The Reality Of The New Creation

[Albert Finch]

2 Corinthians 5:17 - "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a New Creation: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new, and all these things are of God Who has reconciled us unto Himself."

When we receive Christ as our Savior and confess Him as our Lord, we become a branch of the Vine.

John 15:5 - "I am the Vine and ye are the branches."

We become utterly one with Christ.

2 Peter 1:4 tells us that we become partakers of the Divine Nature and have escaped the corruption that came into the world through Adam's transgression. That corruption is Spiritual Death. The escape is Eternal Life.

John 10:10 - "I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly."

The word "life" is from the Greek word "Zoe". It means Eternal Life.

1 John 6:7 - "He that believeth hath Eternal Life."

The Holy Spirit would have us know this fact: that believing is possessing. The instant that you believe, you have.

1 John 5:13 - "These things have I written unto you that ye may know that ye have Eternal Life, even to you that believe on His Name."

You may mentally assent and never have.

You may hope and never have.

But the instant you "believe" it is yours.