New Creation

Resurrection and Redemption

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Salvation includes the bodily resurrection of the saints and life in the New Creation, which will occur when Jesus arrives.

Central to the doctrine of salvation is the promise of redemption. God will not abandon what He first created, and both the term and the concept mean the recovery of what was lost. The universe is enslaved by sin and condemned to decay and death. In God’s redemptive plans, the end state of redeemed things and persons is vastly superior to their original state, and this principle is epitomized in the promises of bodily Resurrection and New Creation.

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Spirit and Covenant

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The New Covenant includes the Gift of the Spirit, the first fruits of the New Creation, and the gathering of the nations.

The National sins of Israel caused her expulsion from the Land of Canaan. God foresaw her failures and determined to institute a new covenant energized and characterized by His Spirit. It would include the salvation of men from every nation and culminate in the resurrection of the dead and the “New Heavens and the New Earth.” With the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, the New Covenant began in earnest.

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The Decisive Day

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The arrival of Jesus will be an event of great victory and finality that will result in the resurrection and the New Creation.

The return of Jesus at the “end of the age” will be a singular event of utter finality. His “arrival” or ‘Parousia’ will be accompanied by celestial and terrestrial upheaval, the installation of the New Creation, the resurrection of the dead, the judgment of the godly and the ungodly, the “gathering of Christ’s elect,” and the end of Death. Decay and mortality will be replaced by immortality. Nothing will ever be the same again!

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Redeeming our Bodies

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Paul links the bodily resurrection of believers to the New Creation. Both events are vital for our complete redemption – Romans 8:1-23.

There is “now no condemnation” of anyone who is “in Christ Jesus.” This happy condition exists because the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death.” In his Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul links our salvation to the inheritance of Christ and the coming redemption of our bodies and creation itself.

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Revelation of His Sons

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There is “now no condemnation” of anyone “in Christ Jesus.” This happy condition exists because the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death.” In Romans, the Apostle Paul links our salvation to the inheritance of Christ and the coming redemption of our bodies and creation itself.

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