Lesson 36 The New Creation

     Jesus said in Mark 11:22 (Amplified), "Have faith in God (constantly)."
     Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing (what is told); and what is heard comes by the preaching (of the message that comes from the lips) of Christ (the Messiah Himself)."
     Much of what we're "hearing" today, is not the "Message that came from the lips of Christ, the Messiah Himself."  Since what Jesus preached isn't being preached today, faith in what He preached isn't being constantly received.
     It's time we begin to "Look unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith," like we're instructed in Hebrews 12:2 (Amplified) which says, "Looking away (from all that will distract) to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith (giving the first incentive for our belief) and is also its Finisher (bringing it to maturity and perfection). He, for the joy (of obtaining the prize) that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is NOW seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
     Jesus gave us the "first incentive for our belief or faith."  Without Him, we had no faith to continue in this world.  Our problem has been that we haven't heard the Word preached, so we could not put faith into it.  We've stopped preaching the Kingdom and began preaching the "someday syndrome."  Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) says, "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things (we) hope for, being proof of things (we) do not see (the spirit realm) and the conviction of their reality (faith perceiving as real fact what is not yet revealed to the senses)."
     We haven't taught much from God's Word about educating and trusting the spirit realm.  We've determined that whatever occurs in our lives is God's will for us.  Because "faith comes by hearing," some have a difficult time believing we've been made and declared righteous by God.  We've been taught by the carnal minded for so long, we have neglected the truth of the Spirit.
     Having faith in God,  is having faith in His Word.  Romans 10:17 KJV says, "Faith in God comes by hearing God's Word."  We haven't always heard God's Word and that's resulted in our having no faith in what God has done.  Many sermons we've heard were centered on what someone else has said, instead of what God has said.  Man's ideas of what God says, is not the same as what He said.  It makes little difference to me whether you believe I am righteous, but when God says I am righteous, then I am.
     Without righteousness, I can never have faith in my relationship with my Heavenly Father.  I could never approach Him with confidence and assurance and have confidence that He will hear me if I am not in right standing with Him.  Isaiah 54:14 (Amplified) speaks about the "Time of the Church" saying, "You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God's will and order); you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror; for it shall not come near you."
     These are spiritual things that must come into your spirit to be believed.  Your carnal mind cannot conceive what the Spirit has already done through Jesus.  Your carnal mind has been programmed by the world and the god of this world and will never allow you to walk out from under the condemnation of your old man.  When God said you were a "new creation," He meant exactly that.  You're not some kind of "urban renewal" project, you are a new creation.  God doesn't remember who you were and He wishes that you would forget that too.
     Through faith in the Risen Christ, we've been "born from above" and are new creations.  We are a people who didn't even exist on this planet, before Jesus' resurrection.  Colossians 2:14-15 (Amplified) tells us, "Jesus, Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the hand-writing of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands  which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This (note with its regulations, decrees, and demands) He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to (His) cross. (God) disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him (Jesus) and in (the cross)."
     This Word hasn't been preached enough for us to put faith in what God said about our old lives.  We continue wanting to put condemnation on the people about their shortcomings.  Remember though, it's not what you think about you, but what God thinks about you, that brings you faith.  If you asked many in the Church whether or not they were saved, then all would probably say they are  saved.  If they were asked whether they were forgiven, then probably not very many would say they were forgiven.  If asked if they were going to heaven, then all would probably agree they were.  How do you know this, I would ask?  Because "Faith comes by hearing."
     We've heard this portion of the salvation message long enough to put faith in it.  However, some haven't been delivered from the condemnation of the old life of sin, because that part of the Word hasn't been preached much either.  Without hearing the Word preached, we can't have faith for much of what God has done or said concerning us.  Many still are unsure about their old sin problem was totally dealt with b Jesus' Sacrifice.
     Jesus spoke to the people about the "Sower and the soil (or heart)" in Mark 23:23-25 (Amplified) saying, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing, The measure (of thought and study) you give (to the truth 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 For to him who has (ears to hear) will more be given; and from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away (by force)."
     When you "hear" the Word of the Kingdom and believe it, then more revelation will come.  When you hear the Word of the Kingdom and reject it, then "satan will come immediately to take (by force) that which was sown."  We've witnessed so much happening in the last few decades, that it seems like the whole world is in chaos.  We've removed God from our schools, our government, the battlefields, out workplace and from many of our churches.  The power of God's Word has been watered down and made insignificant in our lives.  Many in the Church are told to "Just hang on until Jesus comes."
     The spiritual aspect of God's Word seems to be of no effect in our lives today.  We've allowed men to remove the truth from the eyes and heart of our nation.  Many of us look at those running for the Highest Office of our Land and  feel like it's a national embarrassment.  The Church was supposed to be the Light of the world but instead, we have become the devil's whipping post.
     John 6:28-29,38 (Amplified) tells us that Jesus' followers asked, "What are we to do, that we may (habitually) be working the works of God (what are we to do to carry out what God requires)? Jesus replied; This is the work (service) that God asks of you; that you believe in the One Whom He has sent (that you cleave to, trust in, rely on) and have faith in His Messenger."  Jesus goes on in Verse 38 saying, "For I have come down from heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me."
     If we're truly a new creation who are born again by God's Own Spirit, then we must be "super-natural" beings.  If this is true, and it is, then why is it seen as "strange" to teach the super-natural things of God to His children?  Why is it that we speak of the super-natural people as being "spooky?"  Do you think that Jesus was spooky?  What about Paul or Peter or James or John?  Why then, would it be spooky to the rest of God's family?  We are created in His Likeness and Image and He is not spooky.
     Perhaps the super-natural things of God spook some of us because we're afraid to fail in it.  You cannot teach someone how to heal the sick, we must only trust in the One Who is in us to do the work.  This is where faith comes into play, for the believer.  Jesus said many times that, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me, Who is doing the work."  He said in John 10:37-38 (Amplified), "If I am not doing the works (performing the deeds) of My Father, then do no believe Me (do not adhere to Me and trust Me and rely on Me). But if I do them, even though you do not believe Me or have faith in Me, (at least) believe the works and have faith in what I do, in order that you may know and understand (clearly) that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father (One with Him)."
     We don't do the works, but only believe that the Father in us will do them for His Own sake.  We've been preaching about our Heavenly Father and His power, but the world needs to "see Him."  The world is not walking in faith, but walks by sight.  Jesus said, "If you can't believe what I say, at least believe in what I am doing."
     The world needs to see the presence of God, in these last days.  We need to "believe" as much in miracles, as we believe in the cancellation of our sin.  We need to put faith in God's ability to heal, as much as in His ability to forgive.  He is, after all, the Same God.  Because it hasn't been preached, we haven't heard.  And, because we haven't heard, we haven't believed.  Because we haven't believed, we haven't allowed God to do the mighty works that set Him apart from all other gods.  Are we really so doubtful of the One we serve, that we think He can't do these things any longer?  Has the One Who spoke this planet and universe into existence, become so weak or old that He can't move in our lives any longer?
     2Peter 1:2-4 (Amplified) says, "May grace (God's favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary goods, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflict) be multiplied to you in (full, personal, precise, and correct) knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that (are requisite and suited) to life and godliness, through the (full, personal) knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His Own glory and excellence (virtue) By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises." 

Lesson 35 The New Creation

     Because of the teachings taught to us over the years, we somehow seem to not think of ourselves as "spirit" while we're in this flesh and blood body.  And, until we begin seeing ourselves as new creatures, we will never truly educate our new born again spirit that is alive within this house of flesh.  We've educated the carnal mind with the knowledge of the world.  The education of the carnal man, through schooling and college, is necessary to dwell here on earth.  We've educated the soulish part of man with philosophy and entertainment.  We've disciplined the body with exercise and endurance.  But, we have failed to educate the new creation that lives in this body.
     We've been taught and accepted that it is all to be done "on the other side," Heaven.  Few Christians really view themselves as spirit people who are living in a dead, flesh body.  We spend most of our time trying to deal with the flesh and not really educating and building up our new creation man of the Spirit.  If we realize all that the spirit realm has for us not just when we die, but now, then we can receive what Jesus came to restore by Life, into our own lives.
     Philippians 3:18-21 (Amplified) says, "For there are many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, who walk (live) as enemies of the cross of Christ (the Anointed One) They are doomed and their fate is eternal misery (perdition) their god is their stomach (their appetites, their sensuality) and they glory in their shame, siding with earthly things and being of their party."  Verses 20-21 continue, "But we are citizens of the state (common wealth, homeland) which is in Heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await (the coming of) the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) as Savior Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exiting that power which enables Him to subject everything to Himself."
     Those verses didn't say that we wouldn't have our citizenship when we get to heaven, but that we are now citizens of the "common-wealth, homeland, which is Heaven."  As citizens of this common-wealth, we are to conduct our lives accordingly.  We are already citizens of heaven and the things of the Spirit have once again become our source and Life.  We aren't supposed to wait until we get to heaven to have our needs met, but learn to bring the things of our "common-wealth and homeland" into being in this world.
     We've been born again into the Kingdom of the Spirit of God and everything we can see, feel, touch, smell or hear in this natural world, come from the realm of the unseen Homeland and common-wealth of God's Kingdom.  There was a time when everything we see was in the realm of the unseen, in heaven.  The spirit (unseen) and the natural realm (things now seen), were not separated at one time, but were once all in the same realm.
     When God created all that we now see, He created it from the realm of the unseen rHe saiealm of the Spirit, according to Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) which says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female, He created them."
     God crated the natural world from the Spirit world and we have spirit man walking in the natural things that came from the Spirit.  Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says that God took the spirit man (made in His Image) and formed a natural body from the realm of the natural, dust of the earth.  Thus, man became a living being.  The dust body had no life until the Spirit was "breathed" into it.
     Through the new creation experience with God, we now have the ability to walk in both realms simultaneously.  We are to "receive" our needs met from the realm of the Spirit and manifested in the realm of the natural.  Our citizenship is now in Heaven.  Jesus said we are "In this world, but not of it."  Everything the world or natural, come from the Spirit or unseen realm of God.
     We have laid up in the Heavenly realm, everything that is needed for Life and Godliness.  Jesus said to, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of these things shall be added unto us."  We do this in order to have the unseen realm of the Spirit, added to the seen things of this natural realm.
     I don't wish for people to become foolish and leap into something they don't understand, but I do want them to reach into the Kingdom of the heavenlies and appropriate what the Father has prepared for us there.  Jesus taught us to pray that, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heave."  God's will has not changed.  All of the things we were taught God used to teach us (like making us sick or taking someone's life) are not certainly "God's will in heaven."
     If all we witness occurring on earth is God's will, then we're going to have an awful time in Heaven.  I don't believe that there will be hospitals, prisons, graveyards, starving children, heartache, disease, homelessness or wars in Heaven, but we persist in saying these things are God's will.  In order to appropriate God's will here on earth, we must first enter into the realm of God, which is the spirit realm.
     Jesus reached into the spirit realm and fed a multitude with enough bread and fish required.  There was always enough in Heaven to care for the entire multitude, but in their fallen state, they couldn't gain access to it.  Even the miracles and healings that toke place in Jesus' ministry came from the Heavenly realm of God's will.  Jesus said over and over again that, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, Who is doing the work."  He said in John 5:30 (Amplified), "I am able to do nothing from Myself (independently, of My Own accord-but only as I Am taught by God and as I get His orders)."

Lesson 34 The New Creation

     2Corinthians 16-17 has been the scripture we've been basing these teachings on.  These two verses of scripture give much truth and revelation concerning who we are now in Christ Jesus.  It's difficult to imagine a Christian who doesn't believe his/her loved one (who died in Christ) is in heaven with the Lord.  We might disagree on many things, but should not on this point.  The old familiar phrase of "They are in a far better place," is the hope and faith that we all should share.
     Paul said many things that shed much light about our being new creations in 2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified) saying, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). (No) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh)."
     This scripture tells us there is now revealed to the Church (by the Holy Spirit), a new and full revelation of Christ as He is now.  We know Christ as more than just the Man Who died for us, but as the Lord Who has been raised for us.  We seem to have no trouble with knowing the Man, but struggle with knowing the Risen Christ.  We seem to struggle with identifying with the Risen Christ, more so than the Man Who is Christ.  This is because we still identify more with our old carnal self (the sinner), rather than the new creation who is now righteous.  The flesh, with its pride and ignorance has used false humility to keep us from seeing who we are, by clinging to who we once were.
     We have no problem believing our spirit goes to heaven when we die, but we have somehow failed to deal with our spirit, while we are in this mortal body.  We didn't become a spirit when we died, but we became a spirit when we were born.  We've always been a spirit being, even when we were unsaved.  Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified) that, "God is a Spirit (a Spirit Being) and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality)."
     Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."  This leaves no doubt that we and spirit beings just like our God.  When Adam transgressed in the Garden, we didn't stop being spirit beings, but we lost contact with God, Who was and is the Life of our spirit, according to John 6:63 (Amplified) which says, "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."
     When Adam was cut off from the Life in God by his transgression, he didn't cease being a spirit, but now, he had become a "dead spirit" that was disconnected from the Life Giver, Who is the Spirit of God.  Being born again doesn't mean you just became a spirit, but that the "dead spirit" that resides in your flesh and blood body, was now made to be alive again unto God Who is the Life-giver, by the Holy Spirit.
     John 3:5-6 (Amplified) says, "Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and (even) the Spirit, he cannot (ever) enter the Kingdom of God. What is born of (from) the flesh is flesh (of the physical is physical); and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit."
     For some reason (that only God knows, I guess), we hardly ever think of ourselves as spirit, until after we die physically.  What the Holy Spirit is trying to reveal to us, is that we're not only spirit beings, but now we a living spirits, by the Life-Giver Who is the Holy Spirit Himself.
     By being born again, by the new birth, we have become new creations who are after the Likeness and Image of Jesus Christ.  The new birth gave life into a spirit that had been dead unto God, until Jesus died and rose again to pay the price needed to restore Life into our once dead spirit.
     Many have had a problem dealing with "spiritual death," throughout the years.  This might be because of not being taught correctly or from not really wanting to know the difference.  A dead spirit doesn't mean "non existence," as some would believe, but means "cut off" from the Life Giver.  When Adam sinned in the Garden, he didn't cease to be, but the day he listened to the voice of satan, he sinned and died.  Genesis 5:5 tells us that Adam lived for 930 years.
     What did God mean when he forbid Adam's eating of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden?  Genesis 2:16-17 (Amplified) says, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, you may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."  Yet, we see how Adam lived 930 years after that day.  Did he died that day, as God said, or did he not die?  He died spiritually and his spirit was cut off from the Life Giver, Who gave life to his spirit.  Once he was separated from God's Spirit, all life began to cease in his body as well and now, even the flesh was doomed to death and disease.  Adam was still a spirit, but was without the Life of God to draw from.
     Romans 8:2 (Amplified) says, "For the Law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and of death."  We can now understand more of what 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) means to us now.  Thus, is says, "Therefore is any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creation altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away, Behold, the fresh and new has come."
     Through faith in Jesus as our Sin Bearer, believing He died as we did as "spirit" because of sin or separation from God and believing we became alive again because He rose again to the Father in righteousness and justification for us.  We are made alive with Him unto God, Who has given us Life in our new creation spirit.  We are now connected to Life, wisdom, the realm of Heave, the Kingdom of God Himself, eternal life in and with Him, our inheritance as family and so much more.
     All of these things came to pass when we were made a new creation in Christ Jesus.  The cemeteries hold the "house of flesh" our spirits reside in while on earth and the living spirit has gone to Heaven, with God.  We must concentrate, then, on who we are now and not on only who we will be when we die.
    

Lesson 33 The New Creation

   Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) says, "My Son; attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart for they are life to those who find them, healing and health to their flesh."
     The new creation that we've now become, has dominion in the Spirit and also in the natural realm.  Through the new birth, we've once again become alive to God in the Spirit.  We now can operate as He intended man to operate in the First Creation.  Man walked in the Spirit with the Father, according to Genesis 3:8 (Amplified) which says, "And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day (in the Spirit)."
     We now, once again through Jesus in this new creation reality, are alive in our spirit, to hear the voice of God, just like Jesus did.  He doesn't lead us by our senses and intellect, He leads us by our spirit.  Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) tells us, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the Lamp of the Lord searching all his innermost parts."  The only avenue to truly hearing or knowing God, is by your spirit.
     There are things in God's Word we've come to know by our intellect, but this is just intellectually knowing them.  We're intelligent enough to read and understand the Words, but they haven't become Life and Healing by Revelation.  Remember, "the spirit of the man is the Lamp of the Lord."  It's when the Word is revealed to your spirit, that the power of the Word is released into the rest of your being.
     The old covenant people knew what the Word said, but they had no revelation of what it really meant to them.  Jesus asked in John 7:28-29 (Amplified), "Do you know Me and do you know where I Am from? I have not come on My Own accord and as self-appointed, but the One Who sent Me is true (real, genuine, steadfast) and Him you do not know. I know Him (Myself) because I come from His (very) presence, and it was He (personally) Who sent Me."
     Without the Holy Spirit's giving life to God's Word, we simply read it with our intellect, while educating our senses to understand the Words, but not the spirit.  Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "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 that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."  It doesn't matter how much we think we know about the Word, without the Holy Spirit's revealing the Life within them, they are simply of "no benefit."
     We've come up with many things by reading the Word of God, yet we have so many different interpretations of what it really says.  The Holy Spirit is the only One Who can convey the truth of the Word to us, and then only into our spirit.  We can educate the natural man to a fault and still know know what the Spirit is saying to us.  This is why it's so very important to understand that we've already become a new creation in Christ.
     Somehow, we've thought that most things we read in the Word are only for a future time.  God is already in the future and has already raised us up into what we would call the future.  If you're born again, the you are now, already a new creation. This isn't something you are going to be, but something you already are.  Through Jesus, we've become a new creation who is made in the very Likeness and Image of our Father.  We've been created into the class of being of the living spirit, who will walk, know, respond to and hear the Spirit of God in our own spirit man.
     We've viewed men and women who have done great and mighty things through God, as being "special."  True!  Some were called for certain things like the five-fold ministry, but they were all people who heard God and were led by His Spirit into awesome things.  We refer to Smith Wigglesworth as "The Apostle of Father," and I'm sure he was.  He started by hearings God's Voice and obeying it, then later became the great man we all read about.  We've somehow been led to believe it's a lottery and that our number didn't come up.  If we will only seek Him out, like hunting for "Silver and Gold, and will spend time allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us, then we can "make ourselves a vessel to be used by the Master."  2Timothy 2:21 (Amplified) says, "So whoever cleanses himself (from what is ignoble and unclean, who separates himself from contact with contaminating and corrupting influences) will (then himself) be a vessel set apart and useful for honorable and noble purposes, consecrated and profitable to the Master, fit and ready for any good work."
     There has always been those who will deny the super-natural things of God.  Some will poison others saying, "those things have passed away and are not for today," or that, "those things are of the devil."  These are things that will "corrupt and contaminated" your faith and your ability to actually hear the Voice of God for yourself.  If you truly believe that all of the super-natural things of God have "passed away," then you will never seek the Spirit of God, in order to pursue those things in your life.
     We are new creation who've already become a super-natural being.  Walking in the super-natural is natural to Him.  We're called to walk here in this realm, walking naturally super-natural.  Jesus walked naturally super-natural and made it look simple.  He was never concerned wondering "Will it work?"  He simply said that, "He didn't come to do His will, but the will of Him Who had sent Him."  In John 5:30 (Amplified) Jesus said, "I am able to do nothing from Myself (independently, of My Own accord-but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders); Even as I hear, I judge (I decide as I am bidden to decide, as the voice comes to Me, so I give a decision), and My judgment is right ( just, righteous) because I do not seek or consult My Own will (I have no desire to do what is pleasing to Myself, My Own aim, My Own purpose) but only the will and pleasure of the Father Who sent Me."
     We spend so much time trying to decide whether something is the Father's will.  Jesus did everything He did because He "heard and obeyed" the will of the Father.  If it was the Father's will to heal when Jesus was here as a Man, then has the Father's will changed since then?  We're always wondering, "maybe it is God's will to make me sick" or "God makes me sick as a way of teaching me things."
     To know Jesus is to know the Father.  He said that, "The Father and He were One" and "everything He did was the Father's will."  In John 6:38 (Amplified) Jesus said, "For I have come down from heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me."  Why do we continue arguing and dividing ourselves over things the Holy Spirit has already revealed to us, by Jesus and His ministry?
     Are there people who do not get healed today?  Of course, but is that really God's will being done or is is a lack of understanding what God's will truly is?  Are there people who have passed away or who are alive today, who weren't saved or are not saved?  Yes, there are.  Is this also "God's will?"  2Peter 3:9 (Amplified) says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance."
     It is God's will, then, that "none should perish, but that all should turn to repentance."  Still, though, that not "all men are saved."  Why?  Because it's not God's will?  Or, is it because some choose to do their own will?  Our job, as new creation people, resides in the "will" of His love and His Spirit.  Like Jesus, we're to know the will of God, not as men have portrayed it to us, but as God's Spirit has portrayed to us.  We've decide in our own selves that it's not His will to heal some people, or in some case, not to save them either.  We've decided that His will only exists for some and not for others.
     We've allowed men to determine what God's will and purpose is, instead of asking or knowing what His will is.  A young lady approached me in tears, because she "didn't wish to go to hell."  I responded by assuring her that she could easily solve that and told her the way of salvation.  She'd been told in some fellow-ship, that God had chosen some for perdition and that she was one of them.  She was told that her fate was sealed and she could never be saved.  Acts 16:30-31 (Amplified) says, "And he brought them out (of the dungeon) and said, Men, what is necessary for me to do that I might be saved? And they answered him, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ (give up yourself to Him, take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping) and you will be saved (and this applied both to) you and your household as well."
     Men's ideas would have left this young woman tormented and fearful, but God's idea was that she have salvation and peace with Him.   Men have contrived so many things from the Bible that are not the will of the Father.  Jesus taught us to pray "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."  If sickness, disease, pain, fear, cancer, death, hunger, homelessness and bondage is God's will in heaven, then we're all in for a sorry time when we get to heaven.  Hebrews 2 (Amplified) 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 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 you watch the ministry of Jesus, you will know the will of God.  He is unchangeable.  This erases all doubt and fear of not knowing how to pray and releases faith in His Word for the lost and sick.  Remember, there will always be some who will not believe, even Jesus ran into some of these.  But, there are also those who want to know, "What must I do to be saved?"  Please, don't tell them they must never cut their hair or do certain things that are "after the customs of men."  Tell them they must only believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, because all who call upon His Name will be saved.

Lesson 32 The New Creation

     1Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified) states that we, "No longer know any man (including Jesus) only after the flesh, but after the Spirit."  It says that now, through Jesus and the new birth, we are a new creation.  Notice, it doesn't say we are only forgiven, but that we are a new creation.
     We obviously still live in this flesh and blood body, but now because of Jesus, God has reckoned this flesh and blood body to be dead with Jesus on the cross and alive to God through the resurrection.  If the body is dead because of the crucifixion and the Spirit is alive unto God, then it makes it obvious that God will deal with and contact us by our new creation spirit man.  God is Life and doesn't spend much time talking to dead people.
     We've long depended on our five senses (the flesh) to contact and fellowship with our Heavenly Father.  Many have been disappointed over and over again, because "this faith thing" doesn't work.  God deals now with our new creation, the born again spirit of man.  There are times when His presence is so strong in our spirit, that we can feel it in our flesh, but it comes first into our spirit.
     God is a Spirit, according to John 4:24 (Amplified) which says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth (reality)."  Clearly, truth is reality.  Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) "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."
     Some might sigh and say, "We've already read these scriptures."  Let's take all these things together now and let God reveal what we can learn from these simple truths to us.  We learned first that God is a Spirit and secondly, the Words of the Bible (the Word of God) is also spirit.  The third thing we learned is that this Spirit Word is also alive.  John 3:5-6 (Amplified) says, "Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and (even) the Spirit, he cannot (ever) enter the Kingdom of God. What is born of (from) the flesh is flesh (of the physical is physical); and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit."
     Until we begin to understand that God leads by His Spirit, (in Word, in revelation, in truth), then we will miss the mark of where we wish to be with Him.  Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."  We can be born again by the Spirit and taught by the doctrines of men, never maturing into true son-ship and into true fellowship with our Father.  When my wife and I had our first baby boy, he was my son from the moment he was born.  Even though I enjoyed holding him and loving him, I had very little fellowship with him.  While he was an infant, I couldn't take him hunting, fishing, horseback riding or hold conversations with him, because he was a baby.  I loved my son, but I couldn't enjoy the things I held in my heart for him.
     As my son began growing and maturing into a young man, we had (and still enjoy) a great and loving relationship.  He has learned for himself the love of fishing, hunting, horseback riding, 1957 Chevrolets and love his own family.  We now have an unbroken fellowship by his growing into a mature son, instead of just being my baby boy.
     We will never be any more of a new creation, than we are already.  What we can do and are expected to do, is to mature in this new life.  Let's read Romans 8:10-11 (Amplified) which says, "But if Christ lives in you, (then although) your (natural) body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of (the) righteousness (that He imputes to you) And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, (then) He Who raised up Christ from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you."
     Hebrews 5:13-14 (Amplified) says, "For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action) for he is a mere infant (not able to talk yet) But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law."
     The Word of God (truth), when fed into your spirit, will bring even the life that is in the Word to bear on the flesh and train it to respond to the Spirit, by use and practice.  Romans 8:11 refers to the "raised and glorified" body that died in the natural, but I also believe it's talking about the Life of the Spirit bringing healing and dominion and discipline to the natural body, while we are still here.  Galatians 5:16 (Amplified)says, "But I say, walk and live (habitually) in the Holy Spirit (responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit); then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God0."
     If we allow the Word to become Spirit to us and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself to us by the Spirit of the Word, then it will allow the Life of the Spirit to permeate and heal and bring life to our natural bodies too.  Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) says, "My son; attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings; Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart for they are life to those who find them, healing and health to their flesh."
     The new creation that we've become has dominion in the Spirit, as well as the natural realm.  Through the new birth, we have once again become alive to God, in the Spirit.  We can now operate like God intended man to operate in the first creation.  Man walked in the Spirit with the Father, according to Genesis 3:8 (Amplified) which says, "And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the Garden [of Eden] in the cool of the day (in the Spirit)."
     Through Jesus, in the new creation reality, are alive in our spirit and can hear the voice of God like Jesus did.  He doesn't lead us by our intellect or senses, but He leads us by our spirit.  Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) says, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts."  The only way to truly hear or know God, is by your spirit.
     We've learned these truths in God's Word by our intellect, but this is only intellectually knowing.  We're intelligent enough to read and understand the words, but they haven't become life and healing by revelation.  Remember, the spirit of the man is "the lamp of the Lord."  When the Word is revealed to your spirit, that releases it's power into the remainder of your being.
    The old covenant people knew what the Word said, but they had no revelation of what it truly meant for them.  Jesus said in John 7:28-29 (Amplified), "Do you know Me? and do you know where I Am from? I have not come on My Own accord and as self-appointed, but the One Who sent Me is true (real, genuine, steadfast) and Him you do not know. I know Him (Myself) because I came from His (very) presence, and it was He (personally) Who sent Me."
     Without the Holy Spirit giving life to the Word of God, we simply read it with out intellect and only educate the senses to understand the words, but not the Spirit.  Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified) "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."  It doesn't matter how much we think we know about the Word, without the Holy Spirit revealing the Life within it.  They are simply words of no benefit, but are only for the flesh without His revealing the Truth in them.
    

Lesson 31 The New Creation

     Once satan steals the Word from out of your heart, the rest comes easily.  The Word of God is the only "offensive" weapon listed in Ephesians 6:17-18 (Amplified) which says, "And take the helmet of salvation (use the Word to renew your mind) and the sword that the Spirit wields, Which is the Word of God. Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit."  Romans 8:26 (Amplified) says, "With all (manner of) prayer and entreaty, To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people)."
     Without the super-natural ability of the Holy Spirit to operate in our lives, we're helpless to oppose a super-natural enemy.  Many people blame God for everything (good and bad), saying He does this to teach us.  Discipline the dead flesh with sacrifices, didn't work in the old covenant, so why would it work now?  We've been made a living spirit, by the Spirit Who raised Jesus from the dead.  God, Who is a Spirit, now can communicate with His new creation by His Word, which is Spirit.  God can now train up His family into faith and maturity.
     This isn't to say that things will not come up against us, while we're in this world, but God has given us the way to overcome the world, according to 1John 5:4 (Amplified) which says, "For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world, and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith."  1Corinthians 10:13 (Amplified) says, "For no temptation (no trial regarding as enticing to sin), (no matter how it comes or where it leads) has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man (that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience and such as man can bear) But God is faithful (to His Word and to His compassionate nature) and He (can be trusted) not to let you be tempted and tried beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He (will always) also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place) that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently."
     God will always provide a way from any trial or temptation through His Word.  God will not allow satan to come up with somethings that isn't already common to man.  The Word tells us, "There's nothing new under the sun," but whatever satan contrives, God will only deliver us through or above  and empower us to overcome by our faith in His Word.  If you've been quoting 1Corinthians 10:13 (Amplified) by saying, "God will not put more on me than I can stand," then stop and learn what God's Word is saying to you.  He didn't bring the temptation nor send the devil to try you.  What He has done with the temptation, is "provided the way and means of escape by His Word."
     As new creation people, we're to be led by His Spirit into the victory that Jesus declared, saying, "All power has been given unto Me, both in heaven and in earth."  Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) says, "Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me."  Whatever the devil brings you through, Jesus' Name and faith in His Name, is the way above the trail and is the means of escape.  It's already been given to us.

Lesson 30 The New Creation

     The new creation that we've become through Jesus, is truly a new being.  The old body of sin (the flesh) has died with Him in His death and the new creation has come into being.  If you are a new creation, then you have no past, because if you have a past, then you're not new.  We're like a  newborn who has no past, we cannot go back into what never was and judge what never took place.  This is what the Spirit of God is endeavoring to get the Church to see.
     The devil came to "Steal, kill, and destroy" the new creation, by bringing up and accusing us about a past that isn't there.  When you were born again in Christ Jesus, you were born without sin and a past.  Now, the schooling in your spirit is to renew your mind by the Word, so you can see who you are, instead of the lie of the devil.  This is what he has come to steal.  Even though you are "dead" to sin, he wants to steal this truth from you, in order to keep you in bondage, as though your new creation doesn't exist.
     Now that you're truly in likeness of Christ Jesus, the devil wants to keep you in bondage with lies, as though salvation and you're being born again didn't work.  His mission is to never let you see the truth about the total salvation in Jesus.  We saw the truth about our going to heaven someday, but not the truth that heaven has now come to us.
     Satan has been diligently working to stop the Church from seeing what happened on the Day of Pentecost.  Many see the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as only a way of speaking in tongues and not much more.  We seldom saw the power of this new language.  In Genesis 11:6-7(Amplified) God said, "And behold, they are all one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech."
     Immediately after God "confounded" their language, all work on the Tower of Babel ceased.  On the Day of Pentecost, God restored back to His new creation, the power of communication, to insure that now through the Holy Spirit, nothing we (the Church) can imagine will be impossible to us as well.  Romans 8:26-27 (Amplified) says, "So too the Holy Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance."  Verse 27 goes on, "And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the Holy Spirit (what His intent is) because the Spirit intercedes and pleads (before God) in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will."
     Through the outpouring of His Holy Spirit, God has once again brought unity by our communication with Him.  We're to be in one language and in one accord to build, not a tower, but a Kingdom of God.  For many, the Gift of Tongues has been distorted by religion, as though only a few can do this.  If we are speaking of ministerial gifts in 1Corinthians 12 as truth, then we are just speaking of God's children speaking to Him and that's not true.
     We've all been born again by the Spirit of God into a new creation.  As new creation people, we have a language we speak by and through the Holy Spirit.  It's to bring us back into "all one language," so we can build the Kingdom of God.  In our own language, we don't always know how to communicate with our Heavenly Father, but the Holy Spirit always know what is His will.
     We've spent so much time having the world's idea of tongues and have missed the entire concept of the message.  Don't confuse the new creation language from the ministerial language.  If you are born in Mexico, then you probably speak Spanish, if you're born in China, then you probably speak Chinese, if you are born in Germany, then you probably speak German and if you are born of the Spirit, then you speak spirit (or tongues) by the Spirit.  It's simply the means of communication by which we, as new creation people, communicate.
     We've allowed the world to dictate to us (the Church) how we operate in the Kingdom.  Do not lump all the things in the Spirit, into one big lump.  Separate the Gifts of the Spirit from the privileges of the new creation people.  Through the new birth, we've entered into the realm of the Spirit and the Kingdom of God.  This would be like only having certain people in America speaking English, when all American citizens have the right and privilege.  That's how we build and become "One Nation Under God."
     Jesus said in Mark 16:15-18 (Amplified), "And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the Good News (the Gospel) to every creature (of the whole human race). He who believes (adheres to, and trusts in, and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth) and is baptized will be saved (from the penalty of eternal death) but he who does not believe (who does not adhere Him Who sets it forth) will be condemned. And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents; and (even) if they drink anything deadly; it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."
     Did you notice that these things are for "those who believe in His Name?"  He never said anything about how "only certain persons" could do these things, but those were born again into the super-natural Spirit of God.  Why would only just a few need to have this ability to reveal Jesus in His glory?  1Corinthians 12 lists the Gifts of the Spirit, while 1Corinthians 14 speaks primarily of Ministry gifts, not the natural ability of the super-natural child of God.  How could we be effective, if we had to "wait upon" one of these choice persons to come and do what needed to be done in someone's life?  Jesus simply said, "Go and preach the Gospel and if they believe it, then it will work for those who believe."
     We can lay hands on the sick, by faith in His Name, and expect results.  We can simply, by faith in His Name, receive the Holy Spirit and praise His Name in the Spirit (or the language of the new birth).  This might sound too simple for some, because of the multitude of things men have taught, but we must allow the Holy Spirit to be our Teacher and trust Him.  I've witnessed thousands of people speak in the Spirit, who aren't in ministry, but are simply children of God.  Jesus said it wasn't Him, "but the Father in Him Who was doing the work," who healed the multitudes who were healed when Jesus laid hands on them.  The same Father will do the work through us.  don't let the world, religion or fear prevent your moving in the power and Spirit of the new birth.  We must return to Jesus' Own Words in Mark 11:22 (Amplified) which says, "And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God (constantly)."
     When Jesus said that, "The thief comes to steal," He meant that the thief comes to take what God has given you, from you.  Don't allow the enemy to delude or deceive you into believing like the world has taught the Church, that healings, miracles, tongues and the super-natural things of the new creation have passed away.  As long as Jesus remains Lord, none of these things can pass away.  We've simply stopped believing in them.  Nothing has changed since these things were given by the Father.
      We've been striving to walk into the new creation things of the Spirit and have the world's wisdom dictate what we can have or do.  The old doctrine of passed away must be stricken from the heart of the Christian and replaced by faith in God's Word again.  Many good Christians have been deceived by man's ideas of what is actually true.  For many in these last days, we have believed some things, in our longing to walk close to God, that others find strange.
     Many things have crept into the Church that are received in error.  Many things actually taught by the Holy Spirit, have been removed from the "modern" Church today.  Many new Bible translations have been printed, in order to appease the ego of mankind and have replaced the Word by what mankind wants.  From the very first sentence in God's Word, until the last word, God has always been super-natural.  We can see the hand of God in the old covenant, that the natural man can never understand, except by faith.
     In God's Kingdom, things work on a different scale and principle than the world's kingdom.  It doesn't matter how hard you try "learning" the Word of God, without the Holy Spirit as your Teacher, you will never receive the truth.  The world will never allow you to see the truth.  Jesus said in Mark 4:14-19 (Amplified) that, "The sower sows the Word."  The following verses tell how such things came to steal the Word out of your heart (spirit), as persecution, the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches and the offenses.  In Verse 14 Jesus said that, "Satan comes at once to take by force, the Word that was sown in them."
     These things are from the thief that comes to steal, kill and destroy.  Notice how stealing comes first!
    

Lesson 29 The New Creation

     2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). (No) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh) Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (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!"
     For the greater part of my life, I didn't know Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior.  Nearly everything I heard from Christian preachers and persons was about who we were rather than who we become when we get born again.  Almost all the sermons we've heard are directed at the Church, as though they were still the same as they once were.  We learned more about sin rather than about righteousness and more about being unworthy rather than about being a new creation.  We were mostly talked to and conditioned to think about ourselves as though not much had changed, except our destination after death.
     When I began seeking the Lord about who I have become, He began showing me the new creation people He had brought into being by the death and resurrection of Jesus.  Romans 5:17 (Amplified) says, "For if because of one man's trespasses (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive (God's) overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness (putting them in right standing with Himself) reign as Kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
     Notice how Paul addressed the Church in 1Corinthians 6:11 (Amplified) saying, "And such were some on you (once), But you were washed clean (purified by a complete Atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consequently (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified (pronounced righteous, by trusting) in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the (Holy) Spirit of our God."  Paul also says in 2Corinthians 3:17-18 (Amplified), "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom) And all of us, as with unveiled face, (because we) continued 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."
     Paul said that, "The Word is like a mirror reflecting back who we are, not who we were, and as we see who we are in Him, we begin being transfigured into His Own Image and glory."  A mirror doesn't show you who you were, but who you are.  Most of us would like looking into the mirror and see ourselves the way we looked when we were younger.  Instead, we look into the mirror and see graying hair, double chins and wrinkles.  The mirror of the Word of God doesn't show us as "the old sinner we once were," but as the new creation He has made us to be in Christ.
     James states basically the same thing about the Word of God and the "Spirit of Liberty," in James 1:25 (Amplified) saying, "But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the (law) of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer (who obeys) he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience)."  In other words, if we continue looking into His Word in Truth and not just in pittance, then we will begin being transfigured more and more, into the Image of Jesus.
     We can never have faith to do the "works He did," as long as we continue viewing ourselves like we were, instead of being transfigured into the new creation that He has made us to be.  Our own conscience will condemn us and rob us of what we are to be now doing in Jesus' Name.  John says in 1John 3:20-21 (Amplified) that, "Whenever our hearts in (tormenting) self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us, (for we are in God's hands) For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts) and He knows (perceives and understands) everything (nothing is hidden from Him) And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us (if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us) we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God."
     The guilt of who we were, will rob us of the liberty of who we are now and makes us ineffective in the works of Jesus on this earth.  It's only by faith in His grace, that we can accept who we are and stop trying to "work" our way into His acceptance.  We simply haven't allowed the "Truth" of what Jesus has done is and for us.  Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy, I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."  The joy and the "overflow" come from being "transfigured into His Own Image from one degree of glory to another," according to 2Corinthians 3:18.
     We will never find the boldness of walk in that Image of glory, while having the same old mindset and image of who we were before Jesus set us free into His liberty.  We discussed some new creation scriptures, in a previous message about "The Return to Eden."  This isn't a message of pride, but one of faith.  For some though, thinking of ourselves as righteous, seems prideful.  In reality, thinking of yourself in any other way is prideful.  If God says this is who you are, then it is actually pride that would tell God, "this isn't so."  Pride can work both way.  For us to try creating out own righteousness, without His righteousness, is prideful.  Failing to accept His righteousness, because of who we were, and walking in guilt and condemnation from the past, is also pride.  We try sounding humble, but only pride can stand against God.
     Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."  When God first made or created man, he was a spirit, made in the Image and Likeness of God.  Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being."  When the man formed from the ground (Adam) transgressed, the Adam who was made in God's Image, the spirit man, was also cut off from God.  the sin committed in Adam's flesh and blood body, caused death or separation from God, even in his spirit body.  Because of the flesh, sin brought death (or separated him from God, Who is Life) unto all men.
     Jesus, Who came in the flesh and in the likeness of sinful flesh (although there was no sin in Him), died the death of the flesh and has raised us up back into the Image and Likeness of God, in the Spirit.  Romans 6:5,8 (Amplified) says, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be (one with Him in sharing) His resurrection (by a new life lived for God)."  Verse 8 goes on, "Now if we have died with Christ, we believe also that we shall live with Him."  IS HE ALIVE?  If He is, then we are also alive with Him now and are restored to Life in the Spirit, in His very Image and Likeness."  We're no more after the flesh (that sinned in the Garden of Eden), but after the Spirit Who raised Jesus from the dead.  Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore; (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and death."   

Lesson 28 The New Creation

     If we try establishing our own righteousness by works, instead of receiving it by faith, then we cannot please God.  When we believe we are truly what God says we are, simply because that's what God said, then it is by faith.  When we believe we are what God says we are, after we work hard to be that, then it is by the flesh.  The "proof of our righteousness" is what Paul speaks about in 2Corinthians 5:19 (Amplified) saying, "It was God (personally present) in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against (men) their trespasses (but cancelling them) and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor)."
     Much of the Church and the unsaved world, have never heard this message.  Mostly, we've pointed out the faults of men, instead of the goodness of God.  Many Christians seem to be miserable in the way they walk with God.  We're always more aware of our own shortcomings and failures, than of His great Mercy and Grace.  We've lost sight of Him and seemingly have a difficult time knowing if God is our problem or if He is our answer.  It would seem that no matter what happens, we simply determine that, "It must be God's will."
     The misinterpreting of Who our Father is, arrives from not knowing the "correct and precise knowledge of Who He is."  Peter said in 2Peter 1:2 (Amplified) that, "All these things will be multiplied to us by the (full, personal, precise, and correct) knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord."  When I was unsaved and living in the world, I didn't rely on someone's word about who my earthly Father was.  I knew him from "correct and precise knowledge" of him personally.  By knowing him in that manner, I didn't have to believe what someone else thought about him.  I knew who he was.
     When we seek out a relationship with God on our own and approach Him on His terms, not our terms or the terms of others, we can come to know the "correct and precise knowledge" of Him for ourselves.  When we come to know that we are already a new creation people and are already in right standing with Him, then we are already "one with Him as He was with Jesus," according to John 17:21.  Then we can know that we don't have to "beat ourselves up" all the time, in order to please Him and we can follow Hebrews 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy (for our failures) and find grace to help in good time for every need (appropriate help and well timed help, coming just when we need it)."
     The confidence to "come boldly to God's throne of grace" and the faith to receive from God when we need it, comes from "knowing Him precisely and correctly."  If we cannot believe we have right standing or righteousness, then how can we believe God will even grant our prayers or petitions?  If we try approaching Him in our own way, then it is not faith, but works and that doesn't grant entry into God's presence.
     You are already a new creation, you are already a child of God and you are already His beloved.  This isn't a "someday" message, but a "now" message to God's family.  1John 3:2 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, we are (even here and) now God's children; it is not yet disclosed (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 just as He (really) is."
      I don't know what Jesus really looks like or what our Father God really looks like, but I do know what Paul said in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified), "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value) (No!) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh)."
     When we think of Jesus, we mostly still see Him as the Man Who walked on water and healed the sick and raised the dead.  This was the "Earthly Tabernacle" Jesus lived in, while He was here on earth.  We also have an earthly body, that we live in while on earth.  We too, are like He is-a Spirit being who is eternal, outside of this body.  We got a small glimpse of what He might truly look like on the Mount of Transfiguration, as the glory began to shine out even through His flesh.  We will resemble Him in His heavenly body as well.
     I don't have a pattern to refer to, when seeing what we were created to be as new creatures or the new creation, because we are a brand new creation.  I do know, however, that in this tabernacle of flesh or this earthly, natural body that my new self lives in, I look like Him.  We only need this body of flesh, in order to inhabit this temporal earth or world.  Once this flesh is no longer needed to house our new creation spirit, then we will be "changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," according to 1Corinthians 15:51-52 (Amplified) which says, "Take notice! I tell you a mystery ( a secret truth, an even decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God) we shall not all fall asleep (in death) but we shall all be changed (transformed) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the (sound of the) last trumpet call, For a trumpet will sound, and the dead (in Christ) will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay) and we shall be changed (transformed)."
     What we will be transformed into, remains a mystery, as far as "knowing what we might look like," but knowing who we are is no longer a mystery to the believer.  We already know that we've been born again into a new creation.  When this house of flesh that we are now living in is removed, we can then see what we only know by faith now.  2Corinthians 5:1,3 (Amplified) says, "For we know that if this tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."  Verse 3 says, "So that by putting it on we may not be found naked (without a body)."
     We will still be the new creation that God has made us to be, but we will not put off this house or body until we leave this earth and then we will look like He is now.  2Corinthians 5:7 (Amplified) says, "For we walk by faith (we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor, thus we walk) not by sight or appearance."
     For now, we don't see this new creation, but only see the house we live in.  But, now through faith, I no longer only see this house of flesh, but the new creation that lives in this house.  This new creation is the one that is made in God's Image and Likeness.  And, God is a Spirit, according to John 4:24 (Amplified) where Jesus says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality)."  Did you notice that Jesus said, "Spirit and Truth are reality?"  The "real" things of God and the Spirit are not so much "what we see," but what is real when you cannot see it.

Lesson 27 The New Creation

     Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul wrote 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creation altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away: Behold, the fresh and new has come."
     Notice this scripture says that "it has come" and not "will come someday."  We've mostly viewed our relationship with God, as new creations, as one that happens after we go to be with the Lord.  What we've missed by walking and believing this, is the fact we didn't need to go be with Him because He came to be with us.  Jesus said in John 17:21-22 (Amplified), "That they may be one, (just) as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us; so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One."
     This happened the very moment we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior and were born again.  At that moment, we became new creations that never was or had been before.  Even the glory that the Father gave to Jesus, was now ours too.  2Peter 1:3 (Amplified) says, "For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that (are requisite and suited) to life and godliness through the (full, personal) knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His Own glory and excellence (virtue)."
     This isn't the knowledge that "puffs up," that Paul talks about, but the knowledge that allows us to be what He says we are now as new creations.  2Peter 1:2 (Amplified) says, "May grace (God's favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in (the full, person, precise and correct) knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord."
     The Holy Spirit will show us the true meaning of the above scripture, if we will allow Him to.  If this scripture is true (and it is), then the Holy Spirit will use it to help us better understand the Lord Who called us into it.  Peter said, "This grace, favor, peace, well-being, freedom from fears from moral conflicts and the agitating passions, will be multiplied to us in the (precise and correct) knowledge of Him Who called us into this new creation."
     "Precise and correct knowledge" is something we must listen closely to, through the Holy Spirit.  He will never reveal Jesus or the Father in anyway, but the truth.  When Jesus told His followers about the day the Holy Spirit would come, He spoke of Him in the following manner in John 14:26 (Amplified) saying, "But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Stand-by) the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name (in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf) He will teach you all things (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you)."
     When man teaches us God's Word without the Holy Spirit guiding him, he teaches only what man can observe in his carnal mind.  Without the Teacher (Who is the Holy Spirit), man can only teach carnality and regulations of the flesh.  Romans 8:7 (Amplified) tells us, "(That is) because the mind of the flesh (with its carnal thoughts and purposes) is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot."
     We might be born again and have already become a new creation, but without the Holy Spirit revealing what Jesus has truly done in our lives, we will continue operating in the carnal mind of the flesh.  Our carnal mind can never believe that what God has done for is give us complete freedom from all things, even here.  Most of us are familiar with Romans 10:9-10 and this is the basis we lead others to the prayer of salvation.  We put faith in what that scripture says and believe that it works, and so it does.  We don't always reflect on the verses just prior to that.  In Romans 10:2-3 (Amplified) Paul speaks about the Jewish people and their covenant with God, saying, "I bear them witness that they have a (certain) zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to (correct and vital) knowledge For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes (which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought and deed) and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness."
     There are many in the Body of Christ today, who are in this exact place.  We've followed church traditions throughout the years, that are just as carnal as the ones that Paul addressed.  We had a "zeal for God," like they did, but we were without knowledge.  We've tried becoming righteous through regulations and traditions, for centuries and no matter what we did, we still felt like we fell short of achieving right standing with God.  We walked in the feeling of unworthiness and saw ourselves as still sinners.  There was very little peace or "perfect well-being" in our lives.  We were always more self-conscious, rather than God-conscious.
     Even though God's Word declared we have been made to be the "righteousness of God in Christ Jesus," we failed to walk in it.  2Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified) says, "For our sake He made Christ (virtually) to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become (endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of) the righteousness of God (what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness)."
     Many read this and say, "It's too good to be true" or "That's too easy," so they set out to improve on it by their own interpretation of what we think righteousness is.  This doesn't mean that we aren't supposed to live a righteous lifestyle or that what we do doesn't matter.  We're not to live "any way we choose to," but we're also not to live under condemnation of the flesh, every time we make a mistake.  These are the very things Peter spoke about when he said that, "All these things will be multiplied to us by the (full, personal, precise and correct) knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord," in 2Peter 1:2 (Amplified).
     The carnal minded Christian can never come to the "full truth" of what God has already done and cannot live in peace and well-being in it.  We always want to add something of our own to it, in order to make us feel like we have done it ourselves.  We've fashioned religious customs and laws, designed to make us feel righteous or to improve our right standing with God.  Feeling like you're righteous, is the carnal mind of the baby Christian at work.  Believing your are righteous (by faith in what Jesus has already done), is the maturity of the new creation believer.
     This might seem contrary to what we've always heard, but this is what the Holy Spirit came to teach us about our Father.  When you know that you're already acceptable and pleasing to God, it makes your faith in Him more sure and stronger.  Hebrews 11:6 (Amplified) says, "But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him, For whoever comes near to God must (necessarily) believe that God exists and He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him (out)."

Lesson 26 The New Creation

    We've somehow believed God would come in and change things, because He knows everything occurring in this world.  We forget that God has bound Himself by His Word and will never violate it, even for us.  God Himself must abide by His Own Words or all is lost.  If His Word isn't reliable and steadfast, then nothing is.
     We recognize that there are an abundance of things happening here on earth, that are not God's will.  We are supposed to know God's will when we pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."  What is His will in heaven?  Do we know?  Jesus knew the will of the Father and conducted Himself accordingly.  Jesus said in John 6:38 (Amplified), "For I have come down from heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me."  If we will study the life of Jesus, then we can better know the will of the Father, along with the lawful things of heaven.
     We struggle with doubt and unbelief over what is God's will on this earth. We struggle over who is to be saved or not be saved, even today.  John 3:16 (Amplified) is probably the most known and quoted in the entire New Testament, saying, "For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He (even) gave up His Only begotten (unique) Son, So that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal life."
     God's will is exemplified in 1Timothy 2:3-4 (Amplified) which says, "For such (praying) is good and right, and (it is) pleasing and acceptable (lawful in heaven) to God our Savior Who wishes all men to be saved and precisely and correctly the (divine) Truth."  According to this scripture, we know it's God's will for all men to be saved.  We know that not everyone is saved and that many have died without know Jesus as their Savior.  Simply praying "If it be Your will God" doesn't seem to work.  We must know how to pray, "Thy will be done," without just saying "Thy will be done."
     If Jesus came to do the will of the Father, then we should be able to watch what Jesus did and know what what the Father's will is.  Our not seeing the things we pray being done, doesn't mean it isn't God's will.  We need to know if it's God's will and then move in faith to that knowledge.  The Law of sin and death still works in this earth, however, we abide in a Higher Law.
     We've allowed ourselves to be held down from what God has called us to be, by the things man has told us we are.  Many years ago, many said, "If God wanted us to fly, then we've have wings."  They laughed and scoffed at the Wright Brothers, because they dreamed higher than other men.  Flying is today's most common means of travel.  There is, and was then, the Law of gravity that still works on earth, but we have found other laws that supersede that law.  The laws of lift and thrust supersede the Law of gravity.
     We didn't do away with the Law of gravity, but it was superseded by a higher law.  We didn't do away with the Law of sin and death, but through Jesus, it was superseded with a Higher Law, the Law of the Spirit of Life.  The Laws of the Kingdom supersede the natural laws governing the earth.  We can rise above these natural laws through Jesus, by seeking after the knowledge of the Kingdom of heaven.  There will be those who scoff and make fun of those who dare to fly, like they did with the Wright Brothers, but people still fly.
     God says in Psalm 107:20 (Amplified) that "He sends His Word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and destruction."  Jesus came, "Not to do His will, but the Father's will."  Does the Law of the Kingdom still work today?  Many in the Church, say that the Word isn't "for us today."  We've let others determine God's will, instead of His Word, and have made the Word of no effect in our lives.  If this was God's will when Jesus was here and Jesus and God's Word are One, then is this not still God's will?  We feel humble for not wanting to pray and do what we think is not God's will, instead of learning what His will is and then doing it.  It sounds religious and humble, but it's simply not seeking what is His will.
     We've all heard, "Yes, but that was Jesus" when talking about miracles and healing, instead of realizing that Jesus was God's will to be "done here as it is in heaven."  If it was true when Jesus prayed, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," then can we expect to see hospitals, institutions and nursing homes in heaven?  Can we expect to see homeless children, sick, hungry and depraved people in heaven?  We both know that what we see here is not God's will for this earth.
     We are to be Ambassadors for Christ and represent God's Kingdom here on earth.  Is it any wonder that people do not "know" our God?  We were never meant to be born-again and then stay the way we used to be before being born-again.  We are a super-natural people, who are made in His Image and Likeness.  We are in this world, but are not of it and we are called to live in the new Laws that govern heaven, the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.  God's Law takes precedence over the Law of sin and death.  We're not only to live by this Law, but we're to establish the Law of the Spirit of Life among those who are under the Law of sin and death.  We're to use the the Spirit of Life to break the Laws binding men on this earth.
     When Jesus walked on earth as a Spirit filled Man, He operated in this Higher Law consistently.  He knew the heart and will of the Father and walked it out.  We can watch Jesus' ministry here on earth and know what God's will is for mankind.  If it was God's will then, then it's still His will today.  Jesus said to the people in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (which is Jesus as your righteousness) (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
     God has a way of doing and being right.  Jesus told us to "Seek these things first of all."  We must return to the Truth in His Word and find out what His way is.  We serve a God of the impossible and then limit Him with our own doubt.  We see many things in today's life, that were viewed as "impossible" or "like the Jetsons," not too long ago.  Think of the buildings, the computers, cell phones, cars that drive themselves, Siri speaking with you from an ipad and never carrying cash, along with so many amazing things.  Mankind has stepped into the realm of the impossible, by doing things other say could never be done.  We are the Church, and we belong to the God of the impossible, but have remained in the realm of the natural.
     What can man do that God cannot?  What can we accomplish that God cannot?  Most of the technology we see and use today, didn't exist only a few years ago.  Most of this technology was believed to be fantasy and foolishness, only a few years ago.  But, here we stand...the new creation of God...the Church...the Body of Christ and we're stuck in time by our own limitations.
     Genesis 11:6 (Amplified) says, "And the Lord said, behold, they are one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them."  God said this about natural men, who were in opposition to Him.  What is possible for those of us who are new creation people, with Him?  do we need to imagine ourselves in a different light?  If the unsaved can do all they imagine, then what should the saved people be imagining?  How do we see ourselves?  Should we see ourselves after the Laws of sin and death that used to govern us or after the Laws that now govern us?  Do we see ourselves the way our Father sees us or the way the world says we are?
     Do we see ourselves as healed and as those who heal?  Or, do we see ourselves as the sick and destitute, who are unable to help others?  Jesus wasn't being proud and arrogant when He said that, When you see Me, you have seen the Father."  He was being truthful and simple in His statement.  Today, though, we still won't say that through Jesus, we're righteous.  Romans 6:10-12 (Amplified) says, "For by the death He died, He died to sin (ending His relation to it) once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God (in unbroken fellowship with Him)."  Verses11-12 go on, "Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broke, but alive to God (living in unbroken fellowship with Him) in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short lived perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions."
     Only sin (past or present) can prevent you from walking in fellowship with our Heavenly Father.  the flesh will constantly remind you of who you were, to keep you from knowing who you are.  This "imagining" will stop you from doing what you can imagine in your spirit.  Do not allow this to happen.  You're under a New Law of Life in Christ Jesus and free from the old Law of sin and death.  The old Law is still active in your flesh to remind you of those who've gone before you and the old life you had before.  Silence the old law of the flesh, by the Law of Life in Christ Jesus and don't be under the limitations of the doubters.  Simply because someone says, "You can't fly," doesn't mean you can't.  Jesus didn't heal everyone on the planet, but only those He could reach.  He was Only One Man, in one place, at one time, but as the Body of Christ, we can cover much more territory than He did in One human Body.
     It's going to require people who dare to image they are who God said they are, in order to rise above the condemnation of the flesh and prove the impossible.  God says, "All things are possible for those who believe."  This is the time for the new creation people to do what the old creation didn't do.  We're to bring the Father's will to bear upon this earth once again, by His Word and His Spirit.  God wants to do all things through you.  Ephesians 2:6-7 (Amplified) says, "And He raised us up together with Him and He made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."  Verse 7says, "He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in (His) kindness and good of heart toward us in Christ Jesus."  Ephesians 3:10 -11(Amplified) says, "(The purpose is) that through the Church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heaven sphere. This is in accordance with the terms of the eternal and timeless purpose which He has realized and carried into effect in (the Person of) Christ Jesus our Lord."
     The New Creation. 
    

Lesson 25 The New Creation

      As new creation family, we've already been "seated together with Jesus is heavenly places."  Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified) says, "And He raised us up together with Him (Jesus) and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One0."
     Many of us believe the above scripture means we'll be together with Him in heaven, but this isn't what it's truly saying.  It means, now that we are new creatures in Christ, we share with Him in the authority that was given Jesus.  We are still in this world, but we are "not of this world," according to John 17:16 (Amplified) where Jesus says, "They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), (just) as I am not of the world."
     We don't really associate ourselves with who we truly are as new creations in Christ Jesus, because we remain in this natural body.  So, many believe that the new creation will come when we leave this earth.  Even though Jesus had a flesh and blood body, He wasn't of the world, when He was here.  Because of the new birth, we've been born again into the Kingdom of God's sons and daughters.  We hold a position with Him as ambassadors from another Kingdom, here on earth.  2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors."
     The greatest reason our prayers don't get answered or we fail to see God move in the way He wishes to, isn't because of faith, but because of a lack of knowledge about who we are.  We mostly see ourselves like we were, rather than who Jesus has made us to be.  We've tried functioning in the new Kingdom, by the same laws we've always lived by here in this world.  The Kingdom of Heaven has different laws by which we're now supposed to learn and walk in.
     Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, (because of the previous verses) (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging of guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit, For the law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of Sin and Death."  The law of sin and death is the law of our old self, while the Law of the Spirit of Life is that of our new being.
     When we no longer allow our flesh dictate the old law to us, we can walk in the Law that governs our new being and the new Kingdom from which we now belong.  I know that this scripture is also referring to "sin of the flesh," but is referring more to "knowing the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus."  If we continue living under the old law of sin and death, then the flesh and devil will always have us under condemnation and guilt for everything we do or don't do.  The Law of the Spirit of Life will set you free from this old anchor of guilt and allow you to live by your new birth in Christ Jesus.
     We know we cannot use the laws governing our U.S. citizenship and live by them in another country around the world.  If I gave up my citizenship from Ireland and moved to and became an American citizen, then I would need to learn new laws to insure my life here.  Hanging onto and operating under the old laws of Ireland could be dangerous for me in America.  Drivers in Ireland drive on the other side of the road, than we use in America.  If I remained driving on the same side of the road I used in Ireland, here in America, then I could possibly be killed or kill someone else.  It wouldn't because America is angry at me or that I didn't care, but because I violated the laws governing this land.
     Many would say, "You never know what God is going to do."  In reality though, we haven't learned to live by the new laws of our new Kingdom.  Jesus said in Matthew 18:18-18 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven." Verse 19 goes on, "Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever (anything and everything) they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven."
     We've been waiting to arrive in heaven, in order to function in what it's Laws don't permit or allow and we've not determined what should or should not be allowed to become law, here in this world.  If heaven doesn't back up some of the things we "bind or loose" here, then maybe we should find out what heaven will "bind or loose."  If we will bother seeing out the Laws of the Kingdom of heaven, then we can function in them by God's Own promise.
     When we think about laws, we think about the Mosaic Law, the Law of Moses, along with the rituals and sacrifices and ceremonies that go with them.  This isn't what these scripture are referring to.  If this was true, then we would still need to offer up sacrifices and perform ceremonies today.  The laws that Jesus speaks of aren't the laws of man (man made) used to get prayers answered, but the Laws of heaven, for the men and women who now belong to heaven.  One set of laws is made for helping sinful man to approach God, while the other is for those who now have constant access to God, by Jesus.  One set of laws was to "keep" man while he was still worldly, while the other is for those who are no longer of this world.
     When Jesus taught men how to pray (what we call The Lord's Prayer), He said to pray "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," in Matthew 6:10.  We must understand what God's will is in heaven, in order to understand this powerful way of praying.  God's way of doing things in heaven have not changed, He has set up a system of laws that govern heaven and they are "forever settled."  Psalm 119:89 (Amplified) tells us, "Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven (stands firm as the heavens)."
     God cannot alter His Word, even for "our welfare or benefit.)  If He altered even one part of it, then it would make the rest of His Word untrustworthy.  He is just and truly faithful to what He has spoken.  Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified) 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 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."
     If God altered His Word or changed His Word for us, then His Word wouldn't be able to uphold Jesus in what He has done, because Jesus is the Word and is unchangeable.  John 1:14 (Amplified) says, "And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh lived awhile) among us."  1John 5:7 (Amplified) says, "So there are three witnesses in heave; the Father, the Word (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One."