STEP INTO GREATNESS.... BECAUSE YOU ARE A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS, THE OLD IS GONE.... THE NEW HAS COME!!! CHRIST IN YOU IS REALLY GREAT!!! YOU NOW HAVE THE DNA OF THE MOST HIGH GOD... GREATNESS IS
IN YOUR GENES.... LIVE WITH THE ATTITUDE OF A WINNER AND BOLDLY ENFORCE YOUR BLESSINGS THAT GOD HAS ALREADY BLESSED YOU WITH IN JESUS (Ephes1:3).
Have a FANTASTIC DAY WITH CHRIST IN YOU YOUR CONFIDENT EXPECTATION OF
GLORY.......

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTOONAL

A SUPPLANTING OF THE OLD BY THE NEW.

THURSDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2014. PASTOR CHRIS

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).

There's an erroneous doctrine of "the dual nature," believed among some Christians. They believe that the Christian has two natures: the old nature and the new nature, and that if he yields to the old nature, he'll do the wrong things, but if he yields to the new nature, he'll do the right things. That's not what the Bible teaches. The Christian doesn't have two natures. When you were born again, the old nature of sin was supplanted with God's nature of righteousness. The Bible declares in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "...old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

Some Christians, upon acting contrary to the Word, would say, "The old man in me rose up." If you're born again, you no longer have "an old man"; you're a completely new species; one that never existed before. You only have one nature, and that's the divine nature. Your body may look the same, but every ounce of human life in it has been replaced with the divine life of God! Therefore, you're not supposed to be subject to the elements of this world or the vagaries of nature; you're to live above them.

In Romans 6:6, the Apostle Paul shows us something striking and remarkable, that fully debunks the erroneous notion that the Christian has two natures. He writes, "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." God's mirror -- His Word -- shows your real picture in Christ. It shows here that the old nature has been crucified in Christ; it's not hiding somewhere deep down inside you, waiting to be reactivated. Your conduct as a Christian must now reflect your new personality in Christ Jesus -- your new nature, which is that of righteousness.

PRAYER:
Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for giving me your righteousness as a gift, and inspiring me to be righteousness-conscious. I'm dead to sin, but alive to God, having put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:
Romans 10:6(CEV)
But people whose faith makes them acceptable to God will never ask, “Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?”

Romans 6:13-14 (AMP)
13 Do not continue offering or yielding your bodily members [and a faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and b faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God's favor and mercy].

DAILY SCRIPTURE READING:
1 Year Bible Reading Plan: Acts 8:9-40;2 Chronicles 33-34
2 Year Bible Reading Plan: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10;Isaiah 5-6.