Reference: Genesis 1:1, and Ephesians 2:8-10
According to the very first chapter of thefirst book of the Bible, which is the book of Genesis, we find out thatAlmighty God created all things in existence by his spoken word. All that Godhas to do in order to bring something into existence is just to speak it intobeing. This has always been God's way of creating whatever he wishes to create.I would say that the ultimate of all God's creations is the man that he createdin his own likenss and image.
God being a creative God created allthings for his own purpose and pleasure. When God had created all things hesaid that it was very good. As we readthe account of God's creation of the woman, which was a help meet for Adam,this was when His creation began to become perverted and destroyed. This wassimply because of the sin that entered into the human race through the fall inthe garden of Eden.
The fall into sin brought death to thehuman race meaning that man would live so long and die a physical death. Deathwas pronounced upon man, because of the fact that the wages of sin is death.When man fell out of fellowship with God this put him in a position where hecould not cease from obeying the persuading influence of the power of sin.Living in sin will bring nothing but heartache and disappointment. Sin is adestroying disease that will lead man in a life of misery and finally end upsuffering the fate of the second death in a lake of fire and brimstone.
God did not just leave man in his fallenstate but rather he devised a plan whereby he could be reconciled back to Godand regain his position that he was in before his fall into sin. This plan ismentioned in Genesis 3:15. This consisted of bringing man back to his original stateof perfection. When Adam and Eve fell into sin they fell from a state of havingbeen created perfect not being a partaker of the destroying influence of sin.
The way that Almighty God would bring manback to his original state was to be done through and by the power of hisspoken word as revealed in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Christ was the personthat brought this perfect plan of redemption to fallen man. Anything thatAlmighty God creates will be created by his spoken word. God will create sonsand daughters through and by his revealed word of truth contained in thegospel. Our text found in Ephesians 2:10 tells us that we are his workmanship created in ChristJesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk inthem.
To be created in Christ Jesus simply meansthat we are made a new creation in Christ through and by the power of theSpirit of God. The Spirit by the word will transform the believer from a lifeof darkness into the kingdom of his dear Son. This translation into the kingdomof Christ is brought about in a progressive process as we walk in and obey thetruth of the gospel. God's word is the creative force that will spirituallyconform the believer into the image of Christ. God's word is yet very creativeand will bring forth true sons of God created in the same likeness and natureof Jesus Christ. Actually a true born again child of God is a person thatChrist has been formed in. Christ becomes the life of every born again child ofGod. The life of Christ will be manifested in and through our flesh simplybecause of the fact that our old natural sinful life will be killed out orcrucified. The crucifying of our carnal natural life simply means that we dieout to our desires so that the Lord Jesus can become our life.
Christ cannot become our life unless weare willing to die out to sin. Our dying out to sin can only be done by theSpirit of Christ coming into our heart giving us the needed power to cease froma habitual life of sin. The abiding of Christ in our heart will lead us intoall truth revealed in the gospel. This truth revealed in the gospel is the verypower that spiritually transforms the believer into the image of Christ. Thetruth of the gospel does not just give the believer a knowledge of what theBible says, but rather it miraculously transforms the believer into the veryimage of Christ.
Almighty God speaks his new creations intoexistence as they receive and believe his word. This is how the gospel is thepower of God unto salvation to them that believe. God does not instantly makenew creations out of the believer like most people believe today in the averagenominal church. The common belief today is that belief and confession on Christas Lord and Saviour is all there is to salvation that makes a person a bornagain child of God, but Satan has deceived the entire world into thinking andbelieving this false concept of salvation.
If you will examine closely the doctrinesin today's denominational churches you will find out that all they do for theirconverts is to give them a head knowledge of the written word instead of makingthem true born again children of God manifesting the life of Christ in theflesh.
There are many movements in the land todaythat will bring forth their converts that will possess a vast knowledge of whatthe scriptures may say, but they have not been spiritually transformed to theimage of Christ living a life of holiness and righteousness. This can be provenby their belief on true Bible holiness as the word of God reveals it. Theaverage person today who confesses to be a born again child of God willabsolutely deny the truth of God's holy word and walk in the light of it.
Anybody who fails to walk in and obey thetruth of God's word absolutely do not possess the power of the Holy Spirit intheir heart and life. God's word plainly tells us that they who are led of theSpirit are the sons of God, but friend if you are not led of the Spirit thenyou are one that fails to walk in the light of the revealed truth. If you areled of the Spirit then you will walk in truth, because the Spirit is given tolead us into all truth.
If people fail to walk in the light oftruth they will use the excuse that you are not telling them the truth as theBible reveals it. God's word of truth is easily recognized by the fact that itwill instruct in righteousness. The prophet Isaiah tells is in Isaiah 8:20 that if theyspeak not according to this word then it's because there is no light in them.To speak in accord with the word means that you will teach and speak on trueholiness and godliness. The apostle Paul tells us in I Timothy 6:3 that if any manteach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LordJesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness then thatperson is proud knowing nothing and is a deceiver.
God's word of truth will have a spiritualtransforming effect on a person as they walk in and obey it. God's word willinstruct us and lead us in a righteous way of life.