Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
It is of no value whether you are of the circumcision or of the uncircumcision. It does not matter whether you are a Jew or a Gentile. It does not matter whether you have the Law or have not the Law. It does not matter whether you have a codified rule book that you follow or whether you live by your conscience. What matters is the new creature. This is what matters to God, that men be born again.
This however does not say that it doesn’t matter whether you live in righteousness or you live in sin. This should be clear. But whether you are of the circumscision or of the uncircumcision, whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, your own righteousness counts for nothing. What counts is the new creature. In Tit 3:5 it says, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.” So then, if our righteousness counts for nothing how much less will our unrighteousness count?
What matters is the new creature. This is what matters to God, that men be born again. So what does it mean to be born again? Let’s look at the topic again. We are talking about Spiritual Time Warp. And Scripture tells us in Rom 6:3, “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” And in Rom 6:6, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him…” And so therefore we are what Col 2:12 says, “Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”
It is of no value whether you are of the circumcision or of the uncircumcision. It does not matter whether you are a Jew or a Gentile. It does not matter whether you have the Law or have not the Law. It does not matter whether you have a codified rule book that you follow or whether you live by your conscience. What matters is the new creature. This is what matters to God, that men be born again.
This however does not say that it doesn’t matter whether you live in righteousness or you live in sin. This should be clear. But whether you are of the circumscision or of the uncircumcision, whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, your own righteousness counts for nothing. What counts is the new creature. In Tit 3:5 it says, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.” So then, if our righteousness counts for nothing how much less will our unrighteousness count?
What matters is the new creature. This is what matters to God, that men be born again. So what does it mean to be born again? Let’s look at the topic again. We are talking about Spiritual Time Warp. And Scripture tells us in Rom 6:3, “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” And in Rom 6:6, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him…” And so therefore we are what Col 2:12 says, “Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”
Where then is the spiritual time warp? It is here: When a person believes in Christ, in the spirit he is taken back in time to that cross and be crucified with Jesus Christ, and he is buried with Him in baptism, and as the Lord Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, he also is raised up from the dead as a new creature in Christ. This is he who is born of Water and of the Spirit. Born not of the will of man, but of God. How fast does this happen? We can only guess. It is the operation of God.
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