NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
Memorise: 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
Read: 1st John
3:7-9, Bible in one year: 1st Chronicles 1:1-4:23, Proverbs 26:1-14
There is a nature that is of
the Earth and there is a nature that is of Heaven. Since the fall of man, the
earthly nature of man has become corrupted and therefore is greatly under the
influence of the kingdom
of Satan. Characteristic
features of this nature are: wickedness, moral perversion – sodomy and all
sorts of indecent sexual practices, deception, fraudulent practices, poverty,
ignorance, sickness etc. A person not in Christ carries this polluted nature
around and is capable of manifesting any of its devil influenced character,
irrespective of social and educational status. However, when a person comes to
Christ, the power of the cross of Christ destroys this nature of sin and the
person is given a new nature which is of God; a nature whose feature and
expression include a holy character. The character of this new nature is
described in 2 Peter 1:4:
“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
When a person truly gives his
or her life to Jesus, some things occur spiritually in his or her life. The
Bible says that fellow is delivered from the power of darkness and is
translated into the kingdom
of God’s Son (Colossians
1:13). Also, he or she now has Jesus dwelling in the inside. Jesus in Revelations
3:20 promised that, if you open the door of your heart, He would come into your
heart. Not only these, 1st John 3:9 reveals that the seed of God is
now dwelling in you if you are in Christ. Also, with Jesus now dwelling in you
and He being light, there would be no place for darkness. Darkness is the
sphere of operation of sin and demons.
It is not enough to know all these. The onus
is now on you as a child of God to assert yourself based on the power of God
that is now at work in you against the old nature of sin, Satan and the sinful
and worldly influences around you. Hence, the Bible says you should be strong
in the Lord and in the power of His might, so that you would be able to stand
your ground against the enemy of righteousness (Ephesians 6:10-13, James 4:7).
Action Point
Pray to God to be more like
Jesus Christ.
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