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A New Creation IN Christ
by Jimmy Ned Collins "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"! (2Cor 5:17). But the New Creation is ONLY In Christ, nowhere else, and we MUST BEHOLD IT! From being found In Him, as Paul said in Philippians, we have Good News. In Him there IS Good News. The verse I am thinking of is Isaiah 52:7, "How beautiful upon the mountain... ." This Mountain represents Mount Zion, and Mount Zion represents believers found In Christ, and here is where they are being changed into that same image from glory to glory/strength to strength, from one creation to an altogether Other "New Creation"! (2Cor 3:18; Ps 84:7). From being In Zion, In Christ, we have Good News, because Here (and only Here in Christ) there is only Good News, there is only the New Creation to behold. And this is what we declare, speak, publish, etc... . 2Cor 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. Isa 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Ps 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. Jimmy Ned Collins is a bilingual Bible Teacher, writer, and editor at the C.M.I. Bible Research Center in Leslie, Arkansas. For more Christ-centered writings, audio and video teachings from Jimmy Ned Collins and fellow laborers in Christ, visit www.cmintl.org email at: [email protected] Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |