Seeking Jesus First Jan. 20, 2025

A New Creation

When a man and woman marry, they become one flesh. The two are made one - a new creature.

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Gen. 2:24

“However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.” 1 Cor. 15:46

“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Cor. 6:15–20

Paul states that the sex act joins a man and a woman together so that it constitutes “one flesh” even if it is with a prostitute. This makes sexual immorality a sin against a person’s own body.

Now shift gears and see what happens when you join yourself to The LORD by faith. You become one spirit with The LORD. His Holy Spirit comes to dwell with you and in you. It sounds like marriage.

“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,” 2 Cor. 5:14–18

Christ Jesus died for you (or as you) so “all die” and now all live for the one who died for all. We actually become the Lord’s body and we receive his Spirit in us. His Spirit unites with our spirit and we are one.