The promise that God made to Adam and Eve to send a Saviour, a deliverer that would defeat Satan and free men from the curse of sin, and cleanse those that believe from every trace of corruption. By the power of the blood of Christ, those that would believe in Him and surrender to Him. Now, Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, work together to create and perfect this new man, as I have mentioned so much previously. This was God’s purpose right from the beginning of the creation of the world that we know, as He said: ‘Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness’! (Genesis 1: 26) This he did and is doing in the last Adam, Jesus Christ and those that are one with Him by faith, for it is written: ‘For those God foreknew He also predestined o be conformed to the likeness of His Son. (Romans 8: 29) and when the work is finished: ‘We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is! What an amazing conclusion.

This new created spirit will never die, for it is eternal since it is born of God. ‘For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in/through Christ Jesus our Lord.’ (Romans 6: 23) What the first Adam lost, the last Adam, Jesus the Son of man recovered, and far more, what was transient in Adam, is eternal in Christ! Yet, although a Christian has experienced this inward transformation, outwardly, it does not show; this ‘out of this world’conversion, from dust to glory. A true Christian, still lives in the same street, in the same house, etcetera, etcetera, I leave to you to complete the whole picture. The day following his conversion, he goes to the same place of work and no-one sees any difference, he feels different inside, but it does not show! Jesus was who He was, divine, God incarnate, but choosing to come into the world in a human body, He got into deep trouble because He said that God was His father! I believe that the big problem for a Christian, is that he does not fully appreciate who he really is! That becomes another big subject. Meditate on it, and rejoice!

Therefore, this great conversion, is veiled by the flesh, the body! Just as was the glory of Christ our Lord. A disciple of Christ, by his conversion, having believed in Him, as I spent so much time explaining it, is totally a different being, for he was dead in sin, but is alive again in Christ, forever! He has gone through a new birth; he is a new creation! He is a spiritual being, born of God, he has the life of God flowing through him, a new spirit has been created in him, a spirit which is not like the one that Adam lost, for a Christian, through this complete renewal to God is one of His SONS. He cannot die as did Adam!

When my first son, whom we called Stephen, was born, he did not know a thing about anything! He had just gone through a distressful experience, but did not know who he was, where he was, who His father, his mother were, BUT I jolly well knew that he was my son, a miracle! He was my son! my first born! We have had two more after Him and a daughter, still alive and now they know who they are and who their parents are; we are a family! I know I am their dad! All are loved the same! To think that a Christian can suddenly know everything in a moment of time is ludicrous. He knows enough, but he has started a new existence into which he will grow, and as he journeys, he will developpe into a fully grown son of God! 

The apostle Paul established the church in Corinth, an old city of Greece! Years later, He wrote to them and said: ‘I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it.’ (2 Corinthians 3: 3) The apostle Peter writes the same thing and tells to Christians he knew and pastored: ‘Therefore rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like new born babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good! (1 Peter 2: 2-3) The food of a child of God, while on earth, is the word of God, the teaching of the Lord and His apostles, leads him from one stage to the next, until he reaches maturity. The Holy Spirit knows how to feed God’s children, and filter into their being the seed that a new convert needs, to grow into the likeness of Christ.