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."
Believers have asked me, "Why do Christians need to read God's Word?" Do we do it, because it's a religious duty or because it makes us feel like we're doing a good work and win approval or is it the only way we can find out who we've been created to be in Jesus? If we're new creations, then who are these new creation men and women and what is his/her function? Jesus told His followers 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."
Our Heavenly Father is a Spirit, according to John4:24(Amp), which says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and Truth (reality)." We are Spiritual beings, according to Col.2:9-10(Amp), which says, "For in Him the whole fullness of Deity, the Godhead continues to dwell in bodily form giving complete expression of the Divine nature And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of Life, in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-and reach full Spiritual stature. And He is the Head of all rule and authority, of every angelic principality and power." Eph.2:19(Amp) says, "Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants and aliens), excluded from the rights of citizenship, but now you share citizenship with the saints (God's Own people), consecrated and set apart for Himself, and you belong to God's Own household."
Your Father is a Spirit, you are a spirit, God's Word is Spirit and Life, and the reflection viewed from the mirror of God's Word is the new creation spirit you've now become. Gal.5:25(Amp) says, "If we live by the Holy Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. If by the Holy Spirit we have our Life in God, let us go forward, walking in line, and our conduct controlled by the Spirit." The man/woman is the mirror is the new creation being, who is born of God, His Word, and His Holy Spirit. The mirror that reflects this back to us, is God's Own Word, which reveals who we've now become in Him.
James1:23-25(Amp) says, "For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in a mirror For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the faultless Law (the Law of Liberty), and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it (the mirror of the Word) being not a heedless listener who forgets, but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in his doing, his life of obedience."
Paul writes about the mirror in 2Cor.3:18(Amp), saying, "And all of us, as with unveiled face, because we continue to behold in the Word of God as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord are constantly being transfigured into His Very Own Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of Glory to another, for this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit."
Christians read and study God's Word, in order to feed our new creation man/woman. 1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation." The new man/woman in the mirror, is the new creation spirit we've now become in Jesus. Our Father is Spirit, Jesus is Spirit, the Word is Spirit, the Holy Spirit is Spirit and we 're also a spirit.
The mirror of God's Word reflects back to us, who we've become in Christ and not who we once were. The only way we'll know who and what we are created to be, is through the Perfect Law of Liberty. The world can't tell us who we are, because it's still dead to God. Our flesh can't tell us who we are, because it "conveys no benefit and there's no profit in it." We read God's Word and listen to the Voice of our Heavenly Father, in order to know who our new creation spirit has become.
There have been many things said of Christians and about our Spirit Father, but if we don't feed on the Spiritual milk of God's Word and the meat of the Word, then we will remain babes who aren't able to talk yet. The world and some in the Church tell us that we're "still old sinners," "God is testing and proving us by trials, in order to make us grow," but the Spirit and God's Word prove us and make us grow.
Jesus said in John15:20-21(Amp), "Remember that I told you, a servant is not greater than his master (is not superior to him). If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My Word and obeyed My teachings, they will also keep and obey yours. But they will do all this to you, inflict all this suffering on you because of your bearing My Name and on My Account, for they do not know or understand the One Who sent Me." Those under the Law and in the world, didn't know or understand Jesus as a Man, as the Messiah, or by His Spirit. The world and religion aren't much different today. The only way to know who we've become in this new creation, is to look long and hard into the Mirror of God's Word and the Perfect Law of Liberty.
1John3:2(Amp) says, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children: it is not yet disclosed and made clear 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 in our natural fleshly body, but our new creation spirit man is made like and resembles Him just as He really is." THIS IS THE MAN in the Mirror.
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