Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come into being. 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:

After Adam sinned and gave his life over to the devil a change took place within him that descended through him down to all born of his seed to this day and affected the entire planet. Death entered him and through his seed and his dominion over the works of My hands upon the earth, it pervaded the earth. He corrupted all creation—mankind, beasts, birds, fish, insects, plants, and the very atmosphere. Man’s spirit became dead to Me and alive to sin. And every desire of his heart became wicked.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.” Genesis 6:5-7.

The earth was filled with violence and perversion. I was ready to destroy all and start anew. But there was a glimmer of hope. If a person allowed Me into his or her life and walked with Me, that is, entered Covenant with Me, the hearing of My Word brought light into their darkened minds and hearts, for under it all there was still a smoldering wick of the spirit I had made in My image and according to My likeness. And My Word is living and active and can pierce as far as the division of soul and spirit and discern and judge the thoughts and intentions of your heart. A bruised reed I will not crush and a smoldering wick I will not quench.

Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the street. A bruised reed He will not break and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not be disheartened or crushed until He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.” Thus says God the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its vegetation, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it, “I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, and I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison. I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. Behold, the former things have come to pass, now I declare new things; before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Isaiah 42:1-9.

I am doing something new, with you. I make all things new. No corruption can enter eternity. All must be created anew in Christ. You must be born from above to enter the Kingdom.

And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” John 8:23-24.

But let Me back up to the time of the great flood. At that time, I found Noah who drew close and walked with Me and listened to My Words. And in him there was a resting place where My grace could land. For I already had a plan in place since before the foundation of the world, grace would come through My Word become flesh in a perfect man, My Son. And to all who would receive Him, He would give authority to become My children, not begotten of man, but of Me. He was to be your sin offering in whom you would be raised up entirely new. So I taught those who would walk with Me the sacrifice of the unblemished lamb. Beauty from the ashes of the burnt offering.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:12-14.

Not rehabilitated, not repaired, not improved, not remodeled from old material, but a new creation born of nothing material, that is, of this world, but created anew by My Word, born from above by My Word.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. Hebrews 11:2.

For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring Word of God. For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off, but the Word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the Word which was preached to you. 1 Peter 1:23-24.

For just as My Spirit hovered over a dark and empty void and I spoke “light be” and the earth and the entire universe was born and the visible was made from the invisible, so too you have become a new creation in Christ. The physical was born out of the spiritual. For I am Spirit and all life is from Me.

For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves. 2 Corinthians 4:6-7.

The “old man” that brought down My wrath in the flood in the days of Noah is gone in those who are born again from above by My Word in Jesus Christ, for you all is new. The “old man” that is within you when you are born physically into the world can only die, he is born of perishable seed and the spirit in him is dead to Me and alive to sin, and the wages of sin is death. Conceived in sin, he is destined for wrath.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. Ephesians 2:1-3.

To be saved, the old self must die, the wages of sin is death, and the inner man must be transformed from death to life, you must be created completely new within by water and the Spirit.

And this is what happens for you in and with Jesus through His death, burial, descent to hell, and resurrection as the firstborn of many brethren. In spirit, when you receive Him as your Lord, by substitution and identification, you unite as one spirit with Him and you die to your old self and are created completely new, a new creation in Christ, My masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus, born of the Word spoken in truth. This all is done in the spirit, not in your body. You are the new creation that all creation has been looking for and travailing for. In Christ, with you as members of His body, the church, all creation will be raised up to new heavens and a new earth where righteousness dwells.

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:3-8.

Born of My Spirit as in the beginning all things were made, you become a new creation in Christ, behold the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come into being—an entirely brand new you, a temple of My Spirit.

You take away their spirit, they expire and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. Psalm 104:29-30.

And how can this take place? Not by man but by Me. It is from Me. You cannot recreate yourself. I create you anew, not from the old but entirely new. You must understand when you are born from above by My Word in Christ Jesus you are entirely different, a new creation in Christ. A masterpiece, the crown of all creation, born of pure love. You are what all creation has been looking for, groaning for, longing for.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship (masterpiece), created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:4-10.

This is why baptism is so important. The old man of the heart is headed for wrath, he cannot be fixed, he has to be destroyed and done away with, all has to start new. Read this and understand what I am telling you:

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self (Anthropos, that is “man”) was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Romans 6:3-7.

But let us go on to even more.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:8-14.

The devil goes after the perfection of My creation and tries to pervert it by taking the very man I create in My image into evil to destroy what I have made in my world and then for the man to destroy himself. He puts man on a mission of mass destruction to destroy as much as he can and then himself. You see this today in the mass shootings and bombings. He succeeded with Adam but for you who are a new creation he cannot get into your inner sanctuary for I have made you something Adam was not, a temple of My Spirit. A highly decorated and adorned inner chamber of the Holy of Holies which he cannot penetrate. As a new creation you have nothing in common with the devil. But those not born from above are still joined to the devil.

Do not be bound (unequally yoked) together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with the devil, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the LORD, “And do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you. And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” says the LORD Almighty. 2 Corinthains 6:14-18.

Because when you are born from above, you are sealed in Christ by the Holy Spirit, the devil cannot penetrate into your spirit to take possession of you, so he tries to work on your soul, that is, your mind, will, and emotions so that even if he cannot get to your inner spirit he can destroy the outer man, that is, your mind and your body so that you are useless to do Kingdom work on earth. To understand, this, you must know that right now it is a new creation in your inner self, in your spirit, not your physical body. Your soul (mind, will, and emotions) and your body still look the same, and your soul must be transformed by the renewal of your mind to knowing who you are within, but this is just the first step of redemption, when Christ returns you will receive the full redemption of your body to match your new creation in the inner man.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16.

And what is in the new creation of your inner man? A temple, a sanctuary of indescribable beauty.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17.

When you learn what you have, the priceless treasure within your earthen vessel, you will begin to have new respect for the sanctity of the body.

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20.

But I am jumping ahead, for this is the next Life Lesson of what I have done in your spirit when you are born from above as a new creation in Christ. You become the temple of My Spirit, a house of God and a gate of Heaven. If you have a vision of who you are inside as a new creation you will be filled with awesome wonder at so lovely and magnificent a temple within you. My sanctuary, our secret place in your heart. You will want to spend more time there with Me. The tabernacle of Moses, the temple of Solomon, the most beautiful cathedrals filled with precious treasures and wondrous works of art, are as nothing compared to what I have fashioned within you.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart moves him you shall raise My contribution. This is the contribution which you are to raise from them: gold, silver and bronze, blue, purple and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair, rams’ skins dyed red, tachash skins, acacia wood, oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece. Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it. Exodus 25:1-9.

I love you. It has always been My heart’s desire to dwell with you since the beginning, starting in the garden of Eden. Man rejected Me but I found a way, the new and living Way, to bring you home to Me, where you belong. You are brand new in Jesus. Do you begin to see what you are offering to those still under the wrath, trapped in sin, when you offer them the good news of salvation in Christ? You are offering them to become a new creation of such splendor and majesty it is beyond human comprehension at this time. In the Spirit, you can get a revelation as in a mirror dimly but the full vision of it is beyond human understanding this side of the light line. It is My glory in you.