Identity

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. – 1 Peter 1:3. Hope for the New Man is not of uncertainty. It’s an assurance of the promises of a loving Father. Sons don’t hope for something that has no definite outcome. Our hope is founded on the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you… – Ezekiel 36:26. The New Man has received the Spirit of God. We are one with Him. He is the Spirit of power, and love, and soundness of mind. Empowered by the Holy Spirit we have nothing to fear. We have the Godhead indwelling us.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. – 1 John 4:4.

…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. – Ezekiel 36:26-27 (KJV) A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. – 2Corinthians 5:17.

Isaiah 54:17 says: ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.’ Before Jesus, the enemy had a weapon he could use against us and accusations he could beat down and overcome us with (see previous post)… He is the god of this world (a right he took from Adam) and has dominion over those subject to this world.

The Book of Jude tells us to ‘keep ourselves in the Love of God…’ God’s love assures us of His ever-abounding fulness in our life. He is always for us. He is not the hide-and-go-seek kind of father. He said that He will never leave us nor forsake us. if we realise and experience the kind of love He has for us, we will realise that He is never more than a heartbeat away from us. We are his heartbeat! We are so loved by Him, every thought in His mind is about us.

It’s the fruit of the Spirit.. it’s not our fruit! The fruit of the Spirit is not ours to bear – it is the Spirit of God within us who bears the fruit and manifests it. All that’s required from us is to let Him do it! We are made one with the Spirit of God. That is what being born again means. We have received the Life of God and now we are one with that Life. The Fruit Of The Spirit are by-products of being born again. We cannot be filled with the Spirit and not be filled with the fruit. It’s another thing, that we tend to interfere with the manifestation of the fruit – but it’s all placed within our being.