Hello,
Great question, has God made me a new creation in need of improvement?
Heb. 1:3 when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high
Purge:To free from impurities; purify. To remove (impurities and other elements) by or as if by cleansing. To rid of sin, guilt, or defilement
colossians 1:14 In Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
re·demp·tion - an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed. deliverance; rescue. deliverance from sin; salvation. atonement for guilt. repurchase, as of something sold
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Col. 1:12:20And having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to RECONCILE ALL UNTO HIMSELF; by Him, I say, whether in earth or in heaven
reconcile - to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable
to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts. to restore
According to God's word, we do not need improvement.
The church would have us believe that we have a wicked evil heart. God's word shows that to be a lie. Of course in Adam we have a wicked deceitful heart, but we are no longer in Adam we are in Christ.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Ezekiel 36:26A 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.
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Isiah 43:25 I even I am He that blotted out you transgressions for my own sake, and WILL NOT REMEMBER YOUR SINS
What we haven't understood is there are two men in scriptures Adam and Christ and because we have related to the Adamic identity by nature, that is all we have known since birth, we get born again and religion will teach us that we have to take that Adamic nature and we have to conform it into righteousness and that's how we get involved in this performance based Christianity, when in truth we don't try to remake Adam because we have a new life, we have a new birth, its called regeneration and when we are regenerated we have a totally new life that is quickened within us. Its not an old life made new, its a brand new life, life in Christ Jesus
10This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."[c] 13By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear
Salvation does not lay in what we can do or how we have to remake this old Adamic consciousness, salvation lies in the realization that there is a brand new life born within us.
James talks about a double minded man, and we all live in this. Living out of our spirit and carnal nature, this is where you experience you and God, we know God is in us but we still live more out of our old nature, the spirit has nothing to do with the old man, our new nature is nothing less than the spirit of God coming alive in us and living in this vessel. So we have to be freed from constant struggle of trying to improve ourselves, to make Adam acceptable to God. We can make Adam very good but that's not what God wants.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, when the blood is properly applied to us, in the revelation that it is intended to, it purges our conscience from sin and when our conscience is purged, stuff that we have tried to overcome for years begins to fall off us. When we enter into His rest we decline from seeing ourselves and the world through an understanding of good vs evil.
15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
I believe that the seed of the serpent is our carnal mind that causes us to see everything as either good or evil, that very thinking keeps us trapped in guilt and condemnation. If we are constantly looking at our sins judging ourselves by standards of good and evil, how much more will we be judging others. That is the seed of the serpent we can never be useful to God if we are looking at sin.
When we believe Gods word and begin to eat His flesh and drink of the living water His seed begins to grow we are spiritually awakened and Christ in us will crush the head of the serpent. But that won't happen if we believe the lie of the serpent.
Romans 7 Paul said if I do that that I don't want to do Its no longer I that do but its that sin principle that is still operating in my consciousness it is because my mind has not been fully renewed and I have not fully taken on the image of the new creation man. So we are not sinners we are a new in Christ Jesus, we may still be sinning but we no longer can take pleasure in our sin. If we do take pleasure in sin we can not be saved according to God's word.
. .This is the secret that God will reconcile “The All” of creation, as Paul told the Colossians. It is to be the Savior of “all men,” as Paul told Timothy. It is to justify “all men,” as Paul told the Romans. It is to make “all men” alive and to subject “The All” to Himself, as Paul told the Corinthians. It is that “every knee” will bow and “every tongue” will confess, as Paul told the Philippians. This is the mystery, the secret, which Jesus revealed to Paul in the three years he spent in the desert
Sorry I went on babbling, I think it is pivotal that we never see ourselves as having wicked or evil heart if we are seeing ourselves and Gods creation with this understanding we are being deceived, and truly not experiencing the love, peace and joy that Jesus died for us to have.
We need to simply look away from the sin and evil that is in the world. Gods has purged our sins, he has redeemed us we have been reconciled by blood of the lamb. Be of good cheer Jesus has overcome the world.
God Bless
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