Study Guide
Another Creation
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Now we come to the heart of the matter. It is here we will see the fullness of the Mystery of God. It is the creation of a new race and subsequently a new heaven and earth. Indeed it is the mind and heart of the Father not to have just a people, but a family; those who are likened unto Himself. Jesus Christ being the prototype, for He is the first born of many brethren and as He is so are we in this world.
As I began to look at the marvelous works of God, I see why principalities and powers are confounded by His manifold wisdom. In the beginning He created the heaven and earth and then made man to rule over it. But in this next creation, He creates the man first, begets offspring unto Himself, allows them to remain in the present world for proving and testing, but when the mystery is finished He will provide His Sons with a new heaven and a new earth. What an awesome God!
Satan created a world of darkness for the children of Adam to dwell in. The earth has become the valley of the shadow of death. How is it going to change? The answer was hidden in God but is now revealed to His church through His holy apostles and prophets. When God created the first world, He said, “Let there be light,” and the light began to shine out of the darkness. The same is true today. It is the spoken Word that is the light of the world and that Word has been made flesh.
Jesus said, I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness (St. John 12:46). But He knew that all would not accept that light. Therefore, He goes on to say, And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God (St. John 3:19-21).There is no medium strip or gray areas. You are either walking in the light or you have remained in darkness. It is the deeds of your heart, mind and flesh that determine your spiritual location.
This great light which comes into the world in the personage of Jesus Christ is the light of eternal life. It is the opposite of everything that Satan is. It is the light of reconciliation. If the sons of Adam would believe on the light, then they could pass from the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Light, which is the Kingdom of Christ. Faith in Jesus Christ is the bridge that will carry them across.
St. John 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
There is no life outside the Son. Those who have not partaken of His life have remained dead in the eyes of God. According to the Scriptures we receive the life of Christ through the Spirit of God, for it is by the Spirit that we can cry Abba Father. Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin (Romans 6:4-7).
My brothers and sisters, it is not fruitful for you to wrestle with this Scripture. It is the very essence of our salvation. We have been given a new life and we can now walk in that new life. To say anything to the contrary is heresy. When God spoke to us about walking in the newness of life He cautioned us not to make provisions for the flesh. It is not that the flesh is such a bother on its own, but we are able to gender lust and wantonness in our members simply by thinking wrong or rather “wrong thinking.”
There are some scriptures that you must reckon with if you are to continue working with the people of God. You must cease to preach Scriptures as mere hearsay. For if any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, and behold all things are new and all things are of God (II Cor. 5:17). Please do not continue to undermine the work of the Holy Spirit. Our God has sanctified us wholly; body soul and spirit, (II Thessalonians 5: 23).
How do you explain Paul's discourse to the Corinthian church in the third chapter when he admonished them on this wise:
I Corinthians 3:1-3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
What does he mean, they walk as men? Are they not men in the flesh? Or better still; let us go back to David’s prophecy and vision concerning the church.
The psalmist writes, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods….I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes (Ps 82:1, 6, 7). I can hear some of you right now saying, “How do we know that this is pertaining to the church?” Well, once again, let us allow the Scriptures to vindicate themselves.
St. John 10:32-38
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; (Here Jesus is quoting the 82nd Psalm.)
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him
We are the children of the living God, what else would we be but gods. It is not blasphemous to say such things. But it is blasphemous to deny the work of our Father. The Scripture merely implies that we are divine in nature, divine in character and divine in power. All that we are comes from God. We are His children. We are another race. We are Another Creation.
We live in the Kingdom of Light because we are the children of light. We are the only life that exists on this earth. We live and move in the Spirit of God. We are seated with Christ in heavenly places. We are born of the second Adam; we are spiritual beings. We are in this world but we are not of this world. We are able to set our affections on things above and not be entangled with the affairs of this world. We are able to be content with whatever state we find ourselves in. We have the mind of Christ in whom there is no darkness at all. The life that we live now, we live by the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are not shaken or moved by the circumstances situations or relationships the Father has placed on our path. We are not subject to mood swings, negative character, unforgiveness or sin. We have the ability to possess our vessels in righteousness. We have overcome the world by the blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We realize that in a great house there are vessels of honor and dishonor. There are many who live in the Father's house who have decided to sin against God. These are vessels of dishonor and if they do not cease to sin and turn from their wicked ways, they, too, will have their part in the lake.
We have received a great light that shines in our hearts. Because of it we choose not to sin against our God. We are the forty-second generation, the offspring of God, His ambassadors in the earth and a manifestation of His righteousness.