YOUR NEW LIFE STARTED WITH THE RESURRECTION

YOUR NEW LIFE STARTED WITH THE 

RESURRECTION

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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The new creation didn’t come from the cross, 

but from the resurrection of Jesus Christ; we’re 

the fruits of His resurrection. When Jesus died, you died 

with Him. When He was buried, you were buried with 

Him. When He resurrected, you also arose with Him 

as a new man, a new species. 

Romans 6:4 says, “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.” Your 

new life started with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

The old life has been supplanted by this new life, the 

divine life. 

Understand that there’s no connection between 

the new creation and your past. In fact, the so-called 

past doesn’t exist. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says,  “Therefore 

if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old 

things are passed away; behold, all things are become 

new.” Quit judging or appraising yourself on the basis 

of your past. Your past was nailed to the cross. 

In Romans 7:6, the Apostle Paul, stressing 

our disconnection from the past and old nature, 

admonished that we serve God in the newness of 

spirit:  “But now we are delivered from the law, that 

being dead wherein we were held; that we should 

serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of 

the letter.” He also said in Colossians 3:10, “…put on 

the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after 

the image of him that created him.”

Today, what counts with God is that you’re born 

again and are a new creature in Christ Jesus (Galatians 

6:15). You’re now in His class of being; an associate of 

the God-kind; a partaker of the divine nature (2 Peter 

1:4). You’ve been made alive in Christ. All these are as a 

result of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

PRAYER

Blessed be God! I have the incorruptible life of Christ 

in my spirit. I’m an associate of the God-kind, reigning 

in life by grace through righteousness. I walk in the 

reality of the new life of righteousness, which I’ve 

received in Christ. I’m more than a conqueror; I live 

in dominion over Satan and the world! Hallelujah! 

FURTHER S TUDY:

Isaiah 43:18-19; James 1:18; Luke 20:35