What is This New Thing?
We are Redeemed
Lordship of the Word
Equipped of God
This is a Faith Fight
Spiritual Forces Stronger than Physical
Two Kinds of Wisdom
Discerning men and women have been asking for a new type of Christianity.
They do not want a new philosophy or a new metaphysical concept of Christ, but an unveiling of the reality that was seen in Jesus in His earth walk.
We have looked back for it, but it is not in the past.
The early Church did not have the thing for which hearts are craving.
You understand that the early Church did not have the Pauline Revelation of Christ, of His Substitution, of the body of Christ, or of His ministry at the right hand of the Father for us.
They had the contact of the three years of Christ’s earth walk.
They were New Creations; they had experienced all that God reveals to us through Paul, but they did not understand.
They knew of His death on the cross. They had seen it.
They knew of His resurrection as a reality.
They had eaten with Him, walked with Him, and fellowshipped with Him after His resurrection.
They had seen Him ascend.
They were present on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came to the earth, when the Church was born.
They did not know that they were New Creations, however.
They had first-hand Sense Knowledge evidence of everything that took place. They did not know that they were the righteousness of God in Christ. They had marvelous experiences but did not know what caused it.
They were not walking by faith then. They were walking by sight, by hearing, and by feeling.
John says: “That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life.” (I John 1:1).
The early Church walked in the realm of the senses.
God permitted it because the fuller Revelation had not been given.
The Pauline Revelation did not get into the hands of the Church until after the beginning of the second century.
What is This New Thing?
It is the New Man created in Christ Jesus. II Cor. 5:17: “Wherefore, if any man is in Christ there is a New Creation.”
This new man will be like Christ.
Eph. 2:10: “We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus.”
In his love-life he carries the solution of the human problem. He will bring God to the earth again. He will live and walk as Jesus lived and walked among men. Here are some striking facts about this New Creation man.
John 8 :32: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
The 36th verse: “If therefore the son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
You shall know the reality, and that reality shall set you free.
What is this reality?
It is the answer to the human heart’s craving.
It is the thing for which man through the ages has been searching.
This heart hunger has given to us all the human religions.
This New Man that comes into the full consciousness of his rights will be free.
Col. 1 :9-12 has some startling truths: “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it do not cease to pray and make request for you.”
Hear this prayer.
It is the prayer that the Spirit has prayed for every one of us: “That ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”
The Greek word “epiginosko,” which is translated “knowledge,” is more than simply knowledge. It is “exact knowledge,” “perfect knowledge.” It is a knowledge in all spiritual wisdom and revelation.
Spiritual wisdom is not a product of the senses, for Sense Knowledge cannot fathom it.
For instance, the first three chapters in Ephesians are an example of the use of “epiginosko.”
They let down the curtain so that we may look into the very purpose of the heart of the Father God.
This knowledge, is a knowledge of His will.
He never willed that we should be toys in the hand of the enemy. He planned that when the Church came into being, it would be composed of His sons and daughters, — that they would be demon masters and world rulers.
They were to rule the laws of Nature. They were to dominate the laws of nature as Jesus did in His earth walk. They were to control the winds and the waves.
They were to be masters of the animal creation. They were to have restored to them in the Name of Jesus the lost authority of the Garden of Eden.
But the Church does not know anything about it. We have been taught that we are poor, weak worms of the dust; that we must be ruled by Satan; that we must live lives of poverty and want; and that we are too unworthy to have our prayers answered.
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