In this enlightening episode, we delve into the profound teaching of what it means to be a ‘New Creation’ as explained by Brother Hardy. From understanding our newfound position in Christ to discussing the transformative power of being born again, listeners will gain a deeper appreciation of our spiritual inheritance. Discover how the divine nature of God reshapes our lives, driving out fear and filling us with His love and strength as we journey from spiritual infancy to maturity.
Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to this program of the R.G. Hardy Ministries. I’m Sharon Knotts, thanking you for joining us today as we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today’s message by my father, Brother Hardy, is from his classic series, New Creations, Sons of God. A hallmark scripture of Christians is 2 Corinthians 5.17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. And this new creature is a son of God or a child of God. You see, the term son of God in New Testament scripture is not a gender determiner, but rather a legal position, which Brother Hardy explains and so much more in this in-depth teaching, New Creation, Sons of God.
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thanks be unto god for this unspeakable gift i’m in christ how many sin christ i’m not in the world i’m not in the world i’m not in the sphere where satan dominates where lust dominates and sin dominates and fear dominates i’m in christ i’m in the realm where jesus is supreme where jesus is lord where the hallmark of it is is peace where there is where there is joy, where there is happiness, where there is power, where there is liberty, for if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. Hallelujah. I’m a member of a new order, of a super race, born from above. That’s what that word born again means. It has that little preposition, A-N-A, in front of it in the Greek, which means from up. Born from above. I’ve been born from above. You know, a whole lot of people, all the Christians know who your father is. Who’s your father? Almighty God. But very few know who their mother is. The natural man calls his mother Mother Earth. But the spiritual man has his mother. There has to be a mother and father in order for there to be have children. I mean, try to have children without a mother and father. Try two mothers to have a child or two fathers, it just won’t work. You gotta have a mother and a father. And in order to have spiritual children, God had to have a wife as it were, or we had to have a mother as it were. And in Galatians, Paul said, and Jerusalem, which is above, is the mother of us all. So heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem is our mother, and God is our father, and we have been born from above. Born the second time. A spiritual being with the attributes of our begetter, almighty God. with His nature. As Peter said in 2 Peter 1, 4 and 5, we are partakers of this divine God nature. When we got born into the family of Adam, we partook of Adam’s nature. And Adam’s nature was a fallen, sinful nature. A nature dominated by fear, and dominated by lust and ruled by Satan through these things. Fearful, afraid, and too many of God’s children let this old mind linger over into their lives. Fearful, you’re not to be afraid of anything. I said you’re not to be afraid of anything. Paul said that fear has torment. Paul said, if we dwell in love, he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God. And then he said, for God is love. So we’re supposed to be dwelling in the peace of the love of God. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God. And there is no fear in love. In our dwelling place of the love of God, there’s nothing to fear. That’s the old man. The old man has to fear. He has to fear the devil and his demons, and he has to fear the retribution of God. but a new creature now dwelling in the love of god does not have to fear god because god loves him and there’s nothing to fear from god and we don’t have to fear the devil and his demons because jesus said behold i give you power over all of the power of the devil and you shall tread upon serpents and scorpions and nothing by any means shall hurt you oh That fear mind, that fear nature is the old man. It’s not the new man’s nature. The new man’s nature is the nature of faith and love and nothing can defeat and overcome love and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ if you please. We need to think as a new creature. You need to get up in the morning and look in the mirror. and say, I am no longer a limited son of Adam. I am no longer under the dominance of Satan and his demons. I am a child of God. Right now, I am a son of God. John said now, now are we the sons of God. Right now we’re the sons of God. We’re not gonna be the sons of God in the sweet by and by. We are the sons of God right now. The only thing that we’re gonna get in the sweet by and by is our glorified body to make us able to live in the supernatural, eternal world forever. This body’s only equipped to live in this physical, natural world, and it’s not fit and equipped to live in eternity in heaven, and that’s why it’s got to be changed. But right now in this body, in this physical world, I am a son of God. I have the new nature of God. I am a divine man. I am not afraid of the devil. In fact, the devil better be afraid of me because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. And through this Christ that is in me, energizing me and the source of my power, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me and gives me his ability. I tell you, that’s something to clap about. Give him a good one. Hallelujah. You need to say it now. Say it, I’m no longer a son of Adam. I’m no longer a mere man of flesh. I am born from above. My Father is Almighty God. My mother is Jerusalem. I have the divine nature. I have the nature of God. No more is the devil in me, but God is in me. No more am I limited, but the God in me energizes me. And I can do all things through Christ, who is the source of my strength and abilities. I am not afraid of the devil or his demons, for the devil better be afraid of me, for God has put at my disposal power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all of the power of the devil and in christ i am more than a conqueror hallelujah thank you jesus praise his wonderful name Every morning, every morning, you need to look in that mirror and remind yourself who you are. Every morning you should say, there is nothing that’s gonna come across my path and in my life today that I, as a son of God, partaker of this new spiritual divine nature, being energized by Him and He being with me. There is nothing that shall come across my path today that I, through the energizing and the abilities of Jesus, that I cannot handle and that I will come through this day more than a conqueror through Him that loves me. And I have nothing to fear Because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. You know what a good definition of faith is to fear? It said fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There wasn’t nobody there. When you have faith, it casts out fear. Perfect love. The Bible said, cast out fear. There is no fear in love. And he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and we’re dwelling in the love of God and there’s nothing to fear. God’s perfect love, cast out the fear. Instead, like I’m saying, the devil better be afraid. Not because who we are in ourself, but because what we are that God has made us. The devil better be afraid because of him that is in us and energizing us. You need to brainwash yourself every morning. When fear tries to come in, you need to push it on out of the way and say, that belongs to the old man. The old man’s got a lot to be afraid of. That doesn’t belong to the new man. The new man doesn’t have anything to be afraid of because Paul said in the second chapter of Romans, unto them who by patience, continuance, and well-doing look for glory, honor. I’m looking for glory and honor, not defeat and bondage if you please. Say it, I’m a new creature. You need to put your finger and say, hey, don’t you know who you are? You are a son of God. Don’t you know who’s in you? Jesus is in you. The Spirit of God is in you. Don’t you know what that means? Greater is He that’s in you, and He’s making you greater than he that is in the world. No matter what comes, you can save. You can do it, Hardy. You can do all things. Remember, Christ is energizing you. Don’t think in your own mind. In your own self, you can’t do it. But you’re no longer in yourself. You’re in Christ. For if any man be in Christ, he is this new powerful member of a new super race. Being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being made just like Him, if you please. That’s bringing me to my next point. We’re being transformed into the image of Jesus. In 2 Corinthians 3.18, maybe I could quote the verse above. Paul says, and we all, every one of God’s children, with open face. Now, reading it there, you might not understand it’s open face, but if you read the whole third chapter of 2 Corinthians, it’s talking about Moses coming down from the mount of God with the Ten Commandments after being in God’s presence 40 days. And being in the presence 40 days, he, like a sponge, began to absorb the glory of God until his face began to shine like the sun. and when he came down and israel saw it they got a scared of the glory they got scared of the image of god because you see man don’t want to look at god’s face it reminds them of their simpleness and reminds them of their right to be penalized with the penalty of death and they told moses we can’t look at you and moses had to stick a veil over his face the hide the image or the likeness, the glory, the Shekinah of Almighty God that he soaked up being in God’s presence 40 days. And Paul said, we’re not like them. We not only can look at the glory, but we’re like a person with the veil off, the covering off, looking in a mirror glass, and we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord. We are changed. The King James says we are changed, but the Greek says we are being changed. It’s a process. the Greek grammar it means you’re in a process of being changed of course the rest of the verse tells you that we are being changed from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord you see when we get born again and the Spirit of God takes the blood and cleanses us and the see the Word of God and begets us then the divine nature The God nature is being formed in us and day by day as we obey Peter when he said, desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby. Just like a baby grows by drinking the milk, the babe in Christ grows by eating the word of God, the sincere milk of the word. and as we grow the baby begins to change and the characteristics of a baby changes and it begins to get the characteristics of a grown-up and as we desire the sincere milk of the word and feast on it all the baby characteristics of a Christian began to change, and we began to see the mature characteristics of a mature, victorious Christ. We are being changed day by day, moment by moment. The whole process of our Christian life, when we’re first saved, we’re like a baby. We’ve still got the mind of the old man. We’re still fearful. The devil can make an ugly face and scare us. He can make horrible sounds and scare us. We’re acting like a baby. We’ve still got the characteristics of a baby. We might slip and do things we shouldn’t do. We’re acting like a baby. We might say some things we shouldn’t say. We’re acting like a baby. But you hang on in there and you continue to drink the sincere milk the pure Word of God, then pretty soon you’re going to get teeth, and God’s going to begin to add to your milk diet the bread of life. And as your digestive system matures spiritually, God’s going to add some meat to your diet, and you’ll begin to see the attributes and the characteristics of a mature Christ being more prominent day by day until god is waiting till you become 21 in the spirit until you are in the measure of the fullness of the stature of christ that henceforth you’re not a child tossed to enroll by every wind of doctrine and the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive but instead you speak the truth in love and you grow up into him in all all things. Just hang on in there and continue to drink the milk and eat the bread and eat the meat and one of these days you are going to be fully matured in Christ. One of these days you are going to be spiritually 21. As Paul said in this Ephesians, the fourth chapter, you’re going to be as tall as Christ, as broad as Christ, as strong as Christ because it is Christ that is in you. energizing you and strengthening you and giving you His abilities if you please. See, when you get born again, you’re in the baby stage. But you can see the attributes and the characteristics even in an infant stage. It’s there. You can see some of the likeness of the family, it’s there. As you ingest the Word of God, you drink the sincere, mental milk of the Spirit. As your spiritual digestive system grows, you can stand bread and strong meat. You get out of that baby stage to a crawling stage. Then you’re a toddler. Then you’re preschool. then your school age, then pretty soon you’re in middle school, pretty soon you’re in junior high, pretty soon you’re a teenager, which means sometimes you act like a grown up, and then sometimes you act like a kid. You see some Christians that way, don’t condemn them, just pray for them, and try to bring them a little bit more meat. Just try to give them a little bit more meat. But oh, one day, You break out of your teens. You graduate from high school. Mama can’t give you a little bit of Melva toast anymore. That won’t do. She’s got to make some biscuits, maybe some grits and some gravy. She’s got to put something on there because your teeth are all the way in. Your digestive tract has matured and you’re an adult. And you’ve got the characteristics of an adult. You are a mature son of God. And that’s what God is looking for the whole church to arrive at, the fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ. And when we do and speak the truth in love, we are going to bring a revival to this world that it will turn it upside down from center to circumference. Oh, give him a good clap all the way.
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Amen. What an invaluable and eye-opening teaching by God’s servant, Brother Hardy, new creation, sons of God. The dynamic teaching which you have heard today is part of an entire series available to you on a three-CD set for a special love offering of only $15. Now let me tell you some of what you’ll be getting in this complete teaching. on c d one who we are in christ refers to our position if any man be in christ he is a new creature and that new creature is a son of god or a child of god because son of god in new testament scripture is not a gender determiner but a legal position The second CD is Where We Are in Christ and refers to our location. We have been translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s dear Son, and there we have righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. We’re no longer under the dominion of Satan and sin and bondage or fear. We are seated in heavenly places with Christ. On CD 3, What We Have in Christ, Our Possessions. Now, if we are children of God, then we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. And the scripture says, all things are yours. Our glorious inheritance is that of the firstborn son because we are the body of Christ. You will also learn what it means to be born again, to partake of God’s divine nature and how to live the godly life. New Creation Sons of God. Request offer 177. Mail your minimum love gift of $15 to Archie Hardy Ministries, P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203, or go online to archiehardy.org. Again, the offer is 177 for the entire series. Mail to P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Until next time, this is Sharon Otsey, Maranatha.
