new creation- the realization of who we already are in Christ. The awareness that the old self died and a new self is breathed to life by God. Remembering that we died in the flesh with Jesus and were made a new creation being, raised with Christ, alive in the Spirit, allows us to experience the grace and love that God has given us. Through the death of Christ, God transferred us from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. From the moment of His death at the cross, we are no longer in Adam and are eternally in Christ.
In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul states, "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (creature-NASB); the old things passed away; behold new things have come." Paul continues in 5:21, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." It is only as a new creation that we are made righteous based on what Christ did, not on any works of our own.
We are now children of God; heirs of the kingdom, seated in heavenly places with Christ.
In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul states, "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (creature-NASB); the old things passed away; behold new things have come." Paul continues in 5:21, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." It is only as a new creation that we are made righteous based on what Christ did, not on any works of our own.
We are now children of God; heirs of the kingdom, seated in heavenly places with Christ.
Through the process of spiritual circumcision, the visible sinful body of flesh is removed from our invisible inner man, soul and spirit, so that we can be joined to God by the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. All made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus.
You are made holy the moment you are made a new creation.
When God looks at us, He sees us as a new creation: holy, blameless and righteous. He wants us to see ourselves this way, too. Not based on what we do, but who we are in Him, a new creation! ;-) It is all based on what He did for us.
Our behavior is modified through a process of transformation, the renewing of the mind. It is the abundant life in Christ that produces modified behavior - not the other way around. As a new creation, we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). This reality changes the way we think, it changes our desires, it changes our 'wanter.' We want what Christ wants. Our desires are no longer worldly.
Since we are all wired differently, the process of renewal will be different for each person. Allow the process of renewal to change your mind from the way you think to the way God thinks. Awesome!
In Colossians 3:9-10, Paul writes, "Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him -"
Pauls says in Romans 6:5-11, "For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
That is the power of the new creation!
Paul goes on in verse 14 to say, " For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace."
Paul finished chapter 6 in verse 23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gist of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Amen!!
That is the power of the new creation!
Paul goes on in verse 14 to say, " For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace."
Paul finished chapter 6 in verse 23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gist of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Amen!!
Romans 7:5-6, "For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not of the oldness of the letter."
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