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Made New Creations – Spirit Beings

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1 The Spiritual Realm is the Reality

Would you trust your sight more or your hearing more? “If I see it, I will believe it.” Not “If I hear it I will believe it.” Seeing things in the spiritual should be even more important, for we walk by faith and not by sight!

If you were blind from birth, and suddenly could see, it would be a lot easier to discern where you are going.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (NKJV)

2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (NKJV)

We need to be more aware of the things your eyes don’t see, and be more in tune with the things of the spirit.

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. (NKJV)

The Spirit Realm is the Real Realm. This world is passing. Those who love the world show that the Father is not in them. We are not like that. Lust - cravings - of the flesh, cravings of the eyes, pride in human accomplishments, they are of this world.

Legalism – pride of life.

This world will disappear, but he who does the will of God, to believe in Him, abides forever.

Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. (NKJV)

2 God is in the Spirit Realm

John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (NKJV)

God is Spirit and we cannot relate with Him in fallen flesh. We need to be in the spirit, based on His truths.

Romans 8:8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (NKJV)

3 We ARE in the Spirit Realm – The New Creation

Genesis 2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (NKJV)

Adam’s did not die physically immediately – His spirit died when he disobeyed. “Dying you will die”. His body died later.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (NKJV)

We were all born with our spirits dead, hence the HOLE IN THE HEART syndrome. And we cannot enter the kingdom of God.

GOOD NEWS – We are already spirit beings, having been made alive by the Spirit of the Lord when we were born again! This is the New Creation!

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (NKJV)

Spirit was renewed when we were born again. People not saved have no spirit and walk in the futility of their minds (Eph 4:17-19)

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, (NKJV)

This is what “born again” means. Born again by the Word of God, now INCORRUPTIBLE, lives and abides forever.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (NKJV)

This is when I was born again, not at birth. Eternal life is already in me. Eternal life is knowing God and Jesus Christ!

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, (NKJV)

Everything in the spirit realm is ours today. We just don’t see it in its entirety, but we must learn more and more!

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. (NKJV)

Caught in the middle always is the soul, the seat of your will. In areas where you don’t know the truth, the Spirit pleads “No contest” and the flesh has a walkover. Only truth you know sets you free.

4 Window to the Spirit Realm – Believing the Word

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (NKJV)

Believe in His LOVE. Believe that He had already made the way for you to be restored into His image, believe that He came to make you whole and to reign in this life. His IS the way, as we come to know Him, these happen.

When we catch a fuller glimpse of this love in the spirit realm, nothing matters! We float over all things in His love (like a teenage girl in love for the first time!).

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (NKJV)

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (NKJV)

The word we believe in is not static, is not printed on paper. It is alive. It is the very Son of God Himself embodied in it. That’s why He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, that’s why He is the Bread of life.

Our relationship with the Lord through His word is our window into the Spirit realm. His truths set us free.

John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (NKJV)

The Word has to be more real to us than this world today. The guidance that comes from the Word has to be real.

John 5:39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. (NKJV)

We must have the Word through Christ. We must read the Word in the knowledge of His love.

5 Spiritual Truths Vs “Reality”

The war is fought in the spirit realm not the flesh realm. We need to have our thoughts moulded by the Word – our thoughts have to be in obedience to Christ and His Word.

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, (NKJV)

We illuminate darkness with the Light of the Gospel, telling people that Jesus loves them, of the finished work of the cross.

6 The Take-Away