ALL THINGS NEW

ALL THINGS NEW

Nothing is of deeper importance at the commencement of our christian history than that we should accept, with some apprehension of its greatness, that the man that was under judgment is removed from the eye of God in judgment. We have to ponder, in order to realise the magnitude of it, and when we do believe it as a truth, another thing of equal importance is made known to us - that not only is the old man completely removed from the eye of God, but that by the Holy Spirit we are in Christ a new creation by the power of God; if we keep these two together we have a great start; one man is gone and Another is brought in, and this is established to us by the renewing of the Holy Spirit.

Now we enter on our new history. Properly, we are not occupied with the flesh; though the flesh is still in us, we “are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit” (Romans 8: 9) and our attention is largely given to walking in the Spirit. We have now a new exercise, even to sow to the Spirit and of the Spirit to reap life everlasting. “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh”. (Galatians 5: 16) This shows us how intent our eye must be on Christ; we have nothing to do with the man that is gone; and the more we realise this the happier we are - judicially freed of the one, and by the Spirit of God established in Christ. Everything we do now is done with reference to Christ; and not only is the body the Lord’s, but “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Corinthians 6: 17); we have to act according to His pleasure in the very management of the body, just as a slave would use his body according to the wishes of his owner.