Month: May 2021

When you believed the gospel message of Jesus Christ … you became a NEW CREATION.

Spiritually speaking, you became someone who had not existed before.  You became someone completely new.  God did not remodel, redo, or improve the old you.  The old you is gone.  The new you is here.  The old you died with Christ.  The new you was raised to a new life in Christ.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”   II Corinthians 5:17

“It doesn’t matter whether we have been circumcised or not.  What counts is that we are a new creation.”   Galatians 6:15

“We have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”   Romans 6:4

When you believed the gospel message of Jesus Christ … you underwent a NEW BIRTH.

You are now God’s child.  Just like you cannot be “unborn” from your earthly parents, you are now God’s forever son or daughter.  You are now “born of God”.

“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ “   John 3:3

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”   I Peter 1:3

“For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.”   I Peter 1:23

“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.”   I John 5:1