SNT 1129 Living Victoriously With and For God

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The child of wrath is gone; you are a new creature. I taught you the record from II Peter, chapter 1, concerning being partakers of the divine nature, the new nature. The old man nature is one thing; the new nature of God in Christ in you is a new creation, that is why old things are passed away. II Corinthians 5:17b, 18: ...behold, all things are become new. And all things [Here is a figure of speech, an ellipsis. It omits, and requires the supply of, the word “new.” Thus it should read, “and all things new...”] are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,... He “hath reconciled”, and if God reconciled us, then we are reconciled. No matter what the world says. No matter what you feel like. It has nothing to do with feelings; it has everything to do with what God wrought in Christ Jesus. He hath reconciled. You do not have to pray about it, simply get born again and you