Colossians 2:13, NLT
“You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.”
Beloved,
Not long ago, I ministered in a series called “Things An Unbeliever Should Never do Better Than You”. Beloved, if you are a believer in Christ Jesus, you have an advantage. In fact, you have many. Among the advantages you carry is that of a Born Again Spirit. Do you realize that immediately you gave your life to Christ, you died? Once you died, you received a new one, one that is far more superior. In fact, it is limitless. The Holy Spirit is the very essence of God. When Adam and Eve were in the garden, they spoke face to face with God and understood each other. They related on the same plane. Remember the account of when God created man:
Genesis 1:26
“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth….’.”
Imagine that. Maybe you love dogs. It might be that you are so good with them that you will tell the dog to “sit” and he sits; or you tell it to go and fetch and he will fetch whatever you sent him to get. Beloved, no matter how much you, a man might love and connect with puppies and dogs, I don’t think you will have an experience where you will come home from school or work and begin to tell your dog about your day and he will respond with empathy and wise counsel or heed anything from you outside of emotion or instruction. Why is that? You are of a different spirit. You are not the same. When Adam and Eve chose sin, their relationship with God changed forever, until He created a Way through the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. When we get born again our spirit comes alive.
In this short series we will look at the definition, character, power, and privilege of a born again spirit. Jesus didn’t convert stone to bread as tempted by the devil because he didn’t need to prove himself to Satan. It is because we don’t know the kind of spirit we have that makes believers to be victims in life. The knowledge of who you are in God will put in you a sense of dignity, purpose and honor. We will share more next time. Until then, I commend you to God and to the Word of His grace. I call you BLESSED and NATIONS.
