“Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.” (2 Cor. 5:17 GNT)
You have become an entirely new creation from the moment you were born again through faith alone in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ. From God’s perspective, you are now a new self, being, and person in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 – NKJV
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
While many people around you may still see or deal with you as the same old person, God will never again deal with you according to your former sinful, selfish, corrupt, and rebellious self.
In the first part of this piece, we examined who the new creation is and what He has in Christ.
As a born-again believer, you must begin to see, think, live, walk, or operate in this evil world as a new creation from the point you experienced the new birth. This is the only way to live a triumphant, overcoming, and prosperous Christian life in this anti-Christ world.
Let us briefly recap what we have discovered about the new creation.
First, the new creation possesses God’s kind of nature.
You were born with a sinful, selfish, and corrupt nature inherited from Adam. It was that nature that made you a slave of Sin and Satan. But through the new birth, you have become a partaker of God’s holy and loving nature (2 Pet 1:1-4).
1 John 3:9 – RSV
9 No one born of God commits sin; for God’s nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
You are divine, holy, kind, loving, gentle, and godly in your born-again spirit as a new creation. The Scripture states that your new spirit was created in God’s image and “after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Eph. 4:24 RSV).
Second, the new creation possesses everlasting life.
In Adam, you were dead spiritually—alienated from God’s life, but in Christ, you are spiritually alive, possessing God’s kind of life (Zoe). Everlasting life is not a future promise but a present reality or possession of the new creation.
John 3:36 – NKJV
36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
Third, the new creation possesses the Spirit of Christ.
You now have the Spirit of Christ in you as a new creation.
Romans 8:9 – NKJV
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
Galatians 4:6 – NKJV
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Fourth, the new creation possesses the mind of Christ.
The new creation has the same mind as Christ, not a mind different or inferior to Christ’s.
1 Corinthians 2:16 – NKJV
16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
The new creation “is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.” (Col. 3:10 NKJV).
Fifth, the new creation is God’s Beloved.
You are entirely and eternally loved, pleasing, and acceptable to God in Christ as a new creation. Therefore, you don’t need to seek, strive, or struggle to impress God to earn, deserve, or merit His love, acceptance, favor, or blessing (Eph. 1:5-6).
Let us now examine further truths about the new creation.
Sixth, the new creation is irrevocably or eternally blessed.
The old man was a transgressor of God’s law and thus operated under the curse of the law. But the new being or creation is a saint, having been justified and washed in the blood of the Lamb of God.
The new creation is called “the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Cor. 5:21 NKJV). Therefore, he is not under any curse (Gal. 3:12-14). But he is blessed with believing Abraham (Gal. 3:9).
The new creation is a joint heir of God’s blessing with Christ (Rom. 8:17). Having become one with Christ through the new birth, “you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” (Gal. 4:7 NKJV).
As a new creation, you are irrevocably blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 1:3, 2 Pet. 1:2-3). All that God has is now yours in Christ. Hallelujah!
Paul writes, “Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours.” (1 Cor. 3:21 NKJV).
Seventh, the new creation wields unlimited spiritual power and authority.
The new creation is no longer a slave or captive of Sin and Satan but a king and a priest unto God (Rev. 1:4-6, 5:9-10, Eph. 2:4-7).
Because of your spiritual union with Christ, you are presently seated with Christ in the heavenly places, “far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.” (Eph. 1:21 NKJV).
The spiritual power or authority of the new creation is not inferior to that of Christ. The new creation is invested with the power and authority of Christ over all the evil forces and powers.
Jesus said, “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” (Luke 10:19 NKJV).
Therefore, no trial, challenge, adversary, or adversity of life is expected to intimidate, oppress, harass, or overcome you as a new creation (Matt. 10:7-8, 16:19).
It is the destiny of the new creation to reign in this present life through Christ Jesus. Paul aptly attests to this truth in his epistle to the Romans.
Romans 5:17 – NKJV
17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Lastly, the new creation is God’s spiritual house on earth.
As a new creation, you have become God’s spiritual house or temple on earth (1 Cor. 6:19-20, 2 Cor. 6:16). God is now pleased to dwell in you with all His fullness as He dwelt in Christ while He was on earth (Col. 1:19, 2:9).
Paul queries, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16 NKJV).
Because God now lives in you, you need not seek or search for God anywhere; you carry God about. You can now fellowship or commune with God anywhere, at any time.
Like Jesus manifested God while He carried His fullness on earth, you must also make it your chief aim or priority to increasingly manifest or reveal God to the world (John 1:18, Isa. 43:7, 21, 1 Pet. 2:9).
Beloved, you are now a brand-new creation. Your old self that was corrupt, sinful, fearful, and cursed is gone forever, having been crucified with Christ. Therefore, carefully and thoroughly examine your life today to see if anything still lingers from the old man.
Don’t spare and seek to explain away or make excuses for sickness, lack, poverty, failure, depression, anger, fear, worry, anxiety, etc. They all belong to the old man and thus have no right to remain with you, the new man or creation.
Friend, as a new creation, you have the right and authority to uproot and evict from your life anything that belongs to the old man. Be very specific, direct, firm, and resolute as you command them to leave your life.
Let them know that you are a new creation and that their former host or friend is dead and gone. Stand your ground and wield your spiritual authority in Christ until there is no trace of anything belonging to the old man in your life.
Prayer:
My Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for investing me with Christ’s unlimited spiritual power and authority as a new creation. Today, I uproot and cast out everything that belongs to the old man still lingering in my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.