We’ve started a new series called A New Me! and our core scripture is Galatians 2:20.

“So here I am dead and alive at the same time. I’m dead to the old me I was trying to be and alive to the real me which is Christ in me. Co-crucified, now co-alive. What a glorious entanglement. I was in Him in His death; now I discover that He is infused in me, in my life. For the first time, I’m free to be me in my skin, immersed in His faith in our joint-sonship. He loves me and believes in me. He is God’s gift to me.” – GALATIANS 2:20 (MIRROR)

I am dead and alive at the same time. How does that happen?  And how is it that I was in Him in His death and now discover that He is infused in me in my life?

We need to recognize that we were perfectly created to house God. By the end of this series, I believe you’re going to understand just how much value you have – how God sees you and how He sees Himself in you.

God created you to carry Him; you’re that earthen vessel with the treasure in you that is Christ in you so that you can live a life with Him.

There’s a question Christians struggle with: “How can I be a new creation (alive) and still function in the old dead ways? The Bible says I’m a new person, but my experience and actions say otherwise. I still say, do and think the same stupid thoughts.”

We ask God to help, change and fix us. The good news is, He already has. The problem is that we confuse our position with behavior. The enemy wants you to stay conscious of your failings – sins – and wants you to remember them and think you’re not good enough. But God…

Position and Behavior

“But God, Who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…” – EPHESIANS 2:4-6 (NKJV)

Jesus came to set us free from our old thought patterns. We don’t go to God because of our behavior; we go to God because of His behavior. His behavior then placed us in heavenly places with Him. We need to maintain a positional and righteousness thought process, not a sin consciousness. Romans 4:25 reminds us Jesus died for our sins but was resurrected for our righteousness.

Ephesians 2:4-6 is all about God’s doing. And realize that our position is now together with Christ. we’re not trying to obtain oneness with Christ; we already have it. We’re not trying to convince God of OUR goodness; what we need to do is convince ourselves of HIS goodness and what He’s done for us.

My position can never alter because Jesus never changes His position and I’m in Him. We’re held safe and secure in Jesus.

Ephesians 1:13 says that we’re sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. The word “sealed” is like when you can food and seal it in a vacuum pack. Nothing can get in. No sin can penetrate that seal of the Holy Spirit and corrupt your spirit.

“But John, I still make mistakes and Jesus never did.” We are three-part beings: We are a spirit; we have a soul and we live in a body.  Our spirit – which is our TRUE us – has been transformed to be just like Jesus.  This is great news because our spirit is what the Father God sees.

To God, we look just like Jesus. We’re joint heirs, we have the same DNA. The Father sees us as His sons and daughters 100% like He sees Jesus. We have the same position and authority. Everything that God has in place for Jesus has now been put in place for us; we have access to it so that we can be like Jesus.

God’s not waiting for us to reach a certain level before He gives us something; He freely giving us ALL spiritual blessings. If you want those spiritual blessings, it’s not about DOING but it’s by believing. “Religion” and the world wants you to do and do and do, but God says to believe, believe, believe!

By believing, it inspires action. We don’t do anything to obtain; we believe and therefore we do.

If we see ourselves in the mirror and we’re thinking, “I’ve failed and messed up and done things wrong,” then we’re looking and the wrong us. We need to use God’s Word as a mirror and proclaim “THIS is who I am. It’s Christ in me, the hope of glory (God’s opinion of us).”

A New Me!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT) tells us, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” The old life led to spiritual death. The new life leads to spiritual life. It’s the life Jesus talked about. He’s here to bring life and that life more abundantly.

So where did this new life take place? It took place in our spirit (not our soul or body). That’s where the confusion takes place. We get born again, we wake up the next morning and look in the mirror, and we still look the same. We might even have the same thoughts. That’s why Romans 12:2 says we need to be renewed in our minds (our souls) by getting into the Word of God. THAT will greatly help us clearly see, believe and live.

Watch the May 8, 2022 service on which this post is based: CLICK HERE.