Walking according the Rule of New Creatureship

Walking according the Rule of New Creatureship

By Michael Blakely

"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God" (Gal. 6:15-16).


Some comments made by Brother Michael at Refreshing Waters Renewal

1. There are connected requirements revealed in the gospel, which must be met if men are to be saved.
2. There are conditions to keep what God gives. One of those conditions involves the maintenance of new creatureship.
3. Anything good from God is received and kept on the basis of conditions.
4. The implications of the gospel involve maintentance and upkeep.
5. We avail ourselves of God's benefit in Christ in expectation of an effect.
6. What will avail me both now and in the Judgment? That is question which we must daily ask ourselves?
7. Who hath bewitched you?, Paul asked the Galatians. In other words, they changed sides.
8. We have many supplements to the gospel in our day, which amount to another gospel.
9. Here is the situation that men are confronted with in the new covenant era. Either you live unto God by faith in Jesus Christ, or you live by the rules.
10. Every believer must come to the point where they tell their "old man" (cf. Eph. 4:22-24), I don't need you any more. I don't need anything you have to offer.
11. In their measure, like Paul, the people of God bear the marks of the Cross of Christ. They have come to realize that it has cost, and daily costs, them something to follow Jesus.
12. Abstinence from circumcision, or legal requirements of any sort, will not suffice or avail before God, but only a new creature.
13. In Christ Jesus, God has created you all over again.
14. The new man can be put off, or ignored, but he cannot be corrupted.
15. The new man is a sphere of activity.
16. It is incumbent upon us to walk within the boundaries of the new man, and to keep the new man nourished up in the Word and in the doctrine.