Heavenly Beings in the Flesh: Knowing Yourself as a New Creation in Christ

Your ability to receive from God, walk in power, and represent Christ depends entirely on whether you know yourself according to the Spirit — not the flesh.

The foundation of all Christian life — prayer, healing, authority, identity, and reconciliation — begins with understanding who you are after the cross. Most believers struggle not because they lack faith, but because they see themselves, God, and others through the lens of the flesh rather than through the truth of what Christ has accomplished. You are not your body. You just live in it.

Teaching Overview

Spiritual maturity begins with knowing yourself according to the Spirit, not according to the flesh.
Your posture in prayer — not merely your words — determines whether you receive from God.
Seeing yourself, others, and God's vessels after the flesh disqualifies you from receiving anything divine.
You are a new creation in Christ, born of the Spirit, and not connected to Adam — which means reconciliation to God is not a prayer, it is a decision.
You are made the righteousness of God in Christ, and calling yourself a sinner after being born again contradicts what Jesus became on your behalf.

Key Distinctions

	Flesh	Spirit
What it is	The physical, condemned nature inherited from Adam	The born-again nature, born of God, that cannot sin
How God sees it	Already condemned and dead	Alive in Christ, righteous, new creation
Effect on prayer	Produces wrong posture — blocks reception from God	Produces correct posture — aligns you to receive before you speak
Effect on ministry	Receives nothing divine; profits nothing	Opens the door to prophet's reward and divine power
How it relates to mind	Kept alive by the mind; broken by grace, not law	Renewed by transforming the mind
Identity it produces	Sinner, bound to Adam, defined by birth year and nationality	Child of God, prince of heaven, ambassador of Christ

	Righteousness	Holiness	Sinlessness
What it is	Being made right before God through Christ's sacrifice	A consecrated state of being set apart to God	The absence of sin entirely
How it is obtained	Imputed — received through faith in Christ	A calling upon every believer	Not possible in the flesh
Relation to sin	Declared over you despite the flesh	Has nothing to do with sin	Confused with holiness by those who lack understanding
After the new birth	You are made the righteousness of God in Him	You are called to be holy	Your spirit is born of God and does not sin — your flesh still can

	Vision	Dream
What it is	A spiritual sight — you see what God shows	God's speech — God talking to you
Requires interpretation?	No — visions are what you see	Yes — without spiritual understanding you misinterpret
How it works	Visual in the spirit realm	Visual to the body, but technically speech to the spirit
Risk of error	Lower — what you see is what is shown	Higher — judging a dream by what you see, not by what God is saying, leads to misinterpretation

	Posture	Prayer
What it is	Your spiritual stance and belief before and as you pray	The words and petitions you bring before God
Which comes first	Posture precedes prayer	Prayer flows out of posture
Effect when wrong	Even a correct prayer becomes wrong	Cannot compensate for a wrong posture
God's response	"Before they call, I will answer" — God responds to posture	Unanswered prayer is often a posture problem, not a wording problem

	New Creation	Old Nature (Adam)
Origin	Born of the Spirit, from above	Born of the flesh, from Adam
Connection to sin	Not connected to Adam — born of God, spirit does not sin	Fallen, condemned, prone to sin
Condemned?	No condemnation for those in Christ	Already condemned
Identity	Righteous, child of God, citizen of heaven	Defined by birth, nationality, failure
How to walk in it	Know the truth — not just declare it	Renew the mind; strip the flesh by grace, not law

	Before the Cross	After the Cross
Man's standing before God	Sinner in need of reconciliation	Made righteous through Christ
How to approach God	Beating your chest — Lord be merciful to me a sinner	Reconciled — it is a decision, not a prayer
How God sees sin	Imputed to man	Not imputing trespasses — Jesus became sin on our behalf
Context of humility parables	Applies — man was still under the law	Humility remains, but the posture of "I am a sinner" after being born again contradicts the finished work

Spiritual Understanding Is Not Natural Learning

Spiritual things are not approached the way natural things are learned — God uses concepts from the natural world to give us a window into the spiritual realm we are already in.
This earth exists within the spiritual world, and those who are conscious according to the Spirit can perceive the spiritual structures that sustain what appears physically unsupported.
Being a Christian for a long time does not produce spiritual maturity — divine revelation and divine understanding are what make you spiritual.

"Being a Christian for a long time does not make you spiritually mature. Being a Christian with divine revelation, with divine understanding, now you're becoming spiritual."

Dreams Are God's Speech, Not Vision

Dreams are not technically visual — they are God's speech, tied to the experiences and knowledge of the dreamer, and must be interpreted rather than taken at face value.
A vision requires no interpretation because it is what you literally see in the spirit; a dream requires interpretation because it is not visual at its root — it is God talking.
Without spiritual understanding, a dreamer who judges by what they see will misinterpret what God is actually saying.

"Dreams are God's speech. If you don't have spiritual understanding and you see somebody in your dream doing something, you come out and you say, I saw this person doing this and that's not actually what God was saying. You will misinterpret."

Wrong Self-Perception Corrupts Your Prayer Posture

The way you see yourself directly determines the posture from which you pray, and posture is what makes you receive from God.
Prayer does not begin with what you say — it begins with your posture, and the beginning of the prayer determines whether you will receive from God or not.
If you have the wrong posture, even a correct prayer becomes wrong — this is why God says, "Before they call, I will answer."

"If you have the wrong posture, even if you're praying the right prayer, the prayer becomes wrong because the posture is wrong. Prayer does not begin with what you say. Prayer begins by your posture."

Knowing No One After the Flesh

To know someone after the flesh is to disqualify yourself from receiving anything divine from them — the flesh profited nothing and there is no gain after the flesh.
Jesus, though without sin, consistently refused to be known according to the flesh — He always redirected to His heavenly origin — because the moment someone looked at Him after the flesh, it was impossible to receive from Him.
The enemy's strategy against the church is to humanize God's vessels so that the people look at them after the flesh and lose the ability to receive the divine.

"The moment you know somebody according to the flesh, especially a man or a woman of God, you can never receive anything of them. Why? Because the flesh profited nothing."

"If you receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, you will receive a prophet's reward. The moment you look at him after the flesh, you can no longer receive any reward from him."

Spiritual Maturity and Separation from the Flesh

Spiritual maturity is the ability to recognize that your flesh is already condemned and dead — so its actions carry no consequence before God if you are in Christ.
The spirit that is born of God cannot sin; it can no longer relate to the places the flesh goes, and it actively wars against the flesh.
You do not break the flesh by strengthening it through law — you strip it by grace, because what keeps the flesh alive is the mind.

"When you can realize that your flesh is already condemned, it's dead. So its actions are unnecessary before God. Because you are dead. That is called spiritual maturity."

"You don't break the flesh by strengthening it by the law. You are supposed to strip it by grace. Because what makes the flesh alive is the mind."

Righteousness, Holiness, and Sinlessness Are Not the Same

Holiness has nothing to do with sin — these are distinct biblical concepts, and confusing them produces false teaching and spiritual immaturity.
God does not judge His people based on their failures — He judges based on their desire to live for Him, their crying for mercy, and their holding on to righteousness.
Even at your weakest, the Lord promises He will never leave you nor forsake you — the covenant is not broken by the flesh.

"Holiness has nothing to do with sin. I am holy. So be ye holy."

"God judges us based on our desire to live for Him and how much we are crying for mercy and how much we are holding on to righteousness."

The Battlefield Is the Mind

Every area of transformation — physical, spiritual, or circumstantial — begins with a change of mind, because perspective becomes reality.
The flesh is kept alive by the mind, which is why God calls every believer to renew their mind — the moment the mind is renewed, the body follows.
The mind can be carnal or spiritual, and what you think determines what you are: as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

"You want to wrestle against principalities and powers, change your mind. The battlefield is your mind."

"Perspective is reality. Perspective becomes your reality."

The New Creation Is a Knowing, Not a Declaration

"I am a new creation" is not a declaration to be spoken — it is a truth to be known, and knowing it requires understanding the context of what Christ accomplished.
This new creation is not connected to Adam — it is born of the Spirit, and for this reason there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
The more you realize you are one with Him and conformed to the image of Christ, the more the Holy Spirit can fill you.

"I am a new creation. It's not a declaration it's a knowing. You have to know what makes you a new creation."

"This new creation is born of the Spirit. The more you realize that you are one with him, the more the Holy Spirit can fill you."

You Are Made the Righteousness of God

Christ was made sin so that you might be made the righteousness of God in Him — a righteous person is one who cannot do wrong in God's sight.
When you call yourself a sinner after being born again, you are attempting to take the position Jesus alone was called to occupy — only one was made to become sin.
God is not seeing a sinner when He looks at a born-again believer — He is seeing someone who has been conformed to the image of Christ.

"When you say I am a sinner after you're born again, you are trying to take Jesus' place. You can't become sin. There's only one that became sin."

"A righteous person is a person that cannot do wrong in God's sight."

Ambassadors of Reconciliation

God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses — and He has given to believers the ministry of reconciliation.
Reconciliation is not a matter of prayer — it is a decision, and the role of God's ambassadors is to call people to make that decision.
As ambassadors of Christ, believers speak on behalf of the King: "Be reconciled to God, for He hath made Him to be sin for us."

"Reconciliation is no longer a matter of prayer. It's a matter of you deciding. It is a decision."

"We are not just to tell people about Jesus, we are to reconcile them to Jesus."

The Authority to Forgive and to Heal

Jesus commissioned His disciples with authority to forgive sins — those who are in Christ and commissioned by God carry this same authority.
When chronic sickness is rooted in sin, declaring forgiveness releases the person — this is why "your sins are forgiven, stand up and walk" produces immediate results.
Jesus never condemned those who came to Him — He forgave, freed, and sent them forward, and His ambassadors are called to do the same.

"I can declare your sins forgiven. I can. If you are in Christ and you're commissioned by God, you can too."

"When people went to Jesus, what did He say? I don't condemn you. Your sins have been forgiven. Go and sin no more."

Heavenly Beings in the Flesh

There are people walking in this earth who are heavenly beings in the flesh — those who have denounced and renounced their physical citizenship and physical identity.
You are not your body — you just live in it. You are the seed of God, and your identity must be known according to the Spirit, not according to when or where you were born.
The love you have for God is the true measure of your destiny and your future — he that is forgiven much loves much, and all things work for the good of those who love Him.

"There are people who are walking around us that are heavenly beings in the flesh. Because they denounced and renounced their physical citizenship and their physical identity."

"You are not your body, you just live in it."

Key Definitions

Spiritual Maturity — The ability to recognize that your flesh is already condemned and dead, to separate yourself from its actions, and to see yourself, others, and God's vessels according to the Spirit rather than the flesh.

Posture (in prayer) — The spiritual stance from which you approach God before and as you pray; the belief and identity you carry into the prayer that determines whether you will receive from God, not merely the words you speak.

New Creation — Not a declaration, but a known reality: the nature born of the Spirit when a person is in Christ, entirely disconnected from Adam, carrying no condemnation, and made the righteousness of God in Him.

Dream — God's speech; not technically a vision, though it is experienced visually by the soul. Because it is speech rather than sight, it requires interpretation — judging a dream by what you see rather than what God is saying produces misinterpretation.

Righteousness — Being made right before God through what Christ accomplished — imputed to the believer so that God no longer sees a sinner but one conformed to the image of Christ. It is distinct from both holiness and sinlessness.

Reconciliation — The finished work of God in Christ, by which He no longer imputes trespasses to humanity. It is not achieved through prayer — it is a decision the individual makes to receive what has already been done.

Knowing (the truth) — Not intellectual familiarity, but deep experiential acquaintance — to be entangled with, to walk in, and to remain in the truth. From the same root as "Adam knew his wife" — an intimate, lived reality, not a statement.

Key Takeaways

Posture determines reception — The posture from which you approach God in prayer is more foundational than the words you pray; a wrong posture makes even a correct prayer ineffective.
Seeing after the flesh blocks divine flow — The moment you look at yourself, others, or God's vessels after the flesh, you disqualify yourself from receiving anything divine — the flesh profits nothing.
You are a new creation, not a sinner — After being born again, calling yourself a sinner contradicts the finished work of Christ; you have been made the righteousness of God in Him, and that is how God sees you.
Reconciliation is a decision, not a prayer — God has already reconciled the world to Himself through Christ; the believer's role as an ambassador is to call others to decide to receive what has already been accomplished.
The battlefield is the mind — Spiritual transformation, the renewal of the body, and the ability to walk in divine power all begin with changing your mind, because what you think becomes your reality.

Reflection Questions

From what posture are you currently approaching God in prayer — do you come as someone who is righteous in Christ, or as someone defined by your failures and flesh?
Is there a man or woman of God in your life whom you have begun to know after the flesh? What have you lost in your ability to receive from them because of that, and what would it look like to correct your perspective?
In what areas of your life are you still identifying with your physical origin — your birth year, your nationality, your past mistakes — rather than with who you are according to the Spirit?
Do you truly know that you are a new creation, or have you only been declaring it? What would it mean for your daily life if this became a living, experiential reality rather than a confession?
Is there someone in your life who needs reconciliation to God — not more prayer, but a decision? How are you positioned as an ambassador of reconciliation to call them into that decision?

Scripture References

2 Corinthians 5:14 — "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:" (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:15 — "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:16 — "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more." (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:17 — "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:18 — "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;" (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:19 — "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:20 — "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:21 — "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (KJV)
Romans 8:1 — "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (KJV)
Romans 8:28 — "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." (KJV)
Romans 7:19
Romans 12:2 — "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (KJV)
1 John 3:9 — "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." (KJV)
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." (KJV)
John 8:32 — "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (KJV)
John 10:34 — "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" (KJV)
John 10:35 — "If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;" (KJV)
John 1:46
John 1:47 — "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" (KJV)
John 1:48
John 1:51 — "And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." (KJV)
John 14:8
John 14:9 — "Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" (KJV)
John 20:22
John 20:23 — "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." (KJV)
Psalm 82:6 — "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." (KJV)
Proverbs 23:7 — "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee." (KJV)
Matthew 10:41 — "He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward." (KJV)
Acts 5:1–5
Acts 17:28 — "For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring." (KJV)
1 Corinthians 6:17 — "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." (KJV)
Luke 7:47 — "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." (KJV)
Philippians 4:8
Numbers 12:6

Golden Nuggets

"Prayer does not begin with what you say. Prayer begins by your posture."

"If you have the wrong posture, even if you're praying the right prayer, the prayer becomes wrong because the posture is wrong."

"The flesh profited nothing. So why is it that even though we have a divine nature, we don't see ourselves after that nature and then we wonder why the power of God doesn't work."

"You are not your body, you just live in it."

"Reconciliation is no longer a matter of prayer. It's a matter of you deciding. It is a decision."

"When you say I am a sinner after you're born again, you are trying to take Jesus' place. You can't become sin. There's only one that became sin."

"There are people who are walking around us that are heavenly beings in the flesh. Because they denounced and renounced their physical citizenship and their physical identity."

"The battlefield is your mind. Perspective is reality."

"I am a new creation. It's not a declaration it's a knowing. You have to know what makes you a new creation."

"We are not just to tell people about Jesus, we are to reconcile them to Jesus."

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