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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