Creation and The New Birth: A Comparison – Sunday Thought For The Day

Our God is a God of order and authority.  He created in order, not haphazardly or randomly.  In the beginning He created the heaven and the earth.  Seeing that the earth was without form and void and that darkness covered the face of the deep, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water.  He created the light and divided it from the darkness.  He created the firmament to divide the water below from the vapor above and called that firmament Heaven.  Next He gathered the waters together in one place and called them seas; and He said, let the dry land appear.

He said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind.

Next He said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.  He created the sun and the moon.  He told the waters to bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.  He brought forth the living creatures on the earth, followed by the creation of man in His image and after His likeness.  He created for man a mate woman, because it was not good for man to be alone; together they were too have dominion, i.e., sovereignty over the earth.

They were given one caveat said being, that they were forbidden to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the consequences of which, was death.

Accordingly, when we are saved through our faith in Christ Jesus and we confess and repent of our sins, we are “born again” and we become a “new person.”  As the Apostle Paul wrote: “…old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”  It is a fresh chance for us to be reconciled to God.  We are restored to the position to which we were originally created, but were stripped of due to the sin, i.e., disobedience of Adam.

When we look/examine the order of creation we see a parallel order of our new life in Christ at the time of our salvation.  We go from nothing, i.e., without acceptable form and void, i.e., worthiness.  In an orderly fashion the Holy Spirit of God places in us the light of salvation, i.e., the witness of Christ through the indwelling presence of His Holy Spirit.  That witness of the Holy Spirit shows forth and separates us from the what we were.  The fruit of the Spirit begins to shine forth.  The work of the Spirit in us is revealed in ways that cause those who knew us before too notice we are different.  We bring forth spiritual life that is exampled in any number of ways that are undeniably Christ centered.  By the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, we exercise dominion of the wicked behavior and lusts that controlled us in prior to our new birth.  We embrace the Sabbath, worship and the fellowship with true believers of Messiah Jesus.

We grow in grace, obedience and oneness with our Father in heaven through Christ His Son.  We abhor the sin in our lives and desire to be sanctified to God and used according to His will and purposes.  We desire to be servants.  We become ambassadors for Christ.

We live our lives in Christ in a way that steers us from the fatal sin of Adam that brought judgement and death into the world.  In our case we do not want to live our life in a way that will estrange us from our Heavenly Father and we live so as not to blaspheme the Holy Spirit – a grievous failing from which there is no return to reconciliation.

READ:

2 Corinthians 5:9-21 (KJV)

9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.