2Cor.5:17(Amp) 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 away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The above scripture is an awesome revelation, about the newborn child of God. Many think it means that we are saved and forgiven, but this isn't the full description of the new creation. We were created new, which means that the person we once were, doesn't exist in God's eyes and we are a new creation. The Father doesn't identify us by the flesh and carnal person we once were, but by the brand new being we now are.
Most of us still identify ourselves by the old person, who is forgiven. Through faith in Jesus though, we've been raised up from the dead together with Him and are new, resurrected creations. Genesis tells us that, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." They didn't exist, until this time and the same is true about the new creation man/woman. The new creation being didn't exist, until God created us new in Christ. We must go to God's Word and discover who we've become, in order to fully understand and acknowledge this marvelous act of Love.
The world tells us that we're not made new, but are simply forgiven. We've been born new of God's Word and the Spirit and like the heavens and earth, we don't have a past or sin, but are altogether new. The only part of our old man/woman that remains, is lodged in our mind and memory, which didn't get created when our spirit did. Most of us still live with the memories of who we used to be, but the old man/woman no longer exists in God's eyes. This is why Paul instructs us to renew our minds by the Truth of God's Word. When we read God's Word, we will begin to see ourselves like the Father now sees us and begin walking in the newness of Life.
Many believe it's foolish and "over the top," to believe we're new creations, but it's pleasing in God's eyes and an act of faith in what Jesus has done. Many believe it's prideful to think of ourselves as righteous before God, but it's pleasing and acceptable in His sight. Coming before God's Throne of Grace as sinners, violates the very Laws of the Kingdom. No sinner can come before His Throne, but is limited to the outer court. Only the High Priest could come into God's Presence and that was only once a year and by sacrifice. Jesus is our High Priest and provided Himself as a Sacrificial Lamb for all time and for all who will believe in Him.
Jesus said in John 10:9(Amp), "I Am the Door." He also said in John14:6(Amp), I Am the Way and the Truth and the Life, no one came to the Father except through Me." It's unlawful by the Laws that govern God's Kingdom, to come to God by any other way, except through Jesus. We had to be created in Him, because only He has the right, Righteousness or right standing to enter into the Very Presence of God. Our old man/woman could never become righteous on our own, but we were made to be the righteousness of God, in Christ Jesus. When we were created new, we were created in righteousness, with the Righteousness of Jesus Himself. We must believe in what Jesus has done, in order to understand we are righteous in God's sight.
Most have thought this could only be true when we put off these bodies of sin and flesh and are glorified. If we wait until we die to become righteous before God, then we'll never make it. God's Word says that, None were righteous, no not one." We had to be created new, in order to enter in before God's Presence. This has already been done, when Jesus was raised and judged by God Himself. If we believe in the full power of this Truth and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, then we were judged in Him and have been found not guilty, like He was.
The unrenewed mind of the flesh, will not allow us to believe this Truth, so we must renew our minds by God's Word. We must believe God's Word, instead of the carnal feelings and the religious teachings of the world. We spend our lives trying to become righteous in God's eyes, when our Sacrifice Lamb has already done it for us. This keeps us from putting faith in God's answering our prayer or being able to "come boldly before Him." It's not an act of our being good enough to enter in, but and act of putting faith in what the Father has done for us, by Grace. Grace is already ours, but we must put faith in what Jesus has done, in order to walk in that Grace. We are new creation who never existed before Jesus went to the cross, was judged for our sins and was justified by Almighty God Himself, Who pronounced Him innocent and pure before the Father. We are in Christ Jesus and have been judged and found innocent of sin and righteous.
The old man/woman was crucified with Christ and is now dead in God's sight. Our old, unrenewed mind will keep us under condemnation, but he/she no longer has power over us. The decisions we make as new creations, determine how we approach our new creation lives. We will either come boldly before God's Throne of Grace or try to sneak in another way. We must renew our minds with Truth, so we can enter into the Rest, that Jesus has already provided. The unrenewed mind will continue condemning us about who we used to be, before receiving Jesus, but this is not longer who we are.
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