Understanding The New Man: Part III

NEW CREATIONS IN CHRIST

      Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things become new. II Corinthians 5:17

     When one is born again the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within his spirit and begins to remodel the old dwelling with all things new! The old man is crucified, buried and then resurrected to new life with all the old things (deeds of the flesh) passing away!

    The question is: "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." For one to be in Christ, Christ must first be in him! To many this is a mystery for someone to indwell another, but that is the miracle of the new birth! To believe is the invitation for the Lord Jesus to inhabit your temple and to transform it to be His spiritual dwelling place!

    Imagine being One with Jesus, One with God, and One with Holy Spirit, it doesn't get any better than that, to be One with the Triune God! We are not just old sinners saved by grace, although we are saved by grace, but we are the temple of God on earth, a holy dwelling place in the Spirit!

     "And the glory which You gave Me, I have given them, that they may be one just as We are One; "I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in One, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me." John 17:22,23

 LIVING STONES 

     Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. I Peter 2:4,5

     With Christ's death, burial and resurrection the old covenant was replaced with a new and better one, the temple was eventually destroyed, and the old priesthood done away with, and we began a new and living way!

    The new dwelling on earth would be constructed of living stones gathered by the Holy Spirit and knit together in love! No longer a place to go, the new temple of God would be housed in human hearts, washed in new covenant blood and filled with Holy Spirit power! A supernatural dwelling place making up the earthly expression of the Lord Jesus Christ!

    As individuals we are a new covenant priesthood made up of born-again believers offering up spiritual sacrifices and performing the greater works of the Lord Jesus on earth as it is in Heaven. A supernatural race of new creations to invade the darkness and bring forth the light and glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The "New Man" is now a reality on the planet, a living, breathing supernatural body of the living Christ, fully human and fully God!

    But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. I Peter 2:9

 BEHOLD I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW

     That you put on the "New Man" which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:24

     It is my summation that many are trapped somewhere between the Old Testament and the new. Not fully understanding the new covenant or the new creation transformation they are not sure of their eternal position, nor their true relationship with God!

    When one is truly born again, there is a transforming of his heart, mind and soul by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. He begins to lose his humanistic world views and worldly mindset and begins to be renewed in his mind and heart. The love of God is poured out upon his heart and his love for the unlovely begins to appear!

    It is my expressed intention in this new Devotional teaching to expose the darkness of tradition and the doctrines of demons we have received through church and dead religion, and to illuminate our new position in Christ as a "New Man." 

     Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22

 Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
   Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ