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 (KJV)
We became new man after born-again experience in our lives. Our spirits were regenerated by the Holy Spirit and He Himself dwells in our spirit or the inner man, or the other meaning : we were sealed with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13), thus we became the Living Temple of God (1 Corinthians 3:16). The Bible speaks about God in Three Persons, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit (2 Cor 13:13), man also is composed of three different bodies or nature spirit, soul and body (1 Thess 5:23) not to be confused with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. (here i am trying to bring the resemblance).
The Question here comes, Who is the Real you ? It is your body? your soul ? or your spirit ? Answering to this questions: the Real you is your inner man or your spirit. Here is the answer form the Bible Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 the spirit will return to God, not body or soul, then that is clear the spirit is the Real you.
Are we nurturing just our body and soul ? and forget about our Real Personality the inner man or spirit ? How do we nurturing our body, everyone knows that we need to eat to nurture our body.Then how do we nurture our soul by reading or educating ourselves. But how do we nurture our spirit ? most of the people in the World does not know this fact, but we knew it and the Word of God taught us that by Only God's Word we can be fed, Jesus said " It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." Luke 4:4. That's how we feed or nurture our inner man (spirit). And by the leading of the Spirit of God we can be able to nurture our spirit man, But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 2:10.
The people around you (unbelievers) doesn't care and know about this "real you" because their spirit is dead and not made alive by the Spirit of God, the Bible said we were quicken (made alive) by the Spirit of God But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Romans 8:11. So you and I should not serve the desire of the Flesh but serve God by the Inner man (the real you) because we are different and we have the Spirit of God Dwelling in us (1 Cor 3:16)... !
In the conversation with Samaritan woman Jesus told her that "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24) if God is a Spirit that's so sure that only spirit being can touch with Him. In the same verse written "and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" your real personality can be in touch with God that's the real you (spirit). Why Jesus said so because God Created man in His own image and in His likeness "in our image, after our likeness" Genesis 1:26. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7. If God doesn't breathed His breath of life in man, man might not became a living soul or living being, God's Life is in man, every man owed God for that life.
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 . Now we live, because Christ Lives in us we are new man in Christ Jesus, we owed Jesus this new life, so must we live in newness of life by the real you(inner man) and not going after the Flesh. The Bible says But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Romans 8:9. We have the indwelling Spirit of God so we are not allowed to walk in the Flesh any more at all.
So dear brother and sisters in Christ, are we born-again ? yes we are. Do we have the Spirit of God in us ? yes we have because the Bible says we have. Are we new in Christ ? yes we are Living with New Life ... If we are in Christ and the Spirit of God dwells in us in our real inner man we are to walk after the Spirit and Not after the Flesh... May God Richly Grant you His Holy Spirit ... !
The Lord is good ... !
Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ
Jeremiah khai
