Davar Kingdom Of God

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come (2 Cor 5:17). These words of Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians are so familiar to us today that such mental familiarity sometimes causes spiritual blindness to the true meaning of the scripture. Although it says, “The old has gone, the new has come,” we still have the same hair, nose, and eyes; we speak the same language, and have the same memory of the past as before. How much have we really changed from “the old” to “the new” since we believed in Jesus? Does the Bible lie? If not, something must be wrong with the way we understand it. The reason that the Bible often seems unreal is that it always speaks of spiritual realities, not physical ones. Hence, you always need to be aware of the gap between these two different realities. Look at what Paul says immediately before the above verse: So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we d