2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We cannot judge or determine how this new creation being is to operate by the old standards of man or covenant. Until Jesus rose from the dead and entered into the Holy of Holies on our behalf, this new creation never existed in all of previous time. The new creation is the first of his kind to ever actually have God's Own Spirit living in his spirit, making him one with God Himself.
Since this kind of man had never before been alive, it is only through the Holy Spirit and God's Word that we can know how we are to live and function. We've tried governing this new creation after the pattern of the old covenant and have failed. The old covenant operated by external Laws to govern the flesh, but the new creation has God's Word living in his own spirit to live and hear by. God Himself in Spirit form, has taken up residence in the very spirit of the new creation man.
We don't need external Laws to govern us, because we have the Word of God born into our own spirit. We are born by the Word and are living by the Word. We are directed and instructed by the Word, through the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. We've tried controlling the flesh by external rules of religion, because we haven't understood the function of the new creation. This has worked to a small degree, through shear willpower. We have "willed" our flesh into subjection, to religious formality. The new creation was supposed to be led from within by God Himself, through our now living spirit. The new creation man (the born-again spirit) was to be submitted to and infused with God's Own Spirit, to the place of controlling the flesh by that strong and submitted spirit.
Jesus was the First Born of the dead and was also led in the same way. Man couldn't hear in his spirit or be led by his spirit, because of the sin of the Garden that had separated him from the Spirit of God. As a result of the fall in the Garden, man's spirit was "dead in sin and trespasses" and couldn't be trusted to lead man any longer. God then, had to deal with man from the outside, by Laws and sacrifice instead of from man's spirit.
We can now fulfill what man couldn't fulfill under the Law. We can "Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, all thy mind, all thy strength and all thy soul." Man couldn't completely fulfill this command, until the new birth, the new creation man came into being. With God's Own Spirit living within our new born-again spirit, we can love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. We have been filled with God's Own Super-natural Love to do this.
We no longer serve and follow God because of Law and fear of disobedience, but because we can now love Him like He Loves us. Jesus spoke about this in John 13:34 (Amplified) saying, "By this shall all (men) know that you are My disciples, if you love one another (if you keep on showing love among yourselves)." This God kind of Love was to be the thing distinguishing the new creation from every other kind of species of mankind on the planet.
This Love was God's Own Presence, living in us and directing our lives through His Life within us. This kind of Love was something that many heard about, but didn't understand or operate in. This Love was actually God Himself flowing through a person's newborn spirit and was exactly what Jesus walked in and explained to His followers, saying, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work." The Father was living Love and was controlling the voluntary submission of Jesus' Own Spirit. Through the indwelling Spirit of God Himself, by submitting our spirit to His Spirit, Love can now flow unrestricted to the people. Mark 6:34 (Amplified) says, "As Jesus landed, He saw a great crowd waiting, and He was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things."
The indwelling Love isn't just an "emotion" ruled by the flesh, but is "a motion" ruled by the Spirit. Love will "move" you, even when your emotions run contrary to what God's asking you to do. We have lived so long by our soulish parts (our mind, will and emotions), that we have forgotten how to be led by our spirit. Love is not an emotion, but a Person, the very Person of the Father Himself. Having this ruling Love, is what distinguishes the new creation people from all others.
We've operated by the fleshly part of our new being and have done the charitable things that the flesh needed. It is good and right to feed, clothe and care for the needs of others, but the Love (God Who lives in our spirit) wishes to move this Love deeper into our lives, as well as the lives of those around us. Love is God and God is a Spirit. He also wants to bring His Love and mercy into the spiritual part of those who we minister to. Jesus never stopped at the outside (the flesh), but He dealt with the spirit too, when He brought healing, deliverance, and "set at liberty, those who were bound." Love compels us to go forth and to follow instructions, then Love will perform the works from within us. When the heart of the new creation man is submitted unto the Father (Love) as one, then He can "do the works" that He did through Jesus. This Love is what makes us one, like Jesus and the Father are One. Jesus prayed in John 17:23 (Amplified), "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me."
The Love that has become ours through this new creation, is the same Love by which He Loved Jesus. This Love is given so the world might be able to see the Father through us. The world had not and still doesn't see the Father without this Love. God's Love set people free without their being Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, male or female or with nothing placed on them for payment. It extended to not only earthly comfort, but to spiritual comfort as well. Love reached beyond the outside man and brought healing and deliverance to their spirit. We read about a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years, because of a spirit (a demon of sickness) in Luke 13:11-17 (Amplified). In Verse 12 we read, "Jesus then loosed her from this bond." This was Love reaching beyond the natural comforts of food, clothing and shelter, into the depth of the spirit. In Verse 17 we read, "Even as He said this, all His opponents were put to shame, and all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him."
This is the Love of God and the God of Love, flowing from one Man into another, to set them free. This is the revelation being unveiled in these last days. This is the restoration of the super-natural Love of God (signs and wonders and miracles) can be brought back to the forefront and back in action again. The new creation family is the vehicle used to transport the very Presence and glory of Love (God the Father) so the people can rejoice again over all the "Glorious things that were being done by Him."
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Lesson 125 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
It may very well be, that the most amazing thing about this new creation (new creature we've become), is that we now have the ability to love as God Loves. This might be too much for some to believe, but not for those who will listen to the Voice of the Spirit.
It's true that we are endowed with super-natural ability by our new birth, but there seems to be very little evidence of it in our lives. The answer for this dis-ability, can be found in 1Corinthians 12:31 (Amplified), where Paul is speaking about the Gifts of the Spirit. Thus, he says, "earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best Gifts and graces (the higher Gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way (one that is better by far and the highest of them all-Love)."
I've wondered many times, what Paul was actually saying in the above scripture. He was speaking about the Gifts that the Spirit gives to the new creation people. In 1Corinthians 12:11 (Amplified) he writes, "All these (Gifts, achievements, abilities) are inspired and brought to pass by One and the Same Holy Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually (exactly) as He chooses."
Speaking by the Holy Spirit, Paul says we should "desire and zealously cultivate" these Gifts. So, it's not wrong for us to want to operate in this new super-natural way of living. Some have sought after these Gifts for personal gain and some have sought after them with good hearts (but wrong heads), in order to build a larger church or ministry. We've often heard it said and have said ourselves, that "If God would only do a great miracle in our church, then it would draw more people in." This is true, but our motives for wanting this might be wrong.
God doesn't give miracles to gain crowds, He gives them because His great Love cannot stand for them to be sick or maimed by disease and satan. God doesn't need to prove He is God. He does these things, because HE IS LOVE. Paul instructed us to seek after the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. This means that they are available to us, if we seek them. Then, though, Paul said there was a "better way to obtain these Gifts." He said that "Love was the better way." Paul didn't say that "Love was one of the Gifts", he said that "Love gave us access to any (or all) of the Gifts."
We often misunderstand the meaning of Romans 5:5 (Amplified) which says, "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us."
This isn't just God's Love for us, but it's also God's Love through us." John 3:16 (Amplified) tells us, "God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that we should not perish but have everlasting life." The Love of God came through and in Jesus. Jesus was Love in motion. In the four Gospels, we see Love walk on water, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, open the eyes of the blind and perform many other miracles. Even today, many might say about this move of Love, "Yes, but He was Jesus, Son of God."
Yes, Jesus was moved by compassion to heal the multitudes, but He was mostly moved by His Love for and by His Father. Paul said that if we would "see to walk in this Love, then it would bring us into a place where the Holy Spirit (Who gives these Gifts as He chooses) would be able to give any and all these Gifts, at any times."
The Love that has been "shed abroad in our hearts," is God Himself taking up residence within us. It's not just Love, but God Who is Love, according to 1John 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "And we know (understand, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in, and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us. God is Love, and he that dwells and continues in Love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him."
The better we understand that God's Love for us is so great, the more we respond to it and the Author of it. We mostly have no idea, how strong this Love for us is. If we did, then it would be simple for us to allow it to flow from us, to those who desperately need it. We wouldn't just talk about His Love, we would demonstrate His Love and set them free.
This Love (Who is God), is what allows the Gifts to operate wherever they are need, in order the "Set at liberty, those who are bound." These Gifts are God Himself, without having any restrictions on His Love nature. This is why Paul said that "This is a better way." But, a better way for what? A better way to obtain these Gifts, than to "earnestly covet them," like we read in 1Corinthians 12:31. It's certainly not prideful to seek the Gifts like scripture says we should, but it's motivation of heart that makes them flow.
We often fail to read Galatians 5:6 (Amplified) in it's fullness. Thus, it says, "For (if we are) in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through Love." We often read this to say, "If we are not in Love, then faith doesn't work." This is certainly true, but moreover, if we don't understand this Love for us and through us, our Love isn't as strong for others as it should be. When we understand the full extent of God's Love for us, we have faith in His Love through us, because He is Love.
Our faith is actually His faith, given to us by Himself, Who is Love. We still think of Love as being an emotion, instead of the very source of Life. When this Love was "shed abroad in our hearts," it was the very entrance of God's Spirit into our new creation spirit. We are born of Love. This Love is the most powerful thing in the universe, because it is the Creator of the universe.
Love "motivates the Gifts," Love directs the Gifts, Love decides who operates in these Gifts and Love is the power of deliverance through these Gifts. Paul writes about the difference between the religious use of the Gifts and the real purpose of the Spirit in these Gifts, in 1Corinthians 13. The Holy Spirit will not stop someone from being healed by the Gift of Healing, even though the person operating in this Gift isn't operating in Love, but some other motive. Love looks beyond the natural mind and man and still sets the person free because it's God's Love and not man's love, operating in deliverance.
It's obvious to any who will honestly look and see, how religion has tried determining who and how these Gifts function through. Because we took the Gifts out of Love and then cloned something similar in religion, these Gifts fail to work like they should. These Gifts are actually only different manifestations of Love displayed through someone who allows God to work through them. Even Jesus said, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the work." It was Love in Him, Love through Him, Love guiding Him, and Love revealing Him (God) as Father, through Jesus Himself. How much more are we to learn to allow God (Who is Love), to flow through us, like in Jesus?
Religion dictates terms and reasons to explain why the Gifts don't work like they should and did in Jesus. The real reason for this failure, is that we don't understand what Love has done in us and this causes us to not allow Love to be done through us. You are Love manifested into this world, as a vehicle of God and His Presence to be presented through. This Love doesn't "hover like fog in the air," but it was infused into our spirit, when we were born-again. This is the reason we are a new creation. Until now, Love was separated and only sparsely revealed. Now, it talks, walks, moves in and through the new creation, who is a new creature born of Love. As new creations, we are guided and directed by Love to "Only say what the Father says, only go where the Father says, Only do what I see Him do." We are new creatures who like Jesus say, "When you have seen Me, you have seen Him (Love) the Father Himself."
It may very well be, that the most amazing thing about this new creation (new creature we've become), is that we now have the ability to love as God Loves. This might be too much for some to believe, but not for those who will listen to the Voice of the Spirit.
It's true that we are endowed with super-natural ability by our new birth, but there seems to be very little evidence of it in our lives. The answer for this dis-ability, can be found in 1Corinthians 12:31 (Amplified), where Paul is speaking about the Gifts of the Spirit. Thus, he says, "earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best Gifts and graces (the higher Gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way (one that is better by far and the highest of them all-Love)."
I've wondered many times, what Paul was actually saying in the above scripture. He was speaking about the Gifts that the Spirit gives to the new creation people. In 1Corinthians 12:11 (Amplified) he writes, "All these (Gifts, achievements, abilities) are inspired and brought to pass by One and the Same Holy Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually (exactly) as He chooses."
Speaking by the Holy Spirit, Paul says we should "desire and zealously cultivate" these Gifts. So, it's not wrong for us to want to operate in this new super-natural way of living. Some have sought after these Gifts for personal gain and some have sought after them with good hearts (but wrong heads), in order to build a larger church or ministry. We've often heard it said and have said ourselves, that "If God would only do a great miracle in our church, then it would draw more people in." This is true, but our motives for wanting this might be wrong.
God doesn't give miracles to gain crowds, He gives them because His great Love cannot stand for them to be sick or maimed by disease and satan. God doesn't need to prove He is God. He does these things, because HE IS LOVE. Paul instructed us to seek after the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. This means that they are available to us, if we seek them. Then, though, Paul said there was a "better way to obtain these Gifts." He said that "Love was the better way." Paul didn't say that "Love was one of the Gifts", he said that "Love gave us access to any (or all) of the Gifts."
We often misunderstand the meaning of Romans 5:5 (Amplified) which says, "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us."
This isn't just God's Love for us, but it's also God's Love through us." John 3:16 (Amplified) tells us, "God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that we should not perish but have everlasting life." The Love of God came through and in Jesus. Jesus was Love in motion. In the four Gospels, we see Love walk on water, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, open the eyes of the blind and perform many other miracles. Even today, many might say about this move of Love, "Yes, but He was Jesus, Son of God."
Yes, Jesus was moved by compassion to heal the multitudes, but He was mostly moved by His Love for and by His Father. Paul said that if we would "see to walk in this Love, then it would bring us into a place where the Holy Spirit (Who gives these Gifts as He chooses) would be able to give any and all these Gifts, at any times."
The Love that has been "shed abroad in our hearts," is God Himself taking up residence within us. It's not just Love, but God Who is Love, according to 1John 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "And we know (understand, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in, and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us. God is Love, and he that dwells and continues in Love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him."
The better we understand that God's Love for us is so great, the more we respond to it and the Author of it. We mostly have no idea, how strong this Love for us is. If we did, then it would be simple for us to allow it to flow from us, to those who desperately need it. We wouldn't just talk about His Love, we would demonstrate His Love and set them free.
This Love (Who is God), is what allows the Gifts to operate wherever they are need, in order the "Set at liberty, those who are bound." These Gifts are God Himself, without having any restrictions on His Love nature. This is why Paul said that "This is a better way." But, a better way for what? A better way to obtain these Gifts, than to "earnestly covet them," like we read in 1Corinthians 12:31. It's certainly not prideful to seek the Gifts like scripture says we should, but it's motivation of heart that makes them flow.
We often fail to read Galatians 5:6 (Amplified) in it's fullness. Thus, it says, "For (if we are) in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through Love." We often read this to say, "If we are not in Love, then faith doesn't work." This is certainly true, but moreover, if we don't understand this Love for us and through us, our Love isn't as strong for others as it should be. When we understand the full extent of God's Love for us, we have faith in His Love through us, because He is Love.
Our faith is actually His faith, given to us by Himself, Who is Love. We still think of Love as being an emotion, instead of the very source of Life. When this Love was "shed abroad in our hearts," it was the very entrance of God's Spirit into our new creation spirit. We are born of Love. This Love is the most powerful thing in the universe, because it is the Creator of the universe.
Love "motivates the Gifts," Love directs the Gifts, Love decides who operates in these Gifts and Love is the power of deliverance through these Gifts. Paul writes about the difference between the religious use of the Gifts and the real purpose of the Spirit in these Gifts, in 1Corinthians 13. The Holy Spirit will not stop someone from being healed by the Gift of Healing, even though the person operating in this Gift isn't operating in Love, but some other motive. Love looks beyond the natural mind and man and still sets the person free because it's God's Love and not man's love, operating in deliverance.
It's obvious to any who will honestly look and see, how religion has tried determining who and how these Gifts function through. Because we took the Gifts out of Love and then cloned something similar in religion, these Gifts fail to work like they should. These Gifts are actually only different manifestations of Love displayed through someone who allows God to work through them. Even Jesus said, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the work." It was Love in Him, Love through Him, Love guiding Him, and Love revealing Him (God) as Father, through Jesus Himself. How much more are we to learn to allow God (Who is Love), to flow through us, like in Jesus?
Religion dictates terms and reasons to explain why the Gifts don't work like they should and did in Jesus. The real reason for this failure, is that we don't understand what Love has done in us and this causes us to not allow Love to be done through us. You are Love manifested into this world, as a vehicle of God and His Presence to be presented through. This Love doesn't "hover like fog in the air," but it was infused into our spirit, when we were born-again. This is the reason we are a new creation. Until now, Love was separated and only sparsely revealed. Now, it talks, walks, moves in and through the new creation, who is a new creature born of Love. As new creations, we are guided and directed by Love to "Only say what the Father says, only go where the Father says, Only do what I see Him do." We are new creatures who like Jesus say, "When you have seen Me, you have seen Him (Love) the Father Himself."
Monday, November 21, 2016
Lesson 124 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation, new creature is an entirely different kind of being altogether, that has never before existed on earth. There was never a man who had God's Own Spirit living withing him, until now. The Firstborn of the new creation was Jesus and He alone was more than satan could handle. Now, because of the new birth, we have millions of God-filled people throughout the planet.
Satan couldn't prevent the new creation from taking place and tried stopping the revelation of who they really are. He tried using religion and tradition to convince them that they're no different tan they really were, with the exception of being different in Heaven when we die.Satan has worked diligently from the very first day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, to stop the Church. He has established a culture of lies and deception, in order to blind the Church and causing them to believe very little of God's Word.
We've been deceived into believing that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the power from it, ceased after Pentecost and was only for the early Church. This lie has left the Church in a powerless place. Jesus said in Acts 1:8 (Amplified), "But you will receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth."
1Corinthians 12:1 (Amplified) says, "Now about the spiritual gifts (the special endowments of the supernatural energy) brethren; I do not want you to be misinformed." The main source of "misinformation" comes from the carnal minded Christians who have been misled by man's understanding, instead of the revelation of the Holy Spirit. After the Holy Spirit was poured out from Heaven to indwell God's people, God has never withdrawn or limited His ministry. More specifically, God has turned the whole ministry of the Church over to the hands of the Holy Spirit now.
When Jesus was here in His earthly ministry, He spoke about the time He would leave and return to His Father. The future event to come that Jesus spoke about, would be for the Church. Thus, He said in John 17:16-18 (Amplified), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world) (just) as I am not of this world. Sanctify them (purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy) by the Truth, Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."
Jesus delineated what this worldly task was for the Church in Mark 16:9,15,17-18 (Amplified) saying, "Now Jesus having risen (from death) early on the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons." Jesus directed those who were present to "Go into all the world and preach this Good News t all mankind," in Verse 15. Then Jesus said to them in Verses 17-18, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they shall 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 hands on the sick, and they will get well."
Jesus spoke again in John 17:18 (Amplified) saying, "As You have sent Me, I also have sent them. This was to be the very beginning of the new creation, the super-natural family God Himself would live in and walk. He was to be our God and we were to be His people. This was the time He prophesied about in John 14:12 (Amplified), when He said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, these attesting signs will accompany those who believe (Mark 16:17)." In John 14:12 (Amplified) He says of the new believer, "He himself will be able to do the things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
Jesus spoke in the scripture above from John about the time after His death. In Mark 16, He was speaking to His followers after He had risen from the dead. In John, He spoke about the future, when He would go to the Father. In Mark, it was no longer a future thing, but a now thing. This promise from Jesus was for "Those who believe." One might ask, "Believe what?" Certainly, it was believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, but what all are we to believe in this Gospel?
Jesus did not say that "Those who believe will be saved and those who don't believe will be damned" but He said that "These signs will follow those who believe." So, Jesus was speaking about more than just being saved. He said that we would do the works that He did, including setting others free from sin, sickness, disease and death.
The new creation, new creature is an entirely different kind of being altogether, that has never before existed on earth. There was never a man who had God's Own Spirit living withing him, until now. The Firstborn of the new creation was Jesus and He alone was more than satan could handle. Now, because of the new birth, we have millions of God-filled people throughout the planet.
Satan couldn't prevent the new creation from taking place and tried stopping the revelation of who they really are. He tried using religion and tradition to convince them that they're no different tan they really were, with the exception of being different in Heaven when we die.Satan has worked diligently from the very first day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, to stop the Church. He has established a culture of lies and deception, in order to blind the Church and causing them to believe very little of God's Word.
We've been deceived into believing that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the power from it, ceased after Pentecost and was only for the early Church. This lie has left the Church in a powerless place. Jesus said in Acts 1:8 (Amplified), "But you will receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth."
1Corinthians 12:1 (Amplified) says, "Now about the spiritual gifts (the special endowments of the supernatural energy) brethren; I do not want you to be misinformed." The main source of "misinformation" comes from the carnal minded Christians who have been misled by man's understanding, instead of the revelation of the Holy Spirit. After the Holy Spirit was poured out from Heaven to indwell God's people, God has never withdrawn or limited His ministry. More specifically, God has turned the whole ministry of the Church over to the hands of the Holy Spirit now.
When Jesus was here in His earthly ministry, He spoke about the time He would leave and return to His Father. The future event to come that Jesus spoke about, would be for the Church. Thus, He said in John 17:16-18 (Amplified), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world) (just) as I am not of this world. Sanctify them (purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy) by the Truth, Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."
Jesus delineated what this worldly task was for the Church in Mark 16:9,15,17-18 (Amplified) saying, "Now Jesus having risen (from death) early on the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons." Jesus directed those who were present to "Go into all the world and preach this Good News t all mankind," in Verse 15. Then Jesus said to them in Verses 17-18, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; In My Name they shall 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 hands on the sick, and they will get well."
Jesus spoke again in John 17:18 (Amplified) saying, "As You have sent Me, I also have sent them. This was to be the very beginning of the new creation, the super-natural family God Himself would live in and walk. He was to be our God and we were to be His people. This was the time He prophesied about in John 14:12 (Amplified), when He said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, these attesting signs will accompany those who believe (Mark 16:17)." In John 14:12 (Amplified) He says of the new believer, "He himself will be able to do the things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
Jesus spoke in the scripture above from John about the time after His death. In Mark 16, He was speaking to His followers after He had risen from the dead. In John, He spoke about the future, when He would go to the Father. In Mark, it was no longer a future thing, but a now thing. This promise from Jesus was for "Those who believe." One might ask, "Believe what?" Certainly, it was believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, but what all are we to believe in this Gospel?
Jesus did not say that "Those who believe will be saved and those who don't believe will be damned" but He said that "These signs will follow those who believe." So, Jesus was speaking about more than just being saved. He said that we would do the works that He did, including setting others free from sin, sickness, disease and death.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Lesson 123 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Paul speaks to the Church about something that we still have occurring today in 1Corinthians 3:1-3,10,12-15 (Amplified) saying, "However brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual (men) but as to no spiritual (men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates), as to mere infants (in the new life) in Christ (unable to talk yet). I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough (to be ready for it) For you as still (unspiritual, having the nature) of the flesh (under the control of ordinary impulses); For as long as (there are) envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?"
As new creation people, we have a new life and nature in which to operate in for, in the Kingdom. In the above scripture, Paul spoke about what in today's lingo, we would call the different denominations and in the different teachings in them. In Verse 10, Paul makes a statement we should pay special attention to. Thus, he says, "According to the grace (the special endowment for my task) of God bestowed on me, like a skillful and master builder I laid (the) foundation, and now another (man) is building upon it. But, let each (man) be careful how he builds upon it."
Paul goes on to say that "Jesus is the Foundation" we should build upon and "there can be no other foundation." In Verses 12-15 Paul says, "But if anyone builds upon the Foundation, whether it be with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, The work of each (one) will become (plainly, openly) known (shown for what it is); for the day (of Christ) will disclose and declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test and critically appraise the character and worth of the work each person has done. But if any person's work is burned up (under the test) he will suffer the loss (of it all, losing his reward) though he himself will be saved, but only as (one who has passed) through fire."
Many of the things being taught in today's Church, are coming under scrutiny. The trial by fire has now begun and some of the structures built on the "foundations" of men are falling. God has declared that the Church is now His sanctuary, the Temple He has chosen to dwell in. We have learned or known how, "Christ in us, is our hope of Glory" and we are the Temple of God. And, even though we read and say we believe this, we continue living like He isn't there at all.
One of the greatest revelations coming to the Church in these last days, is found in Jesus' prayer just before His going to the cross. Jesus spoke to the Father about the events that would happen, after His resurrection and the birth of the Church. Jesus speaks to the Father about how God would actually live in each person who will accept this truth and they would become the Church or Temple of God on earth. Thus, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, saying in John 17:22-23 (Amplified), "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One." The "glory and honor" He speaks about, is the Holy Spirit, God Himself, Who was living in Jesus' flesh and blood body. Now, through His death and resurrection, all who will believe, can become God's Temple on earth.
Jesus went on to pray in Verse 23 saying, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me." This prayer was (and still us) being answered in the Upper Room and is still "filling the believer (the Temple of God)" today. Much of the building we have built on the Foundation of Jesus Christ, has denied the Presence and power of the indwelling Person of the Holy Spirit, God in us. We have tried to build a man-made structure on a God-made Foundation, so the structure is always in need of repairs.
God is in the process of building a house of prayer and a house of praise, so He can dwell in His fullness like He was able to do through Jesus. Jesus spoke to the Father about the new creation, that would arise out of His death and Sacrifice in the Garden. The new creation was a being (individually and collectively) who would be like He was, both a natural man of flesh and bone and filled with the Super-natural Spirit of God Himself. The new creation was to be a permanent House of the Glory and Life of Almighty God, according to John 14:12 (Amplified), where Jesus said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these because I go to the Father."
Only a mind that is renewed by the Word and the Holy Spirit, can grasp what Jesus was saying in the above scripture. A carnal mind simply cannot reach into this realm of Truth. Jesus was speaking about not being just "one Man or Body," but about many men becoming one Body, His Body on this earth. Now, there isn't only One Man filled with the Father, but millions of men who are filled with the Father and that it's not us, "but the Father in us, Who does the work." The world marveled at the things the Father did through Jesus and they would marvel again at the things God will do through the Church, the Body of Christ here on earth. The very same Father Who worked through Jesus,would now be able to work through His Body, the Body of Christ living in the midst of mankind. The greater works (bringing the new birth) and the same miracles the Father performed through Jesus as a Man, could and would be done through His Body which is made up of many "living stones," born-again men and women who are the new creation people of God's Temple and His dwelling place on earth.
This message isn't for building up men's ego, but it is a message of Truth from the lips of Jesus. Our ego has nothing to do with it, because ego cannot enter in where we will receive the Mind of Christ. We must always remember that, "It's not us, but the Father in us, Who does the work." This will keep you from both ego and fear. You won't fear that "I can't heal them," but will do like Jesus did and allow the Father in you to do the work. The new creation people started out alright, when the House that was being built on the Firm Foundation was truth. For many years after Jesus' resurrection, men did great and mighty things in His Name. Eventually though, we stopped building on the Foundation and began putting up prefab houses on it. Prefab houses aren't built over time, but are made to move into instantly. They will keep us dry, but are not as strong as stone structures, made with living stones.
God is building His Temple out for stones that are not cut by man, but from living stones on the Foundation of Truth, who will fill the earth. Religions and philosophies cannot remain strong enough to remain intact, when storms arise. Only those who are anchored securely with the revelation of the Father in us, Who does the work will remain. As the Body of Christ, we are now God's hands to lay on the sick, the Voice of God to go into the world and proclaim Jesus, the feet of God to carry Him into the homes and towns of men and we are His vehicle of Truth, bringing Him into contact with the world.
It is not you, but the Father in you, Who does the work. God came to the sick in the person of Jesus, Paul, Stephen, Phillip, Peter, John, Smith Wigglesworth AND YOU.
Paul speaks to the Church about something that we still have occurring today in 1Corinthians 3:1-3,10,12-15 (Amplified) saying, "However brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual (men) but as to no spiritual (men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates), as to mere infants (in the new life) in Christ (unable to talk yet). I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough (to be ready for it) For you as still (unspiritual, having the nature) of the flesh (under the control of ordinary impulses); For as long as (there are) envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?"
As new creation people, we have a new life and nature in which to operate in for, in the Kingdom. In the above scripture, Paul spoke about what in today's lingo, we would call the different denominations and in the different teachings in them. In Verse 10, Paul makes a statement we should pay special attention to. Thus, he says, "According to the grace (the special endowment for my task) of God bestowed on me, like a skillful and master builder I laid (the) foundation, and now another (man) is building upon it. But, let each (man) be careful how he builds upon it."
Paul goes on to say that "Jesus is the Foundation" we should build upon and "there can be no other foundation." In Verses 12-15 Paul says, "But if anyone builds upon the Foundation, whether it be with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, The work of each (one) will become (plainly, openly) known (shown for what it is); for the day (of Christ) will disclose and declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test and critically appraise the character and worth of the work each person has done. But if any person's work is burned up (under the test) he will suffer the loss (of it all, losing his reward) though he himself will be saved, but only as (one who has passed) through fire."
Many of the things being taught in today's Church, are coming under scrutiny. The trial by fire has now begun and some of the structures built on the "foundations" of men are falling. God has declared that the Church is now His sanctuary, the Temple He has chosen to dwell in. We have learned or known how, "Christ in us, is our hope of Glory" and we are the Temple of God. And, even though we read and say we believe this, we continue living like He isn't there at all.
One of the greatest revelations coming to the Church in these last days, is found in Jesus' prayer just before His going to the cross. Jesus spoke to the Father about the events that would happen, after His resurrection and the birth of the Church. Jesus speaks to the Father about how God would actually live in each person who will accept this truth and they would become the Church or Temple of God on earth. Thus, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, saying in John 17:22-23 (Amplified), "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One." The "glory and honor" He speaks about, is the Holy Spirit, God Himself, Who was living in Jesus' flesh and blood body. Now, through His death and resurrection, all who will believe, can become God's Temple on earth.
Jesus went on to pray in Verse 23 saying, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me." This prayer was (and still us) being answered in the Upper Room and is still "filling the believer (the Temple of God)" today. Much of the building we have built on the Foundation of Jesus Christ, has denied the Presence and power of the indwelling Person of the Holy Spirit, God in us. We have tried to build a man-made structure on a God-made Foundation, so the structure is always in need of repairs.
God is in the process of building a house of prayer and a house of praise, so He can dwell in His fullness like He was able to do through Jesus. Jesus spoke to the Father about the new creation, that would arise out of His death and Sacrifice in the Garden. The new creation was a being (individually and collectively) who would be like He was, both a natural man of flesh and bone and filled with the Super-natural Spirit of God Himself. The new creation was to be a permanent House of the Glory and Life of Almighty God, according to John 14:12 (Amplified), where Jesus said, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these because I go to the Father."
Only a mind that is renewed by the Word and the Holy Spirit, can grasp what Jesus was saying in the above scripture. A carnal mind simply cannot reach into this realm of Truth. Jesus was speaking about not being just "one Man or Body," but about many men becoming one Body, His Body on this earth. Now, there isn't only One Man filled with the Father, but millions of men who are filled with the Father and that it's not us, "but the Father in us, Who does the work." The world marveled at the things the Father did through Jesus and they would marvel again at the things God will do through the Church, the Body of Christ here on earth. The very same Father Who worked through Jesus,would now be able to work through His Body, the Body of Christ living in the midst of mankind. The greater works (bringing the new birth) and the same miracles the Father performed through Jesus as a Man, could and would be done through His Body which is made up of many "living stones," born-again men and women who are the new creation people of God's Temple and His dwelling place on earth.
This message isn't for building up men's ego, but it is a message of Truth from the lips of Jesus. Our ego has nothing to do with it, because ego cannot enter in where we will receive the Mind of Christ. We must always remember that, "It's not us, but the Father in us, Who does the work." This will keep you from both ego and fear. You won't fear that "I can't heal them," but will do like Jesus did and allow the Father in you to do the work. The new creation people started out alright, when the House that was being built on the Firm Foundation was truth. For many years after Jesus' resurrection, men did great and mighty things in His Name. Eventually though, we stopped building on the Foundation and began putting up prefab houses on it. Prefab houses aren't built over time, but are made to move into instantly. They will keep us dry, but are not as strong as stone structures, made with living stones.
God is building His Temple out for stones that are not cut by man, but from living stones on the Foundation of Truth, who will fill the earth. Religions and philosophies cannot remain strong enough to remain intact, when storms arise. Only those who are anchored securely with the revelation of the Father in us, Who does the work will remain. As the Body of Christ, we are now God's hands to lay on the sick, the Voice of God to go into the world and proclaim Jesus, the feet of God to carry Him into the homes and towns of men and we are His vehicle of Truth, bringing Him into contact with the world.
It is not you, but the Father in you, Who does the work. God came to the sick in the person of Jesus, Paul, Stephen, Phillip, Peter, John, Smith Wigglesworth AND YOU.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Lesson 122 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether) the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
If the above scripture written by the Apostle Paul is true (and you know it is), then everyone who is born-again is different from any other being who has ever existed before on earth. We've tried patterning our lives after previous generations, without realizing we are not like them. We can't try establishing the Body of Christ (the Church) after anyone, not even those who lived under the Law.
Although the people under the Law were in covenant with God, they weren't like the new creation people in God's family today. These people were still spiritually dead and shut off from the Spirit of Life (God) in their spirit man. They were spirit people, because they were made in the Image and Likeness of God and God is a Spirit. When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, they were severed from God and therefore, Life Himself.
Under the new covenant, we've not only had Life restored into our spirit man, but we have God's Own Spirit (which is Life) infused into our new spirit man. Through Jesus, we've become one with Him and the Father. This isn't like it was in the Old Testament, where the Holy Spirit would come upon the men and women and they would do miraculous things. Now, the Holy Spirit, Who is God, is now intertwined with our spirit and has made us one spirit with God Himself. There couldn't be a Body of Christ, if we are not one with Him.
We are one with God and His spirit is one with our spirit. We have the same God Who created everything, living within us, in our spirit man. We are infused together with God and have an awesome power and responsibility to not only proclaim Jesus by our actions, along with the responsibility to watch over the very words we speak.
When Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River and filled with the Holy Spirit, He could then (and only then) to speak things that came to pass. Before the Holy Spirit was infused with Jesus' Spirit, like ours is now, Jesus never said or performed a miracle. Since we are His Body and are one with Jesus and the Father, we have the responsibility to say things that have power in the earth. Jesus simply spoke healings and miracles, by His Words that came out of God. Now, we have God's Word written down, so that we too can speak God's Word like we should, and get results like we should.
There have been many teachings about the confession of our mouths. Some of those contained truth, while others didn't. We are to know the Truth and the "Truth will set us free." There have been any who simply dismissed this revelation completely, but if we are in the Likeness and Image of God, then we have at least some of His attributes operating in our new creation spirit man.
We are not Jesus and we are not the Lord, but don't confuse the fact and the truth that we are still like Him. I am not my earthly father, but I was born with his DNA and have his attributes operating in me. We are not God, but we are His children and have been made in His Image and Likeness. The power of words, control this entire universe and everything in it. God spoke this entire world into being and He holds it in place by His Word.
I wrote another blog about the power of words and the use of them. The universe still operates by Words. The Constitution is nothing more than words and the Declaration of Independence is only words. If we hold fast to and stand for these words, then we have liberty. If we allow someone to change the meaning of these words, then we will lose liberty. The laws of our Land are only spoken, written words, to be enforced. God's Word is the very same thing.
One would think that the new creation people would understand the power of the words that are spoken from our spirit man and understand what these words could do. Instead of speaking God's Words of blessing, healing, victory and liberty, we speak sickness, death, cursing and bondage and then wonder why nothing is working in our lives. I'm not talking about our creating a new universe, but we can make changes in the home, family, town and even the country we live in. Do you think it was an accident that we have political correction to alter our speech? Or, do you think it has something to do with what we've been speaking?
When we alter our words, we alter the power of what we say. We have the ability to speak God's Word, while we have God living in our own spirit. Do you think that God or His Word has changed? If Jesus only said, "What the Father said" and got the Father's results, then do you think God doesn't "Watch over His Word to perform it" anymore? You might not change the universe with your speech, but you can change your life by it. Didn't we go from death to Life, by speaking and confessing Jesus as our Lord? Do you think salvation is the only part of God's Word we can depend on, to work in our lives? As the new creation, we have God's Own ability to speak His Word and get results.
We've been so programmed by the world for years, that we don't pay attention to what we say and how we say it. Jesus told His disciples in Mark 11:23 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart, but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
You might not "Throw a mountain into the sea" (even thou you could), but do we believe in our hearts that our words will take place? Because what we "believe in our hearts, come out of our mouths," are we to have faith that whatsoever we say will happen? Jesus didn't say that "only good things," but "whatsoever" we believe in our hearts. Do we believe and speak words from our hearts, about our children? Do you speak good or bad things? Do we confess the curse or the blessing, sickness or health? Do you really believe that words can shape our lives or do you believe they make no difference and we can simply say whatever we wish to?
Paul wrote in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) that, "Their throat is a awning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to be misled and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps i beneath their lips." These are evil doers who change men by their words. How much more power must there be in the Word of God spoken from new creation people (who are filled with God Himself)? Why have evil doers discovered the power of words, while God's people have not?
Instead of speaking the things the world says and think, why don't we simply listen to the Holy Spirit and keep our words lined up with God? Words made the grass, the trees, the water, all the animals, the mountains, the stars, the sun and the universe. Words created mankind and everything we see or don't see. The "Word was made flesh and has lived among us," and now this Word has made a new creation, to bring about a new kingdom by words, preaching a new creation.
Stop, listen sometime to what you are saying and see if your faith filled words are creating good and blessing or sickness and chaos in your life. You have the Holy Spirit to "tame your tongue," according to James 3:8-9 (Amplified) which says, "But the human tongue (natural man) can be tamed by no man, it is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison with it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse men who were made in God's Likeness." Words coming from the heart of the new creation, have power to bless and curse. We can even bless or curse our own lives, by yielding our tongues over to the devil and the world and speaking what they speak, instead of what God speaks. The power if in the words.
If the above scripture written by the Apostle Paul is true (and you know it is), then everyone who is born-again is different from any other being who has ever existed before on earth. We've tried patterning our lives after previous generations, without realizing we are not like them. We can't try establishing the Body of Christ (the Church) after anyone, not even those who lived under the Law.
Although the people under the Law were in covenant with God, they weren't like the new creation people in God's family today. These people were still spiritually dead and shut off from the Spirit of Life (God) in their spirit man. They were spirit people, because they were made in the Image and Likeness of God and God is a Spirit. When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, they were severed from God and therefore, Life Himself.
Under the new covenant, we've not only had Life restored into our spirit man, but we have God's Own Spirit (which is Life) infused into our new spirit man. Through Jesus, we've become one with Him and the Father. This isn't like it was in the Old Testament, where the Holy Spirit would come upon the men and women and they would do miraculous things. Now, the Holy Spirit, Who is God, is now intertwined with our spirit and has made us one spirit with God Himself. There couldn't be a Body of Christ, if we are not one with Him.
We are one with God and His spirit is one with our spirit. We have the same God Who created everything, living within us, in our spirit man. We are infused together with God and have an awesome power and responsibility to not only proclaim Jesus by our actions, along with the responsibility to watch over the very words we speak.
When Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River and filled with the Holy Spirit, He could then (and only then) to speak things that came to pass. Before the Holy Spirit was infused with Jesus' Spirit, like ours is now, Jesus never said or performed a miracle. Since we are His Body and are one with Jesus and the Father, we have the responsibility to say things that have power in the earth. Jesus simply spoke healings and miracles, by His Words that came out of God. Now, we have God's Word written down, so that we too can speak God's Word like we should, and get results like we should.
There have been many teachings about the confession of our mouths. Some of those contained truth, while others didn't. We are to know the Truth and the "Truth will set us free." There have been any who simply dismissed this revelation completely, but if we are in the Likeness and Image of God, then we have at least some of His attributes operating in our new creation spirit man.
We are not Jesus and we are not the Lord, but don't confuse the fact and the truth that we are still like Him. I am not my earthly father, but I was born with his DNA and have his attributes operating in me. We are not God, but we are His children and have been made in His Image and Likeness. The power of words, control this entire universe and everything in it. God spoke this entire world into being and He holds it in place by His Word.
I wrote another blog about the power of words and the use of them. The universe still operates by Words. The Constitution is nothing more than words and the Declaration of Independence is only words. If we hold fast to and stand for these words, then we have liberty. If we allow someone to change the meaning of these words, then we will lose liberty. The laws of our Land are only spoken, written words, to be enforced. God's Word is the very same thing.
One would think that the new creation people would understand the power of the words that are spoken from our spirit man and understand what these words could do. Instead of speaking God's Words of blessing, healing, victory and liberty, we speak sickness, death, cursing and bondage and then wonder why nothing is working in our lives. I'm not talking about our creating a new universe, but we can make changes in the home, family, town and even the country we live in. Do you think it was an accident that we have political correction to alter our speech? Or, do you think it has something to do with what we've been speaking?
When we alter our words, we alter the power of what we say. We have the ability to speak God's Word, while we have God living in our own spirit. Do you think that God or His Word has changed? If Jesus only said, "What the Father said" and got the Father's results, then do you think God doesn't "Watch over His Word to perform it" anymore? You might not change the universe with your speech, but you can change your life by it. Didn't we go from death to Life, by speaking and confessing Jesus as our Lord? Do you think salvation is the only part of God's Word we can depend on, to work in our lives? As the new creation, we have God's Own ability to speak His Word and get results.
We've been so programmed by the world for years, that we don't pay attention to what we say and how we say it. Jesus told His disciples in Mark 11:23 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart, but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
You might not "Throw a mountain into the sea" (even thou you could), but do we believe in our hearts that our words will take place? Because what we "believe in our hearts, come out of our mouths," are we to have faith that whatsoever we say will happen? Jesus didn't say that "only good things," but "whatsoever" we believe in our hearts. Do we believe and speak words from our hearts, about our children? Do you speak good or bad things? Do we confess the curse or the blessing, sickness or health? Do you really believe that words can shape our lives or do you believe they make no difference and we can simply say whatever we wish to?
Paul wrote in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) that, "Their throat is a awning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to be misled and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps i beneath their lips." These are evil doers who change men by their words. How much more power must there be in the Word of God spoken from new creation people (who are filled with God Himself)? Why have evil doers discovered the power of words, while God's people have not?
Instead of speaking the things the world says and think, why don't we simply listen to the Holy Spirit and keep our words lined up with God? Words made the grass, the trees, the water, all the animals, the mountains, the stars, the sun and the universe. Words created mankind and everything we see or don't see. The "Word was made flesh and has lived among us," and now this Word has made a new creation, to bring about a new kingdom by words, preaching a new creation.
Stop, listen sometime to what you are saying and see if your faith filled words are creating good and blessing or sickness and chaos in your life. You have the Holy Spirit to "tame your tongue," according to James 3:8-9 (Amplified) which says, "But the human tongue (natural man) can be tamed by no man, it is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison with it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse men who were made in God's Likeness." Words coming from the heart of the new creation, have power to bless and curse. We can even bless or curse our own lives, by yielding our tongues over to the devil and the world and speaking what they speak, instead of what God speaks. The power if in the words.
Friday, November 11, 2016
Lesson 121 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We were born of the Spirit, filled with God's Spirit and are to be led by the Holy Spirit, in order that we might know and do His will. Jesus said that, "He and the Father are One" and that "He didn't come to do His will, but the will of the Father." We are to know The Shepherd's Voice and not follow the voice of a stranger. In order to know the Father's will, we must know Jesus. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to know God's will and do His will on earth.
Many might say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit," but I would answer, "You have the Spirit Who has the Gifts." God gives His Gifts severely as He wills and if we go in His will, then God will manifest the Gifts to profit those in need. We've somehow forgotten, that the Greater One lives in us and it's not us, but the "Father in us, Who does the works." If we will only put faith back into what God has now created for us and go about to do His will, then God will still confirm His Word with signs and wonders following.
You are not the healer and never have been, but you are the messenger who brings the Healer to the sick. As new creation people, our responsibility is to know God's will and be where He directed us to be when He needs us to be there. We've tried making the Holy Spirit our messenger boy, instead of going to the sick, we "send Him." Don't we know that where we go, God goes? Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
Even with my "lightning fast mind," I can tell that the way the earth if functioning, isn't the way Heaven functions. If God's will is being done here and we're seeing the results of this, then Heaven must be in real trouble. When we stop looking to the religious order and return to righteous order, things will change. The power of the Holy Spirit will confirm God's Word, as we bring the Word the world just like Jesus did.
We were created to know our Father's will, by knowing His Son and then executing His will on earth. We have the same mandate Adam was given, "To go forth and replenish and take dominion over the earth." Adam was to spread God's blessing from the Garden of Eden, to the ends of the earth. Now, we have the Father living inside us, through Jesus. The Holy Spirit and our spirit are one spirit in God. How can we not be victorious, if we will only go forth?
Jesus told His disciples to "Wait in Jerusalem until they receive power from on Higher." Satan did his best to talk us out of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and this power. God gives this power to demonstrate His Kingdom to those on earth and it is very much available to "all who will believe." The new creation is the antidote for sin, sickness, despair and death. Jesus said that we are "Of this world, but not of this world." Jesus said that He was"Sent down from above, to do the will of the Father." We have come down from above, to do the will of the Father, too. We were born from above by His Spiirt and we are to function like one from above, by His Own Spirit living in us.
We were born of the Spirit, filled with God's Spirit and are to be led by the Holy Spirit, in order that we might know and do His will. Jesus said that, "He and the Father are One" and that "He didn't come to do His will, but the will of the Father." We are to know The Shepherd's Voice and not follow the voice of a stranger. In order to know the Father's will, we must know Jesus. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to know God's will and do His will on earth.
Many might say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit," but I would answer, "You have the Spirit Who has the Gifts." God gives His Gifts severely as He wills and if we go in His will, then God will manifest the Gifts to profit those in need. We've somehow forgotten, that the Greater One lives in us and it's not us, but the "Father in us, Who does the works." If we will only put faith back into what God has now created for us and go about to do His will, then God will still confirm His Word with signs and wonders following.
You are not the healer and never have been, but you are the messenger who brings the Healer to the sick. As new creation people, our responsibility is to know God's will and be where He directed us to be when He needs us to be there. We've tried making the Holy Spirit our messenger boy, instead of going to the sick, we "send Him." Don't we know that where we go, God goes? Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
Even with my "lightning fast mind," I can tell that the way the earth if functioning, isn't the way Heaven functions. If God's will is being done here and we're seeing the results of this, then Heaven must be in real trouble. When we stop looking to the religious order and return to righteous order, things will change. The power of the Holy Spirit will confirm God's Word, as we bring the Word the world just like Jesus did.
We were created to know our Father's will, by knowing His Son and then executing His will on earth. We have the same mandate Adam was given, "To go forth and replenish and take dominion over the earth." Adam was to spread God's blessing from the Garden of Eden, to the ends of the earth. Now, we have the Father living inside us, through Jesus. The Holy Spirit and our spirit are one spirit in God. How can we not be victorious, if we will only go forth?
Jesus told His disciples to "Wait in Jerusalem until they receive power from on Higher." Satan did his best to talk us out of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and this power. God gives this power to demonstrate His Kingdom to those on earth and it is very much available to "all who will believe." The new creation is the antidote for sin, sickness, despair and death. Jesus said that we are "Of this world, but not of this world." Jesus said that He was"Sent down from above, to do the will of the Father." We have come down from above, to do the will of the Father, too. We were born from above by His Spiirt and we are to function like one from above, by His Own Spirit living in us.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Lesson 120 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person in (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) is passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
As new creation Ambassadors for Christ, we are sent by the King of our New Kingdom, to reveal Life to the dead and to bring them into this new creation family of God. We've been created new by the Life that is in the Word and we are commissioned to go forth, administering Life to those who are still dead in sin and trespasses. We were never commissioned to "start a new religion," but to bring Life to a dying world.
The Church's entire purpose for being here on earth, is to minister Life to those who are still dead. 2Corinthians 5:19 (Amplified) says, "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)." This is our commission as ambassadors of Christ, to minister reconciliation to the world.
God's Word is the source of Life for the new creation, according to 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) which says, "You have been regenerated (born again) not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." We preach that everyone must be forgiven of sin and trespasses and strive to live upright. However, we haven't been preaching how God presents all with the choice of Life, by the new creation. Every person on this planet, has been presented with the choice to live or die and with the choice to be blessed or continue in the curse. When presented in wisdom and the Anointing, it's difficult to reject Life, but when presented in the spirit of religion (even by well meaning people), many will choose to continue in the curse.
The world and to some degree, the Church tend to judge after the flesh and not after the Spirit. We tend to judge people for their past or for their actions we deem to be wrong. We've been given the choices by God and He will allow us to make wrong choices. He will speak to us, guide us and even plead with us, but He allows us to make our own choices and direction.
The Word of Life and reconciliation that we preach, isn't to become items of debate or argument to persuade, but it is the demonstration of power from God's Kingdom. The Life that we are to minister, is to be accompanied with Life Itself, to heal, deliver and restore the new creation into God's Kingdom. When we preach Life, then Life is the proof of God's Kingdom for the entire world.
Jesus sent out His disciples with instructions on how to announce the Kingdom of God in Luke 10:8-11 (Amplified) saying, "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you And heal the sick in it and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come close to you. But whenever you go into a town and they do not receive and accept and welcome you, go out into the streets and say, Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we are wiping off against you; yet know and understand this; this Kingdom of God has come near you."
Somehow, we've made the Gospel so unappealing that it's not very hard to reject the favor of God. We've made it seem lifeless and dull, so that the people only see lifelessness and bondage. We preach liberty and freedom, then we bind them with religious traditions that have no life in them. When we minister Life, there should be Life confirmed by the signs following. Otherwise, this message is simply words.
We are to walk in demonstration of power released in us and through us by the King of the Kingdom we represent. We've become the "religious" people of Timothy's day, who Paul called the "future religious order," in 2Timothy 3:5 (Amplified) saying, "For (Although) they hold a form of piety (true religion) they deny and reject and are true strangers to the power of it (their conduct belies the genuiness of their profession) Avoid (all) such people (turn away from them)."
We have many things today, that are outer showings in the Church and are still "unsaved (dead) in spirit, making the Church in their own liking." This is a worldwide occurrence and isn't happening only in America. There are and always have been, many religions throughout the world. People worship many gods and have many ways of reaching those gods. We must have the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrating God's Kingdom and our King, in order to reach these people and overcome the demonic teachings and culture. Without the power of the Kingdom backing us, we seem like just another way to heaven, to the world.
As new creation people, we've been united with God by His Spirit within our own spirit. Within this union, we've been granted all that is needed to demonstrate the Kingdom we represent. We are to demonstrate healing to the sick and to bring (speak) peace into their homes and lives by God Himself. We've become carriers of Life and "capsules" of the very Life of God for a dead world. Their future and our futures are determined by how we choose, when the choice is presented. Do they choose Life and blessing? Or, do they remain ignorant, choosing death and cursing? Their choice might come down to how we present the Message of Life to them. If we present Jesus in the power of God's Spirit, then we will be successful in steering their choice for Life. If we present Jesus like other religions present their gods, then we will not succeed in our mission.
It's difficult to believe that some will choose death and cursing, if they truly understand the Truth being presented. Most people I led to the Lord, came because of the demonstration of power that God's Kingdom I represented. It's hard to deny God's Kingdom when you've witnessed the Presence of our Heavenly King to those who are unsaved. God comes in power, peace, deliverance, and Light that expels darkness in every area of our lives.
The commission and work of the new creation people, is to bring Life (by Word and power) to dead men. We're to bring the Life of God into their spirit again, by revealing Jesus is ALIVE. He is not some god who cannot speak or hear, but He is a Living God Who is always attentive to the choice He bestows to us. God sired the new creation people into a realm, unlike any other on this planet.
We were born of the Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit,and led by the Spirit of God Himself. We are not only called to know His will and to do His will. Jesus didn't come to do His Own will, but the will of the Father. As new creation people, we are supposed to be like Jesus was in the earth. We are to know the Voice of our Shepherd and not follow the voice of a stranger. Many will say to God, "Thy will be done," but then do not do His will. Many mistakenly call evil, ungodly things "God's will." In order to know God's will, we must KNOW JESUS.
Jesus said that, "The Father and I are One." How much more do we need to see, in order to know what God's will is and then do His will? Did Jesus ever make anyone sick? Of course not. Is sickness, then, God's will for us today? If it is, then Jesus wasn't doing the Father's will. If healing was the work Jesus came to do, then healing must still be God's will for today, because He and the Father are One. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to not only know God's will, but to go forth doing God's will in the earth.
Many say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit." I say, "You have the Spirit Who has the gifts." God gives these Gifts "severely as He wills" and if we go in His will, then He will manifest the power (or Gifts) to profit withal," according to 1Corinthians 12.
As new creation Ambassadors for Christ, we are sent by the King of our New Kingdom, to reveal Life to the dead and to bring them into this new creation family of God. We've been created new by the Life that is in the Word and we are commissioned to go forth, administering Life to those who are still dead in sin and trespasses. We were never commissioned to "start a new religion," but to bring Life to a dying world.
The Church's entire purpose for being here on earth, is to minister Life to those who are still dead. 2Corinthians 5:19 (Amplified) says, "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)." This is our commission as ambassadors of Christ, to minister reconciliation to the world.
God's Word is the source of Life for the new creation, according to 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) which says, "You have been regenerated (born again) not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from One that is immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." We preach that everyone must be forgiven of sin and trespasses and strive to live upright. However, we haven't been preaching how God presents all with the choice of Life, by the new creation. Every person on this planet, has been presented with the choice to live or die and with the choice to be blessed or continue in the curse. When presented in wisdom and the Anointing, it's difficult to reject Life, but when presented in the spirit of religion (even by well meaning people), many will choose to continue in the curse.
The world and to some degree, the Church tend to judge after the flesh and not after the Spirit. We tend to judge people for their past or for their actions we deem to be wrong. We've been given the choices by God and He will allow us to make wrong choices. He will speak to us, guide us and even plead with us, but He allows us to make our own choices and direction.
The Word of Life and reconciliation that we preach, isn't to become items of debate or argument to persuade, but it is the demonstration of power from God's Kingdom. The Life that we are to minister, is to be accompanied with Life Itself, to heal, deliver and restore the new creation into God's Kingdom. When we preach Life, then Life is the proof of God's Kingdom for the entire world.
Jesus sent out His disciples with instructions on how to announce the Kingdom of God in Luke 10:8-11 (Amplified) saying, "Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you And heal the sick in it and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come close to you. But whenever you go into a town and they do not receive and accept and welcome you, go out into the streets and say, Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we are wiping off against you; yet know and understand this; this Kingdom of God has come near you."
Somehow, we've made the Gospel so unappealing that it's not very hard to reject the favor of God. We've made it seem lifeless and dull, so that the people only see lifelessness and bondage. We preach liberty and freedom, then we bind them with religious traditions that have no life in them. When we minister Life, there should be Life confirmed by the signs following. Otherwise, this message is simply words.
We are to walk in demonstration of power released in us and through us by the King of the Kingdom we represent. We've become the "religious" people of Timothy's day, who Paul called the "future religious order," in 2Timothy 3:5 (Amplified) saying, "For (Although) they hold a form of piety (true religion) they deny and reject and are true strangers to the power of it (their conduct belies the genuiness of their profession) Avoid (all) such people (turn away from them)."
We have many things today, that are outer showings in the Church and are still "unsaved (dead) in spirit, making the Church in their own liking." This is a worldwide occurrence and isn't happening only in America. There are and always have been, many religions throughout the world. People worship many gods and have many ways of reaching those gods. We must have the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrating God's Kingdom and our King, in order to reach these people and overcome the demonic teachings and culture. Without the power of the Kingdom backing us, we seem like just another way to heaven, to the world.
As new creation people, we've been united with God by His Spirit within our own spirit. Within this union, we've been granted all that is needed to demonstrate the Kingdom we represent. We are to demonstrate healing to the sick and to bring (speak) peace into their homes and lives by God Himself. We've become carriers of Life and "capsules" of the very Life of God for a dead world. Their future and our futures are determined by how we choose, when the choice is presented. Do they choose Life and blessing? Or, do they remain ignorant, choosing death and cursing? Their choice might come down to how we present the Message of Life to them. If we present Jesus in the power of God's Spirit, then we will be successful in steering their choice for Life. If we present Jesus like other religions present their gods, then we will not succeed in our mission.
It's difficult to believe that some will choose death and cursing, if they truly understand the Truth being presented. Most people I led to the Lord, came because of the demonstration of power that God's Kingdom I represented. It's hard to deny God's Kingdom when you've witnessed the Presence of our Heavenly King to those who are unsaved. God comes in power, peace, deliverance, and Light that expels darkness in every area of our lives.
The commission and work of the new creation people, is to bring Life (by Word and power) to dead men. We're to bring the Life of God into their spirit again, by revealing Jesus is ALIVE. He is not some god who cannot speak or hear, but He is a Living God Who is always attentive to the choice He bestows to us. God sired the new creation people into a realm, unlike any other on this planet.
We were born of the Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit,and led by the Spirit of God Himself. We are not only called to know His will and to do His will. Jesus didn't come to do His Own will, but the will of the Father. As new creation people, we are supposed to be like Jesus was in the earth. We are to know the Voice of our Shepherd and not follow the voice of a stranger. Many will say to God, "Thy will be done," but then do not do His will. Many mistakenly call evil, ungodly things "God's will." In order to know God's will, we must KNOW JESUS.
Jesus said that, "The Father and I are One." How much more do we need to see, in order to know what God's will is and then do His will? Did Jesus ever make anyone sick? Of course not. Is sickness, then, God's will for us today? If it is, then Jesus wasn't doing the Father's will. If healing was the work Jesus came to do, then healing must still be God's will for today, because He and the Father are One. Our responsibility in the Kingdom, is to not only know God's will, but to go forth doing God's will in the earth.
Many say, "We don't have the Gifts of the Spirit." I say, "You have the Spirit Who has the gifts." God gives these Gifts "severely as He wills" and if we go in His will, then He will manifest the power (or Gifts) to profit withal," according to 1Corinthians 12.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Lesson 119 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether) the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The "fresh and new" isn't something that has been held back for another time, but has now already come. When we received Jesus as our Savior, the new creation was instantly born from above. We've spent many days and years trying to become what the Father has already done. We don't need to try becoming a new creation, you are already a new creation. Now, we study the Word of God to discover what the new creation was born to do.
2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God." As ambassadors of Christ, we are sent forth from the Kingdom of God into a foreign country, to reveal the new Kingdom to those who are outside of this realm. This Kingdom has resources and privileges that the earthly kingdom cannot offer to the people.
As personal representatives of Christ, we're not only to show the world a different religion, but Life itself. In John 10:10 Jesus didn't say that He would show the people a different way to live, but He said that without Him, they couldn't and didn't live at all. These people were eating, drinking, building home and raising families, but they were not alive. They had no concept of "spiritual death" and had no idea of what He was saying. For much of today's Church, we still have no concept of what Jesus was saying. It's true that sin brought death, but this death was separation from God Who is Life. The flesh still had life, because we were created by God as spirit beings and spirit beings are eternal. It wasn't that the spirit wouldn't live forever, but where it would live, according to Revelations 20:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Then death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. Verse 15 goes on, "And if anyone's (name) was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the Lake of Fire."
This isn't just a source of punishment. For those who didn't have their names in the Book of Life, they were already dead before the judgment. These were those who rejected the offer of Life and decided to remain children of transgression. Their father is the devil, he is transgression itself.
Since spirit beings are already eternal beings, not confining these outlaw spirits from the new heaven and new earth, would be equivalent to opening all of our prisons and setting all of the prisoners free into society.
If you can imagine the results of releasing satan and his works into the new heaven and earth, then what would be different in the future from what it is now? Would Jesus have to come and die again and again pay for perpetual sin? Hebrews 10:26-27 (Amplified) says, "For if we go on deliberately and willingly sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to atone for (our) sins (no further offering to which to look forward) (There is nothing left for us then) but a kind of awful and fearful prospect and expectation of divine judgment and the fury of burning wrath and indignation which will consume those who put themselves in opposition (to God)."
The above scripture speaks about those who put themselves in opposition to God. We all have God's grace operating for us to bring us to the place of salvation, but if we deliberately set ourselves to oppose God, then we have counted Jesus' sacrifice as nothing and have made a mockery of the price grace paid for our deliverance. There is nothing left to pay for spiritual separation from God and we would remain in this eternal place of separation from Him forever.
There would have been no need for Jesus to come at all, if God simply put all who opposed Him back into His new kingdom, to start over again with this demonic realm of rebellion. Satan would recruit more of the rebels to overthrow God and His Kingdom. And, the rebellion in the Garden of Eden would be put on a loop, over and over again throughout eternity.
Many believe that a Just and Righteous Judge wouldn't sentence mankind into such a place, but God has done above and beyond everything that is possible to prevent this judgment. We will all have to choose whether to say, "I need You, God" or "I don't accept Your Son or Your forgiveness" or say, "We don't want You, God." Choosing "death and cursing" is the most ignorant decision one could possibly make, but there are those who will choose these things. God doesn't make this choice for man, but allows man to choose for himself.
God set the choice before all of mankind in Deuteronomy 30:11-14,19-20, that continues today. The things God spoke about in Verses 11-14 are the same things recorded about salvation in Romans 10:8-10. God said in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (Amplified), "For this commandment which I command you this day is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off. For it is not (a secret laid up) in Heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us that we may hear and do it. Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it? But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in mind and in your heart, so that you can do it. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil."
God goes on in Verses 19-20 saying, "I call Heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curses; therefore choose Life, that you and your descendants may live and love the Lord your God, obey His Voice, and cling to Him, For He is your Life and the Length of your days."
If we do not choose Life, then the only thing remaining is death and cursing for now and hereafter. This is the choice that each person must make on a personal level. When we choose to receive the Gift of Jesus Christ, we choose Life and God, Who became our Father again. When we choose Jesus, we are instantly born-again and become new creations. In this new creation, we have chosen to walk in Life and blessing. This is the choice we all must make on this side of natural death. When we choose Jesus, we also choose Life and blessing. The blessing goes with the choice.
Throughout the years, many have been taught that things happening to the new creation people are from God and not from the Curse. This isn't true, but satan uses this deception to try controlling the new creation. I suppose that we still have the right to choose what we will receive or reject, even after we are born-again. Many have erroneously chosen the curse of sickness, poverty and despair, believing God was putting these things on them for a purpose. This is the believer's responsibility to accept or reject. God gave us the right to choose and He will respect our choice. The "Word is still near us, in our heart and our mouth to choose as we will." If this is your choice, then understand that in these Last Days, those who reject salvation were granted the same choice and have chosen what they have.
The "fresh and new" isn't something that has been held back for another time, but has now already come. When we received Jesus as our Savior, the new creation was instantly born from above. We've spent many days and years trying to become what the Father has already done. We don't need to try becoming a new creation, you are already a new creation. Now, we study the Word of God to discover what the new creation was born to do.
2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God." As ambassadors of Christ, we are sent forth from the Kingdom of God into a foreign country, to reveal the new Kingdom to those who are outside of this realm. This Kingdom has resources and privileges that the earthly kingdom cannot offer to the people.
As personal representatives of Christ, we're not only to show the world a different religion, but Life itself. In John 10:10 Jesus didn't say that He would show the people a different way to live, but He said that without Him, they couldn't and didn't live at all. These people were eating, drinking, building home and raising families, but they were not alive. They had no concept of "spiritual death" and had no idea of what He was saying. For much of today's Church, we still have no concept of what Jesus was saying. It's true that sin brought death, but this death was separation from God Who is Life. The flesh still had life, because we were created by God as spirit beings and spirit beings are eternal. It wasn't that the spirit wouldn't live forever, but where it would live, according to Revelations 20:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Then death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. Verse 15 goes on, "And if anyone's (name) was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the Lake of Fire."
This isn't just a source of punishment. For those who didn't have their names in the Book of Life, they were already dead before the judgment. These were those who rejected the offer of Life and decided to remain children of transgression. Their father is the devil, he is transgression itself.
Since spirit beings are already eternal beings, not confining these outlaw spirits from the new heaven and new earth, would be equivalent to opening all of our prisons and setting all of the prisoners free into society.
If you can imagine the results of releasing satan and his works into the new heaven and earth, then what would be different in the future from what it is now? Would Jesus have to come and die again and again pay for perpetual sin? Hebrews 10:26-27 (Amplified) says, "For if we go on deliberately and willingly sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to atone for (our) sins (no further offering to which to look forward) (There is nothing left for us then) but a kind of awful and fearful prospect and expectation of divine judgment and the fury of burning wrath and indignation which will consume those who put themselves in opposition (to God)."
The above scripture speaks about those who put themselves in opposition to God. We all have God's grace operating for us to bring us to the place of salvation, but if we deliberately set ourselves to oppose God, then we have counted Jesus' sacrifice as nothing and have made a mockery of the price grace paid for our deliverance. There is nothing left to pay for spiritual separation from God and we would remain in this eternal place of separation from Him forever.
There would have been no need for Jesus to come at all, if God simply put all who opposed Him back into His new kingdom, to start over again with this demonic realm of rebellion. Satan would recruit more of the rebels to overthrow God and His Kingdom. And, the rebellion in the Garden of Eden would be put on a loop, over and over again throughout eternity.
Many believe that a Just and Righteous Judge wouldn't sentence mankind into such a place, but God has done above and beyond everything that is possible to prevent this judgment. We will all have to choose whether to say, "I need You, God" or "I don't accept Your Son or Your forgiveness" or say, "We don't want You, God." Choosing "death and cursing" is the most ignorant decision one could possibly make, but there are those who will choose these things. God doesn't make this choice for man, but allows man to choose for himself.
God set the choice before all of mankind in Deuteronomy 30:11-14,19-20, that continues today. The things God spoke about in Verses 11-14 are the same things recorded about salvation in Romans 10:8-10. God said in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (Amplified), "For this commandment which I command you this day is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off. For it is not (a secret laid up) in Heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us that we may hear and do it. Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it? But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in mind and in your heart, so that you can do it. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil."
God goes on in Verses 19-20 saying, "I call Heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curses; therefore choose Life, that you and your descendants may live and love the Lord your God, obey His Voice, and cling to Him, For He is your Life and the Length of your days."
If we do not choose Life, then the only thing remaining is death and cursing for now and hereafter. This is the choice that each person must make on a personal level. When we choose to receive the Gift of Jesus Christ, we choose Life and God, Who became our Father again. When we choose Jesus, we are instantly born-again and become new creations. In this new creation, we have chosen to walk in Life and blessing. This is the choice we all must make on this side of natural death. When we choose Jesus, we also choose Life and blessing. The blessing goes with the choice.
Throughout the years, many have been taught that things happening to the new creation people are from God and not from the Curse. This isn't true, but satan uses this deception to try controlling the new creation. I suppose that we still have the right to choose what we will receive or reject, even after we are born-again. Many have erroneously chosen the curse of sickness, poverty and despair, believing God was putting these things on them for a purpose. This is the believer's responsibility to accept or reject. God gave us the right to choose and He will respect our choice. The "Word is still near us, in our heart and our mouth to choose as we will." If this is your choice, then understand that in these Last Days, those who reject salvation were granted the same choice and have chosen what they have.
Monday, November 7, 2016
Lesson 118 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has come. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We've never truly been able to see ourselves the way God created us to be, in the "Mirror" of God's Word. We only see what man's idea describes us as and not what our Father has sired us to be. The old, false pride of the world has not given way to the glory of Truth.
The carnal mind is in enmity to the Truth of God's Word and has kept the Church from entering into our true calling and ability. Even in the Church, we hear how we're a loathsome, low, worm, but if anyone on the street called us these things, then there would be a brawl. In our hearts, we never really believed that God was our problem, but we still received the world's accusations of our being substandard people.
Our Father brought into being a new creation that isn't unlike anyone or anything encountered on earth previously. Jesus was the Only One they had seen. Not even satan could prevent our believing that Jesus was and is the Son of God, so the best he could do was to make us believe that Jesus was the Only One Who could do the works of the Father. By spreading this deception into those we led to the Lord, satan could hold back the power and ability in the Church.
Many in today's Church, still do not believe they have the Commission from the Father, to do the works that Jesus did through the Father. Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he himself will be able to do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." If Jesus said these things, then they are true. In John 6:63 (Amplified) Jesus said, "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."
Both of the above scriptures are Truth, Spirit and Life. It has been the "non-profiting flesh" that has held the Truth from the believer, just like the flesh and the lying devil, have held back the Truth of salvation from the world. If satan can't keep you from becoming born-again, then he will try to make us helpless by his lies.
The heart of the Church is the have the Father's will be "done here on earth, as it is in Heaven." This is what we pray and hope for the world, as well as for our lives. The most important thing the Body of Christ needs to do, is adjust our will to His will and then do His will. We continuously pray for God's will to be done, but Jesus didn't say that He was praying for the Father's will to be done. Jesus said that He came to do the Father's will.
Thus, 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." Of course, the Sacrifice of Jesus was the will of the Father and neither you or I can do that, but everything else that Jesus did, was also the Father's will. It had to be the Father's will to heal the people, to raise up those who were broken and disabled, to free those who were bound by demonic spirits and to comfort those and set free all who were oppressed by the devil.
This is still the Father's will to be done here on earth, that we (the new creation people) are subject to do not our will, but the Father's will. In order to have God's will done here, God needs someone to do His will. God isn't going to force His will upon anyone.
Jesus didn't make the people get healed, nor did He make them do what He wanted them to do. He only revealed to them the will of the Father and then did His will, as they believed. Jesus spoke the prophecy from Isaiah 61:1-2 in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) where He proclaimed this is God's will. Those who heard Him, made the decision in their hearts, to believe His will and so it was "done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
We have somehow believed that Jesus was unable to follow His Own will and reject the Father's will. In the Garden of Gethsemane, before His death though, Jesus prayed, "Father, if You are will remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but (always) Yours' be done," Luke 22:42 (Amplified). As a Man, Jesus had a will of His Own, just like we have our own will. He wasn't some puppet Who had no choice about what He did. Jesus was a Son and Servant, Who gave up His will to the Father as an act of Love and obedience.
The act of surrendering our will over to do God's will, is still what holds back the full glory of the revelation of God to the world. Philippians 2:8 (Amplified) tells us, "After He (Jesus) had appeared in Human Form, He abased and humbled Himself (still further) and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross."
We have yet to submit our will in obedience to God's will, to actually have His will be done like He wishes. In order to have God's will be done here, Jesus had to submit His will to God. Because God now had a Man Who would yield to His will, God could bring His will "to earth, as it is in Heaven." Now that He has brought about the miracle of the new creation, through the subjection of Jesus' will, God wants to carry out the rest of His will, through those who have been newly created by Jesus' will.
The new creation people are to be like Jesus and are to be those who will yield their will over to His will. When we yield our will to His, God can carry our His plan for mankind. We have been double-minded about God's will for centuries and that has made it difficult for God to find those who are able to do His will through. How can we expect to do His will, when we've been blinded to what His will truly is?
Any true believer would certainly do God's will, if he only knew what God's will was. We pray, "Not my will God, but Your will be done," but we don't know what God's will is and it never gets done. The only way we can know God's will, is by watching and following Jesus and not the Old Testament way of life.
Under the new covenant and as new creation people, we are able to hear, know and to do God's will, just like Jesus did. It's not a matter of wanting to see God more, but a matter of yielding our will over to His will, in order to allow it to come to pass.
The new creation has held much confusion about what God's will is. It should be obvious about what God's will for our personal lives is. We should know that adultery, lying, homosexuality, stealing and other such sins are not God's will for us, but what is His will for others, through us? Jesus walked in God's will for His Own will, but He also yielded Himself for God to do His will, through Him, for other people's lives. Many in today's Church, still don't know if it's God's will to heal the sick and walk in confusion.
We have allowed the world to determine what God's will is. We've accepted so many things into the Church, that are not (and never have been) God's will. We have searched for answers in so many places, about what is God's will and have come up short, because His answers for the new creation are in His Word (not man's wisdom). This is why Jesus said that we would have the Holy Spirit to teach us. Man's idea of God's will, is warped at best.
Jesus said that, "When we see Him, we have seen God." Jesus only did what He heard, saw and was led by the Father's will. The only way of ever knowing God as "Father," is to see Him in the Presence of Jesus.
We've never truly been able to see ourselves the way God created us to be, in the "Mirror" of God's Word. We only see what man's idea describes us as and not what our Father has sired us to be. The old, false pride of the world has not given way to the glory of Truth.
The carnal mind is in enmity to the Truth of God's Word and has kept the Church from entering into our true calling and ability. Even in the Church, we hear how we're a loathsome, low, worm, but if anyone on the street called us these things, then there would be a brawl. In our hearts, we never really believed that God was our problem, but we still received the world's accusations of our being substandard people.
Our Father brought into being a new creation that isn't unlike anyone or anything encountered on earth previously. Jesus was the Only One they had seen. Not even satan could prevent our believing that Jesus was and is the Son of God, so the best he could do was to make us believe that Jesus was the Only One Who could do the works of the Father. By spreading this deception into those we led to the Lord, satan could hold back the power and ability in the Church.
Many in today's Church, still do not believe they have the Commission from the Father, to do the works that Jesus did through the Father. Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he himself will be able to do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father." If Jesus said these things, then they are true. In John 6:63 (Amplified) Jesus said, "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."
Both of the above scriptures are Truth, Spirit and Life. It has been the "non-profiting flesh" that has held the Truth from the believer, just like the flesh and the lying devil, have held back the Truth of salvation from the world. If satan can't keep you from becoming born-again, then he will try to make us helpless by his lies.
The heart of the Church is the have the Father's will be "done here on earth, as it is in Heaven." This is what we pray and hope for the world, as well as for our lives. The most important thing the Body of Christ needs to do, is adjust our will to His will and then do His will. We continuously pray for God's will to be done, but Jesus didn't say that He was praying for the Father's will to be done. Jesus said that He came to do the Father's will.
Thus, 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." Of course, the Sacrifice of Jesus was the will of the Father and neither you or I can do that, but everything else that Jesus did, was also the Father's will. It had to be the Father's will to heal the people, to raise up those who were broken and disabled, to free those who were bound by demonic spirits and to comfort those and set free all who were oppressed by the devil.
This is still the Father's will to be done here on earth, that we (the new creation people) are subject to do not our will, but the Father's will. In order to have God's will done here, God needs someone to do His will. God isn't going to force His will upon anyone.
Jesus didn't make the people get healed, nor did He make them do what He wanted them to do. He only revealed to them the will of the Father and then did His will, as they believed. Jesus spoke the prophecy from Isaiah 61:1-2 in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified) where He proclaimed this is God's will. Those who heard Him, made the decision in their hearts, to believe His will and so it was "done on earth, as it is in Heaven."
We have somehow believed that Jesus was unable to follow His Own will and reject the Father's will. In the Garden of Gethsemane, before His death though, Jesus prayed, "Father, if You are will remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but (always) Yours' be done," Luke 22:42 (Amplified). As a Man, Jesus had a will of His Own, just like we have our own will. He wasn't some puppet Who had no choice about what He did. Jesus was a Son and Servant, Who gave up His will to the Father as an act of Love and obedience.
The act of surrendering our will over to do God's will, is still what holds back the full glory of the revelation of God to the world. Philippians 2:8 (Amplified) tells us, "After He (Jesus) had appeared in Human Form, He abased and humbled Himself (still further) and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross."
We have yet to submit our will in obedience to God's will, to actually have His will be done like He wishes. In order to have God's will be done here, Jesus had to submit His will to God. Because God now had a Man Who would yield to His will, God could bring His will "to earth, as it is in Heaven." Now that He has brought about the miracle of the new creation, through the subjection of Jesus' will, God wants to carry out the rest of His will, through those who have been newly created by Jesus' will.
The new creation people are to be like Jesus and are to be those who will yield their will over to His will. When we yield our will to His, God can carry our His plan for mankind. We have been double-minded about God's will for centuries and that has made it difficult for God to find those who are able to do His will through. How can we expect to do His will, when we've been blinded to what His will truly is?
Any true believer would certainly do God's will, if he only knew what God's will was. We pray, "Not my will God, but Your will be done," but we don't know what God's will is and it never gets done. The only way we can know God's will, is by watching and following Jesus and not the Old Testament way of life.
Under the new covenant and as new creation people, we are able to hear, know and to do God's will, just like Jesus did. It's not a matter of wanting to see God more, but a matter of yielding our will over to His will, in order to allow it to come to pass.
The new creation has held much confusion about what God's will is. It should be obvious about what God's will for our personal lives is. We should know that adultery, lying, homosexuality, stealing and other such sins are not God's will for us, but what is His will for others, through us? Jesus walked in God's will for His Own will, but He also yielded Himself for God to do His will, through Him, for other people's lives. Many in today's Church, still don't know if it's God's will to heal the sick and walk in confusion.
We have allowed the world to determine what God's will is. We've accepted so many things into the Church, that are not (and never have been) God's will. We have searched for answers in so many places, about what is God's will and have come up short, because His answers for the new creation are in His Word (not man's wisdom). This is why Jesus said that we would have the Holy Spirit to teach us. Man's idea of God's will, is warped at best.
Jesus said that, "When we see Him, we have seen God." Jesus only did what He heard, saw and was led by the Father's will. The only way of ever knowing God as "Father," is to see Him in the Presence of Jesus.
Friday, November 4, 2016
Lesson 117 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creature (a new creation altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Awhile back, the Lord gave me a revelation, that I entitled "Return to Eden," about the extent of our salvation. The removal of sin needed to be the first thing God had to deal with, because it was Adam's sin that separated mankind (God's intended family) from Him. Sin brought about the spiritual death or separation from God, Who is Life, and plunged mankind into the chaos we're witnessing on earth today.
The Father's heart desired to create a family for Himself. We were created as a people who were on the same level of creation as Himself, for fellowship and share His Love with. When He created mankind, God created him as a spirit being, made in the Likeness and Image of Himself. Since a spirit being is eternal like God, God had a family to Love. When satan came to Eve to tempt her and cause her fall, Adam tried becoming his own redeemer and buy her back, by forfeiting all he had received from his Father.
1Timothy 2:14 (Amplified) says, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but (the) woman was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression." If Adam wasn't deceived, then he knowing exchanged everything the Father had given him, for his wife. This included his authority and blessing, as well as the dominion God had pronounced upon Adam. From this deception, came the truth of what the Father spoke, "The day you eat of this tree, that day you shall surely die." Genesis 5:5 (Amplified) tells us, "So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died." When God said, "That day you shall surely die," Adam died that day.
Adam's death first took place in his spirit, which was separated from God (Who is Life) through the first sin of transgression. This spiritual death was what the Father needed to deal with, and He had to deal with it on the legal terms of His Word. God would have lost everything His heart had created in the way of a family, if He just destroyed everything and started over. Adam and Eve would have been gone forever, as well as the family that was in Adam's loins.
The Father set in motion, from that moment, what was needed to bring Life and unity once again to His family, according to Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) where He tells satan, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring, He will bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will life in wait and bruise His heel." God made a clear distinction between the natural seed and the Divine Seed of Mary, Who was to come many years in the future, from that time.
Jesus said in Matthew 3:27,33 (Amplified), "Woe to you, Scribes and pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites) for you are like tombs that have been white washed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure." Although they looked to be "right on the outside," their spirit (which is what the Lord was speaking of) was still dead in sin and trespasses. Jesus went on in Verse 33 saying, "You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in Hell (Gehenna)?"
This is the distinction God spoke about in Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) where He said, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring." "Her Offspring" was to be the new creation, while satan's offspring was the dead spirit which produced only natural man and a continuation in death and sin. As a dead spirit, satan cannot produce life in the spirit, any more than he can produce righteousness by his own style of redemption. He tried bringing worship to himself, by his own religious style of being god over natural man.
Until Jesus came as the First Born from the dead and brought the source of God's Own Life back into the born-again spirit of this new creation man, death ruled from Adam unto Jesus. Jesus is the source of Life and restoration to God, Who is Life. Without man's accepting Jesus and this Door into the new creation, he will remain in death and sin, regardless of the outside traditions of "whitewashing their tombs" of the flesh (that houses the dead man's bones and the corruption from within).
Sadly, this has been difficult for many to accept as Truth. Could our own Jesus suffer spiritual death? Could Jesus actually die and be separated from the Father, suffer all of our penalty, and be born again as a New Creation as the Last Adam? Could He seed an entirely new Genesis Return to Eden, as the First Born of many brethren? It's difficult for many to see Jesus in this "Fullness of Sacrifice."
The extent of God's Love for us, is reflected in the length and depth of what He did, in order to gain His family back to Himself in fullness. We still see ourselves more like we were, rather than what He has birthed us to be. This brings a great injustice to Jesus' Sacrifice, by not seeing Him in the Fullness of the "Offspring" of the woman in Genesis 3:15. This "Offspring" is the Fullness of the Promise of Life. This isn't the natural offspring, but God's Offspring, through a woman who would conceive the promise (by faith in God's Word) and bring forth a New Creation.
Awhile back, the Lord gave me a revelation, that I entitled "Return to Eden," about the extent of our salvation. The removal of sin needed to be the first thing God had to deal with, because it was Adam's sin that separated mankind (God's intended family) from Him. Sin brought about the spiritual death or separation from God, Who is Life, and plunged mankind into the chaos we're witnessing on earth today.
The Father's heart desired to create a family for Himself. We were created as a people who were on the same level of creation as Himself, for fellowship and share His Love with. When He created mankind, God created him as a spirit being, made in the Likeness and Image of Himself. Since a spirit being is eternal like God, God had a family to Love. When satan came to Eve to tempt her and cause her fall, Adam tried becoming his own redeemer and buy her back, by forfeiting all he had received from his Father.
1Timothy 2:14 (Amplified) says, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but (the) woman was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression." If Adam wasn't deceived, then he knowing exchanged everything the Father had given him, for his wife. This included his authority and blessing, as well as the dominion God had pronounced upon Adam. From this deception, came the truth of what the Father spoke, "The day you eat of this tree, that day you shall surely die." Genesis 5:5 (Amplified) tells us, "So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died." When God said, "That day you shall surely die," Adam died that day.
Adam's death first took place in his spirit, which was separated from God (Who is Life) through the first sin of transgression. This spiritual death was what the Father needed to deal with, and He had to deal with it on the legal terms of His Word. God would have lost everything His heart had created in the way of a family, if He just destroyed everything and started over. Adam and Eve would have been gone forever, as well as the family that was in Adam's loins.
The Father set in motion, from that moment, what was needed to bring Life and unity once again to His family, according to Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) where He tells satan, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring, He will bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will life in wait and bruise His heel." God made a clear distinction between the natural seed and the Divine Seed of Mary, Who was to come many years in the future, from that time.
Jesus said in Matthew 3:27,33 (Amplified), "Woe to you, Scribes and pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites) for you are like tombs that have been white washed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure." Although they looked to be "right on the outside," their spirit (which is what the Lord was speaking of) was still dead in sin and trespasses. Jesus went on in Verse 33 saying, "You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in Hell (Gehenna)?"
This is the distinction God spoke about in Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) where He said, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring." "Her Offspring" was to be the new creation, while satan's offspring was the dead spirit which produced only natural man and a continuation in death and sin. As a dead spirit, satan cannot produce life in the spirit, any more than he can produce righteousness by his own style of redemption. He tried bringing worship to himself, by his own religious style of being god over natural man.
Until Jesus came as the First Born from the dead and brought the source of God's Own Life back into the born-again spirit of this new creation man, death ruled from Adam unto Jesus. Jesus is the source of Life and restoration to God, Who is Life. Without man's accepting Jesus and this Door into the new creation, he will remain in death and sin, regardless of the outside traditions of "whitewashing their tombs" of the flesh (that houses the dead man's bones and the corruption from within).
Sadly, this has been difficult for many to accept as Truth. Could our own Jesus suffer spiritual death? Could Jesus actually die and be separated from the Father, suffer all of our penalty, and be born again as a New Creation as the Last Adam? Could He seed an entirely new Genesis Return to Eden, as the First Born of many brethren? It's difficult for many to see Jesus in this "Fullness of Sacrifice."
The extent of God's Love for us, is reflected in the length and depth of what He did, in order to gain His family back to Himself in fullness. We still see ourselves more like we were, rather than what He has birthed us to be. This brings a great injustice to Jesus' Sacrifice, by not seeing Him in the Fullness of the "Offspring" of the woman in Genesis 3:15. This "Offspring" is the Fullness of the Promise of Life. This isn't the natural offspring, but God's Offspring, through a woman who would conceive the promise (by faith in God's Word) and bring forth a New Creation.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Lesson 116 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
As the Body of Christ, we are a species who never existed before in all of creation. We are a spirit being that isn't only spirit, but also are one spirit with God Himself. There were many people in the Old Testament who had the Spirit of God come upon them for a special time and then God's Spirit would lift off from them after their "job" was completed. There was never a person then, that the Spirit of God and the person's spirit were fused together to become one spirit with the Lord.
Jesus was fused with the Holy Spirit at His Baptism in the Jordan River. There was never such a Being before. Jesus was the First Born of many brethren and the First born of the dead. In John 17, Jesus prayed that we would be "made one, even as He and the Father are One." This is the new creation. We were made to be a being who would be led by our fused spirit with God (God and man) and actually be led like Jesus was led, by the Father within us.
Our joined spirit with God, was to be the dominate part of our entire existence and was to be in control of our soul and body. We were no longer to be led by our senses, but by our newly created spirit with God Himself. We were to be raised to a place of dominance over everything on this planet, like it was intended from the beginning. From the fall of Adam until Jesus, man was led only by his senses, because sin separated his spirit from God. Through Jesus, the sin and separation were done away with and we have been created new in Him.
The new creation man wasn't only to receive education, but revelation from God Himself. We've been designed to discern the very mind of Christ, in our spirit. We are to know and understand the very heart and will of the Father, through our spirit that is fused with His. We are no longer bound by only carnal knowledge and what we receive by our senses, but now we can receive unlimited knowledge through the Holy Spirit being infused into our own born-again spirit. That's how Jesus was led by the Spirit and now we have this awesome privilege.
Through the new creation, we've been enabled to know the very will of God and to be empowered, through His Spirit indwelling in us, to set things back in order. Miracles and healings were only God restoring what He intended into order. It was never God's plan for people to be bound by sickness, disease, or demonic control. Jesus was led by the very Spirit of God and listened to His Father, bringing things back to order that God planned from the beginning.
This is the power and privilege of the new creation people. Jesus illustrates how and what this new creation being was equipped and commissioned to do in Mark 16:17-18. Jesus was to bring people into the knowledge of the new birth and restore back to completion, everything that was out of order from what God had created from the beginning. We can now understand better, the way Jesus taught us to pray in the Lord's Prayer.
We're supposed to seek the mind and heart of God for mankind, on a daily basis. When Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy Kingdom come," it wasn't some far reaching thing for "after we go to heaven," but for us now (the new creation that would happen through Jesus' soon approaching Resurrection) to be performed and renewed on earth,through the Holy Spirit's becoming flesh through God's new family.
God's Word would once again, become flesh through His new creation people and God Himself would be able to walk and talk and perform His will on this earth, through us. This was for all the new creation people who were born-again. We were to be a family who would bring God's Person and will into full contact with this planet. It was designed to be with us, like it was with Jesus. It was to be, "Not us, but the Father in us, that was doing the work."
The same Father Who did the works through Jesus, was now in the new creation people (us) to live in us, walk in us. He was to be our God and we were to be His people. Hebrews 13:20-21 (Amplified) says that, "The God of Peace strengthen (complete, perfect) and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out His will (while He Himself) works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ (the Messiah) to Whom be the glory forever and ever (to the ages of the ages), Amen (so be it)."
In order to know what "is pleasing in His sight" and what His will is, we only need to observe Jesus and what He did by and through "the Father in Him." The Very Same Father, Who worked through Jesus to do His will, is the Same Father Who wants to work through us, to do His will. God's will has not changed from Jesus to us and is "as it is in Heaven."
As the Body of Christ, we are a species who never existed before in all of creation. We are a spirit being that isn't only spirit, but also are one spirit with God Himself. There were many people in the Old Testament who had the Spirit of God come upon them for a special time and then God's Spirit would lift off from them after their "job" was completed. There was never a person then, that the Spirit of God and the person's spirit were fused together to become one spirit with the Lord.
Jesus was fused with the Holy Spirit at His Baptism in the Jordan River. There was never such a Being before. Jesus was the First Born of many brethren and the First born of the dead. In John 17, Jesus prayed that we would be "made one, even as He and the Father are One." This is the new creation. We were made to be a being who would be led by our fused spirit with God (God and man) and actually be led like Jesus was led, by the Father within us.
Our joined spirit with God, was to be the dominate part of our entire existence and was to be in control of our soul and body. We were no longer to be led by our senses, but by our newly created spirit with God Himself. We were to be raised to a place of dominance over everything on this planet, like it was intended from the beginning. From the fall of Adam until Jesus, man was led only by his senses, because sin separated his spirit from God. Through Jesus, the sin and separation were done away with and we have been created new in Him.
The new creation man wasn't only to receive education, but revelation from God Himself. We've been designed to discern the very mind of Christ, in our spirit. We are to know and understand the very heart and will of the Father, through our spirit that is fused with His. We are no longer bound by only carnal knowledge and what we receive by our senses, but now we can receive unlimited knowledge through the Holy Spirit being infused into our own born-again spirit. That's how Jesus was led by the Spirit and now we have this awesome privilege.
Through the new creation, we've been enabled to know the very will of God and to be empowered, through His Spirit indwelling in us, to set things back in order. Miracles and healings were only God restoring what He intended into order. It was never God's plan for people to be bound by sickness, disease, or demonic control. Jesus was led by the very Spirit of God and listened to His Father, bringing things back to order that God planned from the beginning.
This is the power and privilege of the new creation people. Jesus illustrates how and what this new creation being was equipped and commissioned to do in Mark 16:17-18. Jesus was to bring people into the knowledge of the new birth and restore back to completion, everything that was out of order from what God had created from the beginning. We can now understand better, the way Jesus taught us to pray in the Lord's Prayer.
We're supposed to seek the mind and heart of God for mankind, on a daily basis. When Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy Kingdom come," it wasn't some far reaching thing for "after we go to heaven," but for us now (the new creation that would happen through Jesus' soon approaching Resurrection) to be performed and renewed on earth,through the Holy Spirit's becoming flesh through God's new family.
God's Word would once again, become flesh through His new creation people and God Himself would be able to walk and talk and perform His will on this earth, through us. This was for all the new creation people who were born-again. We were to be a family who would bring God's Person and will into full contact with this planet. It was designed to be with us, like it was with Jesus. It was to be, "Not us, but the Father in us, that was doing the work."
The same Father Who did the works through Jesus, was now in the new creation people (us) to live in us, walk in us. He was to be our God and we were to be His people. Hebrews 13:20-21 (Amplified) says that, "The God of Peace strengthen (complete, perfect) and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out His will (while He Himself) works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ (the Messiah) to Whom be the glory forever and ever (to the ages of the ages), Amen (so be it)."
In order to know what "is pleasing in His sight" and what His will is, we only need to observe Jesus and what He did by and through "the Father in Him." The Very Same Father, Who worked through Jesus to do His will, is the Same Father Who wants to work through us, to do His will. God's will has not changed from Jesus to us and is "as it is in Heaven."
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Lesson 115 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The above scripture seems radical and fanatical to the way of thinking for many in today's Church. We've been trained and taught carnally for so long, that it's difficult for them to see themselves like who they truly are in Christ Jesus and after the new creation and after the Spirit. For centuries, until Jesus came on the scene, the people had remained in the carnal realm and couldn't receive the Truth of the Spiritual teachings He taught.
They couldn't understand the Truth Jesus taught, until the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. These people were still old covenant people and were not born-again yet. The things Jesus taught were so foreign from what they were taught and knew and sounded radical and fanatical to their ears. When the Holy Spirit came and man could actually be born-again of the Spirit of God, things changed.
Because we've been trained in the carnal realm more than in the spiritual realm, many thing still seem over-the-top to many of God's children. We've grossly misunderstood what is means to be a new creation and we've tried patterning our spiritual walk after the things of the old covenant, without realizing the people of the old covenant were not born-again of the Spirit. God had to deal with them from the outside-in, instead of the inside-out, because the old covenant people were still dead in their spirit. This is what Jesus referred to in John 10:10 when He said, "I come that they might have Life."
Those present when He said this, probably thought to themselves, "Don't I already have life?" They didn't know He was speaking about their dead spirit that was separated from God by sin and trespasses. Under the new covenant, we (through Jesus) have been made alive in our spirit and our spirit has been made one with God. This is the new creation that Paul speaks about.
Most of us have never really pursued this relationship to the full extent of what it actually has in store for us. God now deals with us by our new creation, born-again spirit and not by our flesh with rituals and traditions like in the old covenant. We are now to be led and instructed by our spirit, which is alive to God again. Much of our preaching and teachings are directed at our natural man, and not by our new creation man.
We were to be controlled by our spirit and not our flesh, from the beginning. We are a spirit being and our spirit was to be in charge of our earthly body and soul. We were to hear from God in our spirit and to be directed by the Holy Spirit in our lives. When Adam fell and severed communication from the Father, we were left to rely on our carnal nature for instructions on how to live.
After many years of not hearing from God, we set up our own ways of doing thins and functioning in this world. And, because we were only able to function in this world system, we set up a kingdom that was still ruled by satan, instead of by God. We know God as "Father," but the unsaved people know Him only as "God." Jesus told the old covenant people that they were, "Like their father, the devil."
Under this new creation, we are now, no longer ruled by our senses, but by our new creation spirit man (who was made in the Image and Likeness of God). This knowledge has been nearly lost in today's Church. We continue relying on rituals and tradition to appease God. These things have held God's people in bondage and fear, instead of fellowship and liberty in God's family.
We've been in "The time of the Church" for many years, but continue functioning on the religious order of the flesh. In 2Corinthians 5:1-4, Paul says our flesh and blood body is the "house" that our spirit lives in. A house doesn't tell the inhabitants how to live, the inhabitants are to rule the house. How foolish would it be for us to ask our houses how to live, instead of our having dominion over our house? My house provides a place to shelter in after a long day is done, it isn't something that tells me when my day is over.
Can you even imagine your house telling you how to live? Of course not. Why should we ask our natural house (where our new man lives) how we are supposed to live? Our natural body is only a temporary "house" for our spirit to live in, while we're here on earth. It's a servant and not to be in charge. When asked, "How are you feeling today?" Smith Wigglesworth answered, "I never ask Smith Wigglesworth how he feels, I tell him how to feel." This man walked in and was led by his spirit, through the Holy Spirit.
Some might say, "Yes, but he was the famous Smith Wigglesworth." This is true, but he didn't have anything more than what we have. He simply chose to train his senses by his spirit, to only do what the Holy Spirit told him to do. Some categorize Mr. Wigglesworth as a "fanatic for God," but he would only say that he was an obedient son. We haven't been taught how to live in the spirit, but only how to discipline our flesh.
I've found that by a strong spirit, the flesh will not get out of control, but become a servant and house for us to live in until we go home. Carnal sermons make carnal Christians. We must learn to teach the spirit man (the new creation) how to operate and function on the level with our new identity in Christ Jesus. The flesh will always remind you of its weaknesses, while the new creation (your born-again spirit) will reveal to you, its new strength in Christ and your ability in Him.
We've mostly looked at Galatians 6:8 as about "being in sin," but I don't think that's what it's really about. Of course, we aren't to live in sin, but this scripture is about "sowing to the flesh." Not everything the flesh does is sin. I can provide for my family, protect my loved ones, be a witness for Christ, and give food and clothing to the needy. These things in the flesh are not sin. What Paul writes about in the above scripture, has more to do with still living by the flesh or carnal mind (through ritual and traditions) and not living by the Spirit. Verse 8 says, "For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal Life."
This can mean that those who will only continue in life without Jesus, will perish in the end. It can also mean that those of us who are born-again and continue only in our "lower nature," will not see the things and have the full Life of God in our earthly walk with Him.
Only our new creation spirit can comprehend the many things the new birth has made available to us. If we only sow to our lower nature, then the higher nature of our new creation cannot be expressed in our lives. When the flesh rules the spirit, we are out of control in our walk with the Father. Jesus was speaking to men of a different class and order when He taught the people. He was teaching Spiritual Truths, that carnal men couldn't imagine. This is no longer true for the believer, but should be opened and illuminated by our spirit to His Truths.
In order to do what we were left her to do for humanity and God's Kingdom, we must learn how to be led by the Spirit of God and break satan's hold on mankind. Government and politics are not weapons for the Church. We can only set people free with the Truth of God's Word. When Jesus said that, "He can only do what the Father says to do," He was simply saying, "I am being led by My Own Spirit, through the Holy Spirit. This is how the new creation man is to learn to walk.
The above scripture seems radical and fanatical to the way of thinking for many in today's Church. We've been trained and taught carnally for so long, that it's difficult for them to see themselves like who they truly are in Christ Jesus and after the new creation and after the Spirit. For centuries, until Jesus came on the scene, the people had remained in the carnal realm and couldn't receive the Truth of the Spiritual teachings He taught.
They couldn't understand the Truth Jesus taught, until the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. These people were still old covenant people and were not born-again yet. The things Jesus taught were so foreign from what they were taught and knew and sounded radical and fanatical to their ears. When the Holy Spirit came and man could actually be born-again of the Spirit of God, things changed.
Because we've been trained in the carnal realm more than in the spiritual realm, many thing still seem over-the-top to many of God's children. We've grossly misunderstood what is means to be a new creation and we've tried patterning our spiritual walk after the things of the old covenant, without realizing the people of the old covenant were not born-again of the Spirit. God had to deal with them from the outside-in, instead of the inside-out, because the old covenant people were still dead in their spirit. This is what Jesus referred to in John 10:10 when He said, "I come that they might have Life."
Those present when He said this, probably thought to themselves, "Don't I already have life?" They didn't know He was speaking about their dead spirit that was separated from God by sin and trespasses. Under the new covenant, we (through Jesus) have been made alive in our spirit and our spirit has been made one with God. This is the new creation that Paul speaks about.
Most of us have never really pursued this relationship to the full extent of what it actually has in store for us. God now deals with us by our new creation, born-again spirit and not by our flesh with rituals and traditions like in the old covenant. We are now to be led and instructed by our spirit, which is alive to God again. Much of our preaching and teachings are directed at our natural man, and not by our new creation man.
We were to be controlled by our spirit and not our flesh, from the beginning. We are a spirit being and our spirit was to be in charge of our earthly body and soul. We were to hear from God in our spirit and to be directed by the Holy Spirit in our lives. When Adam fell and severed communication from the Father, we were left to rely on our carnal nature for instructions on how to live.
After many years of not hearing from God, we set up our own ways of doing thins and functioning in this world. And, because we were only able to function in this world system, we set up a kingdom that was still ruled by satan, instead of by God. We know God as "Father," but the unsaved people know Him only as "God." Jesus told the old covenant people that they were, "Like their father, the devil."
Under this new creation, we are now, no longer ruled by our senses, but by our new creation spirit man (who was made in the Image and Likeness of God). This knowledge has been nearly lost in today's Church. We continue relying on rituals and tradition to appease God. These things have held God's people in bondage and fear, instead of fellowship and liberty in God's family.
We've been in "The time of the Church" for many years, but continue functioning on the religious order of the flesh. In 2Corinthians 5:1-4, Paul says our flesh and blood body is the "house" that our spirit lives in. A house doesn't tell the inhabitants how to live, the inhabitants are to rule the house. How foolish would it be for us to ask our houses how to live, instead of our having dominion over our house? My house provides a place to shelter in after a long day is done, it isn't something that tells me when my day is over.
Can you even imagine your house telling you how to live? Of course not. Why should we ask our natural house (where our new man lives) how we are supposed to live? Our natural body is only a temporary "house" for our spirit to live in, while we're here on earth. It's a servant and not to be in charge. When asked, "How are you feeling today?" Smith Wigglesworth answered, "I never ask Smith Wigglesworth how he feels, I tell him how to feel." This man walked in and was led by his spirit, through the Holy Spirit.
Some might say, "Yes, but he was the famous Smith Wigglesworth." This is true, but he didn't have anything more than what we have. He simply chose to train his senses by his spirit, to only do what the Holy Spirit told him to do. Some categorize Mr. Wigglesworth as a "fanatic for God," but he would only say that he was an obedient son. We haven't been taught how to live in the spirit, but only how to discipline our flesh.
I've found that by a strong spirit, the flesh will not get out of control, but become a servant and house for us to live in until we go home. Carnal sermons make carnal Christians. We must learn to teach the spirit man (the new creation) how to operate and function on the level with our new identity in Christ Jesus. The flesh will always remind you of its weaknesses, while the new creation (your born-again spirit) will reveal to you, its new strength in Christ and your ability in Him.
We've mostly looked at Galatians 6:8 as about "being in sin," but I don't think that's what it's really about. Of course, we aren't to live in sin, but this scripture is about "sowing to the flesh." Not everything the flesh does is sin. I can provide for my family, protect my loved ones, be a witness for Christ, and give food and clothing to the needy. These things in the flesh are not sin. What Paul writes about in the above scripture, has more to do with still living by the flesh or carnal mind (through ritual and traditions) and not living by the Spirit. Verse 8 says, "For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal Life."
This can mean that those who will only continue in life without Jesus, will perish in the end. It can also mean that those of us who are born-again and continue only in our "lower nature," will not see the things and have the full Life of God in our earthly walk with Him.
Only our new creation spirit can comprehend the many things the new birth has made available to us. If we only sow to our lower nature, then the higher nature of our new creation cannot be expressed in our lives. When the flesh rules the spirit, we are out of control in our walk with the Father. Jesus was speaking to men of a different class and order when He taught the people. He was teaching Spiritual Truths, that carnal men couldn't imagine. This is no longer true for the believer, but should be opened and illuminated by our spirit to His Truths.
In order to do what we were left her to do for humanity and God's Kingdom, we must learn how to be led by the Spirit of God and break satan's hold on mankind. Government and politics are not weapons for the Church. We can only set people free with the Truth of God's Word. When Jesus said that, "He can only do what the Father says to do," He was simply saying, "I am being led by My Own Spirit, through the Holy Spirit. This is how the new creation man is to learn to walk.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Lesson 114 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Most of us have failed to realize how we are completely different from anything or anyone has ever been on this planet. We, the Church, have never understand that as new creation people, we are created to be in Christ Jesus. We're still dealing with the new birth as though it's something meant for the future. We will have a different body to house our new being, but we are even now the new creation of God.
The only way of understanding who we are as new creations, is from the Word of God. No man has ever seen or been (except Jesus) what we've been created to be in God's Kingdom. God created the new creation through Jesus, at His acceptance into the Throne Room of the Father. As the first fruits of a new creation, it only follows that the entire harvest of this fruit is like the First Fruit.
The First Fruit is a Spirit Being, Who has been raised from spiritual death and separation from God, into a new creation that is not only alive to God, but has actually become a dwelling place for God in today's earth. We, as the new creation people, have become the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles, in the sense that God has tabernacled within us by His Spirit.
We've striven to operate in God's Kingdom by the flesh, in tradition and ritual, but it hasn't produced what the Father has created us to be and do in the earth. Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." If you've been born-again, then you are already sons or daughters of God. This scripture is referring to "mature sons and daughters" and because we have very little understanding of the spiritual realm, we don't even know this (in many cases).
Everything in the new creation being, works from the inside-out. Life came into us in our spirit. The new creation is a spirit being, made in the Image of God. God speaks to us by His Spirit, through His Word or some other means. It is only by our spirit, that we can actually commune properly with the Father, whether it comes into our spirit by preaching or reading the Word varies, but the results are still are Spirit.
The Word says that, "The just shall live by faith" and if your are a new creation, then you already are living by faith. It was by faith, you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Before being saved, we were dead in trespass and sin and now we were made alive in Christ Jesus, by faith in Him we are now living. So, it doesn't matter what others may preach, we (the just) are now living by faith.
Now that we are alive again in our new creation spirit being, all things from God come initially in our spirit and then into our natural body and soul. In order to renew our minds, we must first put God's Word into our spirit and allow our new creation man to have dominion over our carnal way of doing things. Our natural man cannot reach high enough to understand or communicate on the level of our new life.
God says in Proverbs 4:20-23 (Amplified), "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 all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life." We have read this passage many times, without understanding what it says to our spirit man.
Many would believe that the above passage was Solomon speaking to his children or David speaking to Solomon, but it is really God Who is speaking to His family. God says that "His Words are Life and that "health and healing come from the spirit (the hidden man of the heart)." It's not from the outside, but the inside that our new creation man receives Life. The new creation is where our Life flows from God, into our natural house of flesh. The Holy Spirit says in Verse 23 that, "from out of this new creation, the "heart," flows the "springs of Life." One translation says that "from out of the heart flows, the forces of Life."
Everything within reach of the new creation, comes first into our spirit and is then manifested outwardly into this natural realm of being. Whether it's Life (as in the new birth) or "healing and health" (like Proverbs 4:20-23 says) or any other need or lack in this natural realm of Christianity, it must first come through the spirit, by faith.
Many have separated themselves from the faith message, because much is misunderstood about it. This faith is the same faith in God that brought us into the new creation and will move us into the true Life of our spirit. We have now been created new into this spirit Life and everything we have need of, is in this realm. This abundance of supply is ours in this realm of the new creation family we are part of. We keep looking to this realm for our needs to be met, but even though it might come into this realm, it is first set aside for us in the realm of the new creation.
As we watched the First of the new creation people (Jesus), we see His needs being met in this realm, first in the Spirit. When He needed tax money, the Spirit provided it from the fish's mouth. When He needed bread to feed the multitude, the Spirit provided all that was needed and they had leftovers. The healings, miracles, and everything Jesus did, came from the realm of the Spirit and manifested here in the natural realm.
We've approached the new creation family of God, from the outside instead of the inside. We've stepped into a real of Life, but haven't understood how to walk in it. Every baby (whether natural or spiritual) has to learn how to operate in life as he grows. Babies in the natural, are already human beings and don't have to "try" to be human, but only learn how to live in this realm as humans. As babies in Christ, we don't have to "try" being new creations, because we are already new creations. We only need to learn how to walk in the realm we are created for.
Learning how to walk in this new creation, is derived from seeking the Holy Spirit for instructions and guidance. Since we had never walked in or lived in this new realm, we know very little about it. This doesn't mean we stay ignorant about it, but we must learn and grow, like we did in the natural realm. We've tried operating or functioning in the realm of the spirit through natural means and by natural knowledge acquired from simple, natural means. We've used traditions that never worked and religion that didn't work either, instead of the teachings of the Holy Spirit, Who is the Teacher of this new creation. We can only learn to walk in the Spirit, by the Spirit. The flesh cannot teach the spirit, but only the spirit can teach the flesh.
We can bring the flesh into subjection to the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, only by the spirit. Returning to Proverbs 4:20-23, we begin to see the Laws of the Spirit of Life. God's Word is Life and we observe Life, by observing God's Word. Life first came into our spirit by the new birth and is now extended from our spirit into our flesh. This isn't modifying the flesh, but dominating the flesh, with the new creation spirit man.
The only thing that can change the flesh and it's way of controlling, is the new creation spirit that is alive inside the flesh. We've tried bringing the flesh into subjection with rules and traditions, that haven't worked very well. The spirit is now Alive through Jesus and has the ability through growth, to dominate our natural man and control him.
Paul writes about renewing our minds in Romans 12:1-2. The only way to "dedicate your body as a living sacrifice" is to wholly allow your new creation spirit to rule by God's Word. When we fail to allow and teach our spirit to do the Living, our bodies will continue to live, like it did before we were saved. It will continue to yield to natural resources and the natural way of doing things, because this is what it did before and this is all it knows. Our bodies were never taught to take orders from our spirit, but were always in control. Now, the role is to be reversed.
Paul said he "buffets" his body and keeps it under subjection to his spirit. This is done by feeding and drawing strength from the Word and the Holy Spirit, until your spirit is stronger than your flesh. Jesus said in John 6:63, that "My Words are Spirit and Life." We will mature and gain strength in our spirit (so it can dominate the flesh), when we allow the Holy Spirit to instruct us. His instructions come through our spirits and the carnal mind cannot reject them.
We hear from the Father all the time, but our carnal mind rejects His leading, because it cannot understand instructions they're incapable of reasoning out. Our carnal mind works on logic, not faith. It's only your spirit that can operate in faith and faith is what raises us from this natural realm of living.
The carnal minded believer simply "looks up" to step into the Super-natural realm of faith, but it's only the new creation man who can understand and receive the Super-natural things of God. The new creation was created from and for the super-natural. This is natural for the new creation man, while the carnal mind prevents us from operating in this Spirit realm of Life. We will all be taken into that realm someday, but we were meant to function in that realm now.
The Holy Spirit is now teaching the Church to walk in the Super-natural, naturally. When we begin understanding this through the Word of God and His Spirit, then we won't struggle anymore than we struggled to make our natural body walk, talk or do anything we learned to do, because we were born of the natural man. As we learned how to do these things from our birth, they simply became natural to us and we didn't have to think about how to do them. The same is true in the spirit. We will learn to walk naturally Super-natural.
Most of us have failed to realize how we are completely different from anything or anyone has ever been on this planet. We, the Church, have never understand that as new creation people, we are created to be in Christ Jesus. We're still dealing with the new birth as though it's something meant for the future. We will have a different body to house our new being, but we are even now the new creation of God.
The only way of understanding who we are as new creations, is from the Word of God. No man has ever seen or been (except Jesus) what we've been created to be in God's Kingdom. God created the new creation through Jesus, at His acceptance into the Throne Room of the Father. As the first fruits of a new creation, it only follows that the entire harvest of this fruit is like the First Fruit.
The First Fruit is a Spirit Being, Who has been raised from spiritual death and separation from God, into a new creation that is not only alive to God, but has actually become a dwelling place for God in today's earth. We, as the new creation people, have become the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles, in the sense that God has tabernacled within us by His Spirit.
We've striven to operate in God's Kingdom by the flesh, in tradition and ritual, but it hasn't produced what the Father has created us to be and do in the earth. Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." If you've been born-again, then you are already sons or daughters of God. This scripture is referring to "mature sons and daughters" and because we have very little understanding of the spiritual realm, we don't even know this (in many cases).
Everything in the new creation being, works from the inside-out. Life came into us in our spirit. The new creation is a spirit being, made in the Image of God. God speaks to us by His Spirit, through His Word or some other means. It is only by our spirit, that we can actually commune properly with the Father, whether it comes into our spirit by preaching or reading the Word varies, but the results are still are Spirit.
The Word says that, "The just shall live by faith" and if your are a new creation, then you already are living by faith. It was by faith, you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Before being saved, we were dead in trespass and sin and now we were made alive in Christ Jesus, by faith in Him we are now living. So, it doesn't matter what others may preach, we (the just) are now living by faith.
Now that we are alive again in our new creation spirit being, all things from God come initially in our spirit and then into our natural body and soul. In order to renew our minds, we must first put God's Word into our spirit and allow our new creation man to have dominion over our carnal way of doing things. Our natural man cannot reach high enough to understand or communicate on the level of our new life.
God says in Proverbs 4:20-23 (Amplified), "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 all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life." We have read this passage many times, without understanding what it says to our spirit man.
Many would believe that the above passage was Solomon speaking to his children or David speaking to Solomon, but it is really God Who is speaking to His family. God says that "His Words are Life and that "health and healing come from the spirit (the hidden man of the heart)." It's not from the outside, but the inside that our new creation man receives Life. The new creation is where our Life flows from God, into our natural house of flesh. The Holy Spirit says in Verse 23 that, "from out of this new creation, the "heart," flows the "springs of Life." One translation says that "from out of the heart flows, the forces of Life."
Everything within reach of the new creation, comes first into our spirit and is then manifested outwardly into this natural realm of being. Whether it's Life (as in the new birth) or "healing and health" (like Proverbs 4:20-23 says) or any other need or lack in this natural realm of Christianity, it must first come through the spirit, by faith.
Many have separated themselves from the faith message, because much is misunderstood about it. This faith is the same faith in God that brought us into the new creation and will move us into the true Life of our spirit. We have now been created new into this spirit Life and everything we have need of, is in this realm. This abundance of supply is ours in this realm of the new creation family we are part of. We keep looking to this realm for our needs to be met, but even though it might come into this realm, it is first set aside for us in the realm of the new creation.
As we watched the First of the new creation people (Jesus), we see His needs being met in this realm, first in the Spirit. When He needed tax money, the Spirit provided it from the fish's mouth. When He needed bread to feed the multitude, the Spirit provided all that was needed and they had leftovers. The healings, miracles, and everything Jesus did, came from the realm of the Spirit and manifested here in the natural realm.
We've approached the new creation family of God, from the outside instead of the inside. We've stepped into a real of Life, but haven't understood how to walk in it. Every baby (whether natural or spiritual) has to learn how to operate in life as he grows. Babies in the natural, are already human beings and don't have to "try" to be human, but only learn how to live in this realm as humans. As babies in Christ, we don't have to "try" being new creations, because we are already new creations. We only need to learn how to walk in the realm we are created for.
Learning how to walk in this new creation, is derived from seeking the Holy Spirit for instructions and guidance. Since we had never walked in or lived in this new realm, we know very little about it. This doesn't mean we stay ignorant about it, but we must learn and grow, like we did in the natural realm. We've tried operating or functioning in the realm of the spirit through natural means and by natural knowledge acquired from simple, natural means. We've used traditions that never worked and religion that didn't work either, instead of the teachings of the Holy Spirit, Who is the Teacher of this new creation. We can only learn to walk in the Spirit, by the Spirit. The flesh cannot teach the spirit, but only the spirit can teach the flesh.
We can bring the flesh into subjection to the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, only by the spirit. Returning to Proverbs 4:20-23, we begin to see the Laws of the Spirit of Life. God's Word is Life and we observe Life, by observing God's Word. Life first came into our spirit by the new birth and is now extended from our spirit into our flesh. This isn't modifying the flesh, but dominating the flesh, with the new creation spirit man.
The only thing that can change the flesh and it's way of controlling, is the new creation spirit that is alive inside the flesh. We've tried bringing the flesh into subjection with rules and traditions, that haven't worked very well. The spirit is now Alive through Jesus and has the ability through growth, to dominate our natural man and control him.
Paul writes about renewing our minds in Romans 12:1-2. The only way to "dedicate your body as a living sacrifice" is to wholly allow your new creation spirit to rule by God's Word. When we fail to allow and teach our spirit to do the Living, our bodies will continue to live, like it did before we were saved. It will continue to yield to natural resources and the natural way of doing things, because this is what it did before and this is all it knows. Our bodies were never taught to take orders from our spirit, but were always in control. Now, the role is to be reversed.
Paul said he "buffets" his body and keeps it under subjection to his spirit. This is done by feeding and drawing strength from the Word and the Holy Spirit, until your spirit is stronger than your flesh. Jesus said in John 6:63, that "My Words are Spirit and Life." We will mature and gain strength in our spirit (so it can dominate the flesh), when we allow the Holy Spirit to instruct us. His instructions come through our spirits and the carnal mind cannot reject them.
We hear from the Father all the time, but our carnal mind rejects His leading, because it cannot understand instructions they're incapable of reasoning out. Our carnal mind works on logic, not faith. It's only your spirit that can operate in faith and faith is what raises us from this natural realm of living.
The carnal minded believer simply "looks up" to step into the Super-natural realm of faith, but it's only the new creation man who can understand and receive the Super-natural things of God. The new creation was created from and for the super-natural. This is natural for the new creation man, while the carnal mind prevents us from operating in this Spirit realm of Life. We will all be taken into that realm someday, but we were meant to function in that realm now.
The Holy Spirit is now teaching the Church to walk in the Super-natural, naturally. When we begin understanding this through the Word of God and His Spirit, then we won't struggle anymore than we struggled to make our natural body walk, talk or do anything we learned to do, because we were born of the natural man. As we learned how to do these things from our birth, they simply became natural to us and we didn't have to think about how to do them. The same is true in the spirit. We will learn to walk naturally Super-natural.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Lesson 113 The New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
As the new creation people we've become in Jesus, we have a new family, a new life, a new spirit and a new family. We generate from an entirely different realm than any other creature on this planet. We are no longer "just human," but we are so much more than human. This natural body might still look the same (as it did before my being born-again), but the new creation living in this body is a new creature altogether.
We've allowed the world to determine how much of who we are, to change. The same man who is admired as a deacon in church and is a pillar of the community, would be called a religious fanatic if he prayed in a public place or his workplace. Many people are intimidated by the world and society, which leads to their being reluctant to letting others know they are Christians.
I've seen many Christians run for public office and scarcely bring "religion" into their campaign. Sometimes, they do so because even the Church will attack them, if they are from a different denomination. Many times, the media will label Christians as being "zealots in their beliefs." We are not here to coincide with the world, but to change the world. We've reached a place where we wish to be accepted and praised by both saved and those in the world.
We are not called to be obnoxious and judgmental, but we are called to be new creations altogether. As new creation sons and daughters of God, we are placed in a world that has run out of answers, ideas and help. The world is hungry for leadership and are nearly willing to accept anyone they believe can solve their problems. We have been given the wisdom, ability, power and the Holy Spirit needed to be the answer (through Jesus) to their search. Jesus said that we are, "the light of the world" and we are to be lifted high for the world to see.
The only way for the new creation people to know who we truly are, is from revelation knowledge from the Holy Spirit and God's Word. If we allow the world to set standards for the Church, then we will merge with the world and settle for the world's way of dealing with its problems. Jesus is the Answer for the world today and He Lives In Us. Without His Super-natural influence in this world, nothing will ever change.
We've been fighting among ourselves in America for eighteen months now, over whether we want a Democrat or Republican to run the nation. What good is either party, if they don't know Jesus and if they don't listen (or seek) His council? They will continue to run things by the same standards that led us into this mess to begin with. When the blind lead the blind, they both end up in the ditch. The new creation people, are to lead the world to see God and His answer to their needs. We hear politicians stirring up fear and then telling the people that, "I can fix things. Follow me." These are empty promises without God. We are given the world's ideas about fixing things, instead of God's promise of a new life. If our minds are filled with the same cursing and bitterness of the world, then how can we change it?
The Holy Spirit writes to the Church in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) saying, "Their throat is a yawning grave, they use their tongues to deceive (to mislead and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps is beneath their lips." This hasn't changed the world, only the Church. The world still refuses Jesus and His deliverance. This isn't saying we write them off, but we must know we can't believe the world because nothing has changed with them.
We must not allow ourselves to be controlled and driven by politics and the media, instead of God's Word. The war, segregation, death, fear, destruction, and mess we see all around us, is driven by the lips of the world system. The world system is driven by and under the dominion of the anti-Christ spirit, we hear speaking and boasting against our God. The world ran out of answers when Adam fell in the Garden and it remains answerless, without God's Word. When we lend our voices to those of the world, then we only add to the same problems facing the world. We only know what the media and the friends and family of the politicians, tells us about him or her. Or, we only know what they want us to know about them.
The Church evens preaches political correctness and adherence to ungodly laws, that have already been set into motion. One can no longer simultaneously be politically correct and Biblically correct. The world is determined to reign over the Church of the Lord Jesus. As new creation people who listen to God's Voice and His Spirit, are considered to be "rebels," in the eyes of the world.
Our declarations that, "God's Word is still Higher than the world's words," seem to be out-of-line even in some churches. God's Word isn't only Truth, but it is THE TRUTH. If God said something two-thousand years ago, then He hasn't changed His mind because "it's now 2016." God is not progressive in His Truth, but it is "Forever settled in Heaven." If something was wrong then, then it's still wrong today.
We need to stop looking at the giants and stand on God's Word, then we can enter into the promises of His Word. Are we really believing God's Word or are we just saying we believe in His Word? We should pray for God to send us more Joshua's and Caleb's.
As the new creation people we've become in Jesus, we have a new family, a new life, a new spirit and a new family. We generate from an entirely different realm than any other creature on this planet. We are no longer "just human," but we are so much more than human. This natural body might still look the same (as it did before my being born-again), but the new creation living in this body is a new creature altogether.
We've allowed the world to determine how much of who we are, to change. The same man who is admired as a deacon in church and is a pillar of the community, would be called a religious fanatic if he prayed in a public place or his workplace. Many people are intimidated by the world and society, which leads to their being reluctant to letting others know they are Christians.
I've seen many Christians run for public office and scarcely bring "religion" into their campaign. Sometimes, they do so because even the Church will attack them, if they are from a different denomination. Many times, the media will label Christians as being "zealots in their beliefs." We are not here to coincide with the world, but to change the world. We've reached a place where we wish to be accepted and praised by both saved and those in the world.
We are not called to be obnoxious and judgmental, but we are called to be new creations altogether. As new creation sons and daughters of God, we are placed in a world that has run out of answers, ideas and help. The world is hungry for leadership and are nearly willing to accept anyone they believe can solve their problems. We have been given the wisdom, ability, power and the Holy Spirit needed to be the answer (through Jesus) to their search. Jesus said that we are, "the light of the world" and we are to be lifted high for the world to see.
The only way for the new creation people to know who we truly are, is from revelation knowledge from the Holy Spirit and God's Word. If we allow the world to set standards for the Church, then we will merge with the world and settle for the world's way of dealing with its problems. Jesus is the Answer for the world today and He Lives In Us. Without His Super-natural influence in this world, nothing will ever change.
We've been fighting among ourselves in America for eighteen months now, over whether we want a Democrat or Republican to run the nation. What good is either party, if they don't know Jesus and if they don't listen (or seek) His council? They will continue to run things by the same standards that led us into this mess to begin with. When the blind lead the blind, they both end up in the ditch. The new creation people, are to lead the world to see God and His answer to their needs. We hear politicians stirring up fear and then telling the people that, "I can fix things. Follow me." These are empty promises without God. We are given the world's ideas about fixing things, instead of God's promise of a new life. If our minds are filled with the same cursing and bitterness of the world, then how can we change it?
The Holy Spirit writes to the Church in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) saying, "Their throat is a yawning grave, they use their tongues to deceive (to mislead and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps is beneath their lips." This hasn't changed the world, only the Church. The world still refuses Jesus and His deliverance. This isn't saying we write them off, but we must know we can't believe the world because nothing has changed with them.
We must not allow ourselves to be controlled and driven by politics and the media, instead of God's Word. The war, segregation, death, fear, destruction, and mess we see all around us, is driven by the lips of the world system. The world system is driven by and under the dominion of the anti-Christ spirit, we hear speaking and boasting against our God. The world ran out of answers when Adam fell in the Garden and it remains answerless, without God's Word. When we lend our voices to those of the world, then we only add to the same problems facing the world. We only know what the media and the friends and family of the politicians, tells us about him or her. Or, we only know what they want us to know about them.
The Church evens preaches political correctness and adherence to ungodly laws, that have already been set into motion. One can no longer simultaneously be politically correct and Biblically correct. The world is determined to reign over the Church of the Lord Jesus. As new creation people who listen to God's Voice and His Spirit, are considered to be "rebels," in the eyes of the world.
Our declarations that, "God's Word is still Higher than the world's words," seem to be out-of-line even in some churches. God's Word isn't only Truth, but it is THE TRUTH. If God said something two-thousand years ago, then He hasn't changed His mind because "it's now 2016." God is not progressive in His Truth, but it is "Forever settled in Heaven." If something was wrong then, then it's still wrong today.
We need to stop looking at the giants and stand on God's Word, then we can enter into the promises of His Word. Are we really believing God's Word or are we just saying we believe in His Word? We should pray for God to send us more Joshua's and Caleb's.
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