2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The sacrifice needed to be offered up daily, under the old covenant. The continual offering of blood was required to keep the people under the covenant. Because the "wages of sin is death," a daily sacrifice or death, was needed to keep the requirements of the covenant. The blood offered up was the proof that a death had been paid. As long as a death had been observed, the Law of sin and death had met its requirement and the blood covered the people, until the next sacrifice.
Romans 8:1-2,3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life (which is) in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being) has freed me from the Law of sin and of death." One can clearly see what the new Law of the Spirit of Life is in Verse 3, which says, "For God has done what the Law could not do. (Its power) being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit). Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin (God) condemned sin in the flesh (subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice)."
The new creation people still have a problem of seeing themselves the way God sees us. Because we still live in this house of flesh, we don't see it as "dead" and continue to allow it to dictate our faith to us, instead of allowing our spirit to dictate our condition. If God sees our body of flesh as being "dead," then we should also see it in that sense. As long as the flesh can dictate our condition to us, we will always walk in condemnation.
This isn't a license to sin, but a way to keep the flesh in subjection to the spirit, while we are growing up into mature sons and daughters of God. Our flesh and has been corrupted by the things we knew and practiced from birth. Not everything we learned in our body was sin, but they weren't spirit. We must still eat, sleep, clothe ourselves and do the necessary earthly things. However, we must not allow these things to be our guide, but to be our servant in this earth.
The old covenant Law isn't for the new creation, because we were given only two commandments to follow by Jesus Himself in Matthew 22:37-40 (Amplified) which says, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind (intellect) This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment And the second is like it; You shall love your neighbor as (you do) yourself. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the prophets."
Prior to the new creation covenant, man could only "love" by human conditions, because of the dead spirit that was in him. Under this new covenant, we are "Made alive in Christ Jesus and the Love of God (God's Love) has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us," according to Romans 5:5 (Amplified). Romans 13:10 (Amplified) tells us, "Love does not wrong to ones neighbor (it never hurts anyone) Therefore Love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law)."
Man was unable and incapable of fulfilling this Law while in the flesh, because it was the instrument of sin. So, God did what the Law couldn't do, He reckoned our body death with the crucifixion. Romans 6:5 (Amplified) says, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, We shall also be (one with Him in sharing) His resurrection (by a new life lived with God)."
Most of us have never truly considered ourselves "dead in the flesh" and don't see how we're already resurrected. We're still awaiting both death and resurrection. In our Father, we died with Jesus and were made alive and raised from the dead, resurrected with Him already. There will of course, come the time when our flesh and blood body will actually die and will be resurrected, but in Christ, it is already done. We've had a difficult time seeing ourselves as a new creation, because we continue walking more in the old man, instead of the new man. This is why Romans 8:1 is so very important for the new creation man.
Thus, it says, "Therefore (there is) now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live (and) walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the spirit." A dead man should never be allowed to dictate how to live, to a living man. If we allow the dictates of the old,dead, flesh man guide us, then we will never see ourselves in the new creation Light of the Gospel. We must learn to receive the prices of our sin to be "paid in full," in order the ever truly live in Christ.
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