Part 20 Who Are You

Part 20  Who Are You

Thousands of years ago King David asked this question and the response he received was nothing short of startling

Psalms 8:4	What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5	For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6	Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

The word Angels in verse 5 is not rendered accurate in this verse; the word ANGELS is the word ELOHIYM in the Hebrew language.

430. 'elohiym, el-o-heem'; plur. of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but spec. used (in the plur. thus, esp. with the art.) of the supreme God;

For thou hast made him little lower than God v 5

This puts a whole new light on the meaning of this verse. God made man just a little lower than himself.

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

A new born lion is in the image of its Father/ Mother because each brings forth in its own image. We are sons, children of God in His image.

I am convinced that myriads of Christians live in defeat far because they do not know who they are in Christ.

Adam was made in the image and likeness of God, but when He sinned he received another nature, he received the spiritual DNA of another being a fallen being called Lucifer and what you yield to will posses you. The inner qualities of man underwent a negative transformation; Jesus put it this way.

John 8:44a

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

This change of nature in Adam affected the whole of the human race, we were all in Adam and he passed on this nature to us all.

Ye must be born again

The new birth was necessary in order to undo what Adam had done to the race. Death to the old and rebirth as something new was necessary in order to restore the original pattern in man, that of a son of God.

Man had to be born again from above, born with a nature that comes from above.

1 Corinthains 15:45	And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
47	The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
48	As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49	And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Jesus came to start a new race of people in the earth

This race would be in the image and likeness of God the seed of God in the earth.

Your spirit man received all that the Lord Jesus is and we are complete in Him who is the first born of many that would come forth in the earth just like Him

The problem is this is all in our spirit man

The new creation man is a spirit man and our soul man and physical man is at war with our spiritual man.

Galatians 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

The born again man is schizophrenic

He has two natures which are fighting for dominance within him.

Romans 7:22	For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23	But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24	O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

The choice is yours who will you serve

You must chose with your mind and will who is going to live through you; you must choose to release the new nature, the new man which is in the likeness and image of God within you. The new man is more powerful than the old man and Jesus through His death and resurrection has empowered the New Man within you, and all you have to do is chose righteousness and the righteousness within the new man will prevail putting to death or rendering powerless the old nature.

Romans 8:1	There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, ( the old man) but after the Spirit. (The new man)
2	For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Your choice either empowers the New Man or the Old Man

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Who you are depends upon who you yield to.

If you choose to let the New Creation Man rule within you, the new creation nature abilities, and attributes, will begin to be manifested through you. The very DNA of God within you will manifest within you bringing transformation and the seed of God will be seen in the earth. The whole of creation still waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

God Bless youN Johnson ©  April  2007