The Significance Of A New Creation-7 Series

The SIGNIFICANCE Of A NEW CREATION-VII—2Corinthians 5:9--6:10

Attention:

Barefoot Gators...

The lady expected the alligators to have/be something they didn’t or actually couldn’t!

God RIGHTLY expects His people to have & be something they cannot have or be, apart from Him! A true Christian receives a new nature.

With that new nature, you can circumvent life’s disappointments!

Need:

My life seems hollow...I’m missing something.

I can’t seems to rise above the sinful desires of my heart.

The key to our verses is 2Cor. 5:17—“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

Paul clarified the significance of being a new creation in Christ to the Corinthian church.

There is significance to being a new creation in Christ.

But what is significant about being a new creation in Christ?

10+ significations/signifiers of being a new creation in Christ.

Previously we have found that A new creation is significant in its New...

1. PLEASUREs(5:9)

2. RECEPTION(5:10)

3. PERSUASION(5:11)

4. OPPORTUNITY(5:12)

5. SOUND INSANITY/Risk(5:13)

6. LOVE(5:14-15)

7. CONSIDERATIONS(5:16)

8—A new creation is significant in its New...

NEWNESS(5:17)

Explanation:(5:17)Creation/Creature

5:17—“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

This is the hinge upon which this chapter(& the following) hangs. Our very being has changed in Christ Jesus. Thru Him we have become something/someone other than what/who we were.

Thereby, those things that defined our former life(prior to Christ) “have” vanished/disappeared with the “old” & former. “Behold”—Pay attention!, Take notice!, WooHoo!—Every aspect of our life has become “new”! We thereby approach our world in a “new” fashion, with “new” eyes, energies & drives/motives, attentions, focus, hindrances, etc..

?Has anyone here ever gotten used to doing something a certain way?

You had become so convinced of a course of action that it’s either ‘your way or the highway.’

Change can or is sometimes difficult because of our beliefs...what we’re used to...those things which we have accepted as normative. Our beliefs are deeply personal holdings. They are especially so given that our beliefs are tied to our individually unique life situations. They are interwoven with our personality.

Therefore anything “new”(belief/thought/action) that challenges our long-held belief, we tend to call ‘change for change’s sake’ & resign it to nonsense.

*However the change God brings & seeks to bring, is anything but nonsense!

“Anyone”—ei tiv—Pronoun—1) Whoever, whatever. Strong—If any.

From—ei—a primary particle of conditionality; If, whether, that, etc.—&—tiv—an enclitic indefinite pronoun; Some or any person or object.

“In”(See :19)—en—Preposition—1) In, by, with etc.. Strong—a primary preposition denoting (fixed)position(in place, time or state), & by implication--Instrumentality(medially or constructively), i.e. A relation of rest(intermediate between eiv[into, unto, to, towards, for, among] & ek/ex[out of, from, by, away from]).

“New”2X—kainov—Adj.—1)New—1a) as respects form—1a1) Recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn, 1b) as respects substance—1b1) Of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of. Kainov denotes the new primarily in reference to quality, the fresh, unworn. Kainov is the new under the aspect of quality, that which has not seen service. Kainov therefore often means new as contrasted with that which has decayed with age, or is worn out, its opposite then being palaiov. It sometimes suggests that which is unusual. It often implies praise, the new as superior to the old. Occasionally, on the other hand, it implies the opposite, the new as inferior to that which is old, because the old is familiar or because it has improved with age. Of course it is evident that both neov & kainov may sometimes be applied to the same object, but from different points of view. Strong—of uncertain affinity; New (especially in freshness; while neov is properly so with respect to age).

“Creation”—ktisiv—Noun Fem.—1) The act of founding, establishing, building etc.—1a) The act of creating, creation, 1b) Creation i.e. Thing created—1b1) Of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation—1b1a) Anything created, 1b1b) After a rabbinical usage(by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called), 1b1c) The sum or aggregate of things created, 1c) Institution, ordinance. Strong—Original formation(properly--The act; by implication--The thing, literally or figuratively).

“Old things”—arcaiov—Adj.—1) That[sic.-which] has been from the beginning, original, primal, old ancient—1a) Of men, things, times, conditions. Arcaiov often carries with it a suggestion of nature or original character. According to their derivation, palaiov is that which has been in existence for a long time, arcaiov that which has been from the beginning. In use, at times no distinction can be drawn. Often, however, arcaiov does denote distinctively that which has been from the beginning, & so it reaches back to a point of time beyond palaiov. Palaiov has often the secondary meaning of that which is old & so worn out, having suffered more or less from the injuries & ravages of time, its opposite in this sense being kainov. Strong—from arch[(properly abstract)A commencement, or concretely--Chief(in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)]; Original or primeval. Used 12X.