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."
We are a new creation, but we've mostly seen ourselves as just forgiven sinners. This is what man and religion has taught us, but it isn't what God's Word says. If we're new creations, like God's Word says, then in God's eyes and by His Word, we're a new species of being that never before existed in God's creation. If we will dare believe what God has to say about who the new creation child of God is, then we can see ourselves in the reality of the Truth that we've been made to be through Jesus Christ.
Who is the new creation and what are his/her capabilities? What is our potential and abilities in this life? Jesus said in John10:10(Amp), "I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." The Life Jesus speaks about, is God's Own Life which has been poured out and is flowing through the new creation spirit being, born from God's Word, His Spirit and His very Own Self. We're not just forgiven, but have been created from nothing, into the very family of God Himself.
We've only seen ourselves from the carnal minded portrayal we've been taught and have never really seen ourselves as who we've been created to be, according to the Father. God Himself, by the Holy Spirit, made the new creation and if we allow Him to live in and through us, then we're capable of doing what He created us to do. Jesus said, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, Who does the work." The Same Father and Holy Spirit lives in us now too. The new creation man/woman of God is filled with God's Own Spirit, like Jesus was. The difference is that Jesus knew Him and we really don't know Him like we should. We "know" Him by the old covenant, where He judged those under the Law and we've taken that view of God into the last covenant of Grace and son-ship. It's the same Almighty God, but Jesus has fulfilled the Law and through Him, we're judged by His finished work. We're no longer servants of God, but are sons and daughters of God.
We've tried living for God, instead of living through God. Jesus lived His life through God and allowed God to move through Him, for mankind. Jesus said in John14:12(Amp), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." What "greater things" can we do? Through Jesus, we carry the Seed of God's Word by preaching the Gospel, in order to bring forth this new creation being. 1Peter1:23(Amp) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again); not from a mortal origin (seed,sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." The new creation person is born from the Seed of God's Word, by the preaching of the Gospel, which is our job on earth. Mark 16:15(Amp) says, "Jesus said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the Good News (the Gospel), to every creature of the human race." Jesus went on to say that those who believed and became new creation men and women, did the works of the Father, by faith.
Every new creation person has this ability born in them by the Seed of God (His Word), but it will only produce in those who believe. We've been taught that these things have "passed away and are no longer for us today," but that's not what God's Word says. Today, the new born child of God mostly from what those in the five-fold ministry believe and teach. Many only learn about forgiveness of sin and going to Heaven when we die. These aren't the only things that salvation brings, when you study the fullness of God's Word. God Himself is now living and working through those who will believe Him and allow Him to work through us.
We've limited this ability to being for only certain people or those in the full-time ministry, but this isn't what the Word says. God's Word tells us to believe on Him, the Word of God Himself. The ability to move in the Super-natural is born is us, when we were made new creation children of God. This is the very Nature of our Heavenly Father, which is reproduced in those who will believe in what He has said and done. The Father hasn't limited this, but we have when we don't dare to believe what God's Word says. Some call us "fanatics and fools," for daring to believe the Truth of the Gospel, but God has exalted His Word even above all His Name, according to Psalm 138:2(Amp), which says, "I will worship toward Your Holy Temple and praise Your Name for Your Loving Kindness and for Your Truth and faithfulness; For You have exalted above all else Your Name and Your Word, and You have magnified Your Word above all Your Name."
When we live the Word, we're living in and through God Himself. When we refuse to trust in His Word, we limit God from moving in that part of Truth and Life in our lives. Those in the Wilderness who didn't believe God's Word, never entered the Promised Land, but died in the Wilderness. Those in the next generation did believe and took the Promised and the Promised Land, by faith in God's Word. We are a new generation and God's Promises are still available to those who believe God's Word and Promises. Don't allow someone to tell you that "these things aren't for today," but go forth by faith in God's Word and let God show Himself strong in the world today.
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