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."
In order to develop this new creation man/woman of God, we must find out what God's Word says about who we've been made to be in Christ Jesus. Rom.1:17(Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness that God ascribes is revealed, both spring from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith. We must have faith in what God has now created us to be.
The world's ideals about what Christians are, can't reveal the Truth of what God has really done in us. We can only learn the Truth of who we are now, by God's Word and the Holy Spirit, Who is living in our new creation spirit. Our body and mind didn't change, so we must renew our minds by God's Word, according to Rom.12:2. We need to search the scriptures, until we understand what God has done and by faith, receive it in our lives now.
We don't read God's Word as some religious exercise, but as a means of learning who we are. If we read the Word, without putting faith in what it says and without accepting what God has done by Grace, then we'll believe this Truth is only for when we get to Heaven. God's Word provides the new creation man/woman with instructions on how we're to live and conduct ourselves in God's Kingdom. Jesus prayed in John17:16(Amp), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world). just as I am not of the world." This doesn't mean that we're no longer in this earth in our natural body, but we no longer govern our lives only by the world's standards.
Jesus was in this world or earth, in His natural Body, but He didn't allow the dictates of the worldviews to govern His Life. He still needed to eat, sleep, clothe Himself, and do the things we're doing while here on earth. Jesus received direction and Wisdom from His Heavenly Father, which set Him apart from the world. In the world, there wasn't enough bread and fish to feed the multitude. The disciples said they would need to leave the ministry and get another job, in order to make enough money to buy food for the multitude. Jesus received His instructions from the Father and God produced more than enough to feed the multitude, with leftovers.
The Same Father is now our Father and He will do the same thing in our lives, if we will trust and believe in His instructions. I'm not saying that we should quit our jobs and wait for bread to be placed on our tables, but our job isn't the only source we have. God is the new creation man/woman's unlimited Source, if we will put faith in His Word.
The worldview says that no person can lay hands on the sick and have them recover. God's Word tells us in Mark16, that by faith in God, we can lay hands on the sick and the Presence of Christ in us, can remove their sickness. God's Word must be more real in us, then the world's view of reality, if we're to function in what He has created us to be. Renewing our minds by God's Word takes time. We must meditate on it, until we believe it and then God's Promises will be our reality.
This is for all who will believe in what God says. Many only believe in what they can see, but we know the wind is real, because we see the damage it causes. Gravity is real, whether or not we believe it. Step off a tall building and gravity will cause you to hit the ground below, even if you don't believe it. We can't see the Holy Spirit or the Lord, but this doesn't negate His Word and dismiss His Presence. We see the aftermath of a hurricane's winds and we witness God's Mighty works, following those proclaiming His Gospel. Many miracles and healings have been documented by doctors, who say, "There can be no reason this person was healed, it must be God."
In order to receive this Truth in our lives, we need to believe in what God has said to and about us, and allow God to do what He says He will do. We must go to God's Word, in order to know what God has Promised. God's Word is True, but will not work in an unbelieving heart. I'm the only one who can stop God's Promises from being manifested in my own life. They're working in the lives of others who believe and allow them to produce what God says.
God will do what He says about His new creation family. We're already Blessed, healed, righteous, citizens of the Kingdom, joint heirs with Jesus,and are sons and daughter who have God's Holy Spirit Living inside us as His Temple. Our lack of faith and trust in God's Word, prevents it from producing the Fullness of God's Promises, according to "The Parable of the Sower." Jesus says in Mark4:18-19,20(Amp), "And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age and the pleasures and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches and craving and passionate desire for other things, creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it become fruitless."
God's Word didn't fail, but the heart of those who heard it was filled with other things, which stopped the Word from being sown in it. Jesus went on in the next Verse, saying that, "Those who received, accepted and welcomed the Word, saw it bear fruit even up to one-hundred times as much." God's Word doesn't fail. If we put faith in God's Word and allow the Seed to produce, then we will receive one-hundred fold.
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