HOW TO DEVELOP THE RECREATED SPIRIT The Spirit Of Jesus For a long time I could only see the physical aspects of the Substitutionary Sacrifice of Jesus. As we see the disciples in the Four Gospels, we see that they only had Sense Knowledge. They saw the Man, they heard His voice, they felt His hands, they witnessed His miracles. Then they saw the arrest, the trial, and the crucifixion. Not one of them saw beyond the veil of the human body that shrouded the struggle of the spirit. One day I saw that it was not His physical death that dealt with the sin problem, but it was His spiritual death. His spirit became a partaker of the thing that separated man from God. I saw that He died twice on the cross. The moment that He was made sin His spirit passed under the dominion of death. Hours later, He died physically. Him who knew no sin, God made to become sin; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. It was His spirit that was made sin. It is our spirits that are made Righteous. It is our spirits that are recreated. It was the spiritual suffering of Jesus that paid the awful price for our sin. I did not want to accept these things I am telling you, and for a long time I rejected them. I refused to allow my mind to accept these facts, but now I have come to see them. They have become a part of my consciousness. First, it was the spirit of Jesus that was made sin with our sin. He was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted with our sin. It was not His body, but His spirit. Then I saw that it was His spirit that experienced, or tasted death for every man. It was not a physical thing. It was not a mental thing. It was a spiritual reality. Then I went farther, and I saw that He suffered in His spirit. It was not the suffering of His mind, or the suffering of His body that paid the penalty of our transgressions; it was the suffering of His spirit. (Read my book, The Father and His Family.) His spirit, that had been made sin, was under judgment, suffering what humanity would suffer spiritually if it continues to live in rebellion. Then I saw that when He had paid the price, had satisfied the claims of justice, He was justified in spirit, made alive in spirit, and was made righteous in spirit; that which He had lost on the cross was restored to Him. He had lost His ability to stand in the Fathers presence, and He cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? His spirit, which had been made sin, and had suffered the penalty that belonged to the human race, was Justified, made Righteous. Next, He was made alive in spirit. They could no longer hold Him after He had satisfied the claims of Justice for the human race. The spirit that had been made sin was recreated. He was made the head of a New Creation, the first born out of death. It was a spiritual death and a spiritual birth. It was not physical or mental. This is the reason that the senses (or Sense Knowledge) have declared that the Substitutionary Sacrifice is unreasonable to the senses, but it is the most logical and natural thing to the human spirit. When He was made alive in spirit, the whole church (in the mind of justice) was made alive. When He was recreated, we were recreated in Christ. Phil. 2: 10. Then in that recreation, He meets our adversary, Satan, and conquers him, strips him of his authority, defeats him in open combat, and takes from him the armor of which he had robbed Adam in the Garden. Then He was raised from the dead. That resurrection is more than physical, psychological, or metaphysical. It is an absolute reality; physically, mentally and spiritually. He was resurrected, taken out of the realm of death into the realm of life. It is no wonder that Paul, by the Spirit, tells us in Romans 5:17, For if, by the trespass of the one, death seized the sovereignty through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. (Weymouth) That translation throws upon the screen of our spirits the reality of the substitutionary work of the Man of Galilee. You see, by the same token Isaiah declares, Isaiah 53:4-5, Surely He hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our diseases; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. It was all spiritual. The healing of the physical body must be wrought through the spirit. Spiritually, God laid upon Him the diseases of the human race. Those diseases were not physical; they were spiritual. Just as sin is a spiritual thing, sickness is a spiritual thing manifested in the physical. Those diseases were laid upon the spirit of the Son of God. He bore them away, and by His stripes we are healed. When He was made well in spirit, we were made well. When He was made Righteous, we were made Righteous. When He conquered the adversary, we conquered the adversary in Him. Here lies the secret of absolute success. Jesus conquered the adversary on our behalf. If He did, then we today are conquerors; because, by His victory over the adversary, we won our victory. To be continued in our next post The Hidden Man.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:00:01 +0000
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