Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).
When Jesus
died, you died with Him; when He was buried, you were buried with Him; and when
He resurrected, you also arose with Him into a newness of life. Your past was
backdated to Calvary, and your new life started with the resurrection of Jesus
Christ: “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4).
Anyone who
has received Christ is a new species of being that never existed before. The
old man has been crucified with Christ but there’s a new man with a new life in
his place now. No wonder Colossians 3:10 says, “...put on the new man, which is
renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.” In Romans 7:6,
the Apostle Paul, emphasizing our disconnection from the past and old ways of
life, admonished that we serve God in the newness of spirit: “But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should
serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”
It doesn’t
matter who you are, and what you’ve achieved; what counts with God is that
you’re born again and thus, have become a new creation in Christ Jesus: “For in
Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a
new creature” (Galatians 6:15).
Until a man
is born again, he’ll wander in darkness. He’ll be affected and limited by his
nationality, educational background, environment, earthly lineage, etc. But
when you’re born again, something new happens. Suddenly, you’re brought into
God’s class of being. All of those factors cease to be the dominant factors of
your life, because you now live by new principles of life; you have the nature
of God, and live by His Word!
It doesn’t
matter what you were born with; it doesn’t matter what infirmity your
great-grand father had. If you’re in Christ, you’re severed from everything of
the past; no more darkness! It makes no difference how terrible your entire
life has been; you’re in Christ now. Therefore, everything has changed! The
past is gone. You have a new life. Walk with this consciousness!
PRAYER: Dear
Father, I thank you for the new life I’ve received in Christ. I’m a brand new
species, with the life and nature of God in my spirit. I’m thus more than a
conqueror; I live in dominion over Satan and this world, walking in
righteousness, and in the liberty of the sons of God, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER
STUDY: Isaiah 43:18-19 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the
things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall
ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert.
James 1:18
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures.
1 YEAR
BIBLE READING PLAN: Ephesians 4:1-16, Isaiah 23-24
2 YEAR BIBLEREADING
2 YEAR BIBLE
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