2 Corinthians 5:15-17 - and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. We hear so many times people say “if only we could meet Jesus in the flesh; our faith would be sky high”. However St. Paul met Jesus only in the Spirit and that same Jesus gave him all the revelations that even those who were with Him physically did not get. That is why in the above scripture he says he knows Him in the spirit but not in the flesh. He continues to tell us that believing in Jesus in the spiritual and not in the physical makes the person a new creation. We will not see Jesus in the physical but by believing in the scriptures we can have Him with us spiritually. Our corrupted Spirit becomes new and we are a new creation. 1 Corinthians 6:17 - But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. When Adam disobeyed God and committed sin, the spirit became corrupted. When the spirit is corrupted it prompts the soul to rebel, and thus trained it for generations to walk in the flesh. When we receive Jesus in our life spiritually, we are born again. This change takes place in our spirit and not in the soul. The change in the spirit is not our doing but God’s; that is why the Scripture says “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18). God by His own will and design uses His Son as the means to reconcile sinners to Himself. To do that, He put Him on the cross, to pour out His life in order that He may by His fleshly body reconcile sinners to Himself and make them holy, blameless and beyond reproach. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour we have in us the ‘ministry of reconciliation’; meaning – we were sinners and had gone away from God; now we repent and accept Jesus as our Lord, God and savior and God showers His love upon us; he forgives us our sins and gives us eternal life. If the apostles had not accepted the ministry of reconciliation after Jesus’ resurrection, the Gospel would not have been alive today.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:04:18 +0000
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