A New Creation

From the Pastor: Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, …” (II Cor. 5:17-18a)

The word “new” has the idea of having been freshly or recently made. The word “creature” from the language refers to having been caused to come into existence, or to originate a formation. Living organisms produce offspring from that which already exists. This new creation is an original formation by the sole act of the sovereignty of God.

The new living spiritual person within each believer required God to create and insert him into a fleshly body. It is placed there on a temporary basis, which some have referred to as an incubation period (a time for growth). The idea is that the newly created spiritual being, which has the eternal nature of God by birth and its purity by the blood of Christ, was by divine purpose tabernacled in a fleshly body to await the unveiling of the Sons of God. God specially designed this freshly created entity for the state of a holy eternity. It could not exist in harmony with God without His creative act, for any act of man would leave him at enmity with God.

With the new creature “all things are become new.” “And” these “all things are of God.” The grossly sinful flesh of man has no appeal to the holy character of God. The body is a putrefying stench in the nostrils of the holy purity of the heaven of heavens’ righteousness. The body is sin and cannot co-exist with our sinless Redeemer. Therefore, everything about the new creation of God in the believer must of necessity come down from the Father, because all must be holy as He is holy, and man is incapable of the production of the minutest hint of true godliness. Hence, God equips His new creation with all that is required of him. He is engulfed in a protective shell of the purity of God and His Christ.