Your New Creation Identity
Study The Word
2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The new creation in Christ is real, it’s a reality. Everyone that has received Christ knows on the inside that they are a new person. They know deep down inside that they are different. There are not enough words to explain it but those that have it know it. That is what the Lord Jesus Christ meant when He tried to explain this to Nicodimus and said “except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3) The Greek word see is is “eidoo” which means to know by a prolonged observation until you become fully aware. By prolonged observation you are aware that your life has changed, you know that something is different from the inside of you; you don’t need anyone to tell you this.
καινός kainos new – new kind, fresh made, new existence
What is that? You are a new creation. If you are in Christ, you are a new creature! This isn’t just a turning over a new leaf; it’s a complete spiritual recreation of your inner most being. The old you—dominated by sin, bound by its power, and riddled with sin consciousness—has passed away. I only caught the phrase “passed away” pertaining to this verse a lot later. So, when the scripture says “passed away”, take it like when they say “the man/woman has “passed away” – meaning, they are dead! You get it? And then it goes on to say that “Behold, all things have become new!” In other words, the previous one is dead and now there’s a new one. This is your radical, new creation identity. You are literally a new type of being, a new species that never existed before.
κτίσις ktisis creature – creation, original formation, order, ordinance
Knowledge of this new identity is fundamental to living a victorious Christian life. You are no longer the person who was under the dominion of sin. That person was crucified and died with Christ. The person living now is a new being, infused with the new life of Christ, empowered by the Spirit, and made righteous. When you truly grasp this, you stop identifying with your past failures and previously ungovernable behaviours.
This doesn’t mean you won’t face temptations, but it means your new nature now has the power to not succumb to them. Man is a spirit being, which has a soul and lives in a body; and now the Word says its your spirit that is “…recreated in righteousness and true holiness”(Ephesians 4:18) But your soul which is your mind, will and emotions – those do not automatically change, even though your spirit is perfectly new. Thats the new creation, that spirit that lives inside your body. So you may feel, or look or think the same after you receive Jesus Christ but thats because the new creation miracle is not in your mind, and your feelings or your body. You now have Christ’s perfect nature in your spirit man. And so Ephesians 4:23 says “…be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Which means renew and align your thinking and feelings; that is your soul – mind, will and emotions to the new creation man that is in your spirit. And it says this new creation is created “...after God” which means your spirit is now created after the righteousness likeness of God, my goodness!! Walk in the consciousness of your newness today. You are who the Word of God says that you are. Reject the lies that try to pull you back into old patterns of thinking or behavior. You are a new creation, perfectly positioned to live a life that glorifies God, free from the power of sin and sin consciousness!
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I thank You that I am in Christ, a new creature! Old things have passed away, and all things have become new in me. I thank You for this new life that I now live as the new creation You’ve made me, empowered by Your Spirit and Your righteousness, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Speak The Word
I am a new creation in Christ! Old things are passed away; the old is dead and buried and all things are become new! I live in my new identity, a new creation in Christ Jesus living in glory and victory everyday!