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Title: We are not refurbished, we are New Spirit beings In Christ Jesus     
     
     
     
     
 
    
     
     
     
     
 

 

The Reality of the Recreated Human Spirit by E W Kenyon This phase of teaching has never been majored by our theological thinkers..   It is the crux of the whole Pauline Revelation, the ultimate toward which all of God's plans move.   Man, the failure, the sin-ruled, the Satan-dominated, held in bondage by the unseen forces of spiritual darkness, is to be recreated, made a New Creation, taken out of the family of Satan and “translated into the Kingdom of the Son of His love,” on legal grounds.   

This is the solution of the human problem: God giving His Nature, His Love, to fallen man.   He is no longer a fallen man.   He is a New Creation man united with Jesus Christ, the Head of the New Creation.   He is the “raised together with Christ” man.   

2 Corinthians 5:17, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold they are become new.”
His old sin consciousness, his old fallen life, his old sin life, and his old evil habits that grow out of Spiritual death, have passed away.   He is a new Creation.   He is a New Being.   The Father has no memory of his past life.   He is a newborn babe.   His old past life has stopped being in the Mind of the Father.   

A New Creation has come into being through grace.    2 Corinthians 5:18, “But all these things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation.”

Way's translation states it beautifully: “And of all this, God is the source.   He reconciled me to Himself by the mediation of Messiah; and He has assigned to me the office of this reconciliation, the Charter whereof is: 'God was present in the Messiah reconciling to Himself the world, cancelling the record of their transgression.' “

He has given us through Christ the ministry of reconciliation; not the ministry of condemnation which we have had for the last hundred years, but a ministry of reconciliation.   

We have reckoned unto men their trespasses.   
We have kept them “trespass-minded.”
We have kept them conscious of their weaknesses and failings.   
We have preached sin instead of Eternal Life.   
We have preached judgment instead of reconciliation, when God has committed unto us the “word of reconciliation.”
We have that Word.   We have that message.   It is ours to give to the world.   
We have become New Creations.   
We have been recreated by Love.   Love has been imparted to our spirits.   God is Love, and God's nature is Love; but God is also Life, the Author of Life.   

So He has imparted to us His Life Nature, His Love Nature.   God has imparted His Nature to us, making us New Creations.   That Nature is Righteousness.   It is Holiness.   It is Reality.   It is Love.   It has been imparted to us.   

We are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, and we are entreating the world to be reconciled to God.   Why?   Because “Him who knew no sin God made to become sin that we might become the righteousness of God in him.” God made Jesus sin to the end that He could make us righteous through the New Creation.   We have a reconciling message of love to give to the world.   It is not a message of condemnation, but of reconciliation; not of judgment, but of love.   

Jesus was made sin, was judged, and suffered all that we would have suffered had we rejected Him.   By our acceptance of Him we entered into all that He purchased for us.   

This message is not an appeal to human reason or Sense Knowledge, but the Father's appeal to our spirits.   We ought to understand that the Father does not reveal Himself to our reasoning faculties but to our spirits.   Our reasoning faculties can only apprehend the things that the five senses convey to them.   Outside of that, the reasoning faculties are unfruitful.   When our spirits are recreated they receive Eternal Life.   

We can know the Father.   We can enjoy fellowship with Him through His Word.   We have become so utterly identified with Him, so utterly one with Him, that the “vine and the branch” is the only suitable illustration of this new and beautiful relationship.   

We are a part of the Vine life.   We are bearing the love fruit of the Vine life.   Our spirits enjoy the reality of Christ in the world.   Our minds may not be able to grasp it; but if we let our minds be renewed by acting on the Word and meditating in it, our minds and spirits will come into sweet fellowship with each other.   

The recreated human spirit never grows old.   It has received Eternal Life.   It has become one with the Father.   Our bodies will grow old.   Our minds will grow old because they derive all their knowledge from the body.   If our spirits can gain the ascendancy over our bodies, they will keep our minds from aging, and our bodies in a vigorous, healthy, youthful condition.   

Sense Knowledge wanes with the senility of the senses.   The senses will wear out and lose their freshness and beauty unless they are renewed by a recreated spirit.   The development of our recreated spirits comes by meditating in the Word, acting on the Word, and letting the Word live in us and become a part of us.