No Past To Be Delivered From – Rhapsody Of Realities TeeVo Devotional May 20th

(You’re A Brand-New Creature In Christ)

TO THE BIBLE: 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

LET’S TALK
When the Bible talks about redemption, like you find in Luke 1:68, which says, “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people,” it’s a reference to the Jews.

The Jews were the ones who needed to be redeemed because they were under the curse of the law.

So, when Paul says, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law…” (Galatians 3:13), it’s important not to be misled by his generic use of the word “us.”

Paul was speaking as a Jew. The Gentiles weren’t redeemed from the curse of the Law because they were never under the Law.

That’s why in Ephesians 4:17-18, the Gentiles are described as being alienated from God and strangers to the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But thanks be unto God, in Christ Jesus, both Jew and Gentile have been brought together to make one new man that’s neither Jew nor Gentile. That’s the new creature! (Ephesians 2:14).

This new creature is a brand-new man that never existed before. The new creature is a new species, and this is who you are in Christ.

So, being born again, you were born into a newness of life. You have the life of Christ now. You don’t have a past to be redeemed or delivered from, for the old nature you had before you were born again has been supplanted by Christ’s divine nature.

Now you walk in the newness of life (Romans 6:4). Glory to God!

Go Deeper
Proverbs 10:22; Deuteronomy 8:18; Matthew 6:33; Ecclesiastes 5:18-19

Speak:
I’m a new creature in Christ Jesus, with the life and nature of God! I have the resurrection life. I’m not the redeemed, I’m not the delivered; I’m a brand-new man that never existed before, living the transcendent life of the Spirit. Blessed be God!

Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR
John 8:48-59, 2 Kings 1-3
TWO YEAR
1 Corinthians 11:1-11, Proverbs 16

Act:
Speak and act according to the truth of Romans 6:4—walking in newness of life.