*Good morning beautiful people of God
An Entirely New
Life! *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).* The term
“born again” isn’t a religious cliché, which connotes turning over a new leaf.
When you ask some Christians how they know they’re born again, some would
reply, “I know I’m born again, because the bad things I used to do, I do them
no more. I’ve changed my ways, and now, I behave differently.” Being born again
is much more than that. What you receive when you’re born again is an entirely
new life. There’s no such thing as “The bad things I used to do, I do them no
more,” because the person who did those things is dead. He doesn’t exist
anymore.
When you received Christ into your life, something actually
happened: your spirit was recreated. You were born of the Word of God and of
the Spirit of God. You now have the life, nature and character of God. And when
a man has the life, nature and character of God, he can only live like God. So,
being born again is actually receiving the God-nature; becoming an associate of
the God-kind.
Romans 6:6
says, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of
sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Your old life
or nature isn’t suspended; it’s dead; you’ve come up a new man; a new species
of being; one that never existed before; one without a past. In the presence of
God, everything you were before you were born again, and everything you did
before you were born again has no record. This isn’t a promise. This is a
statement of fact in the Word.
If you’re ignorant of this, you could be struggling with your past or
with the sins you committed before you were born again. This, invariably, could
make you ineffective in the things of God. No; you’re not a sinner. You’re the
righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, because you’re born again (2 Corinthians
5:21). Walk in the consciousness of your righteousness, and new life in 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
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