The New Superman Christianity is not a religion. It is not a system of ethics. It is not a set of rules to guide mans conduct, but it is union with Deity. One day I caught a glimpse of what the New Creation meant. I asked my heart, “Why should we not be supermen?” John 4:24, “Verily, verily I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth Him that sent me, hath Eternal Life.” What is this Eternal Life? It is the Nature of God. Well, if I have the Nature of God, why cant I do Gods works? That led me to study the New Creation fact. We have just quoted that great scripture, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, there is a New Species (a new kind of man).” A new man has come on the scene. He is a partaker of Gods Nature. Colossians 1:13, 14, “Who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love; in whom we have our redemption, the remission of our sins.” This New Creation has been delivered out of the authority of Satan by the New Birth, has been translated into the kingdom of the Son of Gods love. He has a perfect redemption from the hand of the enemy. Satans dominion over him has been broken. You remember that Satan is eternally defeated. He is eternally conquered, and that the New Creation has dominion over him. Mark 16:17-21, “In my name they shall cast out demons. . . . They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.” He is a master of Satan, a master of demons. This New Creation is not a subject of demoniacal dominion. He has passed out of the realm of Satan into the realm of God. He is superior to Satan and demons. Philippians 4:11 (Ways Translation) says that he becomes “independent of circumstances.” He lives above want; he lives where affluence cannot sway him. In all things and in everything he is a master. He is a partaker of the Divine Nature (2 Peter 1:4). 1 John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.” By your acting on that Word you pass out of the realm of Satan, out of weakness, into the realm of God. Gods Life becomes your Life. Here are a few snapshots of this New Creation, this new man: He shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. He shall cast out demons. Romans 5:17, “For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Christ Jesus.” We reign as kings right here in the earth surrounded as we are with the work of the adversary, within the influence of the adversary. We are victors. Can you understand what it would mean for a group of men and women to be “independent of circumstances,” to know their Father-God so intimately that they never thought of the need of faith, or the need of ability, or the need of power? Can you conceive of men to whom the Word is a living reality? Then you conceive of men who are masters, who are dominant. Jesus said to the disciples, “I want you to tarry in Jerusalem until you receive power from on high” (Acts 1:8; Luke 24:49). The word, “power,” is “dunimas,” and means “ability.” This is thrilling. “I want you to tarry in Jerusalem until you receive Gods ability.” Gods ability comes to man through the New Birth. You receive Gods Nature, Gods very Life. It sets you free from the dominion of Satan. Jesus Christ becomes your wisdom. Wisdom is Gods ability to utilize circumstances, to utilize knowledge, to take advantage of opportunities, to see the mind of God where others can only see impossibility. 2 Corinthians 3:4, 5, “And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; who also made us sufficent as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit.” God becomes your sufficiency. He renews your mind after you receive Eternal Life so that you can grasp the significance of His Revelation in the Word. You can see yourself as a New Creation, a new species with the ability of God, with the great and mighty Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead actually living in you. (Romans 8:11.) You can see yourself utilizing the authority that is invested in the Name of Jesus. Jesus said in Matthew 28:18, “All authority bath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.” Then He gives to us the power of attorney to use His Name. John 14:13, 14 and 16:23, 24 show us the power of attorney to use the Name that has back of it all authority in heaven and on earth. That Name heals diseases, breaks the dominion of Satan, conquers the very forces of the devil, makes the believer more than a conqueror in every field, takes him out of the realm of doubt and fear and gives him the courage of the faith of God. It takes him out of the realm of inefficiency and gives him the efficiency of God. It takes him away from the inefficiency of the word of man and gives him the efficiency of the Word of God. You begin to see now that this New Creation is no common being. However, if he has no instruction to show him what he is in Christ, and what his rights and privileges are, he lives as a common man. 1 Corinthians 3:1 gives us a pathetic picture: “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal (or sense-ruled), as unto babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it; nay, not even now are ye able; for ye are yet ruled by your senses: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not ruled by your senses and do you not walk as mere natural men?” Because you are the sons of God, you could be masters of circumstances, and here you act like slaves! Jesus was the Master of the laws of Nature. He intended that the believers should be the masters of the laws of Nature. If there were more space, I would give you many illustrations of how prayer has mastered circumstances-how the faith of one individual has changed the very course of history. Once more let us consider Romans 8:11, “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Do you know Who the Holy Spirit is? He raised Jesus from the dead. He is Omnipotence. You have Omnipotence abiding in you. What He did in the dead body of Jesus, He can do in your life. He can take your lips with Gods Words filling them, and lead men to Christ, heal the sick, cast out demons, break the dominion of sin and fear over the minds of men and women. His Words in your lips make you a master of demons. That is a Superman! Hear Him whisper, “If God is for you, who can be against you? I can do all things in Him Who strengtheneth me. Lo, I am with you always. Nothing shall be impossible to you. God is the strength of your life. Who can condemn you? You are reigning with Him as the master of the laws of Nature.” Advanced Bible Course.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 05:00:00 +0000
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