N - New Creation

Albert Bogle July 16, 2023 1 3

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2 Corinthians 5: 16-2 (NRSVA)

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We Christians need to wise up. We’re a new species of human being! Go on look in the mirror and tell yourself ‘I’m a beautiful creature’. There is more going on in our lives than we might ever imagine. You might smile but I tell you God is making us more beautiful by the day.

The Apostle Paul presents the idea of a new creation as a central outcome of the death and resurrection of Jesus. God is seen as initiating the creation of a new kind of human being starting with the person of Jesus. His death and resurrection signifies the eventual passing of the old order. Christ is making everything new. Jesus is the one who fulfils in himself all of the final vision of the prophet Isaiah (see Isaiah 61: 1-3). The Spirit of Christ is now at work in the lives of his followers giving them a new identity causing them to die to self in order that they might be brought back to life in Christ. This is what being born again is all about.

PRAYER:

Come Lord Jesus

Send your Spirit upon us

Let us be born again

Let the waters of our baptism live

Renewing our mind

Recreating our new identity

Reshaping our wills

Bringing your Kingdom in

Give to each of us a portion of your Spirit

Help us to speak out for truth

Stand with the forgotten

Protect the poor

Bring healing to the sick

Shelter to the homeless

Justice to the oppressed

And faith to the weary

Come Lord Jesus

Send your Spirit upon us

That we might recognise our new humanity