BORN AGAIN – YOU HAVE NOW BECOME A NEW CREATION
This Spirit that God will now be putting into you will be the Holy Spirit Himself. As you will see in several of the verses I will list in the next chapter, each person who gets saved and born again receives the Holy Spirit at the exact moment of their conversion. Note first what the situation of the sinner use to be. He had but one nature “the old man”. He was declared to be dead in trespasses and sins He had the self-life and not the God-life within him. He walked in the flesh and in that only. The Spirit may and does strife with him, but not in him, for only “he who is Christ’s” has that Spirit. But then came the wonderful change. He became filled with sorrow, repented and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. What happened? He is now born again, born from above, born of God, born of the Spirit. The life of God has come into him. God Himself, in the person of the Holy Spirit has come to dwell in him. The new believer has now what the sinner does not have – a new nature.
And then the Bible takes it one step further. It says that we are then “sealed” with the presence of the Holy Spirit. As a result of receiving Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour, not only are all of your sins fully forgiven, not only will you go straight to heaven when you die and cross over – but you have now become a brand new creation in the Lord.
All old things have now passed away and all things have now been made brand new! You have now been given a brand new life with a brand new start, along with a brand new heart and a brand new Spirit being put into you by God the Father. You are now a son/daughter of God. The next verses also confirm this transformation:
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Colossians 1:13 “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”
Ephesians 1:13 “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”
Ephesians 4:30 “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
2 Corinthians 1:21 “Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a deposit.”
2 Corinthians 5:5 “Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.”
As my new life as a born again Christian began, I realized the even greater need for grace. In fact, we enter the Kingdom by repentance then live in the Kingdom by Grace. This is where I learned the true meaning and measure of God’s grace.
I learned that grace begins with, or comes with salvation and faith in Christ. This grace strengthens and builds our faith, so much so, that we become more and more resistant to temptations as we mature in Christ. God will now lead you into His perfect plan and destiny for your life.
God, through His Holy Spirit, will now be guiding the journey that He wants you to follow in this life. God will be letting you know exactly what your call, what your purpose, and what your divine destiny is going to be in Him.
Your brand new life will now have real meaning and purpose to it – because you will now be finding out exactly why God created you in the first place and exactly what God wants to do with your life. You can now finally let go of all of your past mistakes, along with all of the hurts and heartaches of your past, and grow in grace.