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    New Creation
    New Creation
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    New Creation

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    To understand the new creation, we need to start at the beginning when God said in Genesis 1:26" Let us make men into our image…." This was the start of the new creation that was born or created in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Born of God towards God through Christ Jesus. When God created Adam and Eve is was with this understanding that they would be like God, having all the power, knowledge, perfect love and authority that can only come from God. The were created as the perfect humans walking the earth with all of God within them and around them. With the fall off men all that would have come afterwards would be walking under that cloud of judgement of sin. Everybody was born into sin after that because of what Adam and Eve has done. Not only have they committed sin but they gave up the life God created for them, the perfection of being a human without sin, sickness, lack, shame, fear and the fulness of the Creator. They took themselves out of the presence of God and all the human beings that would be born including all of us, therefor God had to do something to bring us as humans back into Him. Knowing that Adam and Eve would fail, the plan God had created was always and will always be the only plan and that is that men should be in the image of the Son Jesus Christ who would come as the first born of all. Jesus was always the plan from the beginning of time and is still the plan today. Adam and Eve gave up the authority they had and got from God over for a life of sin, a life of sickness, a life of lack, a life of fear, a life of hardship and a life without the presence of God. A life God never intended for us to have at all.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherkobuswindvogel
    Release dateApr 22, 2023
    ISBN9798224964628
    New Creation
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    kobuswindvogel

    Kobus Windvogel, born in Robertson, Western Cape South Africa. Married for 23 years, having 2 children with his wife Petro. The second eldest child of five children. 

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      Contents

      Unity with Christ

      A True Believer

      Mystery Of The New Man

      Reconcile With God

      In Christ A New Creation

      An Impossible Made Possible

      Constrained By The Love Of Christ

      The Different Man

      The New World

      Final Word

      Bibliography

      1

      Unity With Christ

      To understand the new creation, we need to start at the beginning when God said in Genesis 1:26 Let us make men into our image.... This was the start of the new creation that was born or created in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Born of God towards God through Christ Jesus. When God created Adam and Eve is was with this understanding that they would be like God, having all the power, knowledge, perfect love and authority that can only come from God. The were created as the perfect humans walking the earth with all of God within them and around them. With the fall off men all that would have come afterwards would be walking under that cloud of judgement of sin. Everybody was born into sin after that because of what Adam and Eve has done. Not only have they committed sin but they gave up the life God created for them, the perfection of being a human without sin, sickness, lack, shame, fear and the fulness of the Creator. They took themselves out of the presence of God and all the human beings that would be born including all of us, therefor God had to do something to bring us as humans back into Him. Knowing that Adam and Eve would fail, the plan God had created was always and will always be the only plan and that is that men should be in the image of the Son Jesus Christ who would come as the first born of all. Jesus was always the plan from the beginning of time and is still the plan today. Adam and Eve gave up the authority they had and got from God over for a life of sin, a life of sickness, a life of lack, a life of fear, a life of hardship and a life without the presence of God. A life God never intended for us to have at all.

      We needed to be born of Christ who came as the first born of all things. Col_1:16 (proototokos pasees ktiseoos, as Joh_1:15; Joh_1:30; Joh_15:18, prootos mou, long before Me), begotten long before every creature; the reason why He is so designated follows, for He is before all things. First-begotten marks at once His eternal priority and His condescending to brotherhood with us (Rom_8:29). Only begotten marks His relation to the Father by generation from everlasting. Since He is long before every creature, He cannot be a creature Himself but the Creator. And as He is the first begotten, originating the natural creation, so He is "the firstborn (proototokos, 'first begotten,' Rev_1:5) from (out of, ek) the dead, and therefore the Beginning (Col_1:18) of the church of the firstborn (Heb_12:23), the originating Agent of the new creation. Jesus became the originating Agent of the New Creation. He was begotten of the Father to a new life at His resurrection (the day when the Father fulfilled Psa_2:7 according to Act_13:33; Rom_1:4) which is His regeneration; so He is the "the Prince-leader (archeegos) of life. Regeneration, begun in the soul now, will extend to the body at the resurrection of the saints; and to nature, now groaning under the curse (Mat_19:28; Luk_20:36; 1Jn_3:2; Rom_8:11; Rom_8:19; Rom_8:23). As He is the firstborn in relation to the election church, so it is the church of the firstborn, a kind of first-fruits of His creatures (Jas_1:18), in relation to the millennial church, and to the hereafter to be regenerated natural creation. As Christ is the firstfruits, earnest and pledge of the coming resurrection, so believers are a kind of first-fruits," a pledge and earnest of the ultimate regeneration of creation.

      As He is first begotten by generation from everlasting, so believers by adoptions, begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, etc. (1Pe_1:3.) As Israel, on the ground of being God's firstborn, was a king-priestly nation, so believers (Rev_1:6). The figurative phrase, the firstborn of death, means the deadliest disease that death (personified) ever gendered (Job_18:13). The firstborn of the poor, the poorest.

      he Hebrew name is Bereeshit, from its opening word in the beginning. Septuagint Genesis means generation, i.e. creation and birth of the universe, man, and history. It is a religious history, therefore it omits accounts in detail of other nations, and concentrates attention on the origin of that one from whom the promised Redeemer of man from the deadly consequences of the fall (which is detailed at the beginning) sprang. While a bare catalogue is given of whole genealogies of nations, minute details are given of the godly patriarchs in the line of the promised Savior, for these details are of more everlasting moment to us than the rise and fall of the mightiest empires. Again, the details in the patriarchs' history selected for narration are not the merely personal facts, but those illustrating religious principles and furthering God's gracious purpose of redemption. Thus Adam's history before and in the fall is minutely given, as affecting the whole race whom he represented; but after the fall only a few brief notices, but these of important bearing on mankind's spiritual prospects (Gen_3:20-24; Gen_4:1; Gen_5:1-5). So the early development of the enmity between the serpent's seed and the seed of the woman, and the separation of the church from the world (Gen_4:1-16; Gen_4:25-26). The divine prophetic germs in Genesis are the foundation of all the subsequent prophecies throughout the Bible, and receive their consummation in the restored tree of life, waters of life, communion with God face to face in the world delivered from the curse, at the close of Revelation. Astruc, a Belgian physician (A.D. 1753), inferred from the varying use of the names of God, Elohim (E) and Jehovah (J), the existence of 12 documents or memoirs used by Moses in compiling Genesis.

      Probably Moses under inspiration used such ancient memoirs, e.g. genealogies; but he certainly has composed no loosely joined chronicle, but a history with unity of plan throughout, and using the names of God not arbitrarily but with the most accurate propriety. The oldest part of the Hindu Vedas is hardly as old as the time of Moses, and his work embodies genealogical and other memoirs, probably handed down from the earliest period of man's history. Genesis is the first of the five parts of the Pentateuch, the grand subject of which is the setting up of the theocratic kingdom, Israel, amidst the nations as the repository of the divine promise until its fulfilment in Messiah, who should be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of His people Israel. Genesis begins with creation, then proceeds to show that the Elohim of creation is the Jehovah in covenant with His people in redemption.

      So in Col_1:16-17, Christ the Head of creation, BY whom and IN whom as the divine Word carrying in Himself the arche-type of all existence, and FOR whom the universe of things have their being, is also the Head and Originator of the new creation. Appropriately therefore Elohim (the name for Divine Might, from alah mighty) occurs throughout the first general account of creation (Gen 1:1-2:3); but Jehovah (Yahweh), the faithful covenant keeping I AM, in the special account of creation affecting His covenant with man. The organic unity of Genesis appears from its structure: (1) introduction (Gen 1:1-2:3), wherein the moral superiority of the Bible cosmogony stands preeminent. Pagan cosmogonies abound in crude poetical and philosophical speculations, either representing God and matter as co-eternal, or pantheistical confounding God and matter, making Him its pervading spirit.

      Genesis alone recognizes God's personality and God's unity. Another marked distinction between the oldest pagan compositions and Genesis is they are palpably mythical in substance and poetical in form, history not arising until a later stage of national development. But Genesis is thoroughly historical in matter and prose in its form; Hebrew developed poetry not appearing until a later age, when the mythical element could have no place; a powerful confirmation of the historical trustworthiness of Scripture. Its sublime simplicity stamps Genesis as history, not poetical myth or subtle speculation. Moreover, Genesis alone describes creation out of nothing, as distinguished from creation out of pre-existing materials. Genesis alone recognizes the law of progress in creation: first light, then order, then life, vegetable, grass, herb, fruit tree; then animal life. The advance is orderly, from the lower to the higher organizations. Genesis is distinguished from the world's cosmogonies in connecting the Creator with His work in a relation of love; God contemplating everything that He had. made, and behold it was very good (Gen_1:31). Traditions of widely separated nations over the earth retain fragments of the account of the fall, the tree, the serpent, the first pair, the flood. The Bible version of the story is simplest, purest, and the one that presents the only common ground from which all the others are

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