Are you a new creature-2 Corinthians 5:17
Are you a new creature?
2 Corinthians 5:17 “ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation ; old things have passed away ; behold, all things have become new. “
I read about an old farmer, his wife, and their son who had never been to the big city. So they got into their old pick up truck, drove to the city, and found a place to park. The farmer’s wife decided to wait in the truck while her husband and son walked to a gleaming skyscraper hotel to get a room. As they entered the massive lobby, they watched as a set of mysterious doors opened and an elderly woman stepped inside. Then the doors closed. After a few moments passed , the doors opened again, and a beautiful young woman walked out. The old farmer turned to his son and said,” Junior, quick , go get mama !” Wouldn’t it be great if we could walk into church as one person and leave as another?
The Bible tells us that when we became Christians, we turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. (See Acts 26:18) . But that is not an instantaneous process. Conversion happens in a moment, but the Christian life is one of growth and consistency. Salvation, or regeneration, is coming to Christ. Sanctification is growing in Christ. And that takes a lifetime. The way you do that, according to Jesus, is to abide in Him and have His Word abiding in you see.( John 15:4-7) . It’s consistently walking with Jesus Christ each and every day.
We all struggle with certain sins. But the Bible tells us,”We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.(Romans 6:6). Sin no longer holds us in its grip. We can overcome it. Jesus has broken the power of sin that used to control your life. You are a new person in Christ. You are not a changed, adjusted, repaired, patched, but a new creation because Christ came to make all things new. He came to give you a new heart, a new mind, (have the mind of Christ) a new life and more abundant. 1Pet.1:3...” In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...” Col.3:10”... and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”2 Cor.4:16” Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” May the Lord give us a desire for the inner man to be renewed day by day. How ?
1Pet.2:2-3”Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” Why is so important to be a new creation ? Gal.6:15 “Neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision means anything ; what counts is a new creation.”
That’s God’s purpose from the beginning of creation ,the work of the cross and Christ’s resurrection.
Eph.2:15...”His purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility. Hallelujah!
2 Corinthians 5:17 “ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation ; old things have passed away ; behold, all things have become new. “
I read about an old farmer, his wife, and their son who had never been to the big city. So they got into their old pick up truck, drove to the city, and found a place to park. The farmer’s wife decided to wait in the truck while her husband and son walked to a gleaming skyscraper hotel to get a room. As they entered the massive lobby, they watched as a set of mysterious doors opened and an elderly woman stepped inside. Then the doors closed. After a few moments passed , the doors opened again, and a beautiful young woman walked out. The old farmer turned to his son and said,” Junior, quick , go get mama !” Wouldn’t it be great if we could walk into church as one person and leave as another?
The Bible tells us that when we became Christians, we turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. (See Acts 26:18) . But that is not an instantaneous process. Conversion happens in a moment, but the Christian life is one of growth and consistency. Salvation, or regeneration, is coming to Christ. Sanctification is growing in Christ. And that takes a lifetime. The way you do that, according to Jesus, is to abide in Him and have His Word abiding in you see.( John 15:4-7) . It’s consistently walking with Jesus Christ each and every day.
We all struggle with certain sins. But the Bible tells us,”We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.(Romans 6:6). Sin no longer holds us in its grip. We can overcome it. Jesus has broken the power of sin that used to control your life. You are a new person in Christ. You are not a changed, adjusted, repaired, patched, but a new creation because Christ came to make all things new. He came to give you a new heart, a new mind, (have the mind of Christ) a new life and more abundant. 1Pet.1:3...” In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...” Col.3:10”... and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”2 Cor.4:16” Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” May the Lord give us a desire for the inner man to be renewed day by day. How ?
1Pet.2:2-3”Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” Why is so important to be a new creation ? Gal.6:15 “Neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision means anything ; what counts is a new creation.”
That’s God’s purpose from the beginning of creation ,the work of the cross and Christ’s resurrection.
Eph.2:15...”His purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility. Hallelujah!
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