Developing the New Creation Lesson 91

     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."

     We have received the Gift of God's Grace, by faith in Jesus' Sacrifice.  God's Grace has provided the removal of our sins and trespasses and has given us His Own Righteousness.  Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if by one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one (Adam), 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)."

     If we do not accept the free Gift of God's Grace, then it will not benefit us.  If we do not accept and reject this Gift, then it offends the One Who offered it.  None who are born-again would ever seek to offend our Lord Jesus, but that's what we're doing when we reject the Gifts He offers.  He is at a loss to deliver us, when we reject the Gifts He offers.  Some believe it's "prideful," to consider ourselves righteous, but it's pride that leads us to disbelieve and reject the Gift of Righteousness.

     Believing and receiving God's free Gift of Righteous, will make a great difference in the new creation child of God.  We believe that we've been placed in right standing with God, through Jesus, which builds confidence in our prayers and faith for all God has done through the Blood of our Sacrifice Lamb.  John writes about the Life we now have in Jesus and the fellowship we have with the Father, in 1John5:14-15(Amp) saying, "And this is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness, which we have in Him; we are sure that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His Own Plan), He listens to and hears us. And if, since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."
     How do we know God's will?  We must be in His Word enough to know what God has granted us through Calvary's cross and Jesus' Blood.  If Jesus bore it for us, then we are, by His will, exempted from it.  Our sins and death were placed on Jesus, so it's God's will that we, by accepting Jesus, receive by faith, the remission and extraction of sin and death.  We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus, according to Rom.8:17(Amp), which says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."

     The suffering we share with Jesus, is being mocked and rejected by others, not being sick or depressed.  Jesus bore the Curse of the Law for us.  We must identify with Jesus' Sacrifice on Calvary, in order to share His suffering.  We share His death by dying with Him, as though we were nailed to the cross ourselves.  When we know in our hearts that Jesus did all this for us, we can have confidence in our hearts and minds, knowing that we were also raised with Him into His Glory.

     If we believe that God is still holding us accountable for the old creature we were, then it will be impossible to truly walk and have faith in the new creation man/woman God made us to be.  Paul writes in Gal.2:20(Amp), "I have been crucified with Christ (in Him I have shared His crucifixion); it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in and adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God, Who Loved me and gave Himself up for me."

     We don't receive Jesus' suffering on the cross, when we believe that we're sick because "God is testing us."  We must identify with Jesus and share His suffering for us, so we can understand the extent of what Calvary has granted to us, by Him.  We're not in sin, if we get sick and God isn't testing us, when we get sick.  It simply means that we don't understand the full effect of what Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross.  We share in Jesus' suffering, so we don't have to endure it.  

     As joint heirs of Jesus, we haven't inherited sickness, disease, poverty, fear, captivity, sin or death, but we're inherited what He died to restore us back to, which is the fullness of God's Love.  Jesus was justified and seated at God's Right Hand, and we must truly understand that He has made us free and fellow heirs, sharing His Glory and inheritance.

     If we believe that God is trying to teach us by making us sick, then we haven't shared in His suffering and have laid ourselves open to the enemy's deception.  If we don't receive the Father's Free Gift, even though it's Priceless, then it will not profit us.  Salvation has been offered to the entire world, but many have rejected this Gift.  The Father has offered it, but they haven't yet received it, for one reason or another.  When we receive the Gift of Salvation, the rest of God's Gifts are ours also, because we've become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.  This Gift comes by faith and is ours to enjoy, as part of our inheritance.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 90

      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."

     Witnessing the things occurring under this present Administration in America, leads me to Ex.1:8(Amp), which says, "Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph."  I see a pharaoh, who is trying to make himself god over the American people.  Looking at the things the world is showing us can be overwhelming, but this is why we look to Jesus, Who is the "Author and Finisher of our faith."

     We must keep our eyes on our Heavenly Father and His Promises, which are all "Yes and Amen to His Praise and Glory in Christ Jesus," so our discouragements turn once again to victory.  There might be giants in the Land, but we serve the One Who is Greater than them.  In these Last Days, God is looking for people who will take the Land and believe in Him and His Promises.  This is a Joshua Generation that will simply trust God at His Word and take the Land, instead of dying in the Wilderness.

     Many feel alone in what we're doing, but that is a lie from the enemy.  God is raising up a people all over this Land, who will walk in the Rest He has Promised in His Word.  Joshua took Canaan and we can take back America.  The time has come to put our faith in God's Promise, in Psalm2:8(Amp), where He says, "Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as your possession."

     Things might look bad and things might seem to be in disarray, but we must stand in faith on God's Word.  Heb.4:2(Amp) says, "The Message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the leaning of the entire Personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His Power, Wisdom and Good); by those who heard it. Neither were they united in faith with the ones (Joshua and Caleb) who heard and did believe."  We're not alone in believing God for deliverance.  God is raising up a people who will enter in and we're called to go with them, instead of murmuring about the giants.

     The mention of "Rest," wasn't speaking about entering into Canaan, because if Joshua had given them rest, then God would not speak afterward about another day of Rest in Heb.4:9(Amp), which says, "So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-Rest reserved for the true people of God."  The Sabbath-Rest refers to our having faith in God, to do what He has Promised to and for us.  This isn't only for when we get to Heaven,  but is our resting in Him now, during our time of trial and testing by the enemy who "knows not Joseph (Jesus).  God never instructed us to give back this Land to the devil, but to stand our ground and retain what He has given us.

     Those who say, "We can't fight city hall," don't understand what our Almighty God can do.  He won't only fight city hall, but He will overcome it for us, if we'll do what He said and "mix faith with His Promises."  It might look dark, but God's Word is True and the Light will overcome the darkness.  This is for all people in all nations, as well as America.

     This isn't about politics, but about Light and dark, in the kingdom.  America is about to enter into her best days, by the Hand of God for His people and for those who are unsaved yet.  The awesome things we read about in the first covenant, are still in the Hands of the One Who did those things to deliver His people.  We must keep our eyes on Jesus, instead of the giants or anything else the enemy tries to show us.  I don't know how He's going to do it, but I know that He is going to do it.

     There will soon be an outpouring of the Manifest Presence of God in this earth, so that even those who don't believe, will surely say, "This is God in our midst."  The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is not yet complete and we will overcome all obstacles by faith in God and His Word.  I look for your name to be written in the Believers Hall of Fame.  The Church isn't going out of here with a whimper and crying, but with glorious and triumphant praise and Glory.  God hasn't forsaken or forgotten His children and "Pharaoh will let His people go."

     We must use the things we learned and have laid dormant in our hearts, because, just prior to His Ascension, Jesus Promised in John14:26(Amp) that, "The Holy Spirit is coming to bear fruit."  Thus, He said, "But the Comforter, (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Stand-by), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name (in My Place, to represent Me and act on My behalf), He will teach you all things and He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I told you."  

     Our having faith in the Power of Jesus' Name, the power of confident prayer, the knowledge of God's will and faith in His Word, will bring about all God has Promised.  We can't only have faith for ourselves, our families and our loved ones, but we must have faith for our nations and the world.  Some in the Church, who don't have faith in the Message they've heard, might choose to remain in the Wilderness, like those who came out of Egypt did.  The giants might look bigger than what they can handle, but we're not the ones who have to handle them.  We only must believe and Rest in God and take the Land He has given us.  God will take care of the giants, as we go.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 89

     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 Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."

     The new creation person is exactly that...a new creation.  We've been given dominion over the enemy, by Jesus' Blood and the Power of His Name.  Jesus forgave us for and removed our sins, so the lying enemy cannot keep us under the condemnation of them, when we come against him with the Name of Jesus.  Many believe that being saved only means that we're forgiven sinners, who will go to Heaven when we die.  This is true, but by God's Grace, salvation means so much more than that.

     Jesus completely removed our sins on Calvary's cross, bore our sickness, removed us from the Curse of the Law, and brought our peace and reconciliation with our Heavenly Father.  Through Jesus, we've been restored back to what God intended His family to be, when He made man in His Own Image.  The same dominion that Adam had, has been restored and we've been given dominion over the spirit world, through Jesus.

     Many Christians haven't heard the full Truth, so we have very little faith or understanding about the Truth of what Jesus Blood has purchased for us.  "Faith comes by hearing," so when we don't hear, then we have applied little faith in what salvation has brought us.  The sin problem was done away with by the Blood of Jesus, so there is no need for another sacrifice for sin and the Blessing.  Our right standing with God or righteousness, has been restored, by faith in Jesus.

     Many in today's Church have heard false teachings about healing and the Baptism of the Spirit, so they believe that, "These things are for only a few people" or "These were only for the early Church."  The Same Jesus Who took our sin, also took the rest of what Adam lost in the Garden of Eden.  We're now restored and created to the intentions our Father had at the beginning.  The things we endure today, were dealt with at Jesus' death and Resurrection.  The earth is enemy territory and we must stand in faith, receiving what our Blood covenant and our Sacrifice Lamb has accomplished for us.  If we haven't heard this, then we won't stand in faith for it.

     2Cor.1:20(Amp) says, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes answer in Him (Christ). For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), To God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency to the Glory of God."  This doesn't just include the Promise of our sins being forgiven, but the Curse of the Law and the restoration of everything Adam's fall caused.  We've been restored back to God's Original Intent.  Most of us have never applied faith in much else than forgiven and the Promise of Heaven.  Many still struggle with having faith in their forgiveness and live under condemnation of our pasts.

     The Father promised Jesus in Gen.3:15(Amp), saying, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heal."  This is one of the Promises we read about in the above scripture, which tells us that, "All the Promises of God are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus."  This is the ultimate Promise on which all of our salvation rests.  All the Promises the Father made to us through Jesus and now Yes and Amen in Him.

     Luke1:38(Amp) and Luke2:11(Amp) says, "For to you is born this day in the town of David, a Savior, Who is Christ (the Messiah, the Lord)."  All the Promises of the new creation hinged on this Promise being met and has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ.  Every Promise for and to the new creation family of God, is now Yes and Amen (So be it) through the One to Whom this Seed was Promised.  The scriptures tell us that these Promises were fulfilled for and through Him.

     The Promise of righteousness we read about in Is.53:45 has been fulfilled in Jesus.  Jesus has restored us back to right standing with God, which we read about in Is.54:18.  Is.54:17(Amp) tells us, "But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition is the heritage of the servants of the Lord (those in whom the ideal servant of the Lord is reproduced). This is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me, this is that which I impart to them as their justification, says the Lord."  The Resurrection of Jesus has made these Promises ours and many more.  If we don't know what these Promises are, then how can we put faith in what the Father has Promises us, in Jesus?

     The world, with man's opinions and carnal thinking, have replaced relationship with God with religion, so many of these Promises have been unfilled in our lives.  It's imperative that every believer read God's Word and hear from Him on our own, besides just hearing from our preacher on Sunday.  Most have lost sight of the Promises in God's Word.  We can't be like double-minded, like James1:8 says.  Many don't know if God is testing, teaching or punishing us or if the devil is trying to steal the Word and destroy us.  We must know God's Promises for ourselves and put faith and trust in them.

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 88

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

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

     Every baby must grow and mature, including Spiritual babies.  We're all born with the things that pertain to the life in our natural bodies and the Life in our new creation.  Both require nourishment, in order to develop into mature, proper adults.  Natural children don't know anything that we haven't been taught and this is true for the Spiritual child, who is born of the Spirit.  God's children must learn from His Word and His Spirit, in order to understand "His way of doing and being right,"  (Matt.6:33).

     We don't read God's Word as a religious duty, but we do so, to hear His instructions on how to live this new Life He has given us.  Reading the Word is a matter of education, while understanding it, is a matter of receiving Revelation and discernment from the Holy Spirit.  Many read the Word by carnal knowledge, without having Spiritual discernment.  God instructs us to "Get understanding," in Prov.4:7(Amp), saying, "The beginning of Wisdom is, Get Wisdom; skillful and Godly Wisdom. For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."

     We can read the Word in our carnal, educated minds, and still not have comprehension or understanding from the Spirit.  This is true for every are of our lives.  Many dismiss the Spiritual interpretation of what God's Word reveals to us, because they don't have Revelation knowledge.  This only comes from meditating and seeking the Father.  Our believing that God's Promises are only for when we die and go to Heaven, does little or no good to us, while we're in the enemy's territory.

     God's Word is a Living Word, whereby God speaks, guides and keeps us, while we're in this fallen world.  We'll be in the Presence of the Word of God, Who is Jesus Himself, when we get to Heaven, so we won't need to read the printed Word.  Jesus instructed in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver): the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     Jesus told His followers in Mark4:24(Amp), "Be careful what you are hearing, the measure of thought and study you give to the truths you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear."  Many things we hear aren't really what the Father says.  We've misread or misspoke the Word and replaced it with what we think it says.

     When Jesus rose from the dead and presented His Blood on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, the new covenant was ratified and all who would believe and receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, would be under the Blood covenant and become family in the House of the Lord.  Many have received Jesus, without knowing who He has made us to be, by the new creation.  We still see ourselves more as who we once were, instead of who we now are in Him.  We are really who the Father has created and called us to be, even though some don't believe this.  Our true identity isn't found in our opinion or the opinion of others, but only the Truth of God's Word.

     No one can stop what God has done, but in order to fully understand our new creation identity, we must seek God's Word and listen to His Spirit.  If we will only believe what He says about us, instead of what the world or religion says, then we can walk here, like we're already in Heaven.  The only things we must deal with here, is the same things Jesus dealt with while He was here, which are the lies and deception of the enemy.  If we stay on God's Word, having faith in what Jesus has done, then we will keep satan in the realm of the spirit, where he has no defense from the power of the new creation.  Satan will try keeping us ignorant to who we've become and hold us in this carnal realm.

     Jesus said, "The Words (Truths) I speak to you are Spirit and Life."  God's Word keeps us in the realm of the Spirit, where we're always victorious.  When we allow ourselves to be deceived and walk in the natural realm, instead of having faith in the Truth of God's Word, then we'll be open to deception.  Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower," saying in Mark4:15(Amp), "Satan comes at once to take away the Word that was sown in their hearts."  No seed can produce, if it's dug up and removed from the soil of our hearts.  The devil will use anything he can in this natural realm, to stop the Seed of God's Word from taking root and producing what God has Promised and declared.

     We're been lied to by the enemy, for so long, that we've been convinced that it's "not God's will for us to have what He says" or "These things are for only when we die and get to Heaven."  We must believe God's Word for ourselves.  No one can believe it for us.  It is the responsibility of the hearer, who is each of us.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 87

     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 come. Behold, the fresh and new HAS COME." 

     Heb.11:6 (Amp) says, "But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out."

     Everything we do in developing the new creation we've become, is based on our faith in what Jesus has already done for us.  We must accept God's Gift of Righteousness, in order to be pleasing to Him and to come near to Him.  We cannot establish our own righteousness or right standing before God, by our good deeds, rituals or works.  We must have faith in Jesus' Sacrifice and receive His Righteousness.

     Jesus said in Matt.6:33(Amp), "But seek, aim at and strive after first of all, His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and all these things taken together will be given you besides."  God's way of doing and being right or His Righteousness, comes by faith in His Gift of Righteousness.  Those under the Law were trying to establish righteousness by the blood of goats and bulls they sacrificed and by observing rituals and traditions.  Rom.3:10,23-24,22(Amp) says, "As it is written, None is righteous (just and truthful and upright and conscientious), no not one."  Those under the Law weren't righteous and their sins were only covered by the blood of bulls and goats.  Paul continues teaching about righteousness in Verses23-24, saying, "Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and Glory which God bestows and receives. All are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His Grace (His unmerited favor and mercy) through the Redemption which is provided in Christ Jesus."

     Verse22 tells us, "Namely, the Righteousness of God which comes BY BELIEVING WITH PERSONAL TRUST AND CONFIDENT RELIANCE ON JESUS CHRIST (THE MESSIAH), and it (this righteousness) is meant for all who believe, for there is no distinction."  God has reconciled Himself to mankind through Jesus, but we must by faith, reconcile ourselves to Him and receive what He has done for us through Jesus.  2Cor.5:20(Amp) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We, as Christ's personal representatives beg you for His sake to lay hold of the Divine favor now offered you, and be reconciled to God."

     In order to be reconciled to God, we must by faith, accept what He has offered us through Jesus and receive by faith, believing He has done all that needs to be done to reconcile God and mankind for eternity.  Through Jesus, God has made us righteous by faith and reconciled us to Himself.  We must stop trying to be righteous on our own and reconcile ourselves to the Truth of what He has already done for us, so we can have faith to enter into His Presence.

     Heb.11:6(Amp) tells us that, "Without faith [faith in what He has already done for us) it is impossible to be pleasing and be satisfactory to Him without first being reconciled by faith in what He Himself has provided for us to be righteous (in His standing)."  Trying to be righteous by our own standards, isn't God's way of doing and being right or righteous.  We must reconcile ourselves to Him by faith and believe what He has done for us, so we can freely enter in.

    This doesn't mean that we can live any way we please, but we must follow God's way of doing and being right, which is being obedient to His Word and adjusting our lifestyles to match His Word.  Everything God has is already ours, when we were born-again, through faith in Jesus.  We must reconcile ourselves to God's way and not the world's or our own way of doing, in order to receive what God has given us through Jesus.

     We keep trying to earn what has already been given, instead of reconciling ourselves to God's Word and His way of doing and being right.  Many find it difficult to believe that all God has Promised, has been given to us without our having to work for it.  This is contrary to the world's way of thinking, which says that we don't get anything we don't deserve or work for.  We don't deserve anything in God's Kingdom, but through His Great Love, Jesus has done what no man could do.  He has made us heirs of God and joint heirs with Himself, without our having done anything to deserve it.

    We must renew our minds by God's Word, in order to reconcile ourselves to God's great mercy, Love and Grace.  Our natural minds can't be reconciled to God's way of doing and being right.  Rom.8:7(Amp) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh, with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law (indeed it cannot)."  Reconciling ourselves to the Power of God's Grace, requires our renewing our minds to how we thought before being born-again and created new.  We must put on the Mind of Christ, so we can see ourselves after He has made us to be, instead of who we were before being saved.

     If we could become righteous and justified by our own works, then Jesus would never needed go to the cross for us.  When we deny that we can only be righteous before God, through Jesus.  Trying to be righteous on our own is not having faith and Heb.11:6 says that, "Without faith it is impossible to please or be satisfactory to God."  We can't boldly enter into God's Throne Room of Grace, without fear or shame, unless we have renewed our minds by God's Word and reconciled ourselves to the Truth of His Word. 

     

      

     

 

Developing the New Creation Lesson 86

      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."  

     When we were born-again from the Lordship of Jesus, then we're not only saved like the world and some in the Church teach, but we have become new creations.  We're new creations in God's eyes, from the moment we received Jesus and we have no past.  The adversary likes to remind us of who we used to be, but God says we are new creations, with no past or sin to condemn us.

     In order to live free of the bondage of condemnation and guilt that satan tries to keep us under, we must renew our minds by God's Word and see who we are now in Christ Jesus.  Our Heavenly Father sees us as righteous, judged not guilty and sanctified.  He has brought us into His Own family, and made us clean and righteous.  If we'll renew our minds by God's Word, then we'll see ourselves like the Father has now created us to be.  We'll see ourselves through the eyes of the One Who was crucified in and with Jesus.  The wages of sin are death, so we died with Jesus died on Calvary's cross, where He paid our debts.  We are now new creation by and in His Resurrection into Glory.

     Jesus said, "Whomsoever the Son sets free, is free indeed," speaking about how we're free from the past and now have Life with and in, the Father and His Kingdom.  Few churches teach this, so we believe we're just "old sinners saved by Grace."  We were sinners and our penalty was death, but Jesus died in our place and paid the debt we owed.  We are judged in Him and found righteous because of Him.  We're found to be not guilty, in the eyes of the One True Judge of Heaven.

     Here in America, we have a Supreme Court which judges the cases of the people.  When someone is accused or when a controversial law is passed, the Supreme Court might hear and overturn these cases.  God is the Chief Justice of Heaven's Supreme Court.  He ruled and overturned the ruling made against the old man/woman we once were.  He has found us to be not guilty, because Jesus Paid the bill and we don't owe that bill any longer.  The Son has made us free, so we should walk in the freedom from condemnation and guilt.  God didn't overlook or forgive our sins, but He actually removed and completed the penalty for those sins, when He judged u8s in Christ Jesus Who fulfilled that Law, for all who would accept Jesus.

     If we paid off the mortgage on our home, then the bank can no longer repossess it, even if someone paid off that mortgage.  The debt is cancelled and we're debt free from that mortgage.  This is a simple comparison, but it's essentially what happened to us through the new birth in Christ Jesus.  Satan is the "father of lies" and would like us to believe that we still owe the debt, because we weren't the ones who "paid the debt."  We must renew our minds and realize who we've become in Christ, so we can shut out the lies and accusations satan tries slinging against us.  

     God gave Paul the responsibility to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles and it was much different than anyone had ever heard before.  Those under the Law continued trying to make restitution for themselves, instead of allowing Jesus to pay their debt.  Their sacrifices and rituals couldn't set the people free, because the blood of animals only covered their sins.  Only a Man without sin could forever settle the debt for us.  All had sin, so Jesus, Who was sinless, laid down His Life, in order to pay the debt and clear the penalty that a Just and Holy Judge required to be paid.

     The man Adam brought sin and death to humanity, and it would take a Man without sin, to pay that penalty for sin.  Through faith in the Finished Work of Jesus, our entire debt has been paid and we're no longer responsible to pay it.  We only need to receive this free Gift.  When we don't walk under the old condemnation of the adversary, we can enter into fellowship with the Father and He will reveal the fullness of what we, as new creations, have inherited through Jesus.  This is His Peace.  It's not the world's peace, but is His Peace which passes all understanding.  It's difficult to have God's Peace and actually stand in His Presence, when we haven't renewed our minds by faith in the Salvation that Jesus brought and paid for, on our behalf.

     Paul writes about our going "from faith to faith," in Rom.1:17, which is a growing Revelation of the Finished Work of Jesus.  Jesus has done everything needed to be done on our behalf.  We haven't seen it all, but we're growing into it.  It's a continuing Revelation, which won't be totally clear to us, until we get Home.  We can though, see it more clear if we dare to believe what God says, instead of satan's lies.

     All that we've received through Jesus, isn't only for when we get to Heaven, but is now ours, in this world.  Putting these off for only when we die and go to Heaven, is a religious way of saying that we're only "sinners that God can't fix, while we're living in these flesh and blood bodies."  In Matt.19:26, Jesus tells us that, "With God, all things are possible and all things are possible to those who believe."  The limits we put on this are based on renewing our minds and believing what God has said and done for us, in Christ Jesus.

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 85

      2Cor.5:17-18(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. All things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled Himself to us (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself)."

     We have been reconciled back unto God, through Jesus.  As believers, we must have faith to receive this reconciliation through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  You might believe this is automatically done, when you were saved, but it isn't.  Many believers still refuse to accept all that Jesus has done for us, at His Resurrection.  God has made us righteous by actually placing the Righteousness of Jesus, in and through us, but many refuse to reconcile themselves to this Truth.  They consider themselves to be only "sinners saved by Grace."

    God's Word doesn't bear this out, so they're not reconciling themselves to God.  This doctrine mostly comes from those who really don't know the fullness of reconciliation, in terms of God's Awesome Grace, in their hearts.  God's Gift of Grace brought us into His family and it had nothing to do with the life we lived before receiving Jesus as our Lord.  Righteousness was given to us, when we received Jesus, but if we don't know who we've become in the new creation, then we'll continue considering ourselves from the old person we once were.  We must have faith in God's Word, in order to be reconciled in this part of our walk with the Father.  He now sees us as "the Righteousness of God, in Christ Jesus."

    Rom.5:17,19(Amp) says, "For 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)."  In order to reconcile ourselves to this Truth, WE MUST, by faith in His Truth, accept and receive it to ourselves.  If we continue seeing ourselves as being unrighteous in God's eyes, then our ability to receive answers to our prayer and other portions of the new creation child of God, will be dwarfed.   

     Paul goes on to explain God's Grace to us in Jesus, in Verse19, which says, "For just as by one man's disobedience (Adam's failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness), the many were constituted sinners, so by One Man's obedience (Jesus) the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him.)  Righteousness is a word that has been removed from today's vocabulary and has been replaced by what we think it means.  Righteousness or right standing with God, is a Gift of Grace that was offered to us, when we received Jesus.  Now, in Jesus and the new creation He has birthed by His Sacrifice, we've been restored or brought into existence by the Father.  We've been brought into God's family, through Jesus and have the same ability Adam had before his transgression, to enter into the Very Presence of God, without sin, guilty, condemnation.  We are new creations and are children of the Most High God.    

     The reconciliation God has offered us in Jesus, is already done on God's behalf.  We must however, accept this Gift of Righteousness and reconcile ourselves with Him.  Religion and carnal minds will continue telling us that we are "still unworthy, unrighteous and still sinners.  If we believe this, then will won't reconcile ourselves to the Truth of God's Word, which says this is already ours to enjoy.  When we lack faith in what Jesus has done, we won't be able to enjoy fellowship with the Father in His Presence, like He desires.  And, we won't be able to learn His will and Love, like we should.

     We remain in the Outer Court, like the Old Testament saints, instead of entering the Holy of Holies with Him, when we don't understand the Fullness of God's Grace.  God invites us to come directly and boldly into His Very Presence and His Throne Room of Grace, in Heb.4:16.  God invites us to enter into His Presence, any time we need or want to, His Door is always open.  Christianity isn't just some religion, but it's family and home to the Most Loving, generous and providing Father.  He Loved us, when we were at our worst and welcomes and receives us, as Jesus made us to be in Himself.

     We, of course, make mistakes in this life of the flesh and the world.  I hope though, that if you've truly accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord, in Truth and faith, then you're not deliberately living in sin or aren't growing in knowledge of who you've become in Him.  Grace isn't a license to live any way we desire, but is the Strength of God that keeps His new creation children.  Through Jesus, God has done what no one could do for ourselves, despite how hard we try.  It's only by faith in what Jesus has already done for us, we can be made righteous in His Presence for eternity.

     Paul writes about our going from "faith to faith," in Rom.1:17(Amp).  Our faith in what Jesus has truly done, is an ongoing Revelation that will bring us into the maturity of our salvation.  We will either accept or reject our reconciliation and our right standing before the Father, by faith in Jesus.  Our trying to make ourselves righteous by works and pride in our ability, will never work.  Everything in our salvation, is determined by how much faith we put in His Finished Work.  Because we are already "heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus," (Rom.8:17), all these things are already ours to enjoy.  We must accept them in faith in Jesus, in order to truly enjoy them in this life and when we get Home to Heaven.  This is our inheritance.  It's not something we work for or can earn, but is what we receive by faith in Jesus' Work for us.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 84

     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."  We're the only ones who can develop the new creation we've become in Christ.  We can, like others, attend church and live clean moral lives or we can spend time reading God's Word and fellowshipping with Him.  We can grow beyond the world's ideas of Christianity and become what the Father has planned for us.  This personal fellowship with God is based upon us, not Him.  He wished to be a Father and have a close Personal fellowship with all His children, but not all of God's children spend time getting to know Him.

     God's Door is always open and His Presence is always there for us to enjoy.  Through Jesus, God has opened up the Mystery of His will and His Presence, to all His children.  Many seek Him when things aren't going right and then back off when He fixes the problem.  Then, when they find themselves in another mess, they wonder, "Where is God?"  God is always there, not just in times of crisis, and is longing to fellowship with us and keep us out of the crisis.

     The purpose of Jesus' coming to earth, was to bring God's children home to Him again.  Now that we're new creations and have entry into His Presence, God longs to fellowship and know us as His sons and daughters.  We have access to God's Throne of Grace any time we wish to enter in, not just to ask for help, but to fellowship with the Father.  Those whose faith is small, are those whose time of fellowship is limited and lacking.  We don't only come to Him in prayer or in need, but just talk with and learn to know Him as Father, not just as God.

     I recall President John F. Kennedy's being in the Oval Office with dignitaries from around the world, when his small son called John John crawled into his lap.  The President was "Daddy" to John John, not just the President.  That's what our Heavenly Father desires of us.  Of course He is Almighty God, but He is also our Daddy and wants us to be comfortable in His House.

     There are things we learn in fellowship with Him, that we can't learn by any other means.  We learn the Heart of the One Who Loved us enough to die in our place and returned us back home to Himself.  Many hear God's Word, but don't hear His Heart.  Some view Him as a God of rules and Laws which we're to follow, without understanding His Heart.  All the things in God's Word and the covenant, are for our good and are there to protect and Bless His children.  Any good parent will establish boundaries for their children, in order to protect them from harm.  Our Heavenly Father is no different, except He knows what is ahead, while we don't.

     We need to understand that God's Word and His Spirit will guide us, protect us and keep us safe.  Many disobedient children have lost their lives on this earth, because they failed to listen to the words of their parents or guardians.  Many of God's children have gone Home to be with Him long before their time, because of their disobedience.  God didn't "take them," but He did receive them, when their time on earth was cut short, because they would not hear.  Many today, have lost their lives from drug abuse and overdose accidents.  They were told to avoid and stay away from these things, but they didn't heed the word of warning and believed they could handle it on their own.

     Most of us aren't smart or savvy enough to navigate this world without the Holy Spirit's Guidance.  God created our lives and He knows best how we should live it.  Adam believed that both he and Eve could make it on their own, which cost them everything.  Surely we can learn by his mistake and follow God's way of doing and being right.  Jesus has restored us back into what the Father created for mankind in the beginning.  We don't know how to handle it, but He does.

     The Psalmist write in Psalm119:9-11(Amp) saying, "How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed and keeping watch on himself according to Your Word (conforming His life to it). With my whole heart I have sought You, inquiring for and of You, and yearning for You. O let me not wander or step aside, either in ignorance or willfully from Your Word. Your Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against You."  We can't take the new creation being we've become in Christ for granted.  We don't need another religion, but we need to seek a family relationship with our Heavenly Father.

     Christianity was always to be a family relationship with Him and not another religion with rules and regulations.  Jesus came to restore us to unity and fellowship with the Father again.  Many crazy things have come from our misunderstanding our relationship with God.  Some even believe they're to punish themselves by flogging and performing other rituals and traditions, in order to serve God.

     If we acted this way in our earthly families, then people would rightly think we're "crazy."  God's family gives all the Love that the Universe holds, according to 1John4:16-17,18(Amp), which says, "And we know, understand and recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience, and believe in (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us. GOD IS LOVE, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in Him. In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection in us, that we may have confidence for the Day of Judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world."

     John continues in Verse18, saying that "Perfected Love casts out fear (full grown, complete, perfect Love expels every trace of fear."  Because, John writes, "Fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love (is not yet grown into Love's complete perfection)."  We love our Heavenly Father, because He first Loved us and gave His Only Begotten Son to die on our behalf and bring us into God's family once again.  This was what God had Planned from the beginning.

   

 

Developing the New Creation Lesson 83

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

     In order to develop this new creation man/woman of God, we must find out what God's Word says about who we've been made to be in Christ Jesus.  Rom.1:17(Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness that God ascribes is revealed, both spring from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith.  We must have faith in what God has now created us to be.

     The world's ideals about what Christians are, can't reveal the Truth of what God has really done in us.  We can only learn the Truth of who we are now, by God's Word and the Holy Spirit, Who is living in our new creation spirit.  Our body and mind didn't change, so we must renew our minds by God's Word, according to Rom.12:2.  We need to search the scriptures, until we understand what God has done and by faith, receive it in our lives now.

     We don't read God's Word as some religious exercise, but as a means of learning who we are.  If we read the Word, without putting faith in what it says and without accepting what God has done by Grace, then we'll believe this Truth is only for when we get to Heaven.  God's Word provides the new creation man/woman with instructions on how we're to live and conduct ourselves in God's Kingdom.  Jesus prayed in John17:16(Amp), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world). just as I am not of the world."  This doesn't mean that we're no longer in this earth in our natural body, but we no longer govern our lives only by the world's standards.

     Jesus was in this world or earth, in His natural Body, but He didn't allow the dictates of the worldviews to govern His Life.  He still needed to eat, sleep, clothe Himself, and do the things we're doing while here on earth.  Jesus received direction and Wisdom from His Heavenly Father, which set Him apart from the world.  In the world, there wasn't enough bread and fish to feed the multitude.  The disciples said they would need to leave the ministry and get another job, in order to make enough money to buy food for the multitude.  Jesus received His instructions from the Father and God produced more than enough to feed the multitude, with leftovers.

     The Same Father is now our Father and He will do the same thing in our lives, if we will trust and believe in His instructions.  I'm not saying that we should quit our jobs and wait for bread to be placed on our tables, but our job isn't the only source we have.  God is the new creation man/woman's unlimited Source, if we will put faith in His Word. 

     The worldview says that no person can lay hands on the sick and have them recover.  God's Word tells us in Mark16, that by faith in God, we can lay hands on the sick and the Presence of Christ in us, can remove their sickness.  God's Word must be more real in us, then the world's view of reality, if we're to function in what He has created us to be.  Renewing our minds by God's Word takes time.  We must meditate on it, until we believe it and then God's Promises will be our reality.

     This is for all who will believe in what God says.  Many only believe in what they can see, but we know the wind is real, because we see the damage it causes.  Gravity is real, whether or not we believe it.  Step off a tall building and gravity will cause you to hit the ground below, even if you don't believe it.  We can't see the Holy Spirit or the Lord, but this doesn't negate His Word and dismiss His Presence.  We see the aftermath of a hurricane's winds and we witness God's Mighty works, following those proclaiming His Gospel.  Many miracles and healings have been documented by doctors, who say, "There can be no reason this person was healed, it must be God."

     In order to receive this Truth in our lives, we need to believe in what God has said to and about us, and allow God to do what He says He will do.  We must go to God's Word, in order to know what God has Promised.  God's Word is True, but will not work in an unbelieving heart.  I'm the only one who can stop God's Promises from being manifested in my own life.  They're working in the lives of others who believe and allow them to produce what God says.

     God will do what He says about His new creation family.  We're already Blessed, healed, righteous, citizens of the Kingdom, joint heirs with Jesus,and are sons and daughter who have God's Holy Spirit Living inside us as His Temple.  Our lack of faith and trust in God's Word, prevents it from producing the Fullness of God's Promises, according to "The Parable of the Sower."  Jesus says in Mark4:18-19,20(Amp), "And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age and the pleasures and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches and craving and passionate desire for other things, creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it become fruitless."  

     God's Word didn't fail, but the heart of those who heard it was filled with other things, which stopped the Word from being sown in it.  Jesus went on in the next Verse, saying that, "Those who received, accepted and welcomed the Word, saw it bear fruit even up to one-hundred times as much."  God's Word doesn't fail.  If we put faith in God's Word and allow the Seed to produce, then we will receive one-hundred fold. 

Developing the New Creation Lesson 82

     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 is born as a baby and like all babies, he/she must be nurtured, raised up and trained in life.  The new creation child of God is born into Life, that is contrary to the culture and life we were trained up and familiar with.  In order to the new creation child of God to grow into the mature person he/she was born to be, we must be taught from the Spirit realm by God's Word and the Holy Spirit.  The way we learned before being born-again, isn't always the True way of our Heavenly Father.

     Many Christians today depend entirely on what we know and have learned from the world.  If we were taught wrong, whether or not it was intentional, it's still wrong when we teach it to the new child of God.  Many of us only know what we learn in church, much of which is according to our denomination and has little or no bearing on "God's way of doing and being right."  Even though we mean well in what we teach newborn Christians, it still might not line-up with God's Word.  If we were Catholic, then we teach them from our Catechism.  If we're some from another denomination, then we teach them what that denomination believes.  Many don't believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Super-natural things of God's Word or that we can still hear from God, when He speaks.

     God's Word is True, regardless of what we might think about it.  Many things have invaded the Church throughout the years, from the teachings of men and women who have good intentions.  Many Christians don't spend much time reading or meditating on God's Word, for themselves.  We rely on what others think the Word says, instead of knowing what it says for ourselves.  Every individual believer is responsible to read the Word and hear from God for themselves.

     Many declare, "God doesn't speak to me," but the Holy Spirit lives in us, speaks to us and will lead and guide us into all Truth.  He will never leave you or forsake you, in all our time, but we must train ourselves to hear the Voice of the Spirit.  There are so many voices in today's world, so we must learn to distinguish the Shepherd's Voice for ourselves.  Jesus said, "My sheep will hear My Voice."  We must learn to listen to His Voice in our new creation man/woman, more than depending only one our natural hearing. 

    When we read God's Word, it is God speaking to us, just as though He was right in front of us.  The world's ideas and culture are mostly against what God's Word says about how God's children are supposed to walk.  As a Parent, God the Father knows what is best for His children and our well-being.  We must be willing to do it His ways, in order to walk with Him like He intended and to prove Himself as the Loving Father He is.  No parent rewards their child's wrong behavior, neither does our Heavenly Father.  

     Many have been taught that certain things in God's Word "aren't for everyone" and that prayer "only works for certain people."  Most of us only know what we were taught before being born-again.  Some were taught a moral code of behavior, but some were not.  Like good students, we've done what society teaches and as good parents, we've tried to teach our children the right things.  Not everything we taught our children was wrong, but it wasn't all they should know, because we didn't have a relationship with the Lord and didn't know what His Word says.  Now we read God's Word and listen to His Holy Spirit, so we can teach them those things.  We did the best we knew how, but now we know God's way of doing the things He has laid up for us and them.

    We learned things before being saved, that we still need.  God's Word doesn't teach us how to drive a vehicle, but we still need to drive according to what we learned.  The Holy Spirit can teach us to beware of things to come, that we didn't learn before being saved.  The Lord has spoken to me while driving, telling me to "Stop."  Thankfully I obeyed and witness a person running a stop sign and would have been broadsided, if I had been moving.  My driving instructor couldn't have taught me that.  My life has been saved many times over the years, because I listened to the Voice of the Holy Spirit and followed His instructions.

     We're responsible for many things in the world we live in, but the Lord can and will, show us how to do them in a way that is safe and effective.  He will lead us in our daily walk through the "Valley of the shadow of death."  There are so many things God does in our lives, which we simply take for granted and might not even be aware of.  God will try to direct our paths for our good and we might not see how He protected us, until we go to Heaven.

     The Holy Spirit will navigate our lives in ways we might not see, while we're living in this natural world.  Many of God's children have left this present life way before they should have, because of self-inflicted wounds.  Habits of the flesh and carnal minded ways of living that we've adapted to over time, are often destructive and deadly.  Paul tells us in Rom.12:2(Amp) to, "Renew our minds with God's Word" and "do not adapt to the external, superficial customs of this world," because some of these are deadly.

     

Developing the New Creation Lesson 81

      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."

     Salvation is a continuing Revelation.  When we were born-again, we became sons and daughters of the Almighty God and became heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus.  The inheritance we received from Him, isn't withheld until we get to Heaven, but is ours from the moment we were saved.  We lack knowledge of God's Word and His Promise, so we haven't understood the Revelation of what salvation has brought to us.  1Peter1:23(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."  Peter goes on 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 up unto completed salvation."'  

     Growing in faith to faith Revelation means we're growing from babies to mature sons and daughters of God and into completed salvation.  We must renew our minds by God's Word, in order to learn who we are now in Christ, to maintain Spiritual strength and keep the flesh in-line with the Word from within.  We will remain Babes in Christ, until we have Revelation about who and what we are in this new birth.  Babies don't know who they are and Babes in Christ don't know Who our Heavenly Father truly is or what He has for us.  As we grow in Revelation and mature, we begin to know the One Who has given us Life and what we have received from Him, in this new creation family.

     Many in today's Church don't know who we've already become or what we've received as heirs of God and joint heirs of Jesus.  As we grow and mature by His Word, we discover our true identity and as we fellowship with Him, we discover Who our Heavenly Father truly is.  Fellowship with Him is based on Righteousness and relationship.  When we have the Revelation of our being more than "old sinners saved by Grace" and are new creations, then we won't be sin conscious and will freely fellowship with the Father.

     An unrenewed mind only knows the things of our past, when we were dead in sin and trespass.  Condemnation and guilt will prevent our having unbroken fellowship and seeing the True Nature or God, if we don't renew our minds by God's Word.  Rom.12:2(Amp) provides the knowledge of how we do away with the old way of thinking and how to begin unbroken fellowship with the Lord.  Thus, it says, "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 attitude and ideals, so that you may prove for yourself what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing that is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you."

     This comes by having personal Revelation and fellowship with God.  The first order of Redemption is to restore relationship.  God had to first bring mankind into a legal standing as His children and partakers of His Very Nature, so that we can be His genuine heirs and joint heirs with Jesus.  Then God needed to restore mankind's fellowship with Him.  This could only be done when Righteousness was restored to mankind.  There can be no fellowship with God, unless men/women can stand in His Presence, without the consciousness of guilt of sin or inferiority.

     There could be no question as to the legal standing of mankind, in God's family.  The sin problem needed to be settled on legal grounds, so God would have a perfect right to impart His Own Nature to mankind, making us new creations.  Mankind's sin nature had to be driven out, so the Nature of God could come into us.  Mankind must become the actual children of God, just like Jesus was in His earthly walk.  James1:18(Amp) tells us, "And it was of His Own free will that He gave us birth as sons by His Word of Truth; so that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures, a sample of what He created to be consecrated unto Himself."

     The above scripture tells us that we are born of God's will and His Word.  It is all of God.  We must renew our minds to this Truth and enter into fellowship with Him, so we can know who we are now in Christ and what our inheritance really is.  The customs and external (superficial) things the world taught us, will not reveal the Truth of God's Word to us.  

     The inheritance we have as God's sons and daughters, is based on our being born of His Word and Spirit.  It's already ours, even in this world.  We must renew our minds to His way of thinking and doing, so this Truth can be manifested in our lives today.  God has bequeathed our inheritance for and to us, on this earth today.  We must pursue the ongoing Revelation of our salvation with a renewed mind and Revelation from fellowshiping with Him, in order to rise above what our carnal minds have told us about our Father's identity.

     Most of what we know about our Heavenly Father comes from carnal minded people, including religious teachers.  Paul writes in Gal.1:11-12(Amp), "For I want you to know brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not a man's gospel (a human invention) according to or patterned after any human standard. For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a direct Revelation given by Jesus Christ," 

Developing the New Creation Lesson 80

      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."

     Rom.1:17(Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith."  The Gospel is a continuing Revelation to and for the new creation children of God.  We believe,  by faith, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He died, rose from the dead and is now in the Presence of God.  And, by faith, we believe the Truth that Jesus did this for the remission of our sins.  The Revelation of the Gospel doesn't stop at the removal of our sin, but goes on from faith to faith.

     This growing Revelation of all that salvation brings, is for the entire man/woman (spirit, soul and body).  God has made us righteous in Christ Jesus and declares us to be "made the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.  Many Christians haven't accepted this Gift of Righteousness, by faith in God's Word.  Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one [Adam], much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor), and the free Gift of Righteousness, putting them into right standing with Himself, reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."

     The Gift of Righteousness must be received by faith in Jesus' Sacrifice.  We go from saving faith to righteousness by faith, giving us the right through Jesus, to come before God with no sense of sin or condemnation.  This step of faith in Him, will foster confidence in our prayers and in fellowship with the Father, because we know it is not of ourselves, but is a Free Gift of Righteousness.

     Many believers don't go from the faith of receiving salvation, to the faith of receiving the Gift of Righteousness.  This keeps them in the Outer Court, where they feel unworthy, instead of coming boldly to God's Throne of Grace.  We were sinners, unrighteous, and unworthy, but when we put faith in what Jesus has done, we were created new in His Image and His Righteousness.  We grew from forgiveness of our sin, to being created Righteous in the new creation man/woman and child of God, through Jesus.

     We read about Jesus' coming to preach, through the Anointing which was upon Him, by God Himself, in Luke4:18-19.  Salvation includes so much more than what today's Church understands.  We must go from faith to faith, in order to receive what God has truly done in our new creation life.  When we received Jesus, we became a part of God's new creation family and made His heirs.  

     In order to make us a new creation, the old things needed to pass away, otherwise we would be like those under the Law.  The blood of goats and bulls only covered their sins, so they needed to offer up sacrifices continually.   The Blood of Jesus removed our sins, leaving no stain of sin.  We don't need to make sacrifice for sin, because Jesus completely took our sin and eradicated it forever.  We're not old sinners saved by Grace, but we've become new creation who are born of His Spirit and without a past.

     We first have to believe by faith, that Jesus died for our sin, in order to be born-again.  If we've been born again, then we have no past.  We died with Him, so we don't have a past.  We must go from faith to faith in the Revelation knowledge of the new creation man/woman we've become and accept God's Gift of Righteousness, so we can enjoy life in His Presence.  This doesn't mean that we don't make mistakes in this body, but by faith, we believe what God's Word says about our being "crucified with Christ."  When we sin, we must repent and by faith, continue on with our salvation and refuse to allow the enemy to keep us under condemnation.  

     This isn't a "blank check," that allows us to continue in sin, but our faith in Jesus means that sin no longer has dominion over us.  Many Christians don't understand what Grace is.  Eph.3:8(Amp) says, "For it is by free Grace (God's unmerited favor), that you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation, through your faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves (not of your own doing, it came not through your own striving, but is the Gift of God."

     God's Gift of Righteousness, which is not of ourselves and of our own striving, comes with His Gift of salvation.  It comes by Grace, through God.  We were saved when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  We also received His Righteousness, the Blessing of Abraham, eternal Life with the Father, citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven, healing and health, prosperity, the ability to lay hands on the sick, to cast out devils, the ability to pray in a Heavenly language and the Authority of Jesus' Name, in this same act of faith.  We go from faith to faith unto completed Salvation, by the Revelation of God's Word and our faith in Jesus' Sacrifice for us.    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 79

     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."

     Rom.1:17(Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes in revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith."

     The above scripture is a continuing Revelation of what our salvation is to the believer.  When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we're cleansed from sin and belong to God our Father, and we become newborn babies in God's Kingdom.  The Revelation of the new birth goes on to explain what we will and WHAT WE ARE NOW, in 1John3:2(Amp), saying, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children: it is not yet disclosed and made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."

     We go from faith to faith in the ongoing Revelation of who we are in Christ.  Knowing that we are saved is a great Revelation in itself, but knowing who we've become as born-again children of God, is awesome too.  We now continue from faith to faith, growing and expanding as we read God's Word and learn who we are as new creations.  We learn that we're not only forgiven, but what our citizenship in Heaven and our family relationship with the Father has given us, as heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus.  Rom.8:17(Amp) says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him: only we are to share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."

     This suffering isn't what Jesus bore on the cross.  He suffered this for us.  He suffered the penalty and the Curse, along with our sickness and separation from the Father, so we could be healed and united with the Father once again.  We share the suffering Jesus endured, when He was rejected and mocked by those who didn't understand Him and were used by the enemy to bring harm and separation to others.

     Jesus prayed in John17:16,15(Amp), "They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), just as I am not of the world."  He said in Verse 15, "I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep and protect them from the evil one."  We grow by faith in Jesus prayer, expecting God to keep and protect us from the evil one.  Most of us have never moved onto this level of faith to faith and live like we did in the world before being born-again.  We have kept the faith, but never moved from the faith we had to put towards salvation and grew to protecting faith.  Some have watered down God's Word throughout the years, until it's been lost to today's Church.

     We believe in what we're going to be in Heaven, but have lost sight of who we are now in this world.  The only thing we lack in this world, is the Glorified Body Jesus now has with the Father (1John3:2).  We don't know how we will look when we enter eternity in Heaven, but we will resemble Jesus as He is now.  Until that time, the new creation children of God will live in our natural bodies.  Few have understood, like Paul did, the Revelation of who we truly have become in Christ Jesus.

     No one went to the moon and back until decades ago, but that didn't mean that someone couldn't do it, but until that time, it hadn't been done.  Few have gone from faith to faith and walked in what God Promised, but that doesn't mean that we can't do it.  We must learn to trust God's Word beyond where must have stopped, which will cause us to suffer like Jesus suffered at the hands of the enemy.  

     We must dare to believe God's Word and reach out beyond what religion says, growing in our relationship as the Super-natural family of God.  If we're truly heirs of God, then we don't get what is in the will for us after we die, but after Jesus died.  He is the Only One Who made a will, died to validate that will and rose from the dead to become the Executor over His will, so we won't be cheated or left our of what He provided for us.

     We may not walk in the Fullness of what we really are in Christ, but we can go from faith to faith and believe God's Word.  We can begin to walk in the Blessing of Abraham, instead of the Curse.  We can begin to trust what Jesus did when He bore our sickness and disease, making a stand in our faith in Him and receiving our healing.  I know many stand on Psalm91 and God's Word worked for them.

     We can exercise our faith in the covenant for more than just going to Heaven when we die.  God's Word is true for everything He has said.  If God's Word is true for the forgiveness of sin, then it's true for the rest of our redemption.  We can go from the faith to receive salvation, into everything else our salvation has provided through the Blood of Jesus.  We can grow from babies in Christ, unto our completed salvation.

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      2Cor.5:17(Amp) tells us, "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 believers rely on what they hear from others, instead of knowing what God says about the new creation we've become, for themselves.  The Apostle Paul endured the same predicament, when preaching the Revelation he received from Jesus Himself.  Some of God's chosen people, like Peter, couldn't receive the Message about the new creation.  Jesus encountered many, if not most of those He spoke too, who wouldn't receive His Message.  Today, we can stay in the same age old traditions or we can rise up in Him and the Strength and Power of His Might, to walk in the Great Commission we've been called to.

     God's new creation people are all one Body, who are filled with and called by the Same Holy Spirit Who lives in Jesus.  We are filled with the Living Spirit of God Himself.  Is He still the Super-natural Almighty God of wonders and miracles today or has He somehow changed?  What happened to the Church of the first century, who turned the world upside down with signs and wonders at the Holy Name of Jesus?  Have we become another religion, instead of a living entity and example for the Love and Power Most High to see?

     If you're born-again new creation child of God, then you have the Holy Spirit living within you and there's nothing He can't do.  The early Church was birthed in miracles, signs and wonders of the Holy Spirit, for the world to see.  The visible Presence of God was so great, that even those who just received the Lord walked in the Power of His Presence.  We make excuses for not believing what God's Word says and say, "He no longer does these things."

     When we read God's Word, we should understand that the Father Himself is speaking directly to us.  We're responsible to know God's directions for ourselves and not for anyone else.  Some dismiss God's Promises and commands to do and walk in His Word, but this doesn't mean God's Word has changed.  Not everyone who is saved will believe there's more to salvation than simply going to Heaven when we die.

     Not everyone in the Body of Christ is called to the five-fold ministry, but we're all commissioned to demonstrate Jesus, the Anointed One, to the world.  We learn who we are as new creations and what we're called to do, in 2Tim.3:16-17(Amp), which says, "Every scripture is God-Breathed, given by His Inspiration and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience and for training in Righteousness, in holy living, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose and action. So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well-fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work."  This is our mission and calling from God.

     Some have asked me, "Are we in the Last Days?"  I answer by quoting Acts2:16-17(Amp), which says, "But (instead), this is the beginning of what was spoken through the prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in the Last Days, God declared, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, telling forth the Divine counsels and your young men shall see visions, Divinely granted appearances, and your old men shall dream Divinely suggested dreams."

     We are in the last hours of the Last Days.  The disciples asked Jesus, "Are we in the Last Days" in Matt.24:4(Amp), where He answered, "And this Good News of the Kingdom (the Gospel), will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony as a testimony to all the nations; and then will come the end."  Is the Gospel being preached to the entire world today?  I don't know, but God does and He will bring this age to a close, with Jesus' Return, when it is being preached throughout the world.  

     Many believe this won't happen for another thousand years, but keep in mind what Peter wrote in Acts2:17(Amp).  The Last Days began two-thousand years ago, so how much closer are we now into the time of the End?  This is up to the Church's preaching the Gospel to the entire world.  With today's technology, millions have access to the Gospel.  The Gospel has been preached for two-thousand years and God has knowledge and purpose to His Word.  Don't think that only those in today's world have seen signs of the Last Days.  God is keeping watch over His Word, to perform it.

     I'm not going to speculate when Jesus is coming, but I know that we're two-thousand years close than we were.  We see the groaning of nature, which Paul describes in Rom.8:19(Amp), saying, "For even the whole creation, all nature waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known, waits for the revealing (the disclosing), of their sonship."  Are the sons and daughters of God walking in the flesh, instead of the Spirit, and not doing what is needed to bring this time to pass?  1John3:2(Amp) says, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children; it is not clear, disclosed what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes, manifested, we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him."  

     Have God's new creation children grown into the manifestation of what we've been created to be?  Will a new wave of Christian people manifest Jesus to the world, in the True Image and Power of what God has called the Church to be?  Are we the generation who will actually walk in the Glory of God?  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're made one Body in Jesus and must be obedient to the Father, to do His will, like Jesus did.  Why do we believe this mandate given from the Father, was only for the early Church?  Has evil stopped in this age or do we still need the Super-natural Presence of God?  God needs us to go into all the world and preach the Gospel, to lay hands on the sick, cast out demons and do the work of the ministry.  This isn't only for pastors and those in the five-fold ministry to do.  We must take out place in the Body of Christ, like 1Cor.12:12(Amp) says, "For just as the Body is a unity and yet has many parts, though many, form only one Body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."  What is your part in the Body?  You're the only one who can do that part.

     The heart might be strong, but it can only do it's job when the other parts of the part is doing their part.  The heart would not have blood, if the blood vessels and arteries are restricted from delivering blood to the heart.  Never think that your part in the Body is insignificant or of importance to the work of the ministry.  You might not be a pastor or evangelist, but you're the one who will lead those the Lord sets before, to salvation.

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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 worldview of the Church has been founded upon man's ideas and tradition.  Paul writes to the Church in Rome and to us today, saying in Rom.9:1-4(Amp), "Brethren, with all my heart's desire and good will for Israel, I long and pray to God that they may be saved. I bear them witness that they have a certain zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to correct and vital knowledge. For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought and deed, and seeking to establish  righteousness, a means of salvation of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's Righteousness. For Christ is the end of the Law (the limit at which it ceases to be), for the Law leads up to Him Who is the Fulfillment of it's types, and in Him the Purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law was fulfilled in Him as the means of Righteousness, right relationship with God for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him."

     Many of today's Christians have a zeal and enthusiasm for God, but they're disappointed when their prayers aren't answered or God's Promises aren't visible in their lives.  They have been functioning without the correct and vital knowledge about how God uses His Word and not religious traditions, to bring about His will and purpose.  We seem to have forgotten the importance of knowing and hearing God's Voice, through His Word.  God's Word instructs and tells us how He deals with His family in the new covenant.

     It's important we listen to God's Word and instructions, so we can grow and develop the new creation person we've become.  The Holy Spirit will bring to remembrance all the things that God has said to us and He will bring Revelation and assurance to our lives.  We must be single-minded though, about how we hear and know the Word, according to James1:5(Amp), which says, "If any of you is deficient in Wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproach or fault finding, and it will be given him.  James goes on to tell us that, when we ask, we must "ask in faith and not be double-minded."  If we're double-minded, then we will question whether or not, it was God telling us something.  For this reason, we must know God and know His Word for ourselves.

     Sadly, very few believers spend quality time in God's Word and rely on their pastor's Sunday sermon.  It's vital for God's children to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus.  We seem to know about God, instead of knowing Him for ourselves.  Our pastor probably doesn't know what God's personal plan for us.  Many base our relationship with God, on what our denomination says, instead of knowing God's Voice and hearing His instructions for ourselves.  This is important for the five-fold ministry and for the individual believer.  God used Stephen and Philip in the Book of Acts, along with many others who weren't in the five-fold ministry, because of their faith and relationship with Him.

     We're all called to the work of the ministry, according to Eph.4:12-13(Amp), which says, "His intentions was the perfecting and full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's Body (the Church). 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 the stature of the fullness of Christ and the completeness found in Him."

     This is and Awesome standard of developing the new creation person of God! The above scripture not only speaks about the whole Body of Christ, but about the individual.  1Cor.12:12(Amp) says, "For just as the Body is a unity and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form only one Body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."  We've believed that the Gifts of the Spirit and ministry, was only for the five-fold ministry, ignoring the Truth that they are for all who believe.  1Cor.12:7(Amp) says, "But to each one is given the manifestation of the Holy Spirit (the evidence, the Spiritual Illumination of the Spirit) for good and for profit."

     Every born-again, new creation child of God, is filled with the Same Holy Spirit Who lived in Jesus, Himself.  The Holy Spirit doesn't ask whether we're pastors or prophets, but whether we will allow Him to work through us, to the Glory of God.  Most of the Lay Ministry go forth preaching the Gospel, with signs and wonders following them.  Don't think that the Holy Spirit can't use us, because we don't stand behind a pulpit.  

    

    

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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." 

     Who is this new creation man and woman, how do we develop him/her into what we're created to be, and what is the new creation person capable of in this present world?  The answer to all of these questions is only found in God's Word, which is Spirit.  Only the Father and the Word know and can explain who and what the new creation child of God really is.

     Most Christians have been taught what we're supposed to be, from carnal thinking and religion.  We have so many varying opinions about Who God is and what His will for us is and who we truly are in these fleshly bodies.  Are we only God's children after we die and leave these bodies or are we truly His children, while we're on earth?  Are God's Promises only for the hereafter or are they for us today?  Are we still under the Law or has Grace provided what the Law couldn't do?

     Can we know what God's will is for us today?  Does prayer work?  Doe the Super-natural still happen and do angels intervene in our lives today, like God's Word says?  Can we expect the Holy Spirit to guide us into all Truth, like Jesus says?  How many of these things are settle in your heart and do you have the assurance they're working for you, as God's child?  Religion fosters good sounding excuses, as to why they're "not for us today," but are they based on the new covenant and true for God's new creation child?  We can't be lulled into slumber, missing most of what the Spiritual Integrity of the Spiritual Word of Truth says about the new birth and creation.

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

    Paul received the above Revelation directly from Jesus, which says we can not only know, but can prove what God's will for us is.  Col.1:9(Amp) says, "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your love, we have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep and clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."

     If you still don't believe that we can know God, then read Heb.1:3(Amp), which says, "He, Jesus is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God, the Light Being, the Out-raying or Radiance of the Divine, and He (Jesus) is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His Mighty Word of Power."

     When we know Jesus, then we know God, because Jesus is the Very Image of God Himself.  Jesus was called, "Emmanuel, God with u."  We will always have a distorted Image of God in our lives, until we know Jesus.  Many are confused about God's Nature and intentions, believing He still deals with us like those in the old covenant.  They don't understand God in the new covenant and believe He places trials and tests on them.  James1:8(Amp) says, "For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides."  If God is putting these trials on them, then they must submit, but if it's satan, then they're to resist him.  If we're double-minded, then we will not take a stand against these things.

     Throughout the Gospels, we never read about Jesus putting a sickness on people.  He never denied anyone or put trials on anyone.  We must see God, through the Very Express Image of Jesus.  If Jesus did it, then it was God's will and if Jesus didn't do it, then we know it's not God's will.  We can know God's will, Nature, purpose and intention for our lives, by seeing Jesus.  Jesus said, "When you see Me, you see the Father in Me."

     The Holy Spirit explains how God functions and deals with the Church in Tim.3:16(Amp), saying, "Every scripture is God-Breathed, given by His Inspiration and is profitable for instruction, for reproof, and conviction of sin, for correction of error, and discipline in obedience and for training in Righteousness, in holy living, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose and action."  The Father corrects, disciplines, and trains His children, by His Word and not by trials, tests, and sicknesses.

     We receive God's Guidance and will not be double-minded, if we have God's Word living in our hearts.  Jesus said in John14:7(Amp), "If you had known Me (had learned to recognize Me), you would also have known My Father. From now on, you know Him and have seen Him."  We can know and see God our Heavenly Father, by seeing Jesus, through God's Word.   

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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."  

     We'll never have the confidence in our prayer lives to believe God will hear and answer our prayers, until we realize who we've been created to be in Christ Jesus.  We must believe that in Jesus, God has made us righteous and in right standing with Himself, so we won't live in bondage and condemnation of the lives we lived before knowing Him.  Satan will try to deceive and discourage God's new creation family, by bringing up our past.  We must look into the Perfect Law of Liberty, which Paul describes as a "mirror," so we can who we are now in Jesus and not who we once were.  

     When looking into most mirrors, we see the flesh, with the failures and weaknesses we made in our lives.  We see ourselves growing older and weaker, and identify with him/her.  When we look into the mirror of God's Word though, we see a new creation who was made again in God's Own Image and without sin or failure.  The outer man/woman is perishing, but the inner man/woman (the new creation person), is renewing him/herself daily and is learning and growing by God's Word.

     We mostly identify ourselves by the flesh and the old man/woman of the flesh, because we've never truly realized what Jesus has done in His Sacrifice and Resurrection on our behalf.  The new creation man/woman wasn't just forgiven, but we were created new, without sin or fault.  We've become the Temple of God and the Holy Spirit has considered us pure enough, to make His Home in us.

     Our strength comes from within us, by the indwelling Holy Spirit and not from the strength of our flesh.  We continue relying on the flesh, with it's weaknesses, and are unable to lay hands on the sick or cast out demons, because we know we're too weak on our own to do so.  We spend more time seeing the old man in our mirror, instead of seeing the new creation man/woman in the reflection of God's Word and the Finished Work of Jesus.  The only thing we're lacking today in this world, because of Jesus, is the "glorified body," which is still to come, according to 1John3:2(Amp), which says," Beloved, we are, even here and now God's children: it is not yet disclosed, made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."

     Most of us still see Jesus more after His fleshly Body, when He was here on earth.  Jesus told us that, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work."  We need to see how Jesus didn't depend on His flesh, but the Spirit Who was within Him, during His ministry.  The same thing is now true about every new creation man and woman on earth today.  It's not us, but the Father in us Who does the work.  This is a Super-natural force that abides in our natural body, in order to transport the Presence of God from one point to another.

     The more we look into the natural mirror, instead of the mirror of the Perfect Law of Liberty, we will only see the weakness of the flesh and it's inability to take care of spiritual forces that surround us in this earth.  Today in America, we're facing a spiritual warfare that can only be defeated by Spiritual strength and not the flesh.  We must defeat the wicked spirits that are now behind what's occurring in our nation, before we can do what's needed by and for the flesh.  

     It's time for God's Church to recognize who we are in Christ and what our purpose is.  Jesus said that we are "in this world, but not of this world."  The Church has access to every resource that our citizenship in the Kingdom of the Most High God provides.  We're not limited by only what human resources can offer, but what our Heavenly Father has given to all who believe.  This isn't to say there won't be trials and persecution for those who will dare step out in faith, but our Father has much more for us than what trials can and will produce.

    We've been taught that Paul's trials and problems were God trying to stop him from becoming prideful or that God was disciplining Him by these.  2Cor.12:7-11 clearly tells us that Paul's "thorn in the flesh," was a messenger or demonic spirit that was sent by satan himself, to stop the preaching of the Glorious Gospel of Grace that Jesus revealed to Paul.  Paul spoke about some of his obstacles and said in Verse10, "he finally decided that in order to do what God told him to do, he was pleased and took pleasure in the attacks, because he knew that when he was weak in human strength, he was strong in Divine Strength."

     God didn't give Paul the thorn in his flesh, satan did.  God gave Paul the Revelation of the new creation, so satan tried preventing Paul's preaching about the new creation people to the world, by putting this thorn of the flesh on Paul.  The enemy's attacks couldn't stop Paul in the ministry of the Holy Spirit.  We should begin seeing that when trials and persecutions come, it's sometimes because we're doing something right and satan doesn't like it.  God wasn't disciplining Paul for doing something wrong.  God upheld Paul by His Own Power, when Paul was weak in his flesh and might have wanted to give up.  Paul was so determined to do the work of the ministry, he simply endured all the enemy could throw at him.  AND WITH GOD, HE EXCELLED.