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."
1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may grow and be nourished and grow unto completed salvation."
Every baby must grow and mature, including Spiritual babies. We're all born with the things that pertain to the life in our natural bodies and the Life in our new creation. Both require nourishment, in order to develop into mature, proper adults. Natural children don't know anything that we haven't been taught and this is true for the Spiritual child, who is born of the Spirit. God's children must learn from His Word and His Spirit, in order to understand "His way of doing and being right," (Matt.6:33).
We don't read God's Word as a religious duty, but we do so, to hear His instructions on how to live this new Life He has given us. Reading the Word is a matter of education, while understanding it, is a matter of receiving Revelation and discernment from the Holy Spirit. Many read the Word by carnal knowledge, without having Spiritual discernment. God instructs us to "Get understanding," in Prov.4:7(Amp), saying, "The beginning of Wisdom is, Get Wisdom; skillful and Godly Wisdom. For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."
We can read the Word in our carnal, educated minds, and still not have comprehension or understanding from the Spirit. This is true for every are of our lives. Many dismiss the Spiritual interpretation of what God's Word reveals to us, because they don't have Revelation knowledge. This only comes from meditating and seeking the Father. Our believing that God's Promises are only for when we die and go to Heaven, does little or no good to us, while we're in the enemy's territory.
God's Word is a Living Word, whereby God speaks, guides and keeps us, while we're in this fallen world. We'll be in the Presence of the Word of God, Who is Jesus Himself, when we get to Heaven, so we won't need to read the printed Word. Jesus instructed 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."
Jesus told His followers in Mark4:24(Amp), "Be careful what you are hearing, the measure of thought and study you give to the truths you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear." Many things we hear aren't really what the Father says. We've misread or misspoke the Word and replaced it with what we think it says.
When Jesus rose from the dead and presented His Blood on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, the new covenant was ratified and all who would believe and receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, would be under the Blood covenant and become family in the House of the Lord. Many have received Jesus, without knowing who He has made us to be, by the new creation. We still see ourselves more as who we once were, instead of who we now are in Him. We are really who the Father has created and called us to be, even though some don't believe this. Our true identity isn't found in our opinion or the opinion of others, but only the Truth of God's Word.
No one can stop what God has done, but in order to fully understand our new creation identity, we must seek God's Word and listen to His Spirit. If we will only believe what He says about us, instead of what the world or religion says, then we can walk here, like we're already in Heaven. The only things we must deal with here, is the same things Jesus dealt with while He was here, which are the lies and deception of the enemy. If we stay on God's Word, having faith in what Jesus has done, then we will keep satan in the realm of the spirit, where he has no defense from the power of the new creation. Satan will try keeping us ignorant to who we've become and hold us in this carnal realm.
Jesus said, "The Words (Truths) I speak to you are Spirit and Life." God's Word keeps us in the realm of the Spirit, where we're always victorious. When we allow ourselves to be deceived and walk in the natural realm, instead of having faith in the Truth of God's Word, then we'll be open to deception. Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower," saying in Mark4:15(Amp), "Satan comes at once to take away the Word that was sown in their hearts." No seed can produce, if it's dug up and removed from the soil of our hearts. The devil will use anything he can in this natural realm, to stop the Seed of God's Word from taking root and producing what God has Promised and declared.
We're been lied to by the enemy, for so long, that we've been convinced that it's "not God's will for us to have what He says" or "These things are for only when we die and get to Heaven." We must believe God's Word for ourselves. No one can believe it for us. It is the responsibility of the hearer, who is each of us.
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