Gloria Copeland — Re-createdPosted on September 9th, 2009

Gloria Copeland

When you walk after the promptings of the spirit,
you walk after the new man on the inside. The law
of the Spirit of life that comes out of that new man
will make you free from the law of sin and death.
Bondages will no longer be able to bind you. The law
of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is more powerful
than the law of sin and death. You could never have
been born again if it were not so.

The moment you decided to make Jesus the Lord of
your life—and acted on it—you were born again. All
the devils in hell couldn’t stop you. The law of the
Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus has made you free.

You were re-created. You became a new creature in
Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17). Old things passed
away and, behold, all things became new! Now, walk
after those new things. While you are still in this body
and living in a world going in the opposite direction,
you can look and act just like God by yielding to His
Spirit. God gave you His Holy Spirit to make you holy
as He is holy.

God is calling us to follow Him. He’ll reveal His glory
in the earth through us. He wants us to walk in the
same dominion and anointing Jesus Himself
experienced on this earth!

We wouldn’t dare say Jesus did not come in the flesh.
He lived here in a physical body. The Bible says He
was tempted in every way we are, yet He didn’t sin
(Hebrews 2:16-18).

Jesus overcame sin in the flesh. He dominated His
body through His spirit and communicated with God.
Jesus began His ministry on a 40-day fast, exercising
authority over His flesh from the very beginning. He
lived in submission to God by knowing God’s Word
and walking according to the promptings of His inner
man, anointed by the Holy Spirit.

The Bible teaches us that Jesus’ prayer life was
absolutely amazing. He prayed for people all day long.
Then He prayed all night, fellowshiping with the
Father. Mark 1:35 says He arose “a great while before
day,” or before dawn, to pray. Jesus kept His flesh
under submission by praying and spending time with
the Father. That’s exactly what He told His disciples
to do. “Pray, lest ye enter into temptation” (Luke
22:46).

Why did Jesus come in the flesh? Because fallen man
had been given over to sin. We were in a “sin body”
with a “sin nature.” There was no redemption for us,
no escape from our predicament. Someone had to
take our place and pay the price for our sin. Jesus
paid that price and condemned sin in the flesh.

He set you and me free from the power of sin. We
have been set free from sin in the flesh. Galatians
5:16 says if we’ll walk after the spirit, we’ll not
fulfill the lusts, or desires, of the flesh!

Religious men have placed a lot of rules on the
believer and said, “You can’t do this, and you can’t
do that.” Laws are weak because of the weakness
of the flesh. The Bible doesn’t say, “Clean up your
life and then walk in the spirit.” It says that if you
walk in the spirit, you’ll not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

Gloria Copeland

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