The one new man

If this was purely the dream of the man, called “Paul,” then he could write novels or dramas such as no Dickens or Shakespeare ever approximated.

But it was not the dream of Paul; it was the dream of the Father God.

Ephesians 2:15-16, “That he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.”

There was enmity between the Jew under Law, and the Gentile without Law.

Now that enmity is slain when the Jew and the Gentile are Born Again, and both of them come into the body of Christ where they are “one new man.”

This New Creation teaching is the master stroke of God.

II Corinthians 5:17-18, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are became new. But all these things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.”

If God had simply forgiven man what he had done, and did nothing more, man would continue to commit sin.

But God does not forgive the sinner. He makes him a New Creation. He remits, wipes out, all that the sinner has ever done. He stops a man being a sinner, and makes him a saint by the New Creation.

He imparts to him His own nature. Old things pass away. All things become new in Christ.

Ephesians 4:24, “And put on the new man, that after God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”

This New Creation is made out of righteousness, so he is righteousness.

He is made out of holiness, so he is holy.

He is made out of truth, so he is real.

The Father actually unveils His very genius in this New Birth.

We are the workmanship of God in Christ Jesus.