THE REALITY OF OUR NEW CREATION IN CHRIST!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY APRIL 06, 2022.

SUBJECT : THE REALITY OF OUR NEW CREATION IN CHRIST!

Memory verse: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new" (Second Corinthians 5 vs 17).

READ: Revelation 21 vs 5 - 7:

21:5: Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful."

21:6: And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

21:7: He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 

INTIMATION:

The comprehension of the "New Creation" reality has always been a problem of many. The theological thinkers are yet to find an explanation of that in their wisdom. However, this revelation is the ultimate toward which all of God's plans revolves.

Man, a failure, the sin-ruled, the Satan-dominated, held in bondage by the unseen forces of spiritual darkness, is to be recreated, made a "New Creation," taken out of the family of Satan and translated into the Kingdom of Christ on legal grounds. The legal ground is that the proper wage had to be paid; "For the wages of sin is death..." (Ezekiel 18 vs 4; Romans 6 vs 23). Christ fulfilled the law by His death on propitiatory grounds for mankind, in accordance with God's plan and purposes.

When the law was obeyed; the wages of sin paid by the propitiatory death of Christ for sinful man, God then offered the solution to the human problem by giving His Nature, and His Love, to fallen man. Man is introduced into the blessing of salvation; to what God has wrought for the believer is in Christ. Consequently the fallen man was recreated. God gave us Christ, and by His sacrifice, God made man a new creation united with Jesus Christ—the Head of the New Creation. Man therefore, became the "raised together with Christ" man.

Believers are brand new people on the inside. The Holy Spirit gives them new life, and they are not the same anymore. They are not reformed, rehabilitated, or reeducated, they are recreated (new creations), living in vital union with Christ. At conversion we are not merely turning over a new leaf, we are beginning a new life under a new Master. Man’s old sin consciousness, his old fallen life, his old sin life, and his old evil habits that grow out of spiritual death, have passed away. He is a new being. The Father has no memory of his past life. His old past life has stopped being in the mind of the Father. He is entirely a new creation that has come into being through grace.

One is new in Christ, not only because he has been cleansed of sins (Acts 22 vs 16), but also because of his new perspective of life after obedience to the gospel. In Christ, one does not consider things according to the flesh, but according to the spiritual nature of one’s brothers and sisters in Christ. Since Christians have become new creatures in Christ, they consider all things from a new perspective.

Just as God finished the work of creation (Genesis 2 vs 1 - 3), Jesus finished the work of redemption (John 19 vs 30), which occasioned God recreating man—giving him His Nature, and His Love. Not only are believers changed from within, but a whole new order of creative energy began with Christ. There is a new covenant, a new perspective, a new body. All of creation is being renewed; this is an entirely new order of all creation under Christ's authority. Therefore, this should be the way a believer should think of and assess himself or herself.

Prayer: Abba Father, I can't thank You enough for what You wrought for me in Christ Jesus on the cross. Through the Blood of Jesus, I have been redeemed from Satan. Through the Blood of Jesus my past, present, and future sins are forgiven me. The Blood of Jesus, continually cleanse from my iniquities. Through the Blood of Jesus I am justified, made righteous, as if I never sinned. Through the Blood of Jesus I have been sanctified, made holy, and set aside for God's use. By Your grace I am saved in Christ, recreated and in vital union with You in Christ. I Lord, give me the spiritual wisdom and insight that I will grow in my to knowledge of You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!