Christ), became a Life Giving Spirit, restoring the dead to Life. But it is not the Spiritual Life which came first, but the physical and then the Spiritual. The first man was from out of the earth (made of dust, earthly minded): The second Man is the Lord from out of Heaven."

     Paul says this about our natural body and person, in Verse 18, "Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of dust (earthly minded); and as is the Man from Heaven, so also are those who are of Heaven (Heavenly minded)."  Our natural body was from the seed of Adam and our Spiritual body is the Seed of God's Word.  If you're wondering why our natural bodies give us such trouble after being born-again, then remember Gen.1:11(Amp) which tells us that God made, "Fruit whose seed is in itself, according to it's kind." 

     The Law of Genesis holds true with every seed, from the trees and plants, to the animal kingdom and the human body, to the new creation man/woman from the Seed of God's Word.  Our natural bodies were produced from the seed of Adam, with it's sin nature.  The Spiritual body is from the Seed of God's Word and holds all the attributes of our Heavenly Father.  The struggle we have in our Christian walk is from the seed of sin, that produced the fruit of the seed of Adam, which rebels against God's Word.  The struggle between the flesh and the spirit will continue, until we develop our spirit to withstand the flesh.  

     The old thoughts and actions we experience in our Christian walk, come from the fruit of the natural seed of Adam.  The knowing, understanding and standing against these thoughts and actions, comes from the fruit of the Seed of Jesus Christ.  We learn how to understand and deal with these thoughts and actions in Rom.8:1(Amp), which says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus (who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit)."

     As we begin to develop our new creation person by God's Word and being led by God's Spirit, we strengthen him/her from trying to go his/her own way.  When something appears on our computer or T.V. screens, that we would have watched before being born-again, the Holy Spirit will lead us to turn it off.  We yield to whichever is the strongest and more developed in our lives.  We must build our new man/woman of the Spirit, making it stronger than our old selves, by fellowship with Father and His Spirit and His Word.  The one we feed the most, is the one that will prevail.

     Paul wrote about the dictates of the flesh and the Spirit, saying it was only what is said or dictated, not something of force.  It's up to every individual, which one will lead us and which voice we will follow.  A dictate is as one who makes suggestions or orders to another.  It's up to the individual or the hearer, whether or not to obey.  The flesh will try to dominate the newborn baby in Christ, because it has been in charge longer and is stronger.  Paul writes to the Church in Heb.5:14(Amp), saying, "But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose sense and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good, and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."

     It requires consistent effort, to train our senses or natural way of doing.  It's not something that God will do for us, but it's our walking by the Spirit, because we love Him.  How long must we do this?  Until Jesus comes back or we go to Heaven in death.  Our flesh will always try to rise up, until we are crucified with Christ Jesus, according to Rom.7:22-25(Amp), where we see the Apostle Paul dealing with the battle between his flesh and his spirit.  This is a battle that every believer deals with.  Satan can't effect our new creation spirit.  He is will try enticing your flesh into disobedience and condemnation, but he can't touch our spirit.  We must develop our spirit to withstand the flesh, by God's Word, by fellowship with Him and being led by God's Spirit.

     The more we feed our spirit by God's Word, the stronger he/she becomes and the weaker our flesh becomes.  1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave the milk of the Word that you may grow thereby."

    

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      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, all things have become new."

     Jesus spoke about the new creation man/woman, in John10:10(Amp), saying, "The thief comes only to kill, steal and enjoy, but I have come that they may have Life in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."  This is the new creation person, who has the Life of God in him/herself living and flowing in our new born spirit being.  We're a new creation being and are now born of God's Spirit, but we have no idea how to life this Life of God, without the instruction and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

     We still have these natural lives in our flesh, which will die and cease to be, but the Life of the new creation person is the very Life of the Father, which endures forever.  Many receive this Life and simply wait until we die in this flesh to enjoy it.  Others though, receive this God kind of Life and allow it to flow in and through us now.  This is what Jesus spoke about in the above scripture.  This Life is to permeate this flesh and blood body we're now living in and then expand God's Life through it.

     We must learn how to receive from this new Life, by God's Word and His Spirit, so it brings forth the abundance that Jesus spoke about.  We've dealt with life from the outside-in, since coming into this world, but in this new creation, things work from the inside-out.  In Luke17:21(KJV), Jesus spoke about those looking for the Kingdom, saying, "Nor will people say, Look! Here it is, or see it is there! For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you, in your hearts and among you, surrounding you."  Jesus spoke about what the Kingdom of God is like, in Luke13:18-19(Amp), which says, "This led Him to say, What is the Kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds found shelter and roosted and nested in its branches."

     The new creation person is a Spiritual man/woman, from God's Own family.  We are spirit, like our Heavenly Father and are from a different Kingdom, so we move in a different way than those in the kingdom of darkness.  God's Life, Blessings and His Word work from within our spirit and like the mustard seed, will grow and produce in our lives, so that it's seen even in the natural realm of life.  We must sow God's Word into the soil of our hearts, in order to bring forth a harvest.  

     Casting seed on any ground, doesn't bring forth the 100 fold return, it must be sown into good soil, in order to promote growth.  The Seed is God's Word according to Jesus' "Parable of the Sower," in Mark4(Amp) and it can only produce when we give it time and good ground to grow.  The Blessings found in God's Word will expand and produce harvest in our lives, when we spend time meditating on God's Word.  Prov.4:4(Amp) says, "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life."  We must tend and guard the garden of our new creation walk with God.

     How do we "guard our hearts?"  We follow Jesus' instructions in Mark4:23-24(Amp), where He says, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, 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 given to you who hear."  Remember that Jesus said, "The Kingdom is within you."

     All words are seeds.  There are words of faith, words of fear, words of hate, words of love, words of instruction and words of foolishness.  We must be careful what words we sow into the kingdom of our new creation hearts.  God will measure the Seeds of His Word and the Truth we hear, back to us.  All other seeds will produce whatever they are.  God tells us that He "watches over His Word to perform it."  He will not perform over words or seeds of the enemy or produce those words or seed.  Many don't believe that we can have what we say, but seeds don't care what others say, they will produce after kind.  If we allow wrong seeds to be sown into our hearts, then they'll produce a crop that we might not want.  The seed only brings forth what is in it.

     We're each responsible for watching over our hearts.  Jesus admonished, "Be careful what you are hearing."  The hearer is responsible for what we hear.  Seeds or words of doubt and unbelief, will choke out the Seed or Word of God's Kingdom, so they won't produce like it was sent forth to do.  Carefully read the entire chapter of Mark 4, so you can perceive and comprehend what Jesus is saying.  Jesus tells us in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver). The flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     What words or seeds are allowing to be sown into the soil of our hearts?  Words of Life or words of death?  Words of faith or words of doubt?  The Seed of God's Word that is sown into the believer's hearts and is watched over, will produce Life in abundance (till it overflows) and will produce after Kind.  

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      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. Behold, the fresh and new has come."  We must believe what Jesus has made us to be, in order to be the new creations He made us to be.  He didn't say that we would "become a new creation," but that we are now what we are to and in Him.  The natural mind can't conceive this, it must be received into our new born spirits.

     Our carnal  mind, that is ruled by our senses and natural thinking, will continually remind us of who we were before being born-again, along with our past sins and failures, if we allow it to.  This will cloud over the Truth of our new creation being God has made us to be.  Our flesh body never got born-again.  If like me, you were short before being born-again, then you'll still be short after being saved.  The miracle of God was in our spirit and is the start of a new and better life, both here on earth and hereafter.

     We struggle with the Truth of the Word, because we don't "feel" like we're righteous and sometimes don't act like we're righteous.  We try satisfying our carnal feelings and making ourselves feel righteous, by rituals and traditions, even though Rom.5:17(Amp) tells us, "It is a free Gift of Righteousness."

     The identity in Christ Jesus, is the Truth identity of all who have received and put trust in Him.  We can't allow the old feelings of the flesh, to talk us our of the identity we have as new creation persons.  We must stay fast on what God says about us, until the flesh submits to the Truth of who we really are now, in Jesus.  Rom.8:7(Amp) tells us why we don't feel righteous, saying, "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."

     Paul tells us what we must do, to accept our true identity in what Jesus has truly done for us, in Rom.12:2(Amp), saying, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your mind."  We must feed on God's Word, until we truly believe it in our hearts and then accept what God says more than what the world and our carnal minds say about us.  We can only see who we've been made to be now in Christ Jesus, by His Word.  Many have believed what mankind says about us, instead of what God says, which leaves them to never seeing who we really are in God, through Jesus.  Without Christ, we're still unrighteous and unworthy to enter God's Presence.  Through Jesus, we've been given the Gift of Righteousness and we're righteous in Him, with His Righteousness.

     One might ask, "Why are you teaching so much about accepting this righteousness?"  Because, if you don't understand righteousness by faith in Jesus, then you'll have doubt in your prayer life and in your fellowship with our Heavenly Father.  If you don't know that you're fully acceptable to Him, then you can't pray in faith and expect Him to answer.  If you don't know who we really are in Jesus, then we're just hoping and wishing, instead of believing and praying.

     Heb.11:1(Amp) says, "Now Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the Title deed), of the things we hope for, being the proof of the things we do not see."  Hope has it's place, but faith is what brings this hope into reality and substance.  You might hope that God hears you, but faith will bring this hope into the reality of now.  They must work together.  It's one thing to read in God's Word, that we're righteous before God, but our carnal mind will tell us that "we're not."  When you put faith in what God says we now been made to be, this makes your hope a reality, because you know that He hears and answers your prayers.  

     Many are more conscious of what our flesh says about us, rather than what God has said about us.  This is why Paul instructs us to "renew our minds by God's Word."  When we do this, we begin thinking differently about who we are and begin developing into who God says we now are.  We know that we're not righteous in ourselves, but we're not in ourselves any longer and are now in Christ Jesus.  1Cor.6:17(Amp) says, "But the person who is united to the Lord (becomes one spirit with Him)."  We are one with Jesus in our new creation spirit and by becoming one spirit with Him, we've received His Righteousness into our spirit.

     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."  God now sees us as being in Jesus and accepts us as being righteous, in the Righteousness of Jesus.  Feelings have nothing to do with Truth.  We might feel alone and like God is a million miles away, but Jesus tells us that, "I will never leave you or forsake you, I will be with you always til the end of the world."  He is always in you and with you, even if you don't feel like it.  This is who we now are by the new creation birth.  We are sons and daughters of the Most High God.

  

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      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. Behold, the fresh and new has come." 

     The hardest part about developing into what God has created us to be, is believing what God has said in the above scripture.  A mind that is unrenewed, finds it difficult to accept what God has done and said about us.  The natural mind can't come to grips with the Truth that, when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we can now actually stand in God's Presence as clean and pure.  The natural mind thinks it's "prideful" and "high-minded," to believe that God sees us as righteous, through Jesus' Righteousness.

     Righteousness is a Gift that the Father has granted us, because no one can be righteous on our own.  It had to be a Gift from God and He gave us this Gift, so we could now approach Him in faith and be received and accepted by Him.  We know in our natural selves, that we could never achieve this righteousness on our own or do anything worthy to enter into the Presence of a Holy God.  Heb.4:16(Amp) says, "Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the Throne of Grace (the Throne of God's unmerited favor to us), that we may receive mercy for our failures and find Grace to help in good time for every need appropriate help and well-timed help coming just when we need it."

     Paul writes to the Church in Rome about the Gift of righteousness Rom.5:17(Amp), "For if by one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor and the free Gift of righteousness), putting them in right standing with Himself, reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." 

     All who've received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, have been given this free Gift of righteousness and are in right standing with the Father.  If we're saved, but believe we're unworthy and not righteous, then condemnation will keep us from drawing closer to Him.  We must believe that God will hear us and grant our requests when we pray, in order to develop a prayer life of faith.  We must have more faith in what Jesus has done, than what we did before receiving Him.

     Righteousness, right standing and the right to stand in God's Presence, is a Gift that was bought and paid for, by the Sacrifice of Jesus Himself.  We've been made to be the righteousness of God Himself, in Christ Jesus, according to 2Cor.5:21(Amp), which 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."

     God Planned for us to be in right relationship with Him and acceptable and endued with His Righteousness, from the beginning.  Adam was the one man whose trespass resulted in death.  His transgression caused mankind to be separated from God.  God didn't cause this separation.  The Law of Genesis tells us that "every seed produces after kind."  A kernel of corn will always produce corn.  The seed of Adam produced death and separation from God, for every person born of that seed.  

     Jesus is the Seed of the new creation man/woman, has also produced after Kind.  He is the Seed that has produced righteousness, holiness, family and has restored mankind with the right to come back into the Father's House and Presence, with thanksgiving and praise.  Believing that Jesus has produced after Kind, because He is The Seed, is the first step in developing our place in the new creation family of God.  We're created righteous, from the Righteous Seed that produced all who are in Christ Jesus.  The Law of Genesis says that The Seed can't produce anything other than after Kind.  This Law continues to operate in every aspect of sowing and reaping today.

     We are what and who we are in God, because of The Seed that God Himself has sown, to provide a family unto Himself that could come no other way.  Mankind could only produce what he was and nothing else.  His seed was a product of the First Adam and every seed produced after kind.  We're new creation people in the Spirit of God and His Word (which is The Seed), according to John1:14(Amp), which says, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."  Jesus is The Seed, the Word of God and is the Source of our new creation being.

     Understanding by faith and believing who we are now by the new birth, will determine the faith in our prayer life, our fellowship with the Father, and the new found joy of walking with Him in this world.  This is a naturally Super-natural way of life, in this realm.  We can do all that is required of us in this earth, by the Truth of a Father Who is the I Am, in our lives now.  Jesus said, "I Am the way, I Am, the Truth, I Am, the Life, I Am, the resurrection, I Am, the Door."  The Great I Am has once again become our Father.

    

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation, the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."  We've talked much about developing the new creation man/woman, by learning to depend on God's Word and Presence in our lives on earth.  Many believe that enjoying life here is "worldly" and "not God's Plan for Spiritual Life in Him."  Jesus said in John10:10(Amp), "I have come that you may have and enjoy Life to the full (in abundance, till it overflows)."  The Life Jesus came to bring and give us, is the Life the Father had planned for us in the very beginning.

     Mankind was to live on this earth and have dominion, to rule over everything God created, according to Gen.1:27-28(Amp), which says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female, He created them. And God Blessed them and said to them; Be fruitful (multiply, fill the earth), and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."

     Mankind was to live and rule in the earth, walking with God both in this flesh and in the Spirit.  Man was to live in union with the Father and enjoy all the things He had prepared for them.  We lived so long in this world without God, that we lost track of how to live in it, like the Father intended.  Jesus said that He came, so we might "have and enjoy Life."  In order to do so, we must first understand how to walk with Him and do it like He intended.  We're supposed to live naturally Super-natural.

     Walking with God in this world, should be so easy that we feel it's not right.  In order to live here in this natural body, while enjoying what God created for us, we must listen to His Voice and use the Life He has given us, in the beginning.  The enemy has brought many things into this earth, in order to "steal, kill and destroy," but we can avoid the enemy's pitfalls, by living in God's Word.

     I try to live and walk with the Lord constantly and continuously.  He's always on my mind and in my thoughts, to guide and provide and direct my steps.  Living this way has become so easy, that it's naturally Super-natural.  I live in on 320 acres with 50 head of beef cattle, along with horses and chicken.  I mow hay and "keep" the land, like God instructed and I enjoy this life with Him, while I'm here on earth. 

   God didn't give me laws, but Grace, to do what He created me to be.  The flesh on it's own, might would go the wrong way, but it's under the dominion God gave us in the beginning.  I apply God's Word and Spirit by this new creation man that He's birthed me to be, in order to keep this physical body in subjection.  This isn't difficult, so long as I keep the new creation man strong in God's Word.  We train the flesh by God's Word, so it obeys it's new master, by believing God's Word and who He has created us to be in Christ Jesus.  We develop our new creation man/woman, so it will be in charge of our flesh, like Gen.1:27-28 says.  It's to have dominion over everything that moves upon the earth and since our old natural man/woman moves upon this earth, we have dominion over them too.

     Our flesh or natural man/woman, was in control of our lives for so long, that we now need to train our senses or carnal flesh, to walk differently by the new creation way of living.  Heb.5:14(Amp) says, "But solid food is for full grown me n, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate between and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."

     We didn't give much thought to many things, before being saved.  We might have done things that were legal for adults in the world, without giving much thought to doing so.  Abortion was made legal, but some never supported this, even thought it was human law and declared legal.  Many things in human law are legal, but when our senses and mental faculties have been trained by practice to discriminate between good and noble and what is evil and contrary, then we're being led by the Spirit and not by the sense.  This becomes naturally Super-natural.  Our flesh will follow the new man/woman, instead of the old one, because it has been trained to do so, just like any other creature that moves on the earth.

     The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write in Rom.8:1(Amp), "There is NOW no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit."  We're to train our senses by the Word and by exercising dominion over the flesh.  We can train the flesh to walk differently and enjoy Life in abundance, by the Life of the Holy Spirit in our spirit.  

     I walk with my Father here, enjoying all the things He created and made for us, without feeling guilty or condemned, because I'm happy.  The enemy has done much to destroy this fallen world, but he cannot remove the beauty of God's creation.  We must not become distracted by the enemy's distractions and trust God to develop our new creation man/woman we've become, so we can walk naturally Super-natural.  

     The Christian walk is hard to do, until we develop our new creation person.  When our flesh is stronger than our spirit, it will always try doing what it did before being saved.  When we develop our new creation man/woman by the Word, the strength of God Himself will work in and through us.  The more we strengthen our new creation man/woman, the weaker the flesh's pull will have on our lives.  We must know who we've been made to be in Christ Jesus and not be under condemnation of our past.  It's important for us to read and hear the Word, in order to discover who God has made us to be now.  This is what God meant when He said, "Whoever the Son sets free, is free indeed."