Starting New Again

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

 

“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.  …  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.” (Col. 3:3, 10) 

Real pure belief in the Gospel – “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that was buried, and that he (bodily) rose again the third day according to the scriptures. - I Cor.15:3-4) – is evidence of regeneration wrought out of the power of the Holy Spirit of God.  Only a faith in the sacrificial blood of the Lamb of God as payment in full for the judgment and penalty of our sins will stand guiltless before the throne of God. Such a wondrous salvation provokes unbridled Hallelujahs shouting Grace, Grace, All by His Amazing Grace!!!  We are saved to the uttermost by the Lamb’s blood.  Anything less is empty of any hope of eternal life. 

The carnal sinful man is dead because there is a new man created within the believer, and this new man is hid away secretly with Christ in the bosom of the Everlasting Father.  He is held securely by the strength of the Father’s hand where His enemies have not even the slightest opportunity to snatch them away.  May He be praised! 

In verse 10 – the “new man” references that which is recently born.  The word “renewed” means re-new, that is, new again.  Remember, Jesus said: “Ye must be born again.” (Jn. 3:7)  Paul uses “new man, new creature, newness of life,” and other similar words.  It must be understood that in authentic salvation there is the birth of a new man within the believing one which is secured in the most secret places of the Eternal God’s bosom.  Trust in thy God!  

Having been born new again reveals one’s precise and correct knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus.  Incorrect knowledge will result in a “still birth,” in a dead faith, and the absence of the new life of a spiritual man – dead fleshly and dead spiritually.  The evidences of having been born new again are unveiled “after the image of him that created him.”  Righteousness begets righteousness; it is written.