Lesson 5: A New Creation In Christ.
Purpose: Steps of comprehension in the New Creation through the study of the Old Creation.
In lesson 4 we studied scripture that helps us understand our New Life in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
In Lesson 5 we will start a series of lessons that will help us see God’s dealing in our New Life in Christ. We will study steps that the Spirit of God will use to bring us to a greater comprehension of the New Creation, that we are, in Christ.
These steps, which I have diagrammed above, are not necessarily in order, nor do they correspond to an exact day, however, steps one and two certainly do. In this lesson we will study step one.
Scripture: The Holy Bible, King James Version
Genesis 1:1-31 (KJV)
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
4 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. )
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 and God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1-3 (KJV)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Read the scripture and see if you can see the steps of the old creations. It will help you to relate to the types as we study this steps in relation to the New Creation, which we are, in Christ.
In the beginning God created. This is the first step in the old creation it is also the first step in the new creation. When we are born again we become a new creation in Christ. We also are without form and void of Spiritual Comprehension. We are in darkness. We have been brought into the Kingdom of Light, but retain the understanding of the Kingdom of Darkness.
We will remain this way until moved upon by the Spirit of God’s Son, Galatians. 4:6. Many Christians have never had this experience. It is what the Apostle Paul calls , "The Revelation of Christ".
Galatians 1:11-12 (KJV) 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.,
Many Christians still walk in darkness and void of Spiritual comprehension because the only Gospel they know comes by man and not by the Spirit. We pray and ask Jesus to save us so instead of going to hell we can go to heaven. That’s about as far as many Christians come in the comprehension of the New Creation, which we are in Christ. It is only the Spirit who can bring the light that will penetrate and dispel the darkness. Often it takes a crisis in our life, or a deep desire to move closer to God before we cry out to know Him. In Galatians we have a picture of this Christian that is the Father’s house but has no comprehension of who he is.
Galatians 4:1-7 (KJV) 1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Are you in the Father’s house? Yes! Are you an heir in Christ? Yes! Are you still thinking like a servant? If so God puts you under tutors and governors, to teach and restrain until the time appointed by the Father. You will know the appointed time when it comes. It will be a time of frustration, confusion, dissatisfaction, a realization of spiritual emptiness. When it comes take that opportunity to find a place of prayer, just you and your bible and stay there until Christ is revealed in you. That’s the light. That comes by the Spirit of God’s Son.
Next lesson we will discuss the light.