Developing the New Creation Lesson 67

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

     In order to discover who and what your new identity in Christ is, we must go to God's Word.  Our new creation man/woman is the born-again spirit that is now in our fleshly body, and only God's Word can show us who we've become.  1John3:2(Amp) says, "Beloved, we are ever here and now God's children; it is not yet disclosed, made clear to us 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're living in these natural bodies, but our spirit has been created new, by faith in Jesus.  Our natural bodies will be changed into whatever the visible Body Jesus now has, because "we will be like Him."  We must go to God's Word, in order to know our true identity and what we've become in Christ, while we're still in this natural body.  Our natural body didn't undergo a transformation when we were born-again, only our spirit did.  The natural man/woman still looks, thinks, and feels like it did before.

     Paul writes about the new creation man/woman in Rom.8:4,7(Amp), saying, "So that the righteous and just requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit. Our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit."  Our new creation spirit must hear and know God's Word and the Holy Spirit.  Paul goes on in Verse 7, about how God's Word reveals the difference between the Mind of Christ and the mind of the flesh, saying, "That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God; for it does not submit itself to God's Law, indeed it cannot."

     Our carnal mind cannot submit to God, His Word, or His Spirit.  The new creation man/woman is a spirit being, just like God is, according to what Jesus tells us in John4:24(Amp), saying, "God is a Spirit, a Spiritual Being, and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."  Jesus went on in John6:63(Amp) saying, "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."  God's Word is Spiritual Life and Light, to the new creation man/woman.  

     The only way to truly identify who we've now become in Jesus, is through the Word.  Our carnal minds can't accept what the Spirit of Truth tells us about our new identity.  Our carnal mind will tell us that we're "still sinners," but God's Word reveals that Jesus has created us new, righteous and just.  Our carnal mind tells us that "God won't hear our prayers," but 1John5:14-15(Amp) tells us, "And this is the confidence, 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 settles and absolute knowledge that we have granted us as our present possessions the requests made of Him."

     Our carnal minds won't accept these Truths, but our new creation spirit will rejoice and stay in faith, when hearing them.  Is it possible to really know God's will?  Colossians1:9(Amp) says, "For this reason we also from the day we heard it (your love in the Holy Spirit), 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 we wait until we "feel" righteous enough to enter into God's Presence, then we'll never enter it.  We need to have faith that Jesus' Sacrifice made our new creation man/woman holy, sanctified, consecrated and sinless, so we can enter boldly into God's Throne Room of Grace.  The carnal mind keeps us from expecting our prayers to be answered and believing God's Blessing will work in our lives.  The carnal mind will never accept what God has done.  We discover our new creation identity in God's Word and we receive it by faith in God's Grace and Love for us.

     Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if because of one mans' 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."  Only our new born, new creation spirit man/woman can accept and believe these Words of deliverance.

     We've been born of the Spirit, but try walking in the flesh and carnal minds, which leaves of disappointed, without fellowship with God and unanswered prayers.  1John5:14(Amp) says, "This is the assurance, confidence, privilege we have in Him, by faith in His Grace and Truth and free Gift of Righteousness through Jesus."  We can only trust in the Words of Truth that Jesus brought into our lives, by Revelation knowledge through our spirit.  Our carnal mind will fight against the Truth and keep us down trodden and of no use to God's Kingdom.      

Developing the New Creation Lesson 66

      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."  

     We find out who we've now been created to be, from God's Word.  So many believers still see themselves after who they were before being saved, instead of who they've been created to be in Christ Jesus.  Some believe it's "prideful," to think we're more than just forgiven sinners, saved by Grace.  We cannot walk in the new creation man/woman, until we know and believe what Jesus has done by His Sacrifice.

     When we read the Word with a carnal mind, we won't see why we qualify for God's Blessing.  We read about how God dealt with those in The Old Testament and think He deals that way with those in the new covenant.  We're afraid of exalting ourselves, without understanding that Jesus Himself has exalted us, by His death and Resurrection.  We've been made new creations through faith in Jesus.  We're no longer orphans, but are sons and daughters in God's Own family.

     We call God "Father," but act like we don't belong in His Kingdom and family.  We believe He's an "angry God," thinking He will punish us like He did those in the old covenant.  Religion only teaches about God's Grace, by a carnal mind, without seeing who we've now become through Jesus.  This leaves us without confidence that we're now part of God's family.

     Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths), that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."  Reading God's Word through a carnal mind, leaves us seeing ourselves more the way we once were, with the weakness of the flesh, instead of who God has created us to be by the Power of Jesus' Sacrifice. 

     We must read God's Word and receive the Holy Spirit's Revelation of it, so we can understand who we've now become in Jesus.  We're no longer in the Outer Courts, but have the privilege of entering God's Throne Room of Grace.  We're fearful of God punishing us for our every mistake, instead of understanding the Grace and mercy God has for His family.  This isn't an excuse for living like heathens, but is growing into the knowledge of Christ and His Sacrifice.  Only God's Word can reveal the Majesty and Power of Calvary's cross.

     The genealogy of sin we received from Adam, has been changed and we've become one body, by Jesus' Sacrifice.  We no longer have the carnal and fleshly identities, but have a new identity in Christ.  God no longer deals with us by physical punishment, like those in the old covenant.  God deals with His family, by the Word and the Spirit.  We've become new creations of God and He uses His Word and His Spirit, to teach and discipline us.

     If God was "out to get us," then He would have done it before we were saved and were still living sinful lives.  Those under the old covenant were still dead in trespass and sin, because Jesus hadn't yet shed His Blood for them.  They didn't have the privilege of the new birth.

     When we put more faith in what Jesus has done, instead of what we have done, then we can accept who He has made us to be.  And, when we do this, we won't have faith enough to allow the Father to do what He desires in and through our lives.  Heb.11:1(Amp) says, "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed), of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality (faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses)."  Rom.8:7(Amp) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh with it's carnal thoughts and purposes, is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law, indeed it cannot."

     We walk in our new creation identity, by having faith in what God's Word says about how He sees us now in Christ.  We must have more faith in what God's Word says about us, rather than what the world and religion says about us.  We cannot accept our new identity by anything other than faith.  It's NOW FAITH and not works, self-designating, fasting, or religion.  We need to renew our minds by God's Word, because our carnal mind will keep us under condemnation and won't allow us to accept the Truth of God's Word.

     God made us new creations and we must believe and trust in, the Finished Work of Jesus.  We are created to know God's will, His thoughts, and His Purposes by the Word and Spirit.  Jesus said that, "The Words (Truths) I speak to you are Spirit and Life."  Our flesh can't rejoice in His Truth, only our spirit can.

 

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 65

      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."  

     Citizens of America have certain privileges and rights, but most haven't read the Constitution or The Declaration of Independence, so they don't know what rights they really have.  We depend on lawyers and politicians to tell us our rights and because we don 't know those right for ourselves, we forfeit many of our liberties and rights.

     God's Word tells us that we are now citizens of His Kingdom and have certain privileges and rights, because we are children of the Most High God and citizens of God's Kingdom.  The Bible is our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  We read and study God's Word, in order to discover who we are in Christ and what our rights are in this life.  Peter sheds some light on why we're to read God's Word, in 2Pet.1:3(Amp), saying, "For His Divine Power has bestowed upon us all things that are requisite and suited to life and Godliness, through the full personal knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His Own Glory and excellence."

     Many believers have never studied God's Word, in order to walk in "the full personal knowledge of Him."  We're content to have others seek God for us and to walk in what they interpret His Word to say.  The scripture indicates that we need to have a full, personal knowledge of God for ourselves.  There are many things being taught today about our Heavenly Father and Who He is, that aren't true.  So, it's important that we know Him for ourselves.

     God gave the five-fold ministry to the Church to teach us, but this doesn't take the place of our full personal knowledge of Him.  This only comes by spending time studying His Word and seeking fellowship with Him for ourselves.  Those who don't have a full personal knowledge of God, tell us that, "God puts sickness on you, in order to teach you" or "God is testing you, by putting this disease on you."  We can't allow the opinion of others to be rooted and grounded, in our new creation spirit man/woman.

     James1:13,16-17(Amp) says, "Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil and He Himself tempts no one."  Verses 16-17 go on, "Do not be misled, my beloved brethren. Every Good Gift and every Perfect, free, large full Gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all that gives Light, in the shining of Whom there can be no variation, rising or setting, or shadow cast by His turning as in an eclipse."

     Many things befall Christians in this life, that are not God's will for them.  We seemingly forget that we have an enemy who is out to "steal, kill and destroy."  We are children of the Light and belong to God and His Kingdom, so we're enemies of satan and his kingdom of darkness.  We must know where these bad things originate from, so we can rise above the trials and persecution, knowing God will deliver us out of this.

     When we're confused about the source of these afflictions and trials, then it's nearly impossible to keep faith in our deliverance.  James1:5-8(Amp) instructs us, saying, "If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God, Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks, no doubting, without wavering or hesitation, For the one who wavers, hesitates, doubts, is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord. 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."

     Trials come upon us, because we're children of God and threats to the enemy.  They also come upon us, because we're still in this world.  We're not of this world, but we're still in it.  We have God's Word living in us, so we're threats to satan.  The world is deceived, but we're no longer of this world.  Jesus gives "The Parable of the Sower," in Mark4:17(Amp) saying, "And they have no real root in themselves (no full, personal knowledge of Him [Jesus]), and so they endure for a little while; then when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Word, they immediately are offended (become displeased, indignant, resentful) and they stumble and fall."

     The enemy tries to steal away the Word that is in us, so we'll become unfruitful and will no longer be a danger to his kingdom.  When we don't know the source of our trials, we become passive.  We don't resist or have faith to stand on God's Word, if we don't have a full personal knowledge of our Father.  When we only have second-hand knowledge of God, believing that, "It must be God's will."

     This is a dangerous place to walk in, because if we believe it is God, then we have nowhere to go for help and allow satan to glorify himself without resisting.  We must "Put on the Armor of God," so we'll be able to quench the fiery darts of the enemy.  We need the knowledge of God and His Word of deliverance, which is the Sword of the Spirit.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 64

      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 can know what God's Grace has provided for His family, when reading Rom.1:17(Amp), which 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. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith."

     Much has been said about growing our faith and living by faith.  We can't put faith in what we don't know.  We grow from faith to faith, by reading His Word and seeing what His Promises have provided us, through Grace.  We need to understand what Grace has provided us, in Jesus.  Eph.2:5(Amp) says, "Even when we were dead (slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses), He made us alive (the just shall live by faith). Together in fellowship and union with Christ; He gave us the very Life of Christ Himself, the Same new Life which He quickened Him, for it is by Grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved, delivered from judgement and made partakers of Christ's salvation."

     God has already provided our salvation, two-thousand years before we were born.  We were saved at the very moment we put faith in what Jesus provided for us and put faith in God's Grace.  We weren't made new creations by our works, but by putting faith in God's Grace, which provided our salvation in Jesus.  Jesus is the Source of Grace, that our faith is in.  When Paul wrote about our "going from faith to faith," he was referring to our continually growing  in God's Word, so we can discover all that Jesus has provided us, by His crucifixion.  Grace for salvation was provided two-thousand years before we put faith in it and became saved.  We accessed God's Grace and became new creations, by faith.  This same Grace also provided our righteousness, sanctification, consecration and access to our inheritance in Jesus.  It's not what we do, but faith in what Jesus has done and provided by Grace.

     Paul writes about the part that faith plays, in what God's Grace has provided for us, in Rom.5:2(Amp) saying, "Through Him also we have our introduction (our access, entrance), faith into this Grace (state of God's favor) in which we firmly stand, And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the Glory of God."  This isn't by our doing, but by having faith in what Jesus has already done, when He bought and paid for it by His Blood.  Grace isn't an excuse for sin, but is a Gift of righteousness.  

     Jesus provided everything we will ever need for here and hereafter, at His death on the cross and His Resurrection.  It comes by Grace and is accepted by faith in Him.  He bore our sickness and disease.  Grace has already provided our healing and when we put faith in it, then we access what Jesus already provided.  This is going from faith to faith.  When we read God's Word and put faith in what His Grace has already made ours through Jesus, then we're going from faith to faith, unto completed salvation.

     Through Jesus, God has extended His Grace to the entire world, but many have never put faith in His invitation of that Grace and remain unsaved.  John3:16(Amp) says, "For God so greatly Love and dearly prized the world that He even gave up His Only Begotten, Unique Son, so that whoever believes, trusts in, clings to, relies on Him, shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost), but have Eternal, Everlasting Life."

     God has extended His Grace to the whole world, but it must be accessed by faith in Jesus.  We don't earn it, work for it or deserve it, but it is a free Gift of Grace by faith in Jesus.  Now that we've accepted this Grace by faith, we must go from faith to faith and accept everything Grace has provided us, through Jesus.  When the Father made us a new creation being, He provided everything Jesus paid for and bought by His Sacrifice, for us.  

     We continue asking the Father for things that He already provided by Grace.  We must understand the Amazing Grace that provided our inheritance and made us joint heirs in Christ Jesus.  This isn't only for when we get to Heaven, but for while we remain on earth.  Jesus Paid the Price for our complete salvation and it's ours when we believe in what He has done.

     We try to be good enough to deserve God's Blessing in our lives, but Eph.3:14(Amp) tells us, "To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come on the Gentiles, so that we, through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."  We keep "trying to be Blessed," not recognizing that God's Blessing is already ours, by faith in the Grace that Jesus provided by His Sacrifice.

     There's nothing we need for our earthly lives, that God's Grace hasn't already provided in Jesus, according to 2Pet.1:3(Amp), which says, "For His Divine Power has bestowed upon us all things that are requisite and suited to life and Godliness, through the full, personal knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His Own Glory and excellence (virtue)."

     It's already been offered by Grace and by the full knowledge of Him."  We must put faith in the Finished Work of Calvary.    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 63

     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 looking at both our past and present lives, we realize that we're far from being perfect.  We continue trying to produce righteous, instead of accepting the Righteousness of God gave us by Grace when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  Rom.8:1(Amp) gives us insight into how to live by faith in Christ Jesus, saying, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus; who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit."

     The dictates of the flesh will keep us bound by our past lives and the mistakes we make in our new creation life with God.  We know that we don't deserve God's Promises, His faithfulness or the Love He has for us.  We try coming to a place in our flesh, where we deserve His Blessing.  The flesh will always hold us in condemnation, but when we learn to listen to the dictates of the Spirit of Grace, we can by faith, accept what Jesus has done for us, instead of trying to do so by works.

     This isn't an invitation to continue in sin and what the old man/woman used to walk in.  This is an invitation to leave our old man/woman and develop the new creation person who has been made righteous in Jesus.  Grace is something that we don't deserve.  It's a free Gift from God, that we receive by faith in Jesus.  If we do works to "deserve it," then it's no longer Grace.

     The dictates of the Spirit will always remind us what Jesus has done and not what we have done.  We must spend time in fellowship with our Heavenly Father and in His Word, in order to walk after the dictates of the Spirit.  We shouldn't read only The Old Testament, identifying with those in the old covenant who were disciplined for their failure.  We need to identify with what Jesus did, when He bore the chastisement for our iniquities and took our punishment.  The people in the old covenant had to walk by the blood of animals, which only covered their sin, but our covenant is based on the Blood of Jesus, which completely removed even the stain of sin and made us righteous before God.

     When we sin, we need to confess it before God, instead of allowing the flesh to condemn us.  We need to listen to the Holy Spirit Who is "Righteous to forgive and cleanse us from all unrighteousness," according to 1John1:9(Amp), which says, "If we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just, True to His Own nature and Promises and will forgive our sins, dismiss our lawlessness and will continuously cleanse us from all unrighteousness, everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought and action."

     This isn't an invitation to live in sin, but it's the bridge that will keep us in His Perfect will, so His Blessing can continue to do what He purposes in our lives.  The Holy Spirit will always point us to God's Word and who we've now become by the Sacrifice of Jesus and not to who we once were in this flesh and blood body.  We all still make mistakes as we grow in this Grace and faith in Jesus.  Paul instructs us to renew our minds with God's Word, so we can forget who we once were in Rom.12:2(Amp), which says, "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, by it's new ideals and it's new attitude, so that you may prove for yourself 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."  In order to renew our minds to the new creation being we've become in Christ, we must study God's Word and listen to what His Holy Spirit says about us.

     Some use Grace as an excuse to continue living in the sin they lived in before being born-again and never renew their minds to the new man/woman they are in Christ Jesus.  This is being conformed and adapted to the world with it's external and superficial customs.  Others have adapted to the customs of the world.  They don't listen to the dictates of the Spirit and refuse to believe the Truth that they're no longer just unworthy sinners.  These aren't God's will for our lives.

     Those who use Grace to continue sinning, are deceiving themselves by the world's idea of Grace.  Those who receive Grace, but continue to hold onto the condemnation and guilt of who they once were, haven't allowed Grace to renew their minds by the Word and Spirit.  These fall short of what God's Grace came to do in our lives.  Psalm23:3(Amp) says, "He [God] refreshes and restores my life (myself). He leads me in paths of Righteousness (uprightness and right standing with Him), not for my earning it, but for His Name's sake."

     We represent God to the world and it's for His Name's sake that we follow after and listen to the Spirit, in our earthly walk with Him.  When we conform and adapt to the world's ideals and customs, we bring reproach to His name, not ours.  We must be willing to develop into what God has created us to be, refusing to walk after the dictates of the flesh and walking after the dictates of the Spirit.  We must study God's Word, in order to learn who this new creation being is and how we're to act in today's world.  We don't need religion, but relationship with God.  We're part of a royal family, born of God and living in God and His Word.

     

       

      

Developing the New Creation Lesson 62

     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 person is born from the Seed of God's Word and is saved by Grace, through faith in this Word.  Many today believed that salvation only means we're forgiven of our sins and will go to Heaven, when we leave this earth.  The word "saved" or "salvation" means much more than the Church has understood.  The Strong's Concordance tells us it means, according to #4990 "a deliverer, i.e. God or Christ, savior," #4982 "safe, to save, i.e. deliver or protect, lit. or fig. heal, preserve, save self, do well, be or make whole."

     1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire), the pure unadulterated Spiritual mile (the Word of God), that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation."  This indicates that there's much more to our salvation, than just forgiveness and going to Heaven.  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.As it is written, the man who through faith is just and upright and shall live by faith."

     The KJV says, "We go from faith to faith."  Our faith in God and His Word is a growing process, which takes us from only believing salvation is our going to Heaven, to living in God's Blessings and in His Presence while we're still in this body on earth.  We became new creation children of God, when we accepted His Gift of Life through Jesus, but most of us haven't continued going from faith to faith.  Many become born-again, but never mature from what Peter called "newborn babies" in Christ.

     Many believers have been taught that these things "aren't for us today, but only for the early Church," but God's Word is for all who will believe in what Jesus bought and paid for, by His Sacrifice on our behalf.  Gal.3:13-14(Amp) says, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse (doom of the Law) and it's condemnation, by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in the scriptures, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified). To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."

     Jesus paid for and has bought us all back (redeemed) us from the the Curse of the Law, by His Blood.  It only takes faith in His Redemption, for us to live in the Blessing.  Few have allowed their faith to reach into this Power of Redemption, because of the weakness of our flesh.  We feel the symptoms in our flesh and feel sick and then allow those feelings to negate the Promise.  Then we accept that which the Curse continues trying to perform in our lives.

     Our getting sick doesn't mean we're not good Christians, but means that we haven't yet grown into completed salvation.  Our salvation was, and is, complete in Him, so we can't give up too soon on the Promise.  We live by faith daily, in this provided Salvation.  The Curse of the Law is still working in the earth and will try coming on anyone who doesn't use faith to rise above it.  It takes faith and patience to do this, according to Heb.10:36(Amp), which says, "Do not therefore fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward. For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus received and came away and enjoy to the full what is Promised." 

     We can't become discouraged when we don't seem to receive what the Promise says "is ours."  The enemy knows the Word will work, if we hold fast to it in faith and he's determined to talk us out of God's Promises.  This is why we need endurance and patience.  Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower," in Mark4 and said this in Verse15, "The ones along the path are those who have the Word sown in their hearts, but when they hear, satan comes at once and by force takes away the Message which is sown in them."  Verse17 says that, "Satan comes to take with persecution and trouble, and the trouble and persecution arises on account of the Word in order that it not bring forth the Promise."

     As we grow from faith to faith and become more mature children of God, we establish His Kingdom on this earth for all mankind to see.  Sadly, the world hasn't seen much difference between Christians and themselves.  They haven't seen the Super-natural Power of God's Presence and His Blessing in our lives, so they think we're just another religion.  The world needs to witness God working in and through us, in order to believe.  God is going to reveal Himself in such a way, through His Church, that no one will able to deny it.  Signs and wonders will follow the Church, as God proves out His Word and Presence, to the unbelievers.  It will take faith and boldness to do what God is going to do, but He has a people in the land that He can move through.  Eph.3:10(Amp) tells us, "The purpose is that through the Church, the complicated, many sided Wisdom of God in all it's infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities, principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere."

    

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 61

      The only way to grow into the mature sons and daughters of God we were created to be, is learning to trust in His Word.  The less we trust in God's Promises, the less strength we have to receive what He Promised.  Although all of His Promises are "Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus," they must be received by faith in those Promises.  We've become new creations and the Blessing of Abraham came on us the moment we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  We don't "try" to be Blessed, but are already Blessed.

     In Heb.4:2(Amp), God speaks to those in the Wilderness and to us today, saying, "Therefore, While the Promise of entering His Rest still holds and is offered today, let us be afraid to distrust it lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come of reaching it."  This is one of the Promises Paul writes about in 2Cor.1:20(Amp), which 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."

     Like those in the Wilderness, this can be said about us today.  Heb.4:2(Amp) says, "For indeed we have had the Glad tidings (Gospel of God), proclaimed to us just as truly as they, the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them because it was not mixed with faith."

     How much faith have we mixed with all of God's Promises, He has bestowed upon us today?  We develop the new creation man/woman, by developing faith in God's Word and Promises, so we can enter into His Promises.  When we were born-again by faith in God's Promise through Jesus, all of these Promises came into our new being.  1Pet.2:2(Amp) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure, unadulterated Spiritual milk (of the Word), that by it you may be nurtured and grow into complete salvation.

     Our salvation was complete when we were born-again by the Word of God, but we must grow into the completeness of it by receiving the Promises it holds for us, BY FAITH.  One of the first things we do with our newborn baby, is teach them to talk.  When we are born-again, we're to learn how to talk, by listening to our Heavenly Father and speaking His Word as He teaches us to speak.  John3:34(Amp) tells us about the earthly ministry of Jesus, saying, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims His Own Message), God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit."

     Do we speak God's Own Word or do we speak contrary to His Promises?  Do we mix faith in and trust in His Promises or do we listen and trust in what the world and tradition tell us?  We must mix faith with the words we speak concerning God's Promises.  Charles Capps wrote a small book about mixing faith in the Promises of God, where he called the tongue, "the mixer."  The people God delivered from Egypt spoke contrary to God's Promise and didn't mix faith in what He said, which resulted in their dying in the Wilderness and not entering His Promised Land (Rest).

     The teachings about, "Saying what God says," have been made available to the Body of Christ.  Those in the Wilderness trusted in the words of ten spies, instead of what God said.  The words spoken from the mouths of the new creation children of God, carry power to deliver or to stay in the Wilderness.  This teaching got lost to many of God's children, because we didn't want to hear it or didn't understand it.  It's difficult to receive the Promise of healing for our body, when we say, "God made me sick."  Many believe that God's Promises have passed away.  We know that God's Word will never pass away, because it's forever settled in Heaven and is Eternal.  God's Word is True.

     If we're to receive all that Jesus has done for us and all of God's Promises, then we must mix faith in His Promises and order our words to line up with Him.  We can't continue speaking contrary to God's Word and expect Him to honor it.  Psalm12:3-4(Amp) says, "May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and The tongues that speak proud boasting Those who say, with our tongues we prevail, our lips are our own to command at our will, who is lord and master over us?"

    When we speak contrary to God's Promises, we're saying that "God's Word isn't true" and that "It doesn't matter what we say."  Our Father teaches us to speak, just like an earthly father teaches hi baby to speak, by listening to what they hear.  One can know what is spoken in a home, by listening to what children speak.  The children might not understand the meaning of their words, but they speak what they hear.  

     We're to speak the Words our Heavenly Father speak.  This is the language of the new creation and the language of God's Kingdom.  God's Word rules over all things and when we keep our tongues and mouths filled with His Word, then He can bring them to pass in our lives.  God won't bring His Promises to pass in our lives, when we disagree with them and declare, "They're not for us today."  We must check the words we speak and refuse to speak words that don't line-up with God's Promises.    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 60

     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 were studying Grace and faith, in the previous blog.  Many have become confused by things they've been taught from a carnal or natural way of understanding the Word.  Scripture tells us that faith cannot produce anything that Grace has not provided.  Faith doesn't "make" God do anything that He hasn't Promised.  We read about how Grace and faith lead to salvation, in Eph.2:8(Amp), which 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 from your own striving), but is the Gift of God." 

     Grace has already made salvation available, to everyone who puts faith in that Grace through Jesus and accepts the Gift He has provided.  Jesus did all the work, Grace made the free Gift of His Work available.  Faith reached into God's Grace and accepted what God has already made available, by His Grace.  The same principle of Grace and faith, work hand-in-hand throughout all of God's Promises and we know that all of His Promises are "Yes and Amen to the Glory of God," according to 2Cor.1:20(Amp).

     Our faith didn't do anymore than believe what God's Word said and accepted His free Gifts.  Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) [Adam], death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor) and the free Gift of righteousness, putting them into right standing with God Himself, reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."

     Grace has provided the free Gift of righteousness, faith simply accepts what God has offered, without striving or struggling for it.  God's Word describes it as being "simple and easy," like God intended it to be.  Religion has made it difficult to receive, because we knew we didn't deserve it.   We tried making ourselves worthy by works, instead of receiving what Jesus has done for us, BY FAITH.  This isn't just true for salvation, but for all of God's Promises.  They are offered by Grace and received by faith in Jesus and His Sacrifice.  Trying to receive them by any other means, results in failure and leads us to believe the world's idea of "You never know what God will do."

     We all want to walk in health and healing, in this world.  We try praying and crying and when it doesn't happen, we say, "It must not be God's will" or "God is testing me."  Jesus paid for our healing, when He paid for everything else.  Grace provides healing and faith accepts what Grace has already made available.  Healing might be harder for us to accept by faith, because the natural body hurts and reminds us what is wrong.  We seem to put more faith in how we feel, rather than in the Promise of healing by Grace.

     Rom.1:17(KJV) says we're to go from "faith to faith."  This comes from trusting in God's Word.  The combination of Grace and faith work for our salvation, so we extend our faith into other Promises of God.  God's Grace offers what Jesus bought and paid for on the cross.  It's already ours by faith in Him.

     Paul writes to the church in 1Cor.6:11(Amp) concerning the world and who we were before Jesus and His Sacrifice and then who we've now become in Him.  Thus, it says, "And such some of you were once. But you were washed clean, purified by a complete Atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin, and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified, pronounced righteous by trusting in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit of God."  We were made all of these things that Paul writes about, by Grace and faith in the Grace offered.  We are now what God says we are, in Jesus.  The question is, "Will you accept it and live in it, by faith in God's Word?"  Or will you remain what religion says about our being "Just sinners saved by Grace?"  

     It's not pride, but is faith and trust in what Jesus made us to be in Him.  Our faith must be higher than what our carnal minds will allow us to receive.  There is no faith in God's Word, in our carnal mind, according to Rom.8:7(Amp), which 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 Laws, indeed it cannot."

     Many in today's Church have mostly heard the carnal opinions of men/women, about what God's Word says.  Not everyone who is saved, will choose to walk by faith into the Promises of God, even though they're already ours by Grace and the Sacrifice of Jesus.  Some though will grow up from faith to faith, going beyond the carnal mind.  Jesus stepped out beyond what the scribes taught and was ridiculed, even though He was right.  Some will never believe God for more than what they're currently walking in.  They're saved, righteous, consecrated, holy, healed and are to reign as kings in this life, but they don't know that these are already theirs by Grace, through Jesus.

Developing the New Creation Lesson 59

     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 man/woman is developed by knowing and understanding what Grace has provided us, by the new birth.  Many things that we've heard taught and preached, have held back the new creation.  Satan fears the person who knows who he/she has become, when being born-again and receiving Jesus as our Savior and Lord.  We must know that who we've now become, is and was, because of Jesus Christ.  Everything He has done is ours by faith and not by works.

     We find the Promises God made to His people throughout the Word and these only come by faith in what Jesus did for us on Calvary's cross and by His Resurrection.  The Promise of healing is now no longer a Promise, but a fact.  The Blessing has already become fact, in the life of the believer.  Many have stumbled over this Truth, because we try to "deserve" them.  We don't receive these things because we deserve them, but because Jesus died in order to give them to us, by Grace.  Through His death and Resurrection, Grace has provided every Promise.

     We've gone wrong, by thinking it has to do with our being perfect enough to deserve them.  In reality, it only takes faith in what Jesus has done and then receiving what He has done for us.  We could never become righteous with God on our own.  Rom.3:10(Amp) says, "As it is written, None is Righteous (just and truthful and upright and conscientious), no not one."  Notice how one is left in this scripture, it  says, "none is righteous."  Jesus provided for us on the cross and Grace has made it a Truth, by faith in Jesus.  We learn how this new Righteousness was made manifest to us who will believe in Rom.3:21-22,23-24(Amp), which says, "But now the Righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although actually it is attested by the Law and the prophets. Namely, the Righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and in confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and it is meant for all who believe, For there is no distinction."

     In order to be righteous in God's eyes, we must by faith, believe that in Jesus, we were made righteous with His Righteousness.  This is an act of faith in what Grace has already provided us, in Jesus.  This doesn't come by striving to do works, in order to become righteous in our own selves.  It is already been done by Jesus.  Everything God has Promised, has already been done and paid for by the Blood of Jesus.  Jesus took our place, in order to put us in His place with the Father.  Jesus took our sin and gave us His Righteousness.  He took all of our sickness and disease and gave us His Own healing and deliverance.  We're only required to simply trust and put faith in Jesus' Sacrifice for us.

    Paul continues in Verses 23-24, writing, "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."  The Church has spent centuries trying to become what Jesus has already made us to be.  We must simply believe in what He has already provided us.

     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."  The only way to come near to Him, is by righteousness and the only way we can become righteous, is by believing in Jesus to make us righteous.  Without faith in Jesus, we cannot be pleasing and near to Him.  We're not acceptable to Him, in our own righteousness.

     Paul continues writing about Jesus in Rom.3:25-26(Amp), saying, "Whom God put forward before the eyes of all as a Mercy Seat and Propitiation by His Blood, the cleansing and Life-giving Sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, TO BE REVEALED THROUGH FAITH. This was to show God's Righteousness, because in His Divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment. It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season), that He Himself is Righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has true faith in Jesus."

     Faith isn't a teaching, but is the way of life for the believer.  Many scoff at "faith teachings," like they're foolishness, but "without faith, it is impossible to please God."  Everything we get from God our Father, is by faith in what Grace has provided, in Jesus.  Many don't receive this Truth, because they don't "feel" worthy or "good enough to deserve it."  We didn't get what we deserve, thank God!  We deserved to die in our sin and pass into judgment because of it.  By Grace, Jesus was sent to take our place and now by Grace and faith in Jesus, we can receive God's Righteousness and favor.  We didn't get what we deserve, but what our Heavenly Father wished us to have.

     We can now do works of righteousness for mankind, instead of works to become righteous.  We do this by faith in the Finished Work of Jesus and by faith in what He has provided by Grace and His Sacrifice.  Everything we will ever need, both here and when we get to Heaven, has now been provided for by the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God.  Jesus said in John10:9(Amp), "I Am the Door, anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out freely and will find pasture."

     Rom.5:2(Amp) says, "Through Him also we have our access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this Grace, state of God's favor in which we firmly and safely And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the Glory of God." 

      

Developing the New Creation Lesson 58

     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 man/woman is born of God and has the very nature of God within our newly created spirit, by the new birth.  Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     We can better understand Who the Word is, by reading John1:1-4(Amp), which says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men."  Everything came into existence through Jesus and without Him, "not one thing came into being."

     Many Christians wonder why we see so little of the miraculous Presence of God, in the world today.  We know that, "without the Word, not one thing has come into being."  How many things would come into being in our lives today, if we would read and speak God's Word, instead of accepting the world's idea which tells us that, "God doesn't do these things anymore?"  

     We, the new creation persons, didn't come into being, until we believed and spoke the Word, Jesus, into our lives.  When we believed and confessed the Word, like in Genesis, Life and Light came into being and we were created new creations.  Why do we think that the Word of Life only worked in this one thing?  The Words of Jesus produced Spirit and Life.  The flesh has not profit in it.  Speaking contrary to God's Word will not produce Life or Light in our lives.

     Few Christians spend time in God's Word, so the Spirit and Life have very little effect in the new creation spirit man/woman.  Our spirit is fed and produces Life, not only in the spirit realm, but in the natural body too.  Prov.4:22-23(Amp) speaks about God's Word, saying, "For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart (spirit) with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it (your spirit) flow the springs of Life."  

     Many don't believe that we should watch our words, believing that it's "foolishness," but Jesus cautioned us against hearing and speaking contrary to the Word.  Prov.8:8-9(Amp) says, "All the Words of My mouth are righteous, upright and in right standing with God; there is nothing contrary to Truth or crooked in them. They are all plain to him who understands and opens his heart (spirit), and right to those who find knowledge and live by it."

     Are the words we're speaking, line up with God's Word?  Are you speaking contrary to what God's Word says and speaks to us?  Are we adhering to Jesus' directions in Mark4:23-24(Amp), where He says, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you, and more besides will be given to you who hear."

     The measure we receive, is left up to those who hear what the Spirit is saying.  John3:34(Amp) says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message). God does not give His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit."  If the new creation people, who are born of God, were careful to speak God's Own Word, then God would be able to trust us with a greater measure of His Spirit.  

     Prov.18:21(Amp) says, "Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it, for death or Life."  Jesus spoke to a fig tree and it died.  He spoke to a dead man and the man lived.  What are we speaking and to what or whom are we speaking too?  Are we speaking God's Words, which He can honor or are they inoperative, contrary words that will profit nothing, both in our lives and the lives of those we speak them to?  Do our words bring Life and healing or death and oppression?  Words of Life bring Life, while words of death, come from the enemy to bring destruction and death in our lives.  We mustn't give the enemy any place in our lives, by giving him our words to use against us.

     Jesus contended with satan in Luke 4.  Jesus used the Word of God to defeat everything the enemy tried using against Him.  Paul writes about the Armor of God in Eph.6:16-17(Amp) saying, "Lift up over all the covering shield of faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God." 

     We must keep our words in-line with God's Word and allow the self-fulfilling Power of that Word work in our lives.  Speaking contrary to God's Word, gives God nothing to work with to provide deliverance in our lives.

     

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 57

      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."  

     How far is too far, in our walk with God?  Many think that believing God, beyond what religion teaches, is "too far."  God's Word and the finished work of Jesus, tells us that we have barely begun walking in the things He has for us.  Walking with God in a place that others aren't walking, doesn't mean that we are too far out, but might mean that they're not walking far enough with Him.

     Today, we don't see the move of the Holy Spirit and the Presence of God, like we witness in the lives of the early Church.  The Super-natural Presence of the Lord is very rare and oftentimes misunderstood in today's Church.  When we read about and believe what the covenant says about the new creation persons, we discover how we're living far below what we've been created to be in Jesus Christ.

     God's Word says that we've already made to be righteous in His Righteousness, holy, just, consecrated, reconciled and born by God's Own Seed, which is His Word, just like Jesus was born of the Word.  By God's Grace, we're not just forgiven, but we're created completely new in Christ Jesus.  Confessing and believing this isn't prideful, but is Truth.  Denying this Truth is prideful and is declaring that God's Word is "not true."  If God says we're "made righteous with His Own Righteousness," then this is True, even if we don't believe it.  This isn't what we one were, but is what we've been created to be, in Jesus.

     This isn't what we will become one day, when we get to Heaven, but is what Heaven has done in and through us now, while we're still on this earth.  All of the Super-natural abilities of God, now abide in our new creation spirit man/woman.  Remember that it's not you, but the Father in you, Who does the work of the Word.  Jesus said this about Himself and we have the same Father living in us.  We've been afraid of failing, so we simply do nothing and the world is suffering for it.

     The Church has become like the Scribes and Pharisees.  We've become old wine skins that are unable to contain the new wine.  We need to learn what God has done in our lives and become pliable in His hands again.  We've established our own religious laws and neglected the Grace, which God has already provided for every need and everything we are in Christ Jesus.  I hear believers say, "We need more Power from God."  God has already provided for our every need, when He raised Jesus from the dead and gave us the same Life that Jesus has.  

     My daughter posted one of Dr. Seuss' quotes, at the entrance to her pre-k room, which says, "Why try to blend in, when you were created to stand out?"  Today's Church is so intent on being like the world, hoping not to stand out, but blend in, that we forget who Jesus said, "You are in the world, but not of it," in John8:23.  We're created to stand out in a world of darkness and occupy, until Jesus returns.  This word "occupy," is a military term which means "to hold the line against an opposing force and maintain our place."  Eph.6:13(Amp) instructs us to "Put on the full Armor of God, having done all (the crisis demands), stand therefore (hold your place."

     When I see what politics is doing to our nation, I wonder where the voices of God's people are, proclaiming what is right and liberty.  A single woman caused prayer and Bibles be removed from our schools, while the Church was silent.  Today's schools are promoting critical race theory, transgender, masturbation, and sex education in the first grade, in order to obtain federal money.  How much money does it take to sell out our children to an ungodly regime?

     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), as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith.  We were once dead in trespass and sin, but are now alive unto God, by faith in Jesus.  It's not what we've done, but by faith in what He has done.  The KJV says that we're to go "from faith to faith."

     The first step in our faith in Jesus, leads us to being saved and forgiven from our trespasses and sin.  Our faith in Jesus also makes us righteous, just, consecrated, holy and blameless in God's eyes.  Jesus also provided our Redemption and Blessing by faith in Grace, in and through Him.  This is going from one faith to a higher state of faith in the Finished Work of Jesus, on our behalf.  We already have faith in Him, so let's develop faith and grow into matured salvation, walking in everything else Jesus has done for and provided for us.

     Many receive Jesus as our Lord and then stop developing their faith, believing that this is all He has for us.  Jesus' death and Resurrection, delivered us from sin, brought the new creation people into existence and restored us back into God's Plan of family and right standing with Him.  Jesus brought about the new creation people, which are eligible to receive everything God had Planned for mankind, in the very beginning.  Everything that Adam lost, is now ours again through faith in the Finished Works of Jesus.

     This is developing the new creation family of God and going from faith to faith.  When we accept and have faith that Jesus went to the cross, in order to buy back God's family from the bondage of satan.  This is our inheritance that has been restored back through faith in Jesus.  This is Grace in operation in our lives.

     All of this is by Grace and this Grace is activated by faith, believing what Jesus has already done for us.  Our striving to be righteous with God is wasted, because it's only available by faith and being made righteous through Jesus.  We keep trying to become, what Jesus has already made us to be.  Only faith in the Finished Work of Jesus and the Word of Truth, can do in our lives, what we keep trying to do through our works.

     Paul tells us in Rom.12:2(Amp), to "renew our minds by God's Word."  We know that we don't deserve what God has done for us, but if we believe what His Word says about the new creation man/woman, then we're no longer in ourselves, but have been made one with Him.  It's now Jesus' Righteousness that we're in and not our own.  Most of us struggle to humble ourselves, put down our carnal pride and accept by faith what God says.  We must receive it by faith, instead of trying to become righteous and without sin, through our own works.  Our carnal pride prevents us from receiving what Grace has already done for us, by faith in Him.  We don't receive Grace because we deserve it, but because Grace and Love have provided what mankind couldn't do on his/her own.  This is Grace, by Love that only God through Jesus, could provide.  We need to resist the new creation man/woman's place in God's family and put faith in Jesus, instead of ourselves.  We're already accepted by the Father and have been given the Kingdom, by faith.

       

      My family was here for six weeks and I was unable to write my blog.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.  Have a Blessed day, Cowboy Jim.

Lesson 56 Developing the New Creation

     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 are a new creation, but we've mostly seen ourselves as just forgiven sinners.  This is what man and religion has taught us, but it isn't what God's Word says.  If we're new creations, like God's Word says, then in God's eyes and by His Word, we're a new species of being that never before existed in God's creation.  If we will dare believe what God has to say about who the new creation child of God is, then we can see ourselves in the reality of the Truth that we've been made to be through Jesus Christ.

     Who is the new creation and what are his/her capabilities?  What is our potential and abilities in this life?  Jesus said in John10:10(Amp), "I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."  The Life Jesus speaks about, is God's Own Life which has been poured out and is flowing through the new creation spirit being, born from God's Word, His Spirit and His very Own Self.  We're not just forgiven, but have been created from nothing, into the very family of God Himself.

     We've only seen ourselves from the carnal minded portrayal we've been taught and have never really seen ourselves as who we've been created to be, according to the Father.  God Himself, by the Holy Spirit, made the new creation and if we allow Him to live in and through us, then we're capable of doing what He created us to do.  Jesus said, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, Who does the work."  The Same Father and Holy Spirit lives in us now too.  The new creation man/woman of God is filled with God's Own Spirit, like Jesus was.  The difference is that Jesus knew Him and we really don't know Him like we should.  We "know" Him by the old covenant, where He judged those under the Law and we've taken that view of God into the last covenant of Grace and son-ship.  It's the same Almighty God, but Jesus has fulfilled the Law and through Him, we're judged by His finished work.  We're no longer servants of God, but are sons and daughters of God.

     We've tried living for God, instead of living through God.  Jesus lived His life through God and allowed God to move through Him, for mankind.  Jesus said in John14:12(Amp), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."  What "greater things" can we do?  Through Jesus, we carry the Seed of God's Word by preaching the Gospel, in order to bring forth this new creation being.  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."  The new creation person is born from the Seed of God's Word, by the preaching of the Gospel, which is our job on earth.  Mark 16:15(Amp) says, "Jesus said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the Good News (the Gospel), to every creature of the human race."  Jesus went on to say that those who believed and became new creation men and women, did the works of the Father, by faith.

     Every new creation person has this ability born in them by the Seed of God (His Word), but it will only produce in those who believe.  We've been taught that these things have "passed away and are no longer for us today," but that's not what God's Word says.  Today, the new born child of God mostly from what those in the five-fold ministry believe and teach.  Many only learn about forgiveness of sin and going to Heaven when we die.  These aren't the only things that salvation brings, when you study the fullness of God's Word.  God Himself is now living and working through those who will believe Him and allow Him to work through us.

     We've limited this ability to being for only certain people or those in the full-time ministry, but this isn't what the Word says.  God's Word tells us to believe on Him, the Word of God Himself.  The ability to move in the Super-natural is born is us, when we were made new creation children of God.  This is the very Nature of our Heavenly Father, which is reproduced in those who will believe in what He has said and done.  The Father hasn't limited this, but we have when we don't dare to believe what God's Word says.  Some call us "fanatics and fools," for daring to believe the Truth of the Gospel, but God has exalted His Word even above all His Name, according to Psalm 138:2(Amp), which says, "I will worship toward Your Holy Temple and praise Your Name for Your Loving Kindness and for Your Truth and faithfulness; For You have exalted above all else Your Name and Your Word, and You have magnified Your Word above all Your Name."

     When we live the Word, we're living in and through God Himself.  When we refuse to trust in His Word, we limit God from moving in that part of Truth and Life in our lives.  Those in the Wilderness who didn't believe God's Word, never entered the Promised Land, but died in the Wilderness.  Those in the next generation did believe and took the Promised and the Promised Land, by faith in God's Word.  We are a new generation and God's Promises are still available to those who believe God's Word and Promises.  Don't allow someone to tell you that "these things aren't for today," but go forth by faith in God's Word and let God show Himself strong in the world today.  

Developing the New Creation Lesson 55

     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."  Until we have Revelation from God's Word and His Holy Spirit, about who and what this new creation being is, we will only be religious in our thinking.  We acknowledge God, but can't truly understand what He has done is us through Jesus.  The new creation being has been restored back to God's original intent for His children. 

     What is this new creation?  What is the Life that Jesus came to deliver us into and what is the death He came to deliver us from?  When compared to how the early Church functioned, today's Church seems to fall short.  The Super-natural was what grew that Church into a great and awesome Body of power.  We've been taught that those things were "only for the early Church" and that these things "have passed away."

     Heb.13:8(Amp) says, "Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is always the same, yesterday, today, Yes, and forever to the ages."  If Jesus did it during His earthly ministry, then He still does it today.  How have we been talked out of what the new creation man/woman was made to be?  We've allowed ourselves to be reduced to mere men and woman, who walk only in the carnal realm and according to the unrenewed minds of man?

     Who is this new creation being, that God Himself now lives in our newborn spirit?  The Same Father Who did the works when He dwelt in Jesus, is the Same Father Who dwells in us now, in order to do the same works.  We might have changed, but He has not changed. 

     Will we dare to go against the religious order which tells us that we are only "old sinners saved by Grace" and believe what our Heavenly Father says we are?  Have we become old wine skins that cannot contain the new wine of this new creation man/woman?  The power to the new creation doesn't live in the flesh of men/women, but in the new spirit of men/women.  All that we're seeking after in God, is already in our new creation spirit.  This isn't a man-made religion, but is a Heavenly citizenship of God's Kingdom.

     I wonder if God's angels look upon the sons and daughters of God and ask why we're always in trouble and in distress, instead of breaking loose of our bondage.  Is God no longer a Super-natural Being Who created all things?  Or, is He like the gods of other religions, Who can't do anything until after we die?  Is He religion or reality in our lives?  Do we truly trust Him to do what He said He will do or are we just deceiving ourselves by our own actions?

     God never left us to our own devices, but has filled us with Himself, in order to bring forth His Glory into this earth.  Jesus said, "If you cannot believe Me for what I say, at least believe Me for the work's sake."  What works are we portraying, that would cause others to believe in God?  We don't know who we've become when we were born-again.  We know what others say we are, but not what God says we are.  Most of what we do in our walk with God, could be done without the Holy Spirit or God's Word.  We comply with our creed and it's rules, just like the scribes and Pharisees who tried retaining the Law after Jesus fulfilled it.  This doesn't mean we're not saved or born-again, but we've never come to the True knowledge of who we've been created to be in Christ Jesus.

     Babies don't simply become adults because they get older, but they must grow into adulthood.  Their bodies grow, but they might remain immature. We were created and supplied with everything we would ever need, in our new creation spirit.  We must grow beyond the carnal way of doing and thinking, in order to mature into what we were created to be.  The flesh and it's carnal way of thinking, has dulled the spirit, holding us back from who we are.

     The potential birthed in us when we were born-again, is the same potential the early Church had.  What is the depth of this potential that God's sons and daughters could reach?  Are we really born of the Super-natural for here and now or is it only for after we die and go to Heaven?  Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."  The Life in our spirit is for both here and throughout eternity.  This God kind of Life is already working and living now, in and through us and grows as we feed and understand the Truth of God's Word.

     God says in Prov.4:20-23(Amp), "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them; healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the Springs of Life."  Jesus went on to say in Mark4:24(Amp), "Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear."

     The only measure of virtue and knowledge that will come back to us, will be the Truth we hear.  No virtue or knowledge will come back to us, from hearing, "these things have passed away, " because this isn't Truth.  We will simply remain carnal and without knowledge, when we don't hear the Truth.  2Tim.3:16(Amp) 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."

     Many things we hear today, even though they might come from the Word, aren't ministered in Truth and Spirit.  We must be careful what we hear and how we hear it.  God doesn't deal with His sons and daughters, like He dealt with Israel as servants.  They were only flesh and blood, and not born-again spirits, so God needed to deal with them by the Laws that governed their flesh.  We are Spirit filled, Spirit born children of God.  God Lives in us, but only Lived with them.  The very Power that performed all the miracles for the Israelites, now lives in us.

     We've lived below what God birthed us to be, without even knowing it.  When God brought the First Adam into life, He gave Adam dominion and authority over all the works of His Hands and crowned him with Glory and Honor.  When God brought the Last Adam Jesus (in Whom we now live and reside) into the earth, He gave Him dominion over everything, including the devil.  Jesus prayed in John17:22,23(Amp), "I have given to them glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One."

     Many say, "God would not share His Glory with anyone," but we aren't just "anyone," we are One with Him.  Jesus continued in Verse 23, saying, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may know and definitely recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them even as You have Loved Me."  This isn't sharing His Glory, but crowning us with it and in it, together with Jesus Himself.  What is this Glory and Honor capable of doing in our lives, if we will only accept and live them out in this world, like Jesus did?  

    

Developing the New Creation Lesson 54

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

     We need the knowledge from God's Word and the Holy Spirit, to reveal who the new creation man/woman is.  Man and carnal knowledge have tried explaining it to us, but if we only remain carnal in our understanding, then we will not know who we've become in Christ Jesus.  The new creation is a spirit being, made in God's Own Image and Likeness.  The new man/woman Spiritually abides in Jesus, but we live in a natural body, like Jesus did during His earthly ministry.

     The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write in 2Cor.5:1-2, where he reveals that our flesh and blood bodies are houses where our spirit lives, while we're still on this earth.  The real you is the new creation man/woman, who was born from the dead spirit, joined together with Jesus and made Alive, through faith in Jesus.  We were separated from God, because of Adam's sin.  The Last Adam Jesus paid that which was brought upon us by Adam, by His Sacrifice on the cross and when we put faith and accept His Sacrifice, we were cleansed and Redeemed by His Precious Blood and created new in Him.

     The part of us that was made a new creation, is our spirit and not our flesh.  We need to learn who we've become, through the Revelation knowledge by the Word and the Holy Spirit.  The carnal mind and flesh can't understand nor reveal anything to us, concerning our place in God our Father.  Religion is man's idea of what this means and most teach that we can't know what this means, until we go to Heaven.

     We keep trying to arrive at and walk in the Spirit, according to our own ideas of what this really is.  One would think we could see how we're living far below what the Word says we are now.  When God brought man into existence, he was a being that confounded all of creation, according to Psalm8:3-6(Amp).  David, who saw by the Spirit, what God had done when creating man, was astonished, saying, "When I view and consider Your Heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established. What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of earth born man that You care for him? Yet You have made him but a little lower than God, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet."

     This was and is, God's original intent and purpose for His children and mankind.  When the Psalmist stopped to consider all the wonders of God's creation, he asked God, "What is man that You have considered him above all that You have created and made."  He saw creation in all it's glory and asked God, "Who or what is man, that You have placed him over all these wondrous works?"

     Can you image getting up in the morning, going outside to see the glory of the morning sunlight, knowing that you were and are more important than these.  God didn't create these things for Himself, but He created them for us.  We are the most important thing in God's heart and Kingdom.  We've believed that God is displeased and disapproves of the most important thing in all His creation.  God's great heart created us, so we could be His family and we would be His greatest joy.

     We think salvation is just going to Heaven when we die, when it really means that now through Jesus, we are God's children like He desired from the beginning.  God can now dwell with us and we cam now dwell with Him.  Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, saying 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."  The same glory and honor with which God made man in the beginning has now been restored to us again through Jesus.  The Psalmist tells us that, "Man was more glorious in God's eyes and heart, than all of creation."

     We've lost sight of how Loved we are and how our Father sees and thinks of us.  We were so important to Him, that He died and shed His Own Blood, in order to Redeem, pay for and received back into this place of Glory and honor in His sight.  We need to stop seeing ourselves and thinking about ourselves, before we were born-again.  Jesus restored us back into God's favor and Glory.  He has placed us back into the original intent God had when He created man, in His Own Image and Likeness.

     Eve was born of Adam's flesh and bone, and the two are one.  Jesus said, "I have given them the glory and honor which You have given to Me, that they may be one even as We are One."  The Holy Spirit speaks through Paul in Eph.5:32(Amp), about the relationship between a husband and wife, saying, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the Revelation of Christ and the Church."

     We've lost sight of this mystery and the Revelation of "The two are One in Him."  We can't let the world's idea about this new creation, to taint the thinking of our heart.  This is the true Love of God in our lives today through Jesus.  No one who loves his wife, would ever want her to be sick, hungry, put out of his sight, or to believe she wasn't loved.  If he truly loved her, then he would die for her.  How much more does our Husband in God, Love us?  The devil has lied to us about our Heavenly Father and has told us that, "God could never love you."  We can't believe his lies, but we must believe God's Word instead.  We have a marriage covenant with Him and it is "Forever settled in Heaven and on earth."     

Developing the New Creation Lesson 53

      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."

      The new creation is one in God's Own Spirit, made in God's Own Image by Jesus.  Jesus is the Seed from Whom we are born-again.  This is a being we have no idea of his/her potential or ability, because he/she is of a different Kingdom and Life altogether.  The only way to "know" the real you, is to know Jesus.  We don't know who we really have become in this new creation, until we fully know the One Who created us.

     We can see and imitate our earthly father in this natural realm, by watching and following his example.  Eph.5:1(Amp) says, "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow His Example as well-beloved children imitate their fathers."  We can read how our Example, Jesus walked with the Father in the flesh and we have God's Word which shows us how to walk before Him.  David wrote in Psalm 17:4-5(Amp), "Concerning the works of men, by the Words of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent (the paths of the destroyer) My steps have held closely to the tracks of the One Who has gone on before; my feet have not slipped."

     We can avoid the "paths of the destroyer (satan)," by watching Jesus and reading His Word.  When we walk in our own understanding, we walk in the way were were raised in the flesh and the world.  We had never walked in this new creation Life we now have in Jesus, so we must be instructed in how to walk it.  The world will try forcing us into a position, in order to control us and our actions.  God will free us from control and put us into a place where we submit and choose to walk with Him, because we love Him.

     Many today believe that God will make us do what is right or righteous, but the Truth of the Word says we're to "submit yourself," in James4:7-8(Amp) saying, "So be subject (submitted) to God, Resist the devil (stand firm against him), and he will flee from you. Come close to God and He will come close to you."  We've allowed the devil to have access into our lives, because we didn't know or submit to the instructions given us by the Word and the Spirit.

     Reading God's Word isn't to be a religious exercise, but is reading the instructions on how to imitate our Heavenly Father.  We've never seen God our Father with our natural eyes, but we can see Jesus in the Word.  We can imitate Jesus in our natural body and train our new creation person how to submit to the instruction given our spirit being, which we've been born into.  Before being born of the Spirit, we walked in what we were taught or learned on our own from the world.  Now we have the Holy Spirit to teach us.  

     Rom.8:14-15(Amp) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For the Spirit which you have now received is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but your have received the Spirit of adoption, the Spirit producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry Abba, Father, Father."  The spirit of the world is based on slavery and bondage, where the god of this world forced us to do his will.  The Spirit of our Father has loosed us from bondage and fear, so we can walk with Him and submit to Him in love and respect for Who He is.

     David told us in Psalm 17 that, "By the Words of God's lips, he avoided the ways of the violent, the paths of the destroyer."  God's Word is a path that leads to protection from enemy, if we walk in it and follow God's path.  If we follow the road signs, then we won't get lost, so we must read the Map.  Most of us drive vehicles with GPS built in, that tells us and shows us how to get where we are going.  Or, we use our phones to do so.  If we make a wrong turn, then we're told how to turn around and and get back on track.  God's Word and the Holy Spirit will do the same.  GPS in God's Kingdom, stands for God's Protection Service," which tells us how and where to go.

     The Lord speaks about the time of the new creation and how He will deal with them, in Isaiah30:19-21(Amp), saying, "O people who dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be Gracious to you at the sound of your cry when He hears it, He will answer you And thought the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself anymore, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher. And your ears will hear a Word behind you, saying, This is the way; walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left."

     We're only required to follow the Voice of God's GPS and we will be alright.  This Voice is the Voice of the Holy Spirit speaking in our spirit.  Psalm119:105(Amp) says, "Your Word is a Lamp unto my feet and a Lamp to my path."  God's Word illuminates the path we are to walk.  The Holy Spirit will keep tell us where to turn, if we will listen and watch where we put our feet.

     When we spend time in God's Word and listen to the Holy Spirit, we can walk in the protection and Blessing that His family covenant has Promised.  God will never force or drive us, like the world does.  He will lead us, as the Shepherd of Psalm23 declares.  Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice, and will not follow the voice of a stranger."  We need to learn His Voice (the Word) for ourselves. 

Developing the New Creation Lesson 52

     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 John10:10(Amp), Jesus said, "I have come that they might have Life and enjoy it to the full (in abundance, till it overflows)."  This new Life wasn't the natural life those who heard Jesus say this, but is the Life of the Spirit, God's Own Life.  This God Kind of Life was to be in the new creation spirit of man, after Jesus ascended to the Father and the Holy Spirit poured out from Heaven upon the earth, like a flood.

     We had no idea what the Spiritual Life of God was to be and we didn't know how to live it.  God gave us instructions for living in this new real of the Spirit, in His Word.  Man can't teach us how to live this Life, unless he/she received Revelation by and through the Holy Spirit.  One can read God's Words by his/her intellect, but couldn't understand the Truth of what was read, because God's Word is Spiritually discerned.

     Reading God's Word with a carnal mind resulted in carnal religion, based on man-made laws of the flesh.  We tried controlling the flesh by the flesh, according the the Law of Moses.  Paul said that "the Law was perfect, but mankind couldn't walk what was written, because the flesh still controlled those under the Law."  Jesus said, "I didn't come to do away with the Law, but to fulfill it," in Matt.5:17(Amp), saying, "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the Prophets: I have come not to do away with or undo the Law but to complete and fulfill them."

     Jesus' work on the cross perfectly fulfilled the Law and Redeemed the new creation man/woman from the Curse of the Law.  Through Jesus, we've been qualified by faith in what He has done, to walk in the Blessing of Abraham.  It's by fruit and not Law.  In order to develop our new creation being and walk in what Jesus has done for us, we must put faith in what Jesus has done for us.  We must believe God's Word and His Spirit, instead of trying to control the flesh by the flesh.  Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver): the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths), that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."

     As we develop and strengthen our new creation spirit by God's Word, it can rule over our flesh.  Our spirit will be in submission to Jesus as our Lord and not just our Savior.  God's Word rules our spirit and our spirit rules our flesh.  This isn't as simple as it sounds, because our flesh and carnal mind had been ruled by the world and the god of this world, who is "satan himself," according to 2Cor.4:4.  Not everything we had done was against God, but the world's mindset is not the way of the Word.

     Today, some are rising up to remove Jesus and His Word, from the eyes of the people.  Many in the Church, pacifically say, "It is what it is" and "That's just how things are."  God's new creation people though, aren't supposed to live by the superficial things of the world.  We're to change the accepted things of the world and bring the things of God's Kingdom to the world.

     We try to go along with the concept of others, without making waves, but this isn't our purpose in our new Life.  Believing these things aren't our concern, isn't what our Lord instructed.  I can live my life between me and God, without much conflict with others.  It would be easy to remain silent, but if God's Word is alive in us, then silence isn't an option.  Some warred against Jesus, but He didn't remain silent and we can't either.

     Standing against many of the things being taught in our schools, might not affect your children, but they do affect other children.  We're called to be a Light in the world and not just in our homes.  Some believe that we're only required to live in Christ for ourselves, but we're supposed to influence others and be examples of God's Life to them.  We can stand for God's Righteousness, by voicing our concerns about the ungodly things being taught, to the school board or running to be on the board.  We can educate our friends and neighbors about things being taught in our schools, so they can get involved too.  We're called to change the world by God's Word.  We probably won't get everyone to see what the Word says about the new creation, but we can bring them to salvation and morality, by the Word.

     As we develop our new creation man/woman, we might have have more zeal than others and grow into our place in God more than others, but we're still all one family in Jesus Christ.  When I got saved, I led my family to be born-again, but we're not all walking with the Lord at the same level.  Some don't take time to walk further in the things of God.  They stopped living their old lives and began attending church, but they didn't continue in their walk with God like I chose to do.  We're all new creation men and women by birth through the Spirit, but some remain babes in Christ.  Babies are alive and that's what matters.  Some have grown to adolescence, but never matured.  They're saved and are children of the Most High God, but they don't understand what salvation has in store for them. 

     Growing in our walk with God depends on how much time we spend in His Word and in fellowship and prayer with Him.  It's available to everyone who is born-again, but not everyone will understand what salvation consists of.  We must go on in our relationship with Jesus and enjoy what He bought and paid for us to have.  We need to continue growing in Him, so God can use us and do His bidding on the earth.  We are the salt and Light to this planet, in order to be a Blessing to God and others.