THE LANGUAGE OF THE RECREATED MAN - CHRISTIANGOSPEL TV
Man is a spirit, but he has a soul and lives in a body. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanc-tify
you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blame-less at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ” (NKJV). The human body is
actually man’s domicile, his dwelling place.
When a person is born again, his spirit
is recreated, and that’s
why the Bible says if any man be in Christ he’s a new creature, a new type of
being that never existed be-fore (2 Corinthians 5:17).
God, by the Holy Spirit, then gives that recreated human spirit a new
language and that language is what the scriptures refer to as “tongues of
angels” in 1Corinthians 13:1.
After His
resurrection and just before He was received up into Heaven, Jesus gave His
disciples a rundown of the characteris-tic features of the new creatures by
which they could be easily identified. He listed to them the many things they
will be known for, things they will be able to do in His Name:
“…these signs
shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out
devils;
they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover”
(Mark 16:17-18).
When Jesus said “these signs shall fol-low them that believe,” He wasn’t
making a promise. Many people misinterpret this pas-sage of Scripture as a
promise Jesus made to the believer that these signs will follow him, but it
wasn’t a promise.
You have to understand that at this point in time, Jesus was talking to
His disciples about the forthcoming generation of the Church; a special breed
called a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy na-tion and a peculiar
people (1 Peter 2:9). It was to them He was referring when He said
these
signs shall follow them that believe. If you have believed in the Name of the
Lord Jesus and have been born again, then you’re the one He was talking about
in Mark 16:17-18. You’re to be identified by these
signs.
Credits: Pastor Chris
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