THE REALITY OF THE RECREATED HUMAN SPIRIT THIS PHASE OF TEACHING has never been majored by our theological thinkers.. It is the crux of the whole Pauline Revelation, the ultimate toward which all of Gods plans move. Man, the failure, the sin-ruled, the Satan-dominated, held in bondage by the unseen forces of spiritual darkness, is to be recreated, made a New Creation, taken out of the family of Satan and “translated into the Kingdom of the Son of His love,” on legal grounds. This is the solution of the human problem: God giving His Nature, His Love, to fallen man. He is no longer a fallen man. He is a New Creation man united with Jesus Christ, the Head of the New Creation. He is the “raised together with Christ” man. 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold they are become new.” His old sin consciousness, his old fallen life, his old sin life, and his old evil habits that grow out of Spiritual death, have passed away. He is a new Creation. He is a New Being. The Father has no memory of his past life. He is a newborn babe. His old past life has stopped being in the Mind of the Father. A New Creation has come into being through grace. 2 Corinthians 5:18, “But all these things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation.” Ways translation states it beautifully: “And of all this, God is the source. He reconciled me to Himself by the mediation of Messiah; and He has assigned to me the office of this reconciliation, the Charter whereof is: `God was present in the Messiah reconciling to Himself the world, canceling the record of their transgression. “ He has given us through Christ the ministry of reconciliation; not the ministry of condemnation which we have had for the last hundred years, but a ministry of reconciliation. We have reckoned unto men their trespasses. We have kept them “trespass-minded.” We have kept them conscious of their weaknesses and failings. We have preached sin instead of Eternal Life. We have preached judgment instead of reconciliation, when God has committed unto us the “word of reconciliation.” We have that Word. We have that message. It is ours to give to the world. We have become New Creations. We have been recreated by Love. Love has been imparted to our spirits. God is Love, and Gods nature is Love; but God is also Life, the Author of Life. Advanced Bible Course
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