New Creature

When a person becomes a Christian, he becomes a new creature. A change takes place where the person is no longer the same, no longer lives as he once did, is transformed into someone new. There are some passages that give further explanation of this change; we'll look at a few here.

In 2 Peter 1, we read that the Christian should have faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. Verse 9, "..he who lacks these things is short-sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins." The Christian is not committing his "old sins."

Romans 6, talking about grace and sin: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death.." Verse 7, "For he who has died has been freed from sin." When we become a Christian, we are baptized into Jesus' death and come forth a new creature.

Ephesians 4:22 says that we are to "put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness."

When we become a Christian, we become a new creature, one committed to serving God. And I might add, serving Him in His way; not our way; not in what seems right to us, but in His way. His way is found clearly in the Bible, there for us to learn and to follow.

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