What it means to be a new creation (part 2).

 

1.     The Holy Spirit who now dwells in us does the work

The second important thing to note for being a new creation is that it is no longer the individual who lives and does the work but it is Jesus Christ who lives in us that does the work as illustrate by the apostle Paul who wrote:

a.       “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).

b.      “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).

c.       “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).

d.      “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen” (Ephesians 3:20-21),

e.       “The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:26-27).

Therefore, Christ living in the believer through the presence of the Holy Spirit is the new creature who has been created as foreordained by God even before the foundation of the world as illustrated by the apostle Paul who wrote; “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1::6).

Unfortunately, most professing believers do not know, understand and believe in the process by which we became a new creation and what is required of us for being a new creation.

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To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph