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."
How far is too far, in our walk with God? Many think that believing God, beyond what religion teaches, is "too far." God's Word and the finished work of Jesus, tells us that we have barely begun walking in the things He has for us. Walking with God in a place that others aren't walking, doesn't mean that we are too far out, but might mean that they're not walking far enough with Him.
Today, we don't see the move of the Holy Spirit and the Presence of God, like we witness in the lives of the early Church. The Super-natural Presence of the Lord is very rare and oftentimes misunderstood in today's Church. When we read about and believe what the covenant says about the new creation persons, we discover how we're living far below what we've been created to be in Jesus Christ.
God's Word says that we've already made to be righteous in His Righteousness, holy, just, consecrated, reconciled and born by God's Own Seed, which is His Word, just like Jesus was born of the Word. By God's Grace, we're not just forgiven, but we're created completely new in Christ Jesus. Confessing and believing this isn't prideful, but is Truth. Denying this Truth is prideful and is declaring that God's Word is "not true." If God says we're "made righteous with His Own Righteousness," then this is True, even if we don't believe it. This isn't what we one were, but is what we've been created to be, in Jesus.
This isn't what we will become one day, when we get to Heaven, but is what Heaven has done in and through us now, while we're still on this earth. All of the Super-natural abilities of God, now abide in our new creation spirit man/woman. Remember that it's not you, but the Father in you, Who does the work of the Word. Jesus said this about Himself and we have the same Father living in us. We've been afraid of failing, so we simply do nothing and the world is suffering for it.
The Church has become like the Scribes and Pharisees. We've become old wine skins that are unable to contain the new wine. We need to learn what God has done in our lives and become pliable in His hands again. We've established our own religious laws and neglected the Grace, which God has already provided for every need and everything we are in Christ Jesus. I hear believers say, "We need more Power from God." God has already provided for our every need, when He raised Jesus from the dead and gave us the same Life that Jesus has.
My daughter posted one of Dr. Seuss' quotes, at the entrance to her pre-k room, which says, "Why try to blend in, when you were created to stand out?" Today's Church is so intent on being like the world, hoping not to stand out, but blend in, that we forget who Jesus said, "You are in the world, but not of it," in John8:23. We're created to stand out in a world of darkness and occupy, until Jesus returns. This word "occupy," is a military term which means "to hold the line against an opposing force and maintain our place." Eph.6:13(Amp) instructs us to "Put on the full Armor of God, having done all (the crisis demands), stand therefore (hold your place."
When I see what politics is doing to our nation, I wonder where the voices of God's people are, proclaiming what is right and liberty. A single woman caused prayer and Bibles be removed from our schools, while the Church was silent. Today's schools are promoting critical race theory, transgender, masturbation, and sex education in the first grade, in order to obtain federal money. How much money does it take to sell out our children to an ungodly regime?
Rom.1:17(Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith (disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith), as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith. We were once dead in trespass and sin, but are now alive unto God, by faith in Jesus. It's not what we've done, but by faith in what He has done. The KJV says that we're to go "from faith to faith."
The first step in our faith in Jesus, leads us to being saved and forgiven from our trespasses and sin. Our faith in Jesus also makes us righteous, just, consecrated, holy and blameless in God's eyes. Jesus also provided our Redemption and Blessing by faith in Grace, in and through Him. This is going from one faith to a higher state of faith in the Finished Work of Jesus, on our behalf. We already have faith in Him, so let's develop faith and grow into matured salvation, walking in everything else Jesus has done for and provided for us.
Many receive Jesus as our Lord and then stop developing their faith, believing that this is all He has for us. Jesus' death and Resurrection, delivered us from sin, brought the new creation people into existence and restored us back into God's Plan of family and right standing with Him. Jesus brought about the new creation people, which are eligible to receive everything God had Planned for mankind, in the very beginning. Everything that Adam lost, is now ours again through faith in the Finished Works of Jesus.
This is developing the new creation family of God and going from faith to faith. When we accept and have faith that Jesus went to the cross, in order to buy back God's family from the bondage of satan. This is our inheritance that has been restored back through faith in Jesus. This is Grace in operation in our lives.
All of this is by Grace and this Grace is activated by faith, believing what Jesus has already done for us. Our striving to be righteous with God is wasted, because it's only available by faith and being made righteous through Jesus. We keep trying to become, what Jesus has already made us to be. Only faith in the Finished Work of Jesus and the Word of Truth, can do in our lives, what we keep trying to do through our works.
Paul tells us in Rom.12:2(Amp), to "renew our minds by God's Word." We know that we don't deserve what God has done for us, but if we believe what His Word says about the new creation man/woman, then we're no longer in ourselves, but have been made one with Him. It's now Jesus' Righteousness that we're in and not our own. Most of us struggle to humble ourselves, put down our carnal pride and accept by faith what God says. We must receive it by faith, instead of trying to become righteous and without sin, through our own works. Our carnal pride prevents us from receiving what Grace has already done for us, by faith in Him. We don't receive Grace because we deserve it, but because Grace and Love have provided what mankind couldn't do on his/her own. This is Grace, by Love that only God through Jesus, could provide. We need to resist the new creation man/woman's place in God's family and put faith in Jesus, instead of ourselves. We're already accepted by the Father and have been given the Kingdom, by faith.
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