Will you go to the cross?

Or will you attempt to serve Christ in your own manner?

The cross is the path, the only path to the desires of your heart.

What is the most important accomplishment of the Gospel of Christ?

A new creation.

If any person be in Christ there is a new creation. Circumcision performed on the physical body is of no Kingdom consequence whether it is performed or not performed.

The new creation is the Kingdom of God.

When an individual is born again the new creation is begun. Little by little, command upon command, rule upon rule, the human personality is brought into eternal union with God through Christ.

What is brought forth when the new covenant has wrought its perfect work?

Let us use the Apostle Paul for an example. What will come forth from Paul's life when the Kingdom of God has been brought to fullness in him?

Is it only a saved Paul?

No. Is it Christ Himself?

No. Neither of these is the new creation who is brought forth in Paul.

Well then, what or who is the new creation?

The new creation is an eternal union of Paul and Christ. Paul is present and intact in the new creation. Christ is present and intact in the new creation. There is a new creation—the eternal, incorruptible, inseparable blend of Christ and Paul.

How puny, how futile, how inconsequential appear circumcision and the observance of holy days when viewed in the radiant glory of the majesty of the new creation.

The Kingdom of God is the enlargement of God Himself through Christ through people. Would we add circumcision and other religious observances to God?

All religious observances are scaffolding. They are helps to bring us into union with God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Kingdom of God begins in us as a tiny seed. If we care for the seed, not choking it out with sin or the cares of the present age, that small seed will grow in us until our spirit, our soul, our mind, our emotions, our bones, our motives, our imaginations, our joys, our hopes, our will, are all part of Christ.

There is a new creation.

Is the name of the new creation, Paul? No. Is the name of the new creation, Christ? No. It is a new creation.

What will we name the new person? Christ will give him a new name. He has been formed from the eternal union of a human being and Christ. He is one with Christ as Christ is one with God. He lives by Christ as Christ lives by God the Father (John 6:57).

God became a man. God became flesh and bone and dwelt among us in the Person of Christ. This is an eternal change in the Person of God, for never before has God become a man.

When Christ rose from the dead, a man (although God) rose from the dead and ascended to the highest throne of the universe. God now reveals Himself as the Man, Christ.

Can you imagine the amazement of the elect angels over this new expression of God? (from The Cross and the New Creation; A Study Guide for the Book of Galatians)