I have something new to me I want to put down in draft form and examine.
When Paul said in 2 Cor 5 "So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more" So many thoughts spring from this
(1) I think this applies only to those of this revelation: That word SO at the start links the sentence to the previous passage: those who have reached a point where the love of Christ CONSTRAINS and where there is a revelation that One Died For All. "for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again"
(2) See that piece "even if we have known Christ according to the flesh" ..
Is he referring to the Jesus of the Gospels who came only to ....?
The Jesus of the Circumcision gospel??
Are these the old things that pass?
"so that if any one [is] in Christ -- [he is] a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
(3) Many I'm sure secretly wonder "Am I really a new creation? Have old things passed away? Have all things become new? .But the context here makes it so clear and so simple to answer for ourselves:.
"And the all things [are] of God, .." HHas your Testimony changed from what you did for God by asking him into your heart, opening the door,walking up a church aisle: Read it again: ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD: He initiated your salvation, He arranged each bit of it, He performed it and brought it to pass.
So EGO leaves the Testimony
"who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation" It wasn't because I was a good moral christian who heard God and obeyed the call: (Dead men hear nothing, see nothing and do nothing) God, totally God and He alone opened your eyes not through your goodness or religiosity but through Christ
how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,
So your whole outlook changes from what you did to what God did: Old things pass away 100%: You are brought to a deep realisation that the Gospel is not running around telling everybody the bad news of what awful sinners they are and what will happen unless they do something, accept something, repent something etc: The great news is NEW: God was in Christ: What Jesus did is 100% sanctioned by God: What is sanctioned? He was reconciling a world to himself: God never needed to be reconciled to the world:The world needed reconciliation: And the completely new thing for many who still hold to the idea of unconditional love provided /with the following condition: What rubbish!
listen to it: " not reckoning to them their trespasses;
If God is not reckoning their trespasses to them {Gentiles} why should we contradict God and reckon all the trespasses against them
Lastly today I wonder if we no longer know Him after the flesh does that apply the other way round: that he no longer knows us after the flesh: That all our fleshly prayers never reach Him: Money/ relationships/ frictions:/ sins
Not that He is cruel or uncaring but that now all His focus is on bringing you to realisation that your blessings are stored in heavenly places: And as we scream out for deliverance from what we consider terrible things He has deliberately refused to solve those things in the expectation that the pain and discomfort will bring us to a time and place of deliverance: For God's time for a certain thing is not by the clock or by the calendar but by Revelation: Gods clock for those IN Christ is a Revelation clock: More on this later for I myself don't fully grasp it yet
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