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     Most of us would agree that America's politics have gone wild.  Please, pray and stand with us in the Authority of Jesus' Name.  The cancel culture cannot cancel Jesus Christ, as much as they'd like to.  Death, hell and the grave couldn't hold Him and they won't be victorious against Him either.  Warriors in God's army must take a stand, not against politics, but against the kingdom of darkness which has declared open warfare on the Kingdom of Light.  Eph.6:12(Amp) says, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending with physical opponents), but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere."

     This is a war against our God and satan has never been, nor never will be, victorious over Him.  We need to begin standing up in our place in Jesus and stand against the darkness, in order to bring others into God's Kingdom.  Those reading this in Communist countries, already know what the fight is about in America.  We refuse to bow to the darkness, like the three Hebrew children did.  The fiery furnace looks better than the bondage of satan.

     When the righteous make a stand and put Godly men and women into this nation's government, then we can bring the unity of the Holy Spirit to our nation.  If we allow our minds to be conformed to the world's way of seeing and thinking, then we'll be useless to God's Kingdom.  Satan has tried in the past, to make God's people feel useless, but our help comes from the Lord and cannot be stopped, if we'll come to God for Grace and help.  The Throne of God's Grace is open to His people and we have an invitation to come boldly before Him, with a sense of belonging and great expectation in our time of need.  Many in our government are controlled by the enemy and his evil agenda for our nation, but God has called and raised up our nation and her people as Light to the world.  

     This nation isn't a socialist country and with God's intervention and help, we will never be.  God entered into a covenant with our forefathers centuries ago, so we would be free to worship and serve Him in Spirit and Truth.  God will honor this covenant, because of those He made it with.  Ex.2:23(Amp) says, "And God heard their sighing and groaning and earnestly remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob."

     God will hear the groaning of this nation too and will remember His covenant with our forefathers.  And, like those in Egypt, He will deliver His people.  Our forefathers loved God and had enough faith in Him to cross the ocean in wooden ships.  God honored that and by so doing, created a unique nation for Himself, much like He did with Israel.  Our government today, is trying to be God and is printing money, in order to buy people with free money, but there's no such thing as free money.  Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have to pay this back.  No one can buy loyalty.

     Our Constitution didn't give us freedom, our freedom gave us the Constitution.  God's children have a place of authority that the world can't overcome, if we will only use the Truth of God's Word to stand against it.  We're not in this battle alone, anymore than Joshua was in Jericho.  What looked like foolishness to carnal men, was actually the Wisdom and Might of God on behalf of His people.  We were never called to submit to the world, but to overcome this world for the Kingdom.  Jesus prayed in John17:15(Amp), "Father, I do not pray or ask that You take them out of this world, but that You keep them from the evil one."  Many have lost sight of the Truth that satan is a real entity and enemy to God and His people.

     Satan's onslaught isn't just happening in America, but all over this earth.  The Covid-19 pandemic has swept this planet and is causing many to put their trust in mankind for our deliverance.  Jesus is still the Lord of all and He will turn our captivity into His Victory and will reveal Himself as Lord, in spite of what the world and satan might think.  I believe we're in the times of the greatest harvest of souls into God's Kingdom, that has ever been.  As the Lord's return grows closer, satan's fear is driving him to loose everything to stop Jesus from returning, like He said.

     No Word of God is without self-fulfilling Power, to bring it to pass.  What Jesus said is how it will be, no matter what.  We're God's Ambassadors and are to bring His Kingdom into this world and bring men and women into His family.  We can overcome, by trusting in God's Word and His Holy Spirit.  The enemy has loosed everything in his arsenal and has overplayed his hand, frantically trying to stop God's Word from doing what the Father sent it to do.

     We must hold fast to the faith, pray without ceasing, and we must not limit God in this final battle for mankind, before Jesus' return.  We must stand on God's Word and must not bow to the forces that would trying telling us, "It's useless."  Let's run the course, finish the race, hold the faith and rejoice in the deliverance of our God!

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."

     Many have settled for just being saved and remain carnal men/women, without seriously working to develop the new creation into the Super-natural person we've been created to be.  Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told the disciples this in Acts1:8(Amp), "But you shall receive power, ability, efficiency, and might, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of (the very bounds of), the earth."

     The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the Super-natural Power of God, to do the work that Jesus did.  Without the Holy Spirit, we would be just another religion.  Jesus gave a mandate to His followers in Mark16:17-18(Amp) to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel."  In Verse 17, Jesus said that, "These Super-natural signs will accompany those who believe in the Gospel, saying, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe; in My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents, and even if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."

     This mandate hasn't been rescinded and this power is for those who believe, are filled with or baptized with the Holy Spirit.  The Super-natural manifestations are the Presence of the same Holy Spirit Jesus had in Him and is now in us.  There are no signs and wonders for the world to witness a Living Savior, without the Holy Spirit.  Jesus said in Luke11:15(Amp), "If you then being evil as you are [speaking to those who aren't born-again yet] know how to give good gifts (gifts that are to their advantage), to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask, and continue to ask Him."

     Receiving the Holy Spirit in the power of Baptism, is the main requirement for us to walk in the Super-natural ability of God.  Jesus Himself did no mighty works, until He received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Mark1:9-10(Amp), which says, "In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when He came up out of the water, at once he (John) saw the Heavens torn open and the Holy Spirit like a dove coming down to enter into Him (Jesus)."

     If Jesus needed the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, in order to begin His Own ministry, then how much more do we need the Power of the Holy Spirit today?  This Super-natural ability comes only by and through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit living within and upon us today.  Jesus spoke to His disciples about the Holy Spirit's coming and how important the Holy Spirit would be to them, after Jesus went to the Father, in John16:13(Amp), saying, "But when He, the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole Truth and full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father; He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."

     Many read the Word, without comprehending or receiving the Truth of it for their own lives.  The Holy Spirit is the One Who brings Revelation into our lives.  Jesus said in John16:7(Amp), "However, I Am telling you nothing but the Truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away, Because if I do not go away, the Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby, will not come to you, into close fellowship with you; but if I go away I will send Him to you, to be in close fellowship with you."

     Our Source of Super-natural ability and power, comes from the Same Source that worked in and through Jesus.  It takes the Holy Spirit in us, in order to demonstrate the visible Presence of God to the world.  Our Heavenly Father didn't say, "I was the Almighty God," but He said, "I Am Almighty God."  We speak like the awesome things He did before, are no longer available today.  He is the "same yesterday, today, and forever" and He does not change.  These attesting signs and wonders still follow the Message of the Gospel today.  The Church has been talked out of believing that the Power of the Holy Spirit is still available for us today.  

     When we believe in the Holy Spirit Who lives in us, then He will do what He came to do and perform the signs and wonders, so the world can see the True God.  It's not us who does the works, we only need to read God's Word, ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit and believe what God says is True.  We must listen and hear what He would have us do today.  He has done all the work for us, but we must believe, receive and go into all the world, like Jesus said in Mark 16:20(Amp), saying, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied it. Amen (so be it)."

     Let's receiving the Holy Spirit today.

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     2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore,  if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."  The new creation isn't our natural bodies, but our spirits which were not united with God, because of Adam's sin.  When our spirit man/woman is born of God, we're no longer sinners and we're new creations.  Our new creation person is born of God, just like our children are born of us.  The attributes and character of God are now living in our new creation man/woman.  We are born of and born into, the very Likeness and Image of God, our Heavenly Father. 

     The Same Seed that gave Life to Jesus, is the Seed that we've been born of, according to 1Pet.1:23(Amp), 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."  John1:14 tells us that the Word produced Jesus.  We've been created by the Word, in the same sense that both the First Adam and the Last Adam Jesus, were brought into this world.

     1Cor.15:15-17,18(Amp) says, "Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam (Christ), became a Life Giving Spirit, restoring the dead to Life. But it is not the Spiritual Life which came first, but the physical and then the Spiritual. The first man was from out of the earth (made of dust, earthly minded): The second Man is the Lord from out of Heaven."

     Paul says this about our natural body and person, in Verse 18, "Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of dust (earthly minded); and as is the Man from Heaven, so also are those who are of Heaven (Heavenly minded)."  Our natural body was from the seed of Adam and our Spiritual body is the Seed of God's Word.  If you're wondering why our natural bodies give us such trouble after being born-again, then remember Gen.1:11(Amp) which tells us that God made, "Fruit whose seed is in itself, according to it's kind." 

     The Law of Genesis holds true with every seed, from the trees and plants, to the animal kingdom and the human body, to the new creation man/woman from the Seed of God's Word.  Our natural bodies were produced from the seed of Adam, with it's sin nature.  The Spiritual body is from the Seed of God's Word and holds all the attributes of our Heavenly Father.  The struggle we have in our Christian walk is from the seed of sin, that produced the fruit of the seed of Adam, which rebels against God's Word.  The struggle between the flesh and the spirit will continue, until we develop our spirit to withstand the flesh.  

     The old thoughts and actions we experience in our Christian walk, come from the fruit of the natural seed of Adam.  The knowing, understanding and standing against these thoughts and actions, comes from the fruit of the Seed of Jesus Christ.  We learn how to understand and deal with these thoughts and actions in Rom.8:1(Amp), which says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus (who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit)."

     As we begin to develop our new creation person by God's Word and being led by God's Spirit, we strengthen him/her from trying to go his/her own way.  When something appears on our computer or T.V. screens, that we would have watched before being born-again, the Holy Spirit will lead us to turn it off.  We yield to whichever is the strongest and more developed in our lives.  We must build our new man/woman of the Spirit, making it stronger than our old selves, by fellowship with Father and His Spirit and His Word.  The one we feed the most, is the one that will prevail.

     Paul wrote about the dictates of the flesh and the Spirit, saying it was only what is said or dictated, not something of force.  It's up to every individual, which one will lead us and which voice we will follow.  A dictate is as one who makes suggestions or orders to another.  It's up to the individual or the hearer, whether or not to obey.  The flesh will try to dominate the newborn baby in Christ, because it has been in charge longer and is stronger.  Paul writes to the Church in Heb.5:14(Amp), saying, "But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose sense and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good, and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."

     It requires consistent effort, to train our senses or natural way of doing.  It's not something that God will do for us, but it's our walking by the Spirit, because we love Him.  How long must we do this?  Until Jesus comes back or we go to Heaven in death.  Our flesh will always try to rise up, until we are crucified with Christ Jesus, according to Rom.7:22-25(Amp), where we see the Apostle Paul dealing with the battle between his flesh and his spirit.  This is a battle that every believer deals with.  Satan can't effect our new creation spirit.  He is will try enticing your flesh into disobedience and condemnation, but he can't touch our spirit.  We must develop our spirit to withstand the flesh, by God's Word, by fellowship with Him and being led by God's Spirit.

     The more we feed our spirit by God's Word, the stronger he/she becomes and the weaker our flesh becomes.  1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave the milk of the Word that you may grow thereby."

    

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, all things have become new."

     Jesus spoke about the new creation man/woman, in John10:10(Amp), saying, "The thief comes only to kill, steal and enjoy, but I have come that they may have Life in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."  This is the new creation person, who has the Life of God in him/herself living and flowing in our new born spirit being.  We're a new creation being and are now born of God's Spirit, but we have no idea how to life this Life of God, without the instruction and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

     We still have these natural lives in our flesh, which will die and cease to be, but the Life of the new creation person is the very Life of the Father, which endures forever.  Many receive this Life and simply wait until we die in this flesh to enjoy it.  Others though, receive this God kind of Life and allow it to flow in and through us now.  This is what Jesus spoke about in the above scripture.  This Life is to permeate this flesh and blood body we're now living in and then expand God's Life through it.

     We must learn how to receive from this new Life, by God's Word and His Spirit, so it brings forth the abundance that Jesus spoke about.  We've dealt with life from the outside-in, since coming into this world, but in this new creation, things work from the inside-out.  In Luke17:21(KJV), Jesus spoke about those looking for the Kingdom, saying, "Nor will people say, Look! Here it is, or see it is there! For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you, in your hearts and among you, surrounding you."  Jesus spoke about what the Kingdom of God is like, in Luke13:18-19(Amp), which says, "This led Him to say, What is the Kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds found shelter and roosted and nested in its branches."

     The new creation person is a Spiritual man/woman, from God's Own family.  We are spirit, like our Heavenly Father and are from a different Kingdom, so we move in a different way than those in the kingdom of darkness.  God's Life, Blessings and His Word work from within our spirit and like the mustard seed, will grow and produce in our lives, so that it's seen even in the natural realm of life.  We must sow God's Word into the soil of our hearts, in order to bring forth a harvest.  

     Casting seed on any ground, doesn't bring forth the 100 fold return, it must be sown into good soil, in order to promote growth.  The Seed is God's Word according to Jesus' "Parable of the Sower," in Mark4(Amp) and it can only produce when we give it time and good ground to grow.  The Blessings found in God's Word will expand and produce harvest in our lives, when we spend time meditating on God's Word.  Prov.4:4(Amp) says, "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life."  We must tend and guard the garden of our new creation walk with God.

     How do we "guard our hearts?"  We follow Jesus' instructions in Mark4:23-24(Amp), where He says, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear."  Remember that Jesus said, "The Kingdom is within you."

     All words are seeds.  There are words of faith, words of fear, words of hate, words of love, words of instruction and words of foolishness.  We must be careful what words we sow into the kingdom of our new creation hearts.  God will measure the Seeds of His Word and the Truth we hear, back to us.  All other seeds will produce whatever they are.  God tells us that He "watches over His Word to perform it."  He will not perform over words or seeds of the enemy or produce those words or seed.  Many don't believe that we can have what we say, but seeds don't care what others say, they will produce after kind.  If we allow wrong seeds to be sown into our hearts, then they'll produce a crop that we might not want.  The seed only brings forth what is in it.

     We're each responsible for watching over our hearts.  Jesus admonished, "Be careful what you are hearing."  The hearer is responsible for what we hear.  Seeds or words of doubt and unbelief, will choke out the Seed or Word of God's Kingdom, so they won't produce like it was sent forth to do.  Carefully read the entire chapter of Mark 4, so you can perceive and comprehend what Jesus is saying.  Jesus tells us in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver). The flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     What words or seeds are allowing to be sown into the soil of our hearts?  Words of Life or words of death?  Words of faith or words of doubt?  The Seed of God's Word that is sown into the believer's hearts and is watched over, will produce Life in abundance (till it overflows) and will produce after Kind.  

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether), the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."  We must believe what Jesus has made us to be, in order to be the new creations He made us to be.  He didn't say that we would "become a new creation," but that we are now what we are to and in Him.  The natural mind can't conceive this, it must be received into our new born spirits.

     Our carnal  mind, that is ruled by our senses and natural thinking, will continually remind us of who we were before being born-again, along with our past sins and failures, if we allow it to.  This will cloud over the Truth of our new creation being God has made us to be.  Our flesh body never got born-again.  If like me, you were short before being born-again, then you'll still be short after being saved.  The miracle of God was in our spirit and is the start of a new and better life, both here on earth and hereafter.

     We struggle with the Truth of the Word, because we don't "feel" like we're righteous and sometimes don't act like we're righteous.  We try satisfying our carnal feelings and making ourselves feel righteous, by rituals and traditions, even though Rom.5:17(Amp) tells us, "It is a free Gift of Righteousness."

     The identity in Christ Jesus, is the Truth identity of all who have received and put trust in Him.  We can't allow the old feelings of the flesh, to talk us our of the identity we have as new creation persons.  We must stay fast on what God says about us, until the flesh submits to the Truth of who we really are now, in Jesus.  Rom.8:7(Amp) tells us why we don't feel righteous, saying, "That is because the mind of the flesh, with it's carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Laws; indeed it cannot."

     Paul tells us what we must do, to accept our true identity in what Jesus has truly done for us, in Rom.12:2(Amp), saying, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your mind."  We must feed on God's Word, until we truly believe it in our hearts and then accept what God says more than what the world and our carnal minds say about us.  We can only see who we've been made to be now in Christ Jesus, by His Word.  Many have believed what mankind says about us, instead of what God says, which leaves them to never seeing who we really are in God, through Jesus.  Without Christ, we're still unrighteous and unworthy to enter God's Presence.  Through Jesus, we've been given the Gift of Righteousness and we're righteous in Him, with His Righteousness.

     One might ask, "Why are you teaching so much about accepting this righteousness?"  Because, if you don't understand righteousness by faith in Jesus, then you'll have doubt in your prayer life and in your fellowship with our Heavenly Father.  If you don't know that you're fully acceptable to Him, then you can't pray in faith and expect Him to answer.  If you don't know who we really are in Jesus, then we're just hoping and wishing, instead of believing and praying.

     Heb.11:1(Amp) says, "Now Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the Title deed), of the things we hope for, being the proof of the things we do not see."  Hope has it's place, but faith is what brings this hope into reality and substance.  You might hope that God hears you, but faith will bring this hope into the reality of now.  They must work together.  It's one thing to read in God's Word, that we're righteous before God, but our carnal mind will tell us that "we're not."  When you put faith in what God says we now been made to be, this makes your hope a reality, because you know that He hears and answers your prayers.  

     Many are more conscious of what our flesh says about us, rather than what God has said about us.  This is why Paul instructs us to "renew our minds by God's Word."  When we do this, we begin thinking differently about who we are and begin developing into who God says we now are.  We know that we're not righteous in ourselves, but we're not in ourselves any longer and are now in Christ Jesus.  1Cor.6:17(Amp) says, "But the person who is united to the Lord (becomes one spirit with Him)."  We are one with Jesus in our new creation spirit and by becoming one spirit with Him, we've received His Righteousness into our spirit.

     2Cor.5:21(Amp) says, "For our sake He made Christ virtually to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of the righteousness of God."  God now sees us as being in Jesus and accepts us as being righteous, in the Righteousness of Jesus.  Feelings have nothing to do with Truth.  We might feel alone and like God is a million miles away, but Jesus tells us that, "I will never leave you or forsake you, I will be with you always til the end of the world."  He is always in you and with you, even if you don't feel like it.  This is who we now are by the new creation birth.  We are sons and daughters of the Most High God.

  

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come." 

     The hardest part about developing into what God has created us to be, is believing what God has said in the above scripture.  A mind that is unrenewed, finds it difficult to accept what God has done and said about us.  The natural mind can't come to grips with the Truth that, when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we can now actually stand in God's Presence as clean and pure.  The natural mind thinks it's "prideful" and "high-minded," to believe that God sees us as righteous, through Jesus' Righteousness.

     Righteousness is a Gift that the Father has granted us, because no one can be righteous on our own.  It had to be a Gift from God and He gave us this Gift, so we could now approach Him in faith and be received and accepted by Him.  We know in our natural selves, that we could never achieve this righteousness on our own or do anything worthy to enter into the Presence of a Holy God.  Heb.4:16(Amp) says, "Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the Throne of Grace (the Throne of God's unmerited favor to us), that we may receive mercy for our failures and find Grace to help in good time for every need appropriate help and well-timed help coming just when we need it."

     Paul writes to the Church in Rome about the Gift of righteousness Rom.5:17(Amp), "For if by one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor and the free Gift of righteousness), putting them in right standing with Himself, reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." 

     All who've received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, have been given this free Gift of righteousness and are in right standing with the Father.  If we're saved, but believe we're unworthy and not righteous, then condemnation will keep us from drawing closer to Him.  We must believe that God will hear us and grant our requests when we pray, in order to develop a prayer life of faith.  We must have more faith in what Jesus has done, than what we did before receiving Him.

     Righteousness, right standing and the right to stand in God's Presence, is a Gift that was bought and paid for, by the Sacrifice of Jesus Himself.  We've been made to be the righteousness of God Himself, in Christ Jesus, according to 2Cor.5:21(Amp), which says, "For our sake He made Christ virtually to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become endued with (viewed as being in, and examples of), the righteousness of God, what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him by His Goodness."

     God Planned for us to be in right relationship with Him and acceptable and endued with His Righteousness, from the beginning.  Adam was the one man whose trespass resulted in death.  His transgression caused mankind to be separated from God.  God didn't cause this separation.  The Law of Genesis tells us that "every seed produces after kind."  A kernel of corn will always produce corn.  The seed of Adam produced death and separation from God, for every person born of that seed.  

     Jesus is the Seed of the new creation man/woman, has also produced after Kind.  He is the Seed that has produced righteousness, holiness, family and has restored mankind with the right to come back into the Father's House and Presence, with thanksgiving and praise.  Believing that Jesus has produced after Kind, because He is The Seed, is the first step in developing our place in the new creation family of God.  We're created righteous, from the Righteous Seed that produced all who are in Christ Jesus.  The Law of Genesis says that The Seed can't produce anything other than after Kind.  This Law continues to operate in every aspect of sowing and reaping today.

     We are what and who we are in God, because of The Seed that God Himself has sown, to provide a family unto Himself that could come no other way.  Mankind could only produce what he was and nothing else.  His seed was a product of the First Adam and every seed produced after kind.  We're new creation people in the Spirit of God and His Word (which is The Seed), according to John1:14(Amp), which says, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."  Jesus is The Seed, the Word of God and is the Source of our new creation being.

     Understanding by faith and believing who we are now by the new birth, will determine the faith in our prayer life, our fellowship with the Father, and the new found joy of walking with Him in this world.  This is a naturally Super-natural way of life, in this realm.  We can do all that is required of us in this earth, by the Truth of a Father Who is the I Am, in our lives now.  Jesus said, "I Am the way, I Am, the Truth, I Am, the Life, I Am, the resurrection, I Am, the Door."  The Great I Am has once again become our Father.

    

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation, the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."  We've talked much about developing the new creation man/woman, by learning to depend on God's Word and Presence in our lives on earth.  Many believe that enjoying life here is "worldly" and "not God's Plan for Spiritual Life in Him."  Jesus said in John10:10(Amp), "I have come that you may have and enjoy Life to the full (in abundance, till it overflows)."  The Life Jesus came to bring and give us, is the Life the Father had planned for us in the very beginning.

     Mankind was to live on this earth and have dominion, to rule over everything God created, according to Gen.1:27-28(Amp), which says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female, He created them. And God Blessed them and said to them; Be fruitful (multiply, fill the earth), and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."

     Mankind was to live and rule in the earth, walking with God both in this flesh and in the Spirit.  Man was to live in union with the Father and enjoy all the things He had prepared for them.  We lived so long in this world without God, that we lost track of how to live in it, like the Father intended.  Jesus said that He came, so we might "have and enjoy Life."  In order to do so, we must first understand how to walk with Him and do it like He intended.  We're supposed to live naturally Super-natural.

     Walking with God in this world, should be so easy that we feel it's not right.  In order to live here in this natural body, while enjoying what God created for us, we must listen to His Voice and use the Life He has given us, in the beginning.  The enemy has brought many things into this earth, in order to "steal, kill and destroy," but we can avoid the enemy's pitfalls, by living in God's Word.

     I try to live and walk with the Lord constantly and continuously.  He's always on my mind and in my thoughts, to guide and provide and direct my steps.  Living this way has become so easy, that it's naturally Super-natural.  I live in on 320 acres with 50 head of beef cattle, along with horses and chicken.  I mow hay and "keep" the land, like God instructed and I enjoy this life with Him, while I'm here on earth. 

   God didn't give me laws, but Grace, to do what He created me to be.  The flesh on it's own, might would go the wrong way, but it's under the dominion God gave us in the beginning.  I apply God's Word and Spirit by this new creation man that He's birthed me to be, in order to keep this physical body in subjection.  This isn't difficult, so long as I keep the new creation man strong in God's Word.  We train the flesh by God's Word, so it obeys it's new master, by believing God's Word and who He has created us to be in Christ Jesus.  We develop our new creation man/woman, so it will be in charge of our flesh, like Gen.1:27-28 says.  It's to have dominion over everything that moves upon the earth and since our old natural man/woman moves upon this earth, we have dominion over them too.

     Our flesh or natural man/woman, was in control of our lives for so long, that we now need to train our senses or carnal flesh, to walk differently by the new creation way of living.  Heb.5:14(Amp) says, "But solid food is for full grown me n, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate between and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."

     We didn't give much thought to many things, before being saved.  We might have done things that were legal for adults in the world, without giving much thought to doing so.  Abortion was made legal, but some never supported this, even thought it was human law and declared legal.  Many things in human law are legal, but when our senses and mental faculties have been trained by practice to discriminate between good and noble and what is evil and contrary, then we're being led by the Spirit and not by the sense.  This becomes naturally Super-natural.  Our flesh will follow the new man/woman, instead of the old one, because it has been trained to do so, just like any other creature that moves on the earth.

     The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write in Rom.8:1(Amp), "There is NOW no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit."  We're to train our senses by the Word and by exercising dominion over the flesh.  We can train the flesh to walk differently and enjoy Life in abundance, by the Life of the Holy Spirit in our spirit.  

     I walk with my Father here, enjoying all the things He created and made for us, without feeling guilty or condemned, because I'm happy.  The enemy has done much to destroy this fallen world, but he cannot remove the beauty of God's creation.  We must not become distracted by the enemy's distractions and trust God to develop our new creation man/woman we've become, so we can walk naturally Super-natural.  

     The Christian walk is hard to do, until we develop our new creation person.  When our flesh is stronger than our spirit, it will always try doing what it did before being saved.  When we develop our new creation man/woman by the Word, the strength of God Himself will work in and through us.  The more we strengthen our new creation man/woman, the weaker the flesh's pull will have on our lives.  We must know who we've been made to be in Christ Jesus and not be under condemnation of our past.  It's important for us to read and hear the Word, in order to discover who God has made us to be now.  This is what God meant when He said, "Whoever the Son sets free, is free indeed."

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      1Peter2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst after, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk (milk of the Word) that by it you may grow unto completed salvation."

     Rom.10:17(KJV) says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."  The Amplified Bible says, "So faith comes by hearing what is told, and what is heard comes by the preaching of the Message that came from the lips of Christ (the Messiah)

     There's a difference between hearing and just listening.  We can listen to what someone says, but still not hear the truth of what is being said.  Hearing what the Word is saying to us today, takes more than listening.  Someone among a crowd hearing the Word being preached, might hear what is being said, but might not "hear" the depth of the Words and think they're just noise.  Your mind might be on something else and you don't hear the Truth of the Message.

     Jesus spoke about this in Mark4:23(Amp), saying, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend."  Everyone Jesus spoke to in the crowd had  physical ears to hear, but not all of them heard what He said.  They were listening, but still didn't hear.  In Matt.13:13(Amp) Jesus explained what hearing means in His "Parable of the Sower," saying, "This is the reason that I speak to them in Parables; because having the power of seeing, the do not see; and having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand."

     Jesus said in Matt.13:12(Amp), "For whoever has Spiritual knowledge, to him will more be given, and he will be furnished richly so that he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."  Remember what He said in John10:10(Amp), "The thief comes only in order to steal and to kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."

     Some in the crowd were listening to what Jesus said, but didn't hear by the spirit man/woman and believed what He said were just words.  Jesus summed up the lesson of His Parable in Mark4:24(Amp), saying,, "Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear."

     Mark5:26-27,32(Amp) tells us, "And there was a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years and who had endured much suffering under the hands of many physicians and had spent all that she had, and was no better but instead grew worse. She had heard the reports concerning Jesus and she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment. Verse 32 says, "Jesus said to her, Daughter, your faith, your trust and confidence in Me, spring from faith in God, has restored you to health. Go in peace and be continually healed and freed from your distressing bodily disease."  Jesus was the most popular Man in all the Land and we find many stories about things He did in the scriptures.  Many people listened to these stories and remained untouched by them, but the woman with the issue of blood heard about Jesus and applied faith to what she heard.  Rom.10:17(Amp) says, "Faith comes by hearing."  Jesus instructed those around Him, "Be careful what you are hearing, the measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you."

     The difference between listening and hearing, according to Jesus, is that hearing ignites faith.  I've heard some say, "Ive already heard that message," but Jesus tells us that if they "heard it," then they would be walking in what they heard.  They might have been listening, but still weren't hearing.  I proved this when as an elementary student, I listened to my teacher explain a math problem, but couldn't work it out.  I didn't hear what my teacher said and couldn't solve the problem she had given.

     We're always listening, but might not be hearing, even in church.  We've become so familiar to the message, that we no longer hear.  Jesus tells us the results of doing this in Mark4:20(Amp), saying, "And those Seeds (Words) sown on the good soil (well adapted soil), are the ones who hear the Word and receive and accept and welcome it and bear fruit-some thirty times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some even a hundred times as much." 

     Hearing the Word and accepting it, brings forth such faith as the woman with the issue of blood had.  Hearing produces the Power of God's Word in our lives.  We can all listen to a message being preached, but not everyone will hear it.  Hearing plants the Seeds of the Word, into the very spirit of the new creation man/woman and will bring forth fruit.  Pay special attention to what Jesus tells us about what results from just listening to the Word without hearing, in Mark4:4(Amp) saying, "Behold, a sower went out to sow And as he was sowing, some Seed fell along the path and the birds came and ate it up."  The people He spoke about listened to the Word, but didn't hear or put faith in the Seed of the Word, so it didn't produce in their lives.  It's hearing the Seed that determines the outcome.  We must have good soil, in order to make the Seed germinate in our lives.  It comes from hearing, according to Rom.10:17(Amp), which says, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."    

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      1Peter2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk (the milk of God's Word), that by it you may be nurtured and grow up unto completed salvation."  God's Word is the means by which we grow.  This is an individual thing and is the responsibility of every believer.  Our pastor's job is to feed us, but after awhile, we must learn to feed ourselves, along with hearing the Word from our pastor on Sunday.  We wouldn't feed our natural man/woman only on Sundays and expect him/her to grow, so why would we only feed our new creation man/woman only once a week?  Our newborn spirit requires food, in order to grow and mature.

     We develop faith and trust in God's Word, as we study it and that leads to maturing unto completed salvation.  In Heb.8:12(Amp), for example, says that, "Your sins and iniquities I remember no more."  We try believing this, but our natural man/woman tries to put us under condemnation over who we used to be.  The more we read and feed our new creation person, the more we begin overcoming the condemnation and walking in the Liberty of God's Truth.  Many Christians today, still walk under the guilt and condemnation of who they once were and don't enjoy their life of Liberty in Christ Jesus.

     When I was first saved, I bought the entire Bible on cassette tapes and listened to them while I slept and as much as possible when I was awake.  It became a habit and I found it difficult to sleep without hearing the Word played.  As a result of feeding my spirit on God's Word this much, I began trusting God in areas that I never could have before, because my spirit was growing stronger on a daily basis.  I didn't even realize that it was happening.  Today, I still spend as much time in God's Word as possible, to keep my spirit strong in the Lord and the Power of His Might.

     Some view this as being "over the top," but it depends on how we want to walk with Him.  Do you want to see the Power and Presence of the Super-natural Force of God in your life?  Or, do you just want to be a quiet Christian?  God loves us all the same and He will never reject those who come to Him, but He wants us all to become mature Christians, so He can accomplish what He's planned for us.

     The Apostle Paul could have stopped preaching and growing the early Church, so that he wouldn't endure persecution.  Paul would have still been saved, but his walk with the Lord was strengthened by his maturity of Revelation and he was willing to die and be pleasing to God, rather than quitting.  We would never heard the Revelation Jesus gave to Paul, if he had quit and we would not have much of The New Testament.  Paul preached the Gospel to people, who never heard that they could be "righteous in God's sight."  This caused him to undergo great persecution, but Paul never stopped.

     Many considered it blasphemous, for Paul to preach that the Gentiles could come into covenant with the Jews, but Paul continued with what he had learned in his spirit, through faith in God's Word and God's Word and Spirit sustained him through it all.  If what God calls us to do could be done on our own, then we wouldn't need the Super-natural intervention of the Holy Spirit or the Word, to do it.  God's Word is a "Lamp onto our path," and we can't stay on the course He's called us to, without it.  How would we differ from all the religions that exist in the world, if we don't have the Super-natural in our Christian lives?

     Jesus didn't come to start another religion, but He came to bring us relationship with God.  We're not to be servants or subjects of God, but we're sons and daughters in His family.  In order to realize the Truth of what Jesus has done, we must truly believe what His Word says about the removal of sin, the redemption from the Curse and the reconciliation back to the Father, as His Own family.  The personal relationship we have with the Father, grows by spending time with Him and trusting in what He's done for us, through Jesus.  

     Rom.10:17(KJV) says, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."  Jesus says much about what we hear and the results of our hearing, in "The Parable of the Sower," in Mark4:4,8-9(Amp).  Jesus likened the Word as a Seed and the heart or spirit of a person, as being soil in which the Seed is grown.  The same Seed (Word) that was eaten by the birds in Verse 4, is the same Word (Seed) that brought forth a hundred times, in Verse 8.  The difference wasn't that the Seed (Word) doesn't work for everyone, but that not everyone puts the same importance on what they hear.  Jesus said in Verse 9, "He who has ears to hear, let him be hearing and let him consider and comprehend."

     The emphasis isn't on the Seed (Word), but on the hearer.  The depth of the soil (heart) and the care of the Seed (Word), depends on those who will hear and believe in the Seed (Word).  The cares of the world, even thought they might not be evil or sinful, can choke out the harvest and the Seed.  The cares of raising a family, going to work paying our bills, shopping for groceries and the daily things of life, can take up all of our time, leaving no time for us to spend in God's Word and choking out our fellowship with the Lord.  

     In Mark4:14(Amp), Jesus tells us that, "The Seed, is the Word of God."  1Peter1:23(Amp) tells us that, "This Seed (Word) is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."  In the natural world, anyone who plants a kernel of corn, will reap a harvest, if it's planted in good soil.  It will work for a sinner, as well as a Christian, because the seed was created to produce.  We must give care, thought and study to what we hear, because that is what we will reap.

     We've been told, "It doesn't work for everyone," but Jesus says it does, but only for those who will care for and watch over it, like they should.  God's Word is the incorruptible Seed and will always work in the heart of whosoever will take it in, care for and nourish it.  There's no person who can call upon Jesus in faith for salvation, who won't be saved.  It just depends on those who call and those who believe.

     As we go on in Christ Jesus, we'll discover that God's Word hasn't only produced new creation people.  If we continue in the Seed of God's Word, it'll produce all God has Promised by the Seed, in the lives of the new creation believers.  Some are content to be cleansed from sin, while others wish to go into a greater harvest by the Word, here in this life.  This depends on the soil of the hearer's heart.  We must stay with the Word (Seed) and it will by it's Own Power, produce what it says.  The Seed already has whatever it needs to produce, it just needs good soil.

     It's obvious that not everyone in the Body of Christ, are understanding God's Word, in the same state of maturity.  A baby isn't rejected as not being "intelligent," just because he/she can't read.  The baby just needs to mature and will learn to read.  Many times we view others who don't know certain things, as being "less" than others.  We sometimes see those who've learned and grown up in the Lord, as being "know it all's."  Remember, we are all one in Him and are to grow unto the stature of the fullness of Christ, according to Eph.4:13(Amp) which says, "That it might develop until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the Son of God; that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of personality, which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's Own perfection, the measure of stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him."

     This is the growing age in the Church, from the day in the Upper Room to the Revelation given to the Apostle Paul, to the time in which we are now living, to the coming of the Lord Jesus.  Don't quit, but keep learning, growing, believing and identifying with the One in which we're to grow up in.

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     1Peter2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn  babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word; that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto completed salvation."  I can't stress how important it is that Christians be in God's Word.  Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." 

     The new Life we receive in our spirit, when we are born-again, can only grow and mature into completed salvation, by the Word of God.  We can't grow in the fullness of what God has for us, by only hearing the Word on Sunday mornings from our pastors.  We must learn to feed ourselves by reading and meditating on the Word ourselves, so that we know what God wants to do for and through us.  If we follow the masses and "go with the flow," then we will remain babes in Christ, making it difficult for God to use us.  These might be born-again believers and are saved children of God, but they lack the Truth of God's Word and are unable to step out on their faith, in order to be used by Him.  Every Christian has the Holy Spirit living in us and if we have faith in His Word, God's Spirit will do mighty works through us.  Jesus is the Word of God and we must learn to hear and obey God's Word, in order to know Him and His ability in our lives.

     Many spend more time in their prayer lives, than in God's Word.  Our prayers haven't come to pass, because we don't know what God's Word says and His will is, when we pray.  Chris Tomlin sing, "I'm not just hoping; I'm not just wishing. I know I'm praying to a God Who listens."  So many struggle to know God's will when they pray.  Many don't understand the difference between how God dealt with those under the First and Last covenants.

     Those in the old covenant were brought into captivity to their flesh, because they weren't born-again.  The flesh couldn't keep the Law and was still subject to captivity by the Curse of the Law.  Today, we have God's Own Spirit living in us and the Curse of the Law has been removed by the Blood of our Sacrifice Lamb, Jesus.  Gal.3:13-14(Amp) says, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse, doom of the Law, and it's condemnation by Himself becoming a Curse for us; for it is written in the scriptures, Curse is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus (the Messiah), the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we, through faith [not Law] might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."

     In order to understand what the above scripture means in the life of this new creation, we must learn who we've now become in this new birth and by the Word of God, receive what Jesus died to give us.  In the above scripture, the Holy Spirit reveals the Last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ, where Jesus leaves all He gained on Calvary to us, by sealing His will with His Own Blood.  We're the recipients of Jesus' Last Will and Testament and that can't be changed by anyone or anything, nor can it be defaulted.  It is forever settled in Heaven!

     The recipient of a will receives the inheritance, after the Testator dies.  When Jesus left this will, it became valid for all believers when He died and rose again.  It's now ours by the Blood covenant made between Jesus and the Father.  Carnal man/woman couldn't uphold their end of the old covenant, so God didn't make the new covenant with carnal, natural man.  The new covenant was between God and Jesus and when we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we became heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus.  This covenant is unchangeable and unbreakable and stands through all eternity.  God can't break it and Jesus wouldn't break it.  

     Learning from God's Word and His Spirit, is much different than learning it by carnal minded men.  If we don't renew our minds by the Truth of God's Word, even after being born-again, then we'll remain carnal minded and won't have faith in the Promises of God.  Jesus told us in John 6:63(Amp), "The Words (Truths) I speak are Spirit and Life" and "the flesh (carnal mind) has no benefit whatever."  Our natural, carnal minds can't understand the Spirit Realm of God and must be renewed by God's Word, which is Spirit.

     Many traditions in today's Church, came from well-meaning Christian people who interpreted God's Word with carnal minds.  There will never be Power in a carnal understanding of God's Word.  The importance of reading and meditating on God's Word is left up to the individual and becomes the sole responsibility of each believer.  Jesus admonished in Mark4:24(Amp), "Be careful what you are hearing."  All words are seeds and we must not allow seeds of doubt, carnality, or fear be sown and grow in our new creation spirits.  We must only allow the Seeds of God's Word and the Holy Spirit to grow in us.   

    

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     2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold the fresh and new has come."  

     In order to understand the above scripture, we must believe what it says and put faith in the new creation being we've become.  The "new" you, is the one that is reflected back to you, by the mirror of God's Word.  If we're new creations, then who we were before, isn't who and how we are unto the Lord.  In God's eyes, our past is gone.  He sees the new creation beings we've become, with no past at all.

     This is difficult to understand with our carnal way of thinking.  We still see who and what we were before Jesus, and it's difficult to erase the memories locked into our carnal natural minds.  We must spend time in God's Word and accept who we are now in Christ Jesus.  Paul instructed us in Rom.12:2(Amp), to "renew our minds by God's Word, in order to see ourselves the way God sees us."  We know that in this natural world and form, we were not right with God and were unworthy and unrighteous.  Through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the old man/woman hasn't just been cleansed, but he/she has been made a new creation.  

     Our new creation man/woman was created in and by the Spirit.  Our outer man/woman wasn't changed and must be brought into subjection by our new creation feeding, by feeding on God's Word.  Our flesh will never simply surrender and become submissive, but must be trained by our new creation spirit, which must be trained by God's Word and His Spirit.  The more time we spend in the Word and in fellowship with the Lord, the more dominion we'll have over the old habits of the flesh.

     We must learn what God's Word says about who we've become in Jesus, is more true than what our carnal mind and the world says about us.  We must have more faith in God's Word, than we have in our senses and feelings.  We must begin to accept by faith, the Truth of His Word, instead of our feelings and what others say about us.  This is a gradual process that can be advanced by hearing and studying God's Word for ourselves.

     It's important what baby Christians hear and how much faith is put into what we hear.  Jesus said in Mark4:24(Amp), Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be give to you who hear."  We know from this "Parable of the Sower," that "all had ears on their heads and heard Jesus' Words," but not all of them allowed the Word to enter into their hearts, in order to produce what He said.  It's not enough to just hear with our ears, but we must hear in faith, with our new creation spirit man/woman and allow the Truth and virtue to be multiplied to us.  When we read or hear God's Word, we must let it be the Holy Spirit speaking a personal Message just for us.

     When we hear others say we're "unrighteous, unworthy and a sinner." then we can't let that into our hearts, because that will stop our faith in asking and seeking God in prayer.  We must stay on what God says about us, instead of what the world says about us.  God's Word tells us who we've been created to be and declares that we're righteous by the Power of the Blood of Jesus, in our new creation man/woman.  2Cor.5:21(Amp) says, "For our sake He made Christ virtually to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become endued with, viewed as being in and examples of the Righteousness of God, what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him by His Goodness."  Jesus did it for us, because we couldn't do it for ourselves.  He is our Righteousness.

     It's difficult for our natural selves to believe and accept that we are actually righteous in God's eyes.  Paul says we must, "renew our minds by God's Word," in order to see ourselves like God sees us, even in this world.  It's not being prideful, when we believe the work God has done in us, but it's prideful when we deny what His Word says about us now in Christ.  Are we going to believe the Truth of God's Word or what our carnal mind and the world says about us?  God's Word is Truth and how we might feel about it doesn't change it.  The entire universe is still held in place, by the Truth of God's Word.

     Our carnal mind will tell us that "God's Word isn't True," because it's the enemy to Truth, according to Rom.8:7(Amp), which says, "That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Laws, indeed it cannot."  We must renew our minds with God's Word and believe it with the mind of Christ and the Spirit of God.  We can only overcome the mind of the flesh, by God's Word and faith in His Word.  Heb.11:3(Amp) tells us, "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed (fashioned, put in order and equipped for their intended purpose), by the Word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible."  We only need to look at the heavens and universe, to see God's Word is more True than what our carnal minds can conceive.  It must be view by faith.  The carnal mind looks at these things as being "the Big Bang Theory," which isn't faith in God.  

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      1Pet.2:2 (Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto complete salvation."  As we grow into the Truth of our salvation, the milk of God's Word becomes the meat of God's Word, helping us grow into completed salvation.  Many don't spend much time in the Word and don't grow or mature into the new creation persons God created them to be.  Many have believed that being saved only meant we were forgiven and will go to Heaven when we die.  Being saved means much more though, as we grow into maturity on the meat of God's Word.

     The Strong's Concordance, describes the word "salvation," in many terms that apply to the full understanding and us the meat of God's Word for those who wish to grow up in Christ Jesus and walk by faith in what He has done for us.   #4982 says the word "salvation" means, "Safe; to save, i.e. deliver, or protect lit. or fig,-heal, preserve, save, do well, be or make whole."  #4991 says, "noun-rescue, or safety, physically or morally-deliver, health, save, saving, deliverer."  

     As we grow up from milk to meat, we begin to understand more of what our salvation entails and we begin developing more faith in what Jesus has accomplished for us.  Those who remain babes in Christ are saved, but never enjoy or understand the fullness of what Love has really done for us in this world and the next.  Many believe the Super-natural things of God has passed away, but if this is true, then salvation itself is passed away, because these things are all included in salvation.

     We're remained babes in Christ, because we haven't gone from milk to meat and developed into completed salvation.  We must go on in Christ and begin to understand the depth of our salvation, in order to honor Him in it.  This doesn't mean that Jesus doesn't love us all the same or that some are "special," but even though we've all received the same degree of salvation, some have never enjoyed all that it has meant to be to us.

     Many in today's Church don't believe in healing or miracles, but the Word tells us that salvation includes the Super-natural provision of God, in our earthly walk as well as Heaven for our Eternal Life with Him.  It takes times and effort to seek out Truth from God's Word of salvation and begin growing faith in His Promises.  It's hard to have faith in things God has done, if we don't know they're already provided in salvation.  If we don't know that healing and health are part of salvation, then they are just hope, instead of Truth and we'll settle for less than He has provided.  When we know for certain what God has done, then the scriptures are no longer hope, but fact and we believe unto salvation, according to  Heb.11:1(Amp) which says, "NOW FAITH (no longer Law or sacrifice or Holy days), but faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed of the things we hoped for, being the proof of the things we do not see and the conviction of their reality; faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."

     Our carnal mind or senses, cannot receive the things God has Promised us, because the carnal mind, with the five physical senses, are hostile to God's Word and do not submit to it.  If we could simply feel, see or touch what God has done, then we wouldn't need faith and trust in God's Spirit and His Promises.  Many Christians remain suffering in the mess they were in before becoming heirs of salvation.  It's not because salvation doesn't work for all who have received Jesus, but because many are still on milk and haven't grown up into the meat of God's Word.

     Our faith in God is an ever growing thing.  It grows from just being a forgiven sinner, into being accepted and invited into God's Presence, by His Love.  Grace is simply Love manifested and we're all trying to believe in Grace.  John 3:16 reveals the greatest picture of Grace and Love, in full manifestation to us all.  There are many different degrees of Grace, but they're all summed up by God's Love.  Gal.5:6(Amp) 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."  The blood of circumcision in the old covenant or the new covenant, means nothing to God on our behalf.  It's our faith in the Blood of Jesus that was poured out by His Love for us, that means something to God.

     The more we understand His Love for us, the more sure is our faith in Him.  God's Love came from Grace and not Law.  We must go from milk to meat and grow from babies to mature children of God, in order to understand His Great Love.  Many read about God's Love and believe in His Love, to a degree, but if we knew the true depth of His Love in and for us, the faith we have in His provision would never be shadowed by doubt.  

     We still see ourselves as being unworthy and are unsure He will receive us, like Jesus had never come.  Once we're saved and are in Christ Jesus, God only sees us by His faith in His Love and the Grace of His Blood.  All God intended for His family is now fulfilled in God's great heart and He once again has a family He can share His Great Love with.

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      1Peter 2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation."

     Newborn babies must have milk and nourishment in order to grow in the natural and this is true for the new babes in Christ, in the Spirit realm.  Milk is essential for the newborn babies and it's essential that newborn babies in Christ receive the unadulterated Spiritual milk of God's Word.  If we don't read, hear or feed God's Word into our newborn spirit, then we can't mature or grow in the Spirit realm.

     We might be saved and will go to be with the Lord when leaving this earth, but we can do no more than a baby in this realm and must be cared for by others.  We must feed on and learn God's Word, in order to mature in Christ and do what God intended the Church to do.  Paul writes in Heb.5:13-14 (Amp), "For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness, of the conformity to the Divine will in purpose, thought and action, for he is a mere infant not able to talk yet. But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human law."

     Many believers have centered mostly on being saved and going to Heaven, while others have learned that through Jesus Christ, we've become heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus.  This doesn't mean that baby Christians aren't joint heirs, but that babies have no idea what this truly means in their lives.  We've been born into God's family, made in His Image and Likeness in our spirit, and we are now what the Word calls us and not who we once were.

     You're no longer a sinner, in your newborn identity in Christ Jesus, but you've been made to be righteous, justified and one spirit with Him.  As babies, we still see ourselves in the failures of the flesh, but we see who we really are by the Sacrifice and ransom note Jesus paid for by His Blood.  We must take God's Word and discover who He has made us to be in Him.  The flesh will come into subjection of the spirit man/woman, if we'll strengthen the spirit and grow up in Christ.

     The pull of the world, along with distractions of the flesh, will have to bow to the Lordship of Christ, if we will strengthen it by the "meat" of God's Word.  James tells us that God's Word is a "mirror," in James 1:23-25 (Amp), saying, "If anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own reflection and natural face in a mirror. For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like."  We see our new creation reflection, in the mirror of God's Word, but then we forget what we saw and return to what we were in the flesh.  Verse 25 continues, "But he who looks carefully into the faultless Law (the Law of Liberty) and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in his doing, his life of obedience."

      Many see who we've been made to be in God's Word, then forget what we looked like in the faultless Law of Liberty (the mirror of God's Word) and fall back into the mere men and women we were before being born-again.  Paul said that, "Solid food is for full grown men, not babies any longer," in Heb.5:14.  Those who continue looking into the faultless Law of Liberty and are conforming to that image, instead of what the world says they are, are no longer babes in Christ.

     God's Word is likened to a mirror and reflects who we are now, not who we once were, in 2Cor.3:17-18 (Amp), which says, "Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom)."  James tells us that God's Word is the perfect Law of Liberty.  Verse 18 goes on, "And all of us, as with unveiled face, because we continue to behold in the Word of God as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His Very Own Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit."

     God's Word is a mirror that reveals the true image of we are in Christ and the glory of the Lord is transfiguring us into that same Image, by the Word and by the Holy Spirit.  Jesus prayed in John17:22 (Amp), "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One."  We've been seeing ourselves as less than what Jesus has made us to be, because we believe "it's prideful" to see ourselves that way.  The awful truth is that only pride could say in the face of what Jesus has done, "This isn't true."  Only pride could stand against the Truth of God's Word and say "it isn't so."

     We are what He created us to be and only carnal pride or religion can cause us to stand in the face of God's Truth and declare we're somehow inferior and still in our sins.  Rom.8:7(Amp) says, "The carnal mind is hostile to God and does not submit itself to God's Law, indeed it cannot."  

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          2Cor.5:17,16(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."

     The above scripture says that those who are born-again are no longer who we once were with God, but who He has made us to be in Jesus.  We learn even more about the new creation person and about the Risen Lordship of Jesus, in Verse16, which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a purely human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). No, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now we have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer in terms of the flesh."

     Where do we get this knowledge of Him, which allows us to "see Him no longer as a Man, but as the Risen Lord of all?"  We receive this Spiritual knowledge by the Revelation in God's Word, which reveals Jesus' Kingly position at the right hand of God.  The Man Jesus, came as a Lamb for our Sacrifice.  He is no longer a Man Who was to die in the place of those who have received Him, but Jesus is now our High Priest and Lord.  He suffered as a Man and took the penalty for our sins.  As our Lord, He gave us His rewards. 

     We've mostly viewed Christ and ourselves more from His human form, instead of seeing Him and ourselves in the Glory He provided for us, by His Own death and resurrection.  In order to develop our new creation identity and learn to walk in it, we must see ourselves "no longer after the flesh," but after the Spirit.

     We've mostly seen ourselves as sinners and not after the new creation man/woman who was born of the Seed, the Word of God.  1Pet.1:23(Amp) 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."  Gen.1:11(Amp) says, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth fruit, tender vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to it's kind upon the earth. And so it was."

     We must not miss the Truth that "every Seed brings for fruit of itself."  We were born or produced from the Same Seed that produced Jesus.  John1:14(Amp) tells us, "The Word became flesh and walked among us."  This Same Seed, the Word, is the Same Seed Who produced the new creation spirit man/woman, produced Jesus in His Human Form.  We've been produced after Kind and our new creation spirit man/woman is just like the Original Seed.  

     Paul says that we "know no man after the flesh any longer (those who are born-again), but after the Spirit."  We know longer see Jesus as a Man, but after the Risen Christ Who is seated in God's Presence, according to Eph.2:6(Amp), which says, "And He raised us up together with Him and made us to sit down together, giving us joint seating with Him in the Heavenly sphere, but virtue of our being in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."

      Jesus said in John15:5(Amp), "I Am the Vine;you are the branches. Whoever lives in Mes and I in him bears much abundant fruit. However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me), you can do nothing."  Why is this?  Because, every seed bears fruit after kind.  There is no fruit, with a seed.  We must know what fruit we are and what fruit we're to produce and bear after Kind.  We're not who we once were, but are born after the Seed Who produced us.  We're the fruit of the Vine and bear the same Seed and fruit after Kind.  The fruit we bear is the same born-again child of God that the first fruit brought forth, which is the new creation child of God.

     One might say, "I thought the fruit of the Spirit was in Gal.5:22-23.  This is the fruit in us, which is produced by and through the Holy Spirit and makes us desired by others, allowing us to sow the Seed of that fruit into their hearts and produce after Kind.  The rich, red fruit of an apple, is only a seed holder, which produces more apple trees.  When the fruit is desirable and eaten, the seed of that fruit will produce another another apple tree, which bears more apples and more seeds.  The Fruit of the Spirit makes others want to be like us, so that the Seed will reproduce in them too.  Jesus told us that "He is the Vine and we are the branches."  The Vine doesn't produce the fruit.  It gives Life to the branches that bear the fruit.  We are the branches who bear the fruit from the Vine, Who is the Original Seed, the Word of God.

     We can count the seeds inside an apple, but we can't count the apples in the seed.  The seed will produce another apple tree, which will produce more apples that hold more seeds to produce more trees and apples.  The cycle continues for eternity.  This is the incorruptible Seed or Word of God that endures forever.  God watches over His Word to perform it.  Every word is a seed in God's Kingdom.  There are seeds of healing, seeds of Grace, seeds of comfort and many more.  Each of those seeds will produce exactly what the Seed Promises, but they must be sown in our hearts.  God says in Prov.4:2-22(Amp), "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."

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      Most of us have tried governing our flesh and carnal man/woman, by our flesh and carnal man/woman, even after being born-again.  When we try developing the new creation person by the flesh and blood body, instead of God's Word, we will always fail.  The flesh doesn't want to change.  It's content to rule and control what it came to know and rebel against the Spirit.  Rom.8:7 (Amp) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes, is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Laws; indeed it cannot."

     Paul writes about the submission of the carnal mind in Rom.12:2 (Amp), saying, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by it's new ideals and it's new attitude; so that you may prove for yourselves what is that Good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even that things which is Good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you."

     We must renew our minds, by spending time in God's Word, in order to build up the new creation person and allow him/her to dominate the flesh.  In John 6:63 (Amp), Jesus speaks about the Word and Spirit, saying, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatsoever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     We've mostly adapted to and fashioned ourselves after the external and superficial customs of the world, even in the Christian experience.  We've followed after what the world has accepted as "Christianity," rather than what God's Word and Spirit say.  Many prefer to remain in this religious state, instead of spending time in God's Word and growing into the new creation person we've been created to be.  Peter writes about the Word and the new creation child of God, in 1Pet.2:2 (Amp), saying, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk of the Word, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto completed salvation."

     It's good that we hear sermons and attend Sunday service, but we must learn to "eat" the Spiritual milk of God's Word for ourselves.  Although our pastor is preaching good sermons, we must still study and learn what is that "Good and acceptable and perfect will of God," for ourselves.  We must feed on God's Word, allowing God's Spirit and that Word to bring growth and maturity to our new spirit.  The new spirit within us, can and will, dominate the flesh, if we continue to feed it God's Word.  

    Many believe that the days of miracles and the Super-natural things of God have "passed away."  We've been trying to do what no one except Jesus could do and go back under the Law.  We're not offering sacrifices and following Temple traditions, but we're fashioning our own traditions, which make God's Word of no effect.  We must return to God's Word for instruction, especially during this day and age, in order to bring forth the fruit of the harvest.  We've led many people to salvation as newborn babies in God's Kingdom, but we've failed in our responsibility to bring them into maturity.

     We expect our natural children to grow into a place, where they feed themselves.  Our Heavenly Father too, expect us to grow into a place where we feed ourselves on His Word.  We must come to the Truth, that God's Word is Life and health, even to our physical bodies, by the Life we produce in our spiritual body.  God commends us in Prov.4:2-22 (Amp), saying, "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."

     Remember Jesus' Words, saying, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life, the flesh profits nothing."  When we feed our spirit on God's Word, the Life in our spirit will dominate the flesh, not only in health, but keeping out of sin.  We've failed to realize the full importance of feeding on the Spiritual food of God's Word.  We think reading the Word, is just some "religious thing to do," instead of knowing it's critical we do so.  Jesus said that His Words "are Life and health to all our flesh."  If our physician told you to take a certain medication every morning, in order to maintain your life and health, then we would faithfully do so.  Jesus' Word should be as important as our doctor's words.

     Our true Life, is in our spirit and God's Spirit Who lives within us, according to what Jesus told the crowd in John10:10 (Amp), where He said, "The thief comes not but for to steal and kill and to destroy, I am come that you may have and enjoy life to the full (till it overflows)."  The people surrounding Jesus were alive in the flesh.  They could all breathe, walk and talk, but Jesus considered them to be dead, because the spirit within them was not "alive to God."

     When you link Jesus' Words in John10:10 to John 6:63, then you can see the importance of feeding on God's Word.  Our true Life is in and comes from the spirit, not the flesh.  Even after our natural lives have ended and leave this planet, we will live in the spirit and eternity with God.  This is the Life that Jesus came to bring and give those who would believe His Word and receive eternal Life through Him.  After receiving Jesus and eternal Life, we must still feed our new creation spirit, in order to mature and grow into into what we were born-again to be.  Every baby must receive nourishment from what they eat and feed on.  This is true for our newborn spirit too.

     If we don't feed our newborn spirit on God's Word, then it will be weak and controlled by our natural bodies.  Paul instructed us to renew our minds with God's Word, in order to nourish our born-again spirit and bring our flesh into subjection to it.  Our natural bodies are still from the fallen seed of Adam, while our new creation spirit is from the Seed of the Last Adam Jesus.  Both will and have produced after kind, according to the Law of Genesis.

     This is why we struggle with the old habits we had before being born-again.  The natural seed of Adam is still trying to produce after kind, like it did before.  John1:14 (Amp) tells us that, "The Word (the Seed, Jesus) took upon itself and became flesh."  It will still do the same thing in our born-again spirit, we we'll allow it to be sown into the fertile ground of our new creation man/woman.  Your spirit has been prepared for the Seed of God's Word, so it will produce one-hundred fold, but we must sow it into fertile ground.  We must spend more time feeding our spirit on God's Word, so we can produce the harvest God intended.  If we never sow a seed, then we'll never produce a harvest.  This is why so many in the Body of Christ, never see the Blessing manifest in our lives here on earth.  There won't be a harvest, if we don't plant the Seed.

     The Seed is in our Bibles, but unless we open them and plant the Seed of God's Word into our born-again spirit, it won't produce a harvest.  A package of sweet corn will never bring forth a crop, unless we take the seed out of that package and plant it.  The Seed of God's Promises are in the Seed form of God's Word, which must be sown into our spirit man/woman, in order to bring a harvest into our lives here on earth.  It must be sown into the fertile ground or soil of our hearts, according to "The Parable of the Sower," Jesus gives in Mark 4.  We must allow the Seed to penetrate our spirit and then watch over it, so it will bring forth the Promise in the Seed.    

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     In Matt.6:33 (Amp) Jesus says, "But seek, aim at and strive after first of all God's Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."  Jesus is speaking here about earthly, material things, as well as the Spiritual things of God's Kingdom.  These things are one and the same to the Lord.  By His Sacrifice, Jesus brought both realms into one kingdom again.  Our Father walked in both realms with His son Adam and his wife, from the beginning in Genesis.  God planned for His family to be in constant contact with Him, in both realms.

     God's way of doing and being right comes by reading and studying His Word.  Jesus instructs us to "first of all strive after God's Kingdom and His Righteousness," so we can live here and do well in this physical, natural realm.  We need to rely on God and His covenant, instead of the government or charity.  Paul tells us how we're to do it by God's Righteousness in 2Cor.1:30 (Amp), saying, "But it is from Him (God) that you have your Life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine Plane of Salvation previously hidden manifesting itself now as our Righteousness; thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God, and our Consecration, making us pure and holy; and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from Eternal penalty for sin."

     God's way of doing and being right, comes by His Grace and His Son as our Lamb and our Righteousness.  There are ways to provide and receive what Jesus said in Matt.6:33, without doing it God's way, but when we do it His way, we're trusting in His Fatherhood to provide for us, like any good father wants to do.  We shut God out and we don't allow Him to be all He wants to be, when we try doing things our way.  Being right, being righteous and being in right standing with God, comes only one way and that's through Jesus.

     Trying to become righteous before God, other than accepting it as the Gift of God through Jesus, will keep us outside of righteousness and right standing in God's eyes, which will stop the ability of the Holy Spirit to bring forth what we need.  We can gain some things in the carnal realm by ourselves, but righteousness isn't one of those things.  "His way of doing and being right," aren't just words to be read over lightly.  God has a Righteous and Just way of doing things, based on faith in Him and on the Spiritual Laws that govern His Kingdom.

     God's Kingdom and the Kingdom of Heaven have Spiritual Laws that hold this universe in orbit.  These Laws are as sure as the laws He put in place to govern this earth.  The Law of Gravity is vital to life on this planet and works continuously.  We can override the Law of Gravity by the the Laws of Lift and Thrust, but we cannot do away with that Law.  We can fly planes that weight thousands of pounds, using the Laws of Lift and Thrust, but if we turn the motor off, then the Law of Gravity will force the plane to fall to earth.  Yikes!

     Many of God's people don't know what His will and His way of doing and being right are.  We try walking according to the Law of Moses from the old covenant, while simultaneously walking in the Power of Grace and Righteous from the new and last covenant that came from the Blood of Jesus.  We've not understood the True meaning of God's Grace.  God's Grace is His way of doing right, so God's Blessing can operate like it should in our lives.  Grace is simply a total reliance on God's Love to open the doors to His Provision, by His Love for us.  This doesn't mean that we don't work or do things in this natural realm, but we must trust Him to" add it to us", like Jesus said in Matt.6:33.

     God's way of doing and being right, is found in His Word.  The Word tells us to, "Love one another as I have Loved you," which is a great part of doing and being right.  Are we doing it God's way or are we still harboring malice and unforgiveness towards one another?  God's way is to abstain from immorality and sin, at all cost.  We get a good overview of God's way of doing and being right in Matt.5:13-48 (Amp), especially Verse 48, where Jesus says, "You therefore must be perfect, growing in complete maturity of Godliness in mind and character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity, as your Heavenly Father is perfect."

     Growing into complete maturity in mind and character, comes by developing the new creation.  These are things we can do, but many choose not to do.  They are God's way of doing and being right and must be done by the individual believer.  We can't legislated these things, like under the Law, because they're an act of submission to the Lord Who lives in us.  Are we more more inclined to do it our way, rather than God's way of doing and being right?

     Paul taught about the Gifts of the Spirit and how we can be good candidates for obtaining these Gifts, in 1Cor.12:31 (Amp), saying, "But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best Gifts and Graces, And yet I show you a better and more excellent way to obtain them."  Paul goes on to speak to the Church in Corinth about Love, in 1Cor.13:1 (Amp).  It's not our love, but God's Love that inspire the Super-natural operation of the Holy Spirit.  Thus, Paul writes, "If I speak in tongues of men and even of angels, but have not Love, that reasoning, intentional, Spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God's Love for and in us, I am only a noisy gong or clanging cymbal."

     God's full intent is for us to walk in Love.  Unlike those under the Law, we have God's Love.  We see something available to us, that wasn't available to those under the first covenant, in Rom.5:5 (Amp), 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 His Love in and shown through us to our fellow men/women.  God will sometimes allow the Gifts of the Spirit to work, because He loves the person we're praying over, but it doesn't bring praise on our part, before Him.  We must do it in Love, instead of pride and self-importance.  Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the works."  God's Love for His people, worked through Jesus and brought praise and Glory to both God and Jesus.  This requires maturity, according to 1Cor.13:1 (Amp), which says, "That reasoning, and intentional devotion such as is Inspired by God's Love for and in us."  This doesn't come from the outside, carnal man or woman, but comes from God Himself, as we learn to yield to Him and develop our fellowship and relationship with Him, in Spirit and His Word.

     Yielding and being led by God's Love isn't a "religious" thing.  God's Love is greatly missed in today's world.  Truly walking with God and putting faith in God's Blessing and the outcome of it, is based on doing on His way of doing and being right.  Our way of doing and being right, is not enough.  We must spend time reading and meditation on God's Word, in order to develop the new creation person and become what God has made us to be.