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God makes his children a new creature (creation) (2 Cor 5: 17; Gal 6: 15). In the end, the new spirit, new body and new heavens and earth will all be the work of the Creator, wherein all shall be created in perfect righteousness and holiness of Christ Jesus (Eph 4: 24; Rom 8: 9-12; 2 Pet 3: 13.) By looking at the beginning when God created the first heavens and earth, we behold how the LORD God makes the new creation.
The New Creation is By the Word (Genesis 1: 1; Heb 11: 1, 3) "In the beginning" is used two times in John 1: 1-2. Verse 1 speaks of a beginning which came before verse 2. Verse 2 is the beginning we are looking at in Genesis 1. In the beginning before God began creating the heaven and the earth, God the Father entrusted to God the Son in the eternal council and covenant of grace, the work of making his chosen children a new creation and of creating a new heavens and a new earth (Eph 1). The counsel and covenant is the Word. All begins by the Word. Then the Word began the work entrusted to him by first creating THIS heaven and earth and all things in it by his Word (Gen 1: 1; John 1: 1-4). Then the Word--the Covenant, the Sign--came in human flesh and put away the sin of his children, bringing in everlasting righteousness for them. (John 1: 14; Isa 42: 6; Is 7: 14; Mat 12: 38-41; 2 Cor 5: 19-21).
The Newly Created Child of God is by the Word (Genesis 1: 2). Here is a description of every sinner as we are born into this world and this is why no man can come to God until he be born of God and drawn of the Father: we are without form—vanity, void—empty, darkness upon the face of the deep—dead with no spiritual understanding (Eph 2: 21).
This new, inner creation begins with the Word. It pleased God to save by the preaching of the gospel (1 Cor 1: 21). John the Baptist was sent before Christ, for the express purpose of bearing witness of Christ the Light (John 1: 6-9; 1 Cor 1: 21). Just as men rejected John’s gospel, so when the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, though he was in the world, though the world was made by him, yet, the world did not know him. He even came unto his own and his own received him not (John 1: 10).
Yet, just as Christ Jesus literally came into our midst in this earth as John was preaching so Christ comes through the Spirit through the preaching of the Word. The Spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters, for except a man be born of the Spirit of God he cannot see and believe on Christ (John 3: 3-8) This work of Spirit is unstoppable just as the wind moves upon you and you do not move upon the wind.
The Word Speaks Light and There is Life (Genesis 1: 3) Again, we behold the Word speaking the Word and immediately there was light. Christ the Word is the Light and Life. (John 1: 4-5; 12). Spiritual Life comes by God speaking the Light of Life into dead, void, sinners through the Spirit through his gospel (Ps 33:6, 9; 148:5; Mt 8:3; Jn 11:43-44). The apostle Paul said, “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (2 Cor 4: 6-7).
The Good Light (Genesis 1: 4-5). The Light God saw and called good from before the foundation of the world, that Light which separates his children out of darkness into his marvelous light, which makes his newly created children to be children of the Day and no longer children of the night, is Christ Jesus the Light. As the Word creates us anew in spirit, so the Lord shall create our bodies anew when he returns (1 Cor 15: 5-57). So too, the new heavens and new earth shall be his righteous creation (Rev 21: 1-7).
Brethren, we spent the days of our darkness looking at creation (even religion tradition) trying to understand God. But when God gives the Light of Christ we look to God and then understand creation. “The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory” (Is 60: 19).
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