New Life "in Christ"

The Christian life brings Spiritual life, from the Holy Spirit.  We all have life in ourselves in our human spirit with differing personalities, circumstances, and environments.  But over and above, within and throughout, when a person becomes a Christian the Holy Spirit makes all things new. 

The Apostle Paul describes this truth in Second Corinthians 5:17 by saying, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."  The people in Corinth at that time were caught up in a very worldly culture and needed to understand that being a Christian wasn't just another worldly religion.  It was a complete change of a person from within their soul by the Holy Spirit. 

Paul goes on to explain in the next chapter that as a Christian he sought to live his life, "by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God," etc, Ch. 6:6-7.  He gives a long list of sources of power to live in this new life.

The Holy Spirit is seen to be the key to becoming a Christian and one of the keys to living out the Christian life.  We need the power of God to live in Christ and the Holy Spirit is that power because He is the presence of God with us.  He uses the "word of truth" as well to describe this wonderful life in Christ.  

We can read much more that Paul describes the Christian life to be, but it is a life that is "in Christ" as Christ is in us through the Word of Truth, inspired and illuminated by the Holy Spirit.  This Spiritual life will lead us to become like Christ and to live for him.

FAITH TODAY: 2 Cor. 5:17 - "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."