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."
Who is this new creation man and woman, how do we develop him/her into what we're created to be, and what is the new creation person capable of in this present world? The answer to all of these questions is only found in God's Word, which is Spirit. Only the Father and the Word know and can explain who and what the new creation child of God really is.
Most Christians have been taught what we're supposed to be, from carnal thinking and religion. We have so many varying opinions about Who God is and what His will for us is and who we truly are in these fleshly bodies. Are we only God's children after we die and leave these bodies or are we truly His children, while we're on earth? Are God's Promises only for the hereafter or are they for us today? Are we still under the Law or has Grace provided what the Law couldn't do?
Can we know what God's will is for us today? Does prayer work? Doe the Super-natural still happen and do angels intervene in our lives today, like God's Word says? Can we expect the Holy Spirit to guide us into all Truth, like Jesus says? How many of these things are settle in your heart and do you have the assurance they're working for you, as God's child? Religion fosters good sounding excuses, as to why they're "not for us today," but are they based on the new covenant and true for God's new creation child? We can't be lulled into slumber, missing most of what the Spiritual Integrity of the Spiritual Word of Truth says about the new birth and creation.
Paul writes about God's will for our lives in Rom.12:2(Amp), saying, "Do not be conformed to this world (age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external superficial customs, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, but it's new new ideals and it's new attitude, so that you may prove for yourselves what is the Good and acceptable and perfect will of God, Even the thing which is Good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you."
Paul received the above Revelation directly from Jesus, which says we can not only know, but can prove what God's will for us is. Col.1:9(Amp) says, "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your love, we 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 you still don't believe that we can know God, then read Heb.1:3(Amp), which says, "He, Jesus is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God, the Light Being, the Out-raying or Radiance of the Divine, and He (Jesus) is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His Mighty Word of Power."
When we know Jesus, then we know God, because Jesus is the Very Image of God Himself. Jesus was called, "Emmanuel, God with u." We will always have a distorted Image of God in our lives, until we know Jesus. Many are confused about God's Nature and intentions, believing He still deals with us like those in the old covenant. They don't understand God in the new covenant and believe He places trials and tests on them. James1:8(Amp) says, "For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides." If God is putting these trials on them, then they must submit, but if it's satan, then they're to resist him. If we're double-minded, then we will not take a stand against these things.
Throughout the Gospels, we never read about Jesus putting a sickness on people. He never denied anyone or put trials on anyone. We must see God, through the Very Express Image of Jesus. If Jesus did it, then it was God's will and if Jesus didn't do it, then we know it's not God's will. We can know God's will, Nature, purpose and intention for our lives, by seeing Jesus. Jesus said, "When you see Me, you see the Father in Me."
The Holy Spirit explains how God functions and deals with the Church in Tim.3:16(Amp), saying, "Every scripture is God-Breathed, given by His Inspiration and is profitable for instruction, for reproof, and conviction of sin, for correction of error, and discipline in obedience and for training in Righteousness, in holy living, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose and action." The Father corrects, disciplines, and trains His children, by His Word and not by trials, tests, and sicknesses.
We receive God's Guidance and will not be double-minded, if we have God's Word living in our hearts. Jesus said in John14:7(Amp), "If you had known Me (had learned to recognize Me), you would also have known My Father. From now on, you know Him and have seen Him." We can know and see God our Heavenly Father, by seeing Jesus, through God's Word.
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