MAN AND THE NEW CREATION

By Festus Ndukwe

Every day, I move about with a sense of indebtedness (and sometimes guilt) to my generation, especially the younger ones.

In the past few years, there has been a compelling force to leave something behind for my generation. My heart bleeds to see the systematic erosion of the foundational truths of the Gospel. Liberal Gospel, comedy and a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Midas Touch GEMS
• Release date: Jun 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088178966

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PREFACE

Every day, I move about with a sense of indebtedness (and sometimes guilt) to my generation, especially the younger ones.

In the past few years, there has been a compelling force to leave something behind for my generation. My heart bleeds to see the systematic erosion of the foundational truths of the Gospel. Liberal Gospel, comedy and all forms of entertainment are taking over some church services. This is done in a bid to keep the youth in Church.

The Church seems to have been brought to the state of that widow in 2 kings whose two sons the creditors threatened to take. Like this widow, the Church seems not to have sufficient ‘oil’ to meet the demands of modernization while on the other hand there is more than enough in the ‘New Creation’ to not only meet the demands posed by the world system but to conquer it and make it our slave.

Again, the ‘New Creation’ is one course I have taught in our Discipleship and Mission Exposure programs without any solid material for follow-up. Students will find in this book a rich store to nourish their souls and to relive what they had been taught in the class.

For Christians and ministers of the Gospel, this book exposes and explores the manual of the new creation man which will help them live victoriously and equip them to disciple today’s generation for Christ.

Festus U. Ndukwe

Lagos, December 2013

Chapter 1 - End of Man’s Beginning

Just as there are two kinds of kingdoms, there are also two kinds of creations. There is the old creation with Adam as head and the new creation with Christ as head.

Man as he is constituted has dealings at any point in time with either Adam or Christ, with either the old creation or new creation. Either of these dealings will determine the fate of man both in time and eternity.

Though our goal in this study is the new creation, we cannot talk about the new without talking about the old. The reason is because the old creation precedes the new creation.

The Old Creation

A significant event in man’s history brought about the discarding of the old creation. This was the fall with regards to Adam (Gen.3:1-7).  Adam’s disobedience or sin corrupted the earth which made the earth become the world, a depraved system or harmonious order or arrangement in which man would now be governed. The other effect is innovation to fashion and the vain-glory of this world. Sin turned into passion which began to drive the engine of lust and evil in man. The Bible says,

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, (Gen.6:5).

God had to discard the old creation. The flood was not enough to realize