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.
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