“The men marveled, saying, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!” (Matthew 8:27 KJV).
When the First or Old Creation surely died, God embarked on the process of revealing or manifesting the New Creation project — a project to redeem man and to create man anew. This was a project that had been hidden from the foundation of the world but was now about to be revealed or manifested. (see Ephesians 1:4-5; Romans 8:29; Revelation 13:8, 1 Peter 1:20). This time, God was going to create not a natural man (or earthy man) like the first Adam, but a spiritual man who from the onset would have not just the image and likeness of God, but the very nature of God (see 2 Peter 1:4, with Ephesians 4:24; 1 John 5:1, 4) and the very life of God in him (see 1 John 5:11-13), who would be an incorruptible spirit-being (see 1 Peter 1:23, with Hebrews 12:23) with complete authority and dominion over both the natural world and the spirit world. (see Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:17-18; Mark 9:23; Philippians 4:13). This new man would be a true super man to whom all things are possible. (see Mark 9:23; Philippians 4:13). God was, out of His own will, going to give birth to this new man (see James 1:18; John 1:12-13), so that he will be a true son of God (see 1 John 3:1) and a truly spiritual or heavenly man (see 1 Corinthians 15:46-48) whose citizenship is in Heaven (see Philippians 3:20), who has the incorruptible seed of God in him (see 1 Peter 1:23) and who is incapable of sinning or committing the treason of the Old Creation man Adam (see 1 John 3:9). And that is not all, God was going to also put His seal (that is, the Holy Spirit) on this man and in this man’s heart as a guarantee that he belongs to Him forever (see Ephesians 1:13; 2 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22), and that Satan cannot steal him, kill him or destroy him. (see John 5:24; John 11:25-26; 1 John 3:14; 2 Timothy 1:10). This New Creation man would be God’s own son, born of Him to overcome the world (see 1 John 5:4; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 5:1). God Himself would live in him and abide in him, and he would also live in God and abide in God (see 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 John 4:15-16; 1 John 4:4, with Colossians 3:3). Therefore, he and God would be one; he would be joined as one spirit with God. (see 1 Corinthians 6:17). He would be a god-man (see Psalm 82:6), a partaker (or sharer) of the Holy Spirit and a partaker of the divine (or God) nature. (see 2 Peter 1:4; Hebrews 6:4). This new Creation man would be a true champion and a spiritual giant, just as Jesus Christ is. (see 1 John 4:17). He would be more than a conqueror. (see Romans 8:37). And he would live simultaneously in Heaven and on Earth, as his life is hidden with Christ in God (see Colossians 3:3), as he sits on the right hand of God on His throne with Christ and in Christ (see Ephesians 2:4-6), and lives in this world without being of this world. (see John 17:16; John 15:19; 1 John 3:1). Moreover, unlike the Old Creation man, this New Creation man would be in the Spirit, (see Romans 8:9), live in the Spirit, and walk in the Spirit (see Galatians 5:25 KJV), and NOT in the flesh (or Sense realm). (see Romans 8:9; Romans 8:13). This new Creation man would also have a new body (see 1 Corinthians 15:50-54; Philippians 3:21), but he would not receive this new body until his days on earth are over. (see 2 Corinthians 5:1-8; Philippians 3:21). So, for now, he would still live in this old body of corruption (see 1 Corinthians 15:42, 50; 2 Corinthians 5:1), having this treasure in earthen vessel, so that the excellence of the power (he has) may be of God and not of him. (see 2 Corinthians 4:7).
Beloved, the old man (or the old creation man) had become darkness (see 2 Corinthians 6:14), but God was going to create the new man as the light of the world. (see Matthew 5:14, with 2 Corinthians 6:14). Thus, God in creating this new man was going to call light out of darkness; He was going to call this new man out of darkness into His marvelous light (see 1 Peter 2:9; Colossians 1:13); He was going to call (or make) this new man out of the dead Old man; He was going to give life to the dead. (see Ephesians 2:1; Colossians 2:13). Therefore, as a necessary first step in manifesting or revealing this new creation project, God needed the consent and cooperation of man (the old man). And since man had lost his way to God, God had to initiate contact with man out of His pure and amazing grace and make a covenant with man. And this is where Abram (or Abraham) came into the picture.
Just as He did in delivering the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt and bringing them to the promised land, God redeemed or delivered man from Satan in this mighty way and manifested the new creation to the world at the appointed time, so “that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.” (Joshua 4:24). Today if you believe in Jesus Christ, you are the new man described above, and you should be eternally grateful to God and never stop proclaiming His praises. Remain blessed.
I share this message, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16).
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