Transformed into His likeness (2 Corinthians 3:18)

Month of January: The New Life

"It was given for the new creation to advance so it immitates the image of her Creator in glory because it was created to be absolutely on His image.  It was also given to her to advance so it reaches Christ's goal from it.  Now look you the Christian man, how you became a new creation by the resurrection of Christ from the death; from His flesh and His bones, that you become an icon of the resurrection of Christ." 

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God Bless

The wind blows wherever it pleases..you cannot tell where it is going, so it is with everyone born of the Spirit. (2) (John 3:8)

Month of January: The New Life

"The secret of the beginning of kingdom of God is hinged on the necessity of man's death of his image and attributes in order to acquire completely different image and other qualities that carry in its nature the power of fruits and longevity of life." 

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The wind blows wherever it pleases..you cannot tell where it is going, so it is with everyone born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)

Month of January: The New Life

"Man's spiritual birth is a matter unseen by anyone from outside.  It is not accompanied by reactions but inner calmness and peace.  As for the man he feels it inside him; that something important and great did happen, it is an inner overhaul but not recognised that it is the kingdom of God." 

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No one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the spirit (John 3:5)

Month of January: The New Life

"Man goans and does not know what he wants; he is only unsatisfied with his current situation.  The best life is always absent from him no matter how hard he endeavors to catch it, and all what he gets is still not what he wants." 

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When we are clothed, we will not be found naked (2 Corinthians 5:3)

Month of January: The New Life

"We are not requested to pay the price of the new self; he is a grace gifted from God to whoever accepts the Son as a lord and savior.  No matter how man sinks in the evils of world and its corruptions, when he cries out to Christ asking for help and renewing he gets it immediately.  Therefore no excuse is given for anyone who refuses to come to the Savior and to surrender himself." 

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Put off your old self the corrupted..to be made new in the attitude of your minds and to put on your new self (2) (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Month of January: The New Life

"In reality making of the faithful man by Christ is the process of putting off the old self and putting on the new one, to the extent that man becomes attached with Christ in one spirit.  Saint Paul ascertains that renewing of man's mind, along with his conscience and will, makes it easy to put off the old self with its actions and put on the new self  whom is taken over by the spirit of God by granting him the characteristics of the Lord Jesus in righteousness and the holiness of Truth." 

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Put off your old self..and put on your new self (1) (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Month of January: The New Life

"The old self is the man estranged from God. The new self is the spirit of man newly created in Christ; created according to the Father in Christ.  This spirit is well established in the righteousness of God and the holiness of Truth.  It is strange from the flesh inclined to sin, and it is sad and hurt inside us because it can not tolerate the life of impurity." 

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Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day (2) (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Month of January: The New Life

"Yes though outwardly man seems to be wasting away under the pressures and pains which the people of world unfairly like to bring at him, but inwardly he is flamed by the Spirit; he feels that he is the happiest man on earth, joyful with God and in submitting his life to God." 

Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Month of January: The New Life

"Life in Christ renews the youth of man therefore he acquires more wisdom, grace and conscious perspective over years, and people see him so they may glorify God.  The new man, who is renewed every day according to the image of his creator in glory, is a servant for others and light for the world." 

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God Bless

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Month of January: The New Life

"The new spiritual creation in man emanates from God and is always connected to Him, grace controls it, supports it and supplies it with a mysterious power; that's why man born again is able to lead the body and subdue it to the authority of the spirit." 

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God Bless

Be Transformed (Romans 12:2)

Month of January: The New Life

"The Christian life, that is life by Spirit as a new birth from God, is based on a very important process which is the perpetual and continous change in human nature." 

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Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit (John 3:6)

Month of January: The New Life

"As birth to flesh gives man fleshly characteristics, likewise the birth to spirit gives the soul spiritual qualities of which the most important are sticking to God and loving Him from all the being." 

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God Bless

So that they will be like His glorious body (Philippians 3:21)

Month of January: The New Life

"Man with his natural capabilities is weaker than he can control his instincts or raise it up.  But by fully hoping in the grace and relying on the power of God in the Crossed person of Jesus, he transforms all his failures on the road of struggle,  no matter how desperate they are, into victory and full control at the end.  This happens when the grace sunshines on him and Christ is manifested in the life of man, his intellect and his attitude." 

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For you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28)

Month of January: The New Life

"The origin in the new man, as a new spiritual creation for man, is that he is on the image of His Creator.  If each one of us has the image of Christ, where would hatred come from? where would conflict and division come from, and they are the devil's weapons inherited in the old man who was brothered  with the devil?  If the image of Christ is truly the "glory of God", each image of Him must radiate with love or the attracting love ." 

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You are in me, and I am in you (John 14:20)

Month of January: The New Life

"This is the test of our faith everyday.  Every spiritual problem the people or world create for us is handled by Christ Who is inside us; The one who discussed, debated and won for us to give us the victory by Himself and His Spirit.  By Himself and in Himself, Christ build for us our new man; the one victorious by the written word ." 

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For in my inner being I delight in God's law (Romans 7:22)

Month of January: The New Life

" The teachings of Christ and His commands armed the new man against the old man and world and disabled its action and authority.  We conquered sin and death with Christ and it will no longer tremble us; for we are saved, redeemed and reconciled in Christ." 

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The spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing (John 6:63)

Month of January: The New Life 

"Why did Christ say that the flesh counts for nothing?  This is because the flesh does absolutely nothing for the new man, but on the contrary it curbs his growth by spirit and always pulls him down to earth by his desires and lusts.  Therefore it became a detestable weight for the new man, who seeks and perseveres according to spirit, trying to sway him from living by spirit." 

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He chose us in Him before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4)

Month of January: The New Life 

"It is obvious that our creation basically was chosen to be in Christ.  This means that outside of Him we have no existence, and that God predestined us before time to be His children adopted through Jesus; by our unity in the Son for it was in accordance with God's pleasure and will." 

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God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:19)

Month of January: The New Life 

"The difficulty, embarrassment and biggest problem are our faith; how can we believe that Christ can carry all our weaknesses and sins in His body and eliminate them immediately, but is not this the mystery of incarnation." 

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He parted the heavens and came down (Psalm 18:9)

I wish all my Coptic/Orthodox readers and friends a Merry Christmas day full of Love, Peace and Joy. Joe

Month of January: The New Life 

"The whole story of the Birth of Christ is a story of divine love that surpasses our minds; that God left His heaven, gave up His Glory, united with our human earthly nature, was born in poverty and in a manger, this was all a story of love; a magnificient love that was never paralleled, love to the end!" 

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Have a wonderful Orthodox Christmas day!
God Bless

I have come that they may have life (John 10:10)

Month of January: The New Life

"The only beloved son created the new man in and from His body once more, without sin or punishment of death, by His death and resurrection.  He raised him as planned in His body that He rose by to the highest of heavens.  He placed him with Him at the right hand of His Father to be a partner of glory and life with the Father and son." 

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Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you (Galatians 4:19)

Month of January: The New Life

"How is the spiritual man born? It is by uniting with the Lord Jesus according to the verse "But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit" (1Corinthians 6:17)  This unity is enough to give us the form or image of Christ in righteousness and the holiness of truth." 

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Like newborn babies (1 Peter 2:2)

Month of January: The New Life

"From the moment the Christian man is born secondly from water and Spirit in baptism, he starts focusing his spirit upwards, and he actually acquires a spiritual age like the age of years on earth.  This spiritual age is not measured in years for it is strange to time and rotation of earth; but it is measured in terms of how his spirit possesses the heavenly home and keeps in it." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Month of January: The New Life

"You have to be aware and assured that the one who sins against the commands of Christ is the old man that Christ brought to death on the Cross.  But with His resurrection, Christ gave you a new man; a new spiritual creation belonging to Him." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless