“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
— 2 Corinthians 5:17
If you have died with Christ, you are dead to sin.
Sin no longer has control over you.
You once walked in darkness, but now you walk in the light.
The Apostle Paul tells us this in the Book of Romans:
“What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”
No longer slaves to sin
Sin has no place in our lives now that we are saved.
When we repent and renounce all sin in our life, we die to the old self.
Just as Jesus died and rose from the dead, so do we.
This is what our new life is all about. We are born-again.
We receive a new spirit.
At baptism, our old self is crucified with Christ, and sin is taken away from our bodies.
“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.”
The New Life
You have been called to be holy.
“You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.”
Rewiring the Brain
As born-again believers (new creations In Christ), we have to unlearn all that we learned up to the day of our salvation.
We have to have our minds renewed.
To walk in the light of God, we must be working on ourselves continuously, but we do not have to do it alone. We have a helper, our Advocate, the Holy Spirit.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
— Romans 12:2
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