The New Creation - A Reality
©Copyright - Layman ChristianWhen we realize that it was our spirits that were recreated that really means we have Eternal Life, the Nature of God. Not a theological or a metaphysical, but an actual New Creation. A possessor of the very life of God. That possession of Eternal Life has given me God's righteousness and that righteousness has taken away sin consciousness, and I can now stand in His presence as Adam did before the fall, as Jesus did in His earth walk.
In 1 Cor. 1:9 God declares He Called us into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Called to be the companion and associate of the Beloved. It is in Him we have our Redemption. It is in Him that we have our standing with the Father. What confidence the Father has in us, to ask us to Fellowship with His Son. Christianity is the Life of God imparted to man. It is not theory nor a religion, nor a system of doctrines. It is not a creed.
It is our being born into the family of God. It is more than having sins forgiven and being christened. It is God uniting us with Himself, with His own nature. It is more than surrendering, or consecration, or repentance. It is a possession of the Life and Nature of God the Father. Wherefore if any man is in Christ he is a New Creation or he is a new species. He has in him what Jesus had in Him in His earth walk. Beloved, now are we the sons of God.
Spiritual things are as real as material things. We are by our Education children of the senses. By the senses we mean the five senses; seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling, the source of all knowledge of natural man. And most of what we call advanced Christianity or the deeper spiritual life is misnamed. It is very largely sense knowledge, religion, or experience connected with the physical body. I want you to think about this.
Here are some facts to ponder. Love and faith are fruits of the Recreated Spirit. They are two of the mightiest world forces. When Jesus said, All things are possible to the believer or believing one, He was enunciating a law of the Spiritual Realm. Jesus was a believing one. He was the Head of the Body. He spoke of faith being a mountain moving power.
One man of faith can sway a nation. Two men of faith can move the world. What is Faith? It is spiritual knowledge of the reality of our union with Christ in God. I know that I have His life and nature. I know that I am born of God. I know that spiritual things are greater than physical things. Because physical things were created by a Spirit. God, a Spirit, created the earth, and spiritual forces are more powerful than physical. Faith has more power than TNT. Love never fails. Force fails. Sense knowledge fails. It has its limitations. Love has no limitations. Faith has no limitations.
God believes in love and so love is going to finally conquer the universe. Love can dominate and rule in you, become a conquering master force in you.
What Gives Faith?
Knowledge of what God has done for you in Christ, of what God has wrought in us through the Word and the Spirit in the New Creation, and of what we can do as sons of God by the Word, gives us faith. By the Spirit's indwelling presence and the wonderful Name, we are tied up with omnipotence. We are part of God. I am the vine. Ye are the branches.
The branches bear all the fruit and do all the good works.