YOU ARE A NEW MAN (2)

“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

LIGHT FOR THE NOW: Being a new creation means that you are one of a kind, a special or peculiar being.

When you are born again, you were born and baptized into Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:13 says; “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body…” You were baptized into the body of Christ, a new man, a new creature with a new life. You are not a renovation or a repair of Adam. No! You are born anew. Being a new creature means you are one of a kind, special and peculiar being. Our text for today says, “…old things have passed away; BEHOLD, all things are become new”. The highlighted word, “behold” means quite a lot though few people actually pay attention to its importance in that verse. It’s a word that calls your attention to a truth: God wants you to see that all things have become new. When you become born again, you have a new life. You are a new being, the old life and nature are supplanted by God’s divine nature. It was not just a mere change that took place when you got born again; it was an actual recreation of your human spirit. There was a total replacement of the life of which you were born of your parents, with the indestructible life of God. You have come alive to God through the New Birth. You are not someone who has merely become religious; you are a new person with a new life, without any past or record of sin.

You must understand that when the Bible says, “Old things have passed away”; it is talking about the old nature that was subject to sin, defeat, sickness, failure and death. That old nature is gone. All things have become new, and these new things are of God (2 Corinthians 5:18). Everything about your life now carries divinity in it. There is no connection between you and your past because in actual sense, you do not have any past anymore. You are a new creation; you are a brand new man. “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). You are a new creation, a brand new species of being.

INSTRUCTION:Consciously acknowledge your new nature.

PRAYER:Lord, I thank you for the new nature you have given me in Christ Jesus, in Jesus name.

QUOTE:A new creature is a special, peculiar kind of species.

DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: PROVERBS CHAPTER 4; EVENING: ROMANS CHAPTER 4