Walking the Jesus Walk: Stepping into Your New Nature | Mark Ellis

So now we're looking here at, well, what is this new nature about? What does it look like and why is it important? And I know it seems like I'm talking about everything other than sounds, signs, wonders, and miracles, and yet Jesus' walk was full of signs, wonders, and miracles.

Am I right? But Jesus operated those signs, wonders, and miracles because He abided in the Father.

Jesus said that, "I do nothing of my own accord.

I do only what I see my Father doing and what I hear my Father saying, I say." Which means that Jesus had come into full agreement with God's Word and with God's intended action in every situation.

This is powerful.

Which means that Jesus himsel- himself spoke on behalf of the Father.

You guys remember the classic, um, question when they're asking Jesus, Jesus says to them, um, "I and the Father are one.

And from now on, if you've heard me, you've heard the Father." And then the, one of the bright disciples come up and say, "Well, just show us the Father and it'll be enough for us." And then Jesus says...

And the way He speaks is very canny because He says, "Philip, how long have I been with you, and you still do not know me?" So in that moment, Jesus is kind of completely out of the picture, and the Father is speaking directly to the question, saying, "I've been here all along, and you still can't see me?" The Father has been with us all along, but are we seeing Him? Because Jesus lives in every single one of us, so Jesus is meant to be manifested in every one of our lives because that is the true identity that we carry in God.

And it was out of that place of knowing Jesus was stable in His identity.

He knew who He was, and He didn't have to prove it to anyone.

He knew who His Father was.

He knew why He was here.

He knew He could answer the five questions.

"Where did I come from? Why am I here? What am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to go? And how am I supposed to do it?" He could answer those questions, and He found the answers to those questions in the Torah and the prophets.

Just as we should find the answers to those questions in our lives in the New Testament scriptures, as they are revealed in the blueprint of Jesus.

Right.

So there's the original design that God intended.

And this is gonna highlight that this isn't something God did new.

This is something God did new to restore what was necessary from the beginning.

So the original design is this.