Don’t forget you are new
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Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
In other words, Christians are not to evaluate people based on mere physical appearances like age, gender, or ethnicity but based on their eternal destinies
Similarly, we don’t evaluate Christ from a worldly perspective. He is no mere crucified first-century Jewish man; rather, he is the risen Savior and King who is seated at the right hand of the Father. We must see and evaluate things according to their heavenly, spiritual realities—not their mere earthly, physical, racial, and temporal appearances.
When you are in Christ your identity is no longer who you once were. The old man has passed away.
But we live in accordance to Who we are in Christ. This is our new identity.
Kenneth Wuest
vs 17 So that, assuming that anyone is in Christ, he is a creation new in quality. The antiquated, out-of-date things [which do not belong to the new life in Christ Jesus] have passed away. Behold, all things have become new in quality.
18–21 But the aforementioned all things are from God as a source, the One who reconciled us to himself through the intermediate agency of Christ and gave to us the ministry whose work is that of proclaiming the message of this reconciliation, namely, that absolute deity in Christ was reconciling the world [of sinners] to himself, not putting down on the liability side of their ledger their trespasses,
Christ exist before all things and sustains all things Col. 1:16-17.
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
We serve a God of all things!
Is there anything anything to hard for God. No! Because He is over all things.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
We serve a God Who is in control of all things. He does all things according to the counsel of His will.
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
He gives us all things to enjoy.
But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
With Christ all things are possible.
