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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