When a man becomes a New Creation,

When a man becomes a New Creation, he receives the same Righteousness that Jesus had. That Righteousness makes him a master of demons; makes him a master of circumstances. He is not afraid of Satan, or anything Satan can do or has done. "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed ; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." (Isa.41:10). That belongs to us today. That is a picture of the 'New Creation. Not only did He give us Eternal Life and the great mighty Holy Spirit to live in our bodies, but He has made us the Righteousness of God in Christ.

Jesus' life during His earth walk was amazing to men of sense knowledge. Righteousness made Jesus absolute master of every situation, master of all men because all men were sin-conscious. Jesus was not. Shakespeare said, "Sin makes cowards of us all." He struck the tap-root of the sin problem.

When a man becomes a New Creation, he receives the same Righteousness that Jesus had. Jesus becomes his Righteousness. (I Cor. 1 :30). That Righteousness makes him a master of demons; makes him a master of circumstances. He is not afraid of Satan, or anything Satan can do or has done. The early Church lived the new Creation in Reality. They were the Righteousness of God in actual demonstration. Not only did the early Christians have Righteousness given to them but they were made the Righteousness of God in Christ. When they received the Righteous Nature of the Father, that Nature made them Righteous. When they received the Love Nature of the Father, it made them Sons of Love. That is the reason they could suffer any kind of persecution and yet love the persecutor. Jesus loved Judas and the man who drove the nails into His hands and feet. Paul loved the men who beat him and stoned him. Stephen, when he was dying, said, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do." That was a new kind of Love the world had never known. God is Love. The New Creation has the Love Nature of the Father. There is another outstanding feature that we must not overlook. We have known God as a Loving God, a just God, a Holy God, but we have never thought of Him as a Faith God. That is an outstanding characteristic of God. He created the Universe by Faith. Everything that came into being at Creation, came into being by faith. All He did was to say, "Let there be" and things became. God is a Faith God. No doubt everyone reading this will look back at his early Christian life. When he was first Born Again he was filled with love; he was filled with zeal that was born of faith. Could he have had the right teaching, he would have walked into a life of Faith that would have shaken the community. You see, we become partakers of the Faith and Nature of God. That explains that passage in Rom. 12:3: "According as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith." Every man at the New Birth has a measure of Faith. That measure can be increased as he uses it. But under the modern teaching, what faith was given to him in the New Birth is usually destroyed by sense knowledge teaching. We must not omit Eph. 2:10: "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them." If we could continually remember that we are God's New Creations; that He was the Author and Finisher of these New Creations, just as He is the Author and Finisher of Faith, then life would be victorious. He gave birth to us in the birth throes of agony in His Substitutionary work. We are the product of that birth. You see, we have become the Sons and Daughters of God. We remember that Jesus is our example. Jesus never tried to believe. He acted on the Word of His Father. He never sought Faith. He said He did what His Father told Him to do. We urge the unsaved to get something. We should urge them to act on the Word. Jesus belongs to them. All they need to do is to confess His Lordship, and the moment they do they receive Eternal Life. Believing is acting on the Word. The believer is one who has acted on the Word. The unbeliever is one who has not yet acted. The one is a possesser; the other may be merely a seeker after something that he has not claimed as his own. I want you to know in your heart that you are what He says you are. He wants you to act it, to confess what He has done in you; what He has made you to be. This will glorify Him and strengthen your Faith. To deny what we are and to tell what Satan is doing in our bodies or minds, is denying what we are in Christ. All things are possible now, for we are the children of God. We are united with Him.

New Creation Realities.