17 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 moment you recieved Christ and were born again you became a new creation, a new creature was birthed into exsistence. What we have not realized is old things have passed away, behold all things became new. You know what that means? You have a new start, everything in your past is gone, forgotten, put away like it never existed. Anything you lived or did or thought about yourself or even others is gone, done away with like it never exsisted in the world.
Now there will be things to follow a believer from their previous earth life but it is not who they are any more. Any debts to society will be reckoned but there is no life in your past. As a matter of fact you will feel like you are the same person, and your expression hasn't changed, I will put off the same uniqueness still. The things you do and say, or maybe go and the life you did live should will be different.
We now work at living a brand new life, or allow a brand new life as me. The two become one at birth and in expression with time and mental renewal. Seeing the real you is mind knowledge or seeing what happened to you the moment you believed is to allow the mind of Christ room to live. You do not over shadow him, he will over shadow you if he has a way to do that. You cannot keep Christ in you locked up like he is outside of you and you are trying to reach him to get him to react or perform some kind of feat.
It is a waste of time trying to reach for a Christ that just dwells in the fog or somewhere outside of you, and we are trying to see him clearly. It you turn your focus on him who is in you you will see him he is not hiding he is revealed. But there is no life in a outer Christ, when you are searching for a Christ that has sat down at the right hand of the father you will have to look along ways to find him.
So what has passed away? The first thing is your natural birth. Your natural birth past away, the parents that gave you a body, provided a body the natural life is now gone. A complete person will have Christ as their life, they were not complete while in the world. We still look at parents as parents and respect them as such but the new creature has God as their parent by Christ their completion. The father has birthed a new creation and he is the father of that is new creation. The new creation takes two for life.
So what ever you were born with as far as nationality is gone. Whatever made you who you were is gone, it does not matter what you believe about who you were it is gone. Some want to be Italian believers, or maybe German believers, or Native American, but all that is gone. It may come up and be used in ministry or life to further the message but it will never be who you once were. It was never who you were any how but we claimed it by natural birth out of ignorance. A body and culture will never pin point who you were only distract you.
Underline this; you are who you are by a birthing in spirit. No physical bodies involved and no ethnic groups can make you who you are. Only spirit constitutes who you are. You had your first birth with it's nature-spirit (to make you who you were), and the new creation is who you are by nature-spirit (spirit joined to Christ).
The moment you recieved Christ and were born again you became a new creation, a new creature was birthed into exsistence. What we have not realized is old things have passed away, behold all things became new. You know what that means? You have a new start, everything in your past is gone, forgotten, put away like it never existed. Anything you lived or did or thought about yourself or even others is gone, done away with like it never exsisted in the world.
Now there will be things to follow a believer from their previous earth life but it is not who they are any more. Any debts to society will be reckoned but there is no life in your past. As a matter of fact you will feel like you are the same person, and your expression hasn't changed, I will put off the same uniqueness still. The things you do and say, or maybe go and the life you did live should will be different.
We now work at living a brand new life, or allow a brand new life as me. The two become one at birth and in expression with time and mental renewal. Seeing the real you is mind knowledge or seeing what happened to you the moment you believed is to allow the mind of Christ room to live. You do not over shadow him, he will over shadow you if he has a way to do that. You cannot keep Christ in you locked up like he is outside of you and you are trying to reach him to get him to react or perform some kind of feat.
It is a waste of time trying to reach for a Christ that just dwells in the fog or somewhere outside of you, and we are trying to see him clearly. It you turn your focus on him who is in you you will see him he is not hiding he is revealed. But there is no life in a outer Christ, when you are searching for a Christ that has sat down at the right hand of the father you will have to look along ways to find him.
So what has passed away? The first thing is your natural birth. Your natural birth past away, the parents that gave you a body, provided a body the natural life is now gone. A complete person will have Christ as their life, they were not complete while in the world. We still look at parents as parents and respect them as such but the new creature has God as their parent by Christ their completion. The father has birthed a new creation and he is the father of that is new creation. The new creation takes two for life.
So what ever you were born with as far as nationality is gone. Whatever made you who you were is gone, it does not matter what you believe about who you were it is gone. Some want to be Italian believers, or maybe German believers, or Native American, but all that is gone. It may come up and be used in ministry or life to further the message but it will never be who you once were. It was never who you were any how but we claimed it by natural birth out of ignorance. A body and culture will never pin point who you were only distract you.
Underline this; you are who you are by a birthing in spirit. No physical bodies involved and no ethnic groups can make you who you are. Only spirit constitutes who you are. You had your first birth with it's nature-spirit (to make you who you were), and the new creation is who you are by nature-spirit (spirit joined to Christ).
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