A NEW CREATURE WITH A NEW LIFE

A NEW CREATURE WITH A NEW LIFE

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).

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When you were born again, you were born 

and baptized into Christ. 1 Corinthians 

12:13 says, “For by one Spirit are we all baptized 

into one body…”; you were baptized into the body of 

Christ, a new man, a new creature with a new life. The 

King James Version uses the word “creature,” which is 

a lot more accurate than the word “creation” as used in 

some other translations. Being a “new creature” means 

you’re one of a kind; a special or peculiar being. 

But that’s not all; the latter part of our opening 

scripture says, “…old things are passed away; behold, 

all things are become new.”  The underlined word, 

“behold” means a lot, even though not so many pay 

attention to its importance in that verse. It’s a word 

that calls your attention to a truth: God wants you to 

SEE that all things have become new. When you’re 

born again, you have a new life; you’re a new being; 

the old life and nature are supplanted by God’s divine 

nature. 

It wasn’t just a mere change that took place in you 

when you were born again; it was an actual recreation 

of your human spirit; there was an actual replacement 

of the life of which you were born of your parents, 

with the indestructible life of God. You’ve come alive 

to God through the New Birth. 

You’re not someone who has merely become 

religious; you’re a new person, with a new life,  without 

a past. Understand when the Bible says, “…old things 

are passed away...”; it’s talking about the old nature 

that was subject to sin, defeat, sickness, failure and 

death— it’s dead and gone. All things have become 

new, and all these new things are of God (2 Corinthians 

5:18). 

Everything about your life now carries divinity in it. 

There’s no connection between you and your “past,” 

because in actual fact, there’s no past: “Therefore we 

are buried with him by baptism into death: that like 

as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of 

the Father, even so we also should walk in newness 

of life”  (Romans 6:4). 

CONFESSION

I’m a new creature, a brand new species of being. 

I’m not ordinary. I’m the first and the best of God’s 

creatures. I prosper in all I do. My life is an expression 

of the beauty, glory, and grace of Almighty God.

His righteousness is revealed in, and through me. 

Hallelujah! 

FURTHER S TUDY:

Ephesians 2:14-15; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:9-10