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."
In order to discover who and what your new identity in Christ is, we must go to God's Word. Our new creation man/woman is the born-again spirit that is now in our fleshly body, and only God's Word can show us who we've become. 1John3:2(Amp) says, "Beloved, we are ever here and now God's children; it is not yet disclosed, made clear to us what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."
We're living in these natural bodies, but our spirit has been created new, by faith in Jesus. Our natural bodies will be changed into whatever the visible Body Jesus now has, because "we will be like Him." We must go to God's Word, in order to know our true identity and what we've become in Christ, while we're still in this natural body. Our natural body didn't undergo a transformation when we were born-again, only our spirit did. The natural man/woman still looks, thinks, and feels like it did before.
Paul writes about the new creation man/woman in Rom.8:4,7(Amp), saying, "So that the righteous and just requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit. Our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit." Our new creation spirit must hear and know God's Word and the Holy Spirit. Paul goes on in Verse 7, about how God's Word reveals the difference between the Mind of Christ and the mind of the flesh, saying, "That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God; for it does not submit itself to God's Law, indeed it cannot."
Our carnal mind cannot submit to God, His Word, or His Spirit. The new creation man/woman is a spirit being, just like God is, according to what Jesus tells us in John4:24(Amp), saying, "God is a Spirit, a Spiritual Being, and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)." Jesus went on in John6:63(Amp) saying, "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." God's Word is Spiritual Life and Light, to the new creation man/woman.
The only way to truly identify who we've now become in Jesus, is through the Word. Our carnal minds can't accept what the Spirit of Truth tells us about our new identity. Our carnal mind will tell us that we're "still sinners," but God's Word reveals that Jesus has created us new, righteous and just. Our carnal mind tells us that "God won't hear our prayers," but 1John5:14-15(Amp) tells us, "And this is the confidence, assurance, the privilege of boldness which we have in Him; we are sure that if we ask anything, make any request according to His will (in agreement with His Own Plan), He listens to and hears us. And if since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settles and absolute knowledge that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."
Our carnal minds won't accept these Truths, but our new creation spirit will rejoice and stay in faith, when hearing them. Is it possible to really know God's will? Colossians1:9(Amp) says, "For this reason we also from the day we heard it (your love in the Holy Spirit), have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep, and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."
If we wait until we "feel" righteous enough to enter into God's Presence, then we'll never enter it. We need to have faith that Jesus' Sacrifice made our new creation man/woman holy, sanctified, consecrated and sinless, so we can enter boldly into God's Throne Room of Grace. The carnal mind keeps us from expecting our prayers to be answered and believing God's Blessing will work in our lives. The carnal mind will never accept what God has done. We discover our new creation identity in God's Word and we receive it by faith in God's Grace and Love for us.
Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if because of one mans' trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one [Adam], 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." Only our new born, new creation spirit man/woman can accept and believe these Words of deliverance.
We've been born of the Spirit, but try walking in the flesh and carnal minds, which leaves of disappointed, without fellowship with God and unanswered prayers. 1John5:14(Amp) says, "This is the assurance, confidence, privilege we have in Him, by faith in His Grace and Truth and free Gift of Righteousness through Jesus." We can only trust in the Words of Truth that Jesus brought into our lives, by Revelation knowledge through our spirit. Our carnal mind will fight against the Truth and keep us down trodden and of no use to God's Kingdom.
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