So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away – look, what is new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

#Paul understood what God accomplished in #Christ as the fulfillment of all He had promised through the prophet #Isaiah

Jesus had lived, suffered, died, was raised again, and was now Lord and Christ.

Life should not be like it was before.  Life should now be lived as the #new creation breaking into the old, looking forward to the final #reconciliation of all things.

How can we profitably understand ourselves as new creation in Christ?