Banquet With The King: What Kind of Creation are You?

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

What Kind of Creation are You?

Prayer – Lord Jesus, You are the vine…I am a branch. I can do nothing without You. Fill me with Your wisdom that I would be renewed spiritually and fruitful creation for You.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

Meditate. Consider new things in this new week, new month, new year.

Are you a new creation in Christ?

If…. That is a powerful word. It is related to “when” and we could rephrase this verse as…when a person is in Christ, he becomes a new person—his old nature goes away and he is reborn. Remember how Jesus spoke to Nicodemus about being reborn—a spiritual birth. The kingdom of God is a spiritual realm that is only entered with a spiritual birth. Read Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus in John 3.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3 NKJV

The Amplified version of our focus verse today in Corinthians gives some great words…grafted in. We become part of Christ as our old human sinful nature goes away.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]. 2 Corinthians 5:17 AMP

Would you want to be grafted in an old olive tree?
Garden of Gethsemane
Jerusalem, Israel

Just like in an orchard…new branches are grafted into the main tree and will produce fruit. Jesus spoke of Himself being the vine and His followers are the branches. It is important to be part of Jesus…to live, remain, or abide in Him so that your life will produce fruit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. John 15:4-8 NKJV

Are you…or do you want to be…a new creation—grafted into Christ?

Verses of Salvation ~ But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:20-24 NKJV

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