If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you have been born again, you are a new creation, you are a new creature. You have been changed to be like you never sinned. Just as Jesus Christ became guilty of all your sins when he died on the cross, you have become a recipient of all his righteousness when you are saved.
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation2937. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:14-21)
As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died. It doesn’t matter whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation2937. May God’s peace and mercy be upon all who live by this principle; they are the new people of God. (Galatians 6:14-16)
- 2937 ktísis
- creation (the act or the product) — properly, creation (creature) which is founded from nothing (this is also the sense of this term from Homer on); creation out of nothing (Lat ex nihilo). See 2936 (ktizō) and 2939 (ktístēs) (“the Creator”) for lengthy discussion on “creation-facts.” –HELPS Word-studies
This is another reason why I believe in the eternal security of the believer. In order to lose your salvation, you would have to become un-created again. There is nothing like that in the Bible. There is no hint of such a thing. It is alien to the message of reconciliation and love of God (John 3:16). Here are 9 more reasons: 10 impossible ways to lose your salvation.
When you accepted Jesus Christ as your savior, you were joined with him in his death, burial, and resurrection. You died with him. You were buried with him. And, you were raised again with him through his resurrection. Therefore, you are not in bondage to sin any more. You cannot be controlled by sin any more. Sin has no power over you.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him! For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. (Romans 6:1-14)
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior, then Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit dwell inside of you. How’s that for being a new creation. You used to be an enemy of God. Now the creator of the universe dwells in you.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. (Romans 8:9-11)