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."
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