Do you know what actually happened to you on the spiritual level at salvation?

When we are born into this world, we are born into sin. We do not ‘become sinners,’ we are born with a sin nature, separate from God. (Romans 5:12 – Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.)

The Holy Spirit begins to draw you near to Him. He begins to “convict” you, of your need for God, to draw you to His presence. Some people will teach or say that they “found God,” they didn’t find God. God was always drawing them to Him by His Holy Spirit, from His love for us. (John 3:16- for God so loved the world, He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.)

When you felt His call, and decided to call upon the name of Jesus, confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart that salvation is yours because of Jesus, the Holy Spirit came to reside in you. The Bible says the old man passed away, and the new man has come, referring to your spirit made new. (2 Corinthians 5:17- Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new).

Your Spirit, at salvation, became just like that of Jesus- a new creature, made new. When God looks at you, He sees what Jesus did, and He sees you flawless, blameless. He doesn’t see the old sin nature anymore… not your generational likelihood of having this disease, condition or disability, what you did, what you’ve done, what you’ve messed up in the past, or what you will do in your future. (Romans 8:11- But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you// 1 John 4:17- Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.)

Stop here for a second, y’all. Think about this. Just let this sink in. When you call upon the name of Jesus, your nature changes forever. Your old man, your sin nature, is gone. Eliminated. Destroyed. Your new man, who’s just like Jesus, is the new you.

Have we embraced this? Are we putting on this new man? I hadn’t. I knew this was in the Bible, but I didn’t have this full understanding. The Bible says, “Ephesians 4:22-24- that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”

This new man, this is what people call, “who we are in Christ.” What we have now because of the precious blood of Jesus, what he came for us to have. Jesus didn’t come for us to just get saved, making it to heaven one day. It doesn’t stop at the cross, it starts at the cross.

We start taking back now, going after God’s kids who are decieved, lost, scared, confused.

He didn’t come to just hang out and exist inside of us, while we continued to carry on with our lives however we choose, by doing what just feels good.

We miss out on so much richness in life, so much goodness of God, by not walking daily with Him involved in it all.

That’s not the abundance Jesus died to give.

Salvation the Bible teaches is not to just get sins forgiven, to endure life on earth and get to heaven.

It’s to be able to enter into intimacy with God, right now, here.

He’s your very best friend, closer than any other person.

He came to equip us with the Holy Spirit, to live out the call He places on us. We can’t do what He needs us to do in this life without His Spirit.

Let’s embrace it.

Let’s learn the truth. Know the truth of God’s word, His words to us.

Let’s be free.

Jessica Merck

May 3, 2022

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