J esus caused us to have a new nature.
When we received Him we received a new nature, sin nature was replaced by the full-time connection to the Holy Spirit. When Jesus walked the Earth, He behaved in this nature. He told us what and who He was.
Senses and the knowledge that is tailored to the senses could not understand it. Now that we are connected to the Messiah, we are to follow His example: We are to state what we are in Christ, the Messiah.
Men dependent on their senses will not understand us.
To state that you are redeemed, that your redemption is an actual reality, that you are delivered out of Satan's dominion and authority, would be a daring statement to make.
Or...to state that you are an actual new creation created in Christ Jesus, that you are a partaker sharing of the very nature of life of Deity, might amaze your friends. If you daily affirm your relationship to Him stating your personal righteousness, your ability to stand in His presence without the sense of guilt or inferiority you might even amaze or even agitate your associates.
Dare to stand in the presence of sense knowledge facts and declare that you are what God says you are!
Sense knowledge tell us this: It says that you are sick with incurable illness. But you state that God laid that disease on Jesus and that Satan has no right to put it on me; that "by his stripes I am healed." We are to hold fast to that truth in the face of apparent sense knowledge contradiction.
Sense knowledge protests! It says that this is not "true" that I am stating a lie.
But I am stating what God says.
There are two kinds of "truth": sense knowledge truth and revealed truth from the Word of God. They are often opposed to each other.
There is a new realm available to the believer, one that most believers never live in...it is above the senses. There we hold to what is true according to what the Word of God says.
Suppose my senses have noticed that I am in great financial need. The Word of God declares "My God shall supply every need."
I can immediately call this to my Father's attention, but He already has said the truth. I can refuse to be intimidated by this report from my senses. I can refuse to have my life governed by them. But only if I am convinced that His word is greater than the forces that appear to surround me.
The forces that oppose me always rely on my senses. That is their specialty, that is their ground. If I go there, I step onto their field, and they have "home field" advantage.
The power that is in me, connected to me, is the Holy Spirit; and I know that spiritual force rooted in His word is greater than the forces in the sense world.
All I need to have is:
"The absolute knowledge that His Word prevails."
Only then will I be able to bring forth spiritual realities in the face of sense contradictions.
Only then will I be able to rise above the "situation" or "circumstances".
Only then will I be out of the grasp of the mediocre.
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
| 1 Cor. 2:5-16
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. |
All the emphasis above are mine but just pure scripture. No words added. Paul said it so well, that I was cautious not to interrupt the flow of his ideas. Print this page, keep it with you….put it up in the office or the kitchen.
Read it until you "get it".
This one passage is worthy of weeks of public bible study by itself.
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