"The Perfect Law" -3

"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." (Galatians 6:15) Once you see the Gift you can't turn back!!! What happens to something that is dead? Would you say that something dead is no longer relevant? How about that, if it's dead, then it no longer has the control that it once had? "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." (Romans 13:10 & 11) Understanding what took place, what is happening now, and what is to come, we must make a choice; for what took place when we had seen the Gift, was the creation of a new creature in Christ. What that means to our inability to turn back, is that we have nothing left to turn back to, because the old creature that was once there has been made no more! "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." (Galatians 6:17) Here we have a declaration of what this new creature in Christ is to be capable of; that is providing that we are awake and actually living for that which is to come. The word that is used for 'body' in Paul's description of "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus", is a word that believe it or not is very similar to 'world', in that it denotes an organized whole made up of parts and members. It is something to drag around a dead corpse, but it is entirely something else to try and give life to that corpse! Okay, let me tell you what I am getting at: prior to the resurrection of Jesus, He was bound to the laws of nature, and that of what was holding the physical world in place; after His resurrection He was no longer bound by these laws: thus, He could manifest Himself as He pleased. The creature that was created by His resurrection, is very similar to the creature created by our new birth in Christ; we have been given a body that is between two worlds, much the same as His body was, in that He was still able to manifest His flesh at will, but had not yet been glorified. Okay; okay; I give up! Let me tell you what I see: I see Paul sitting by the fire after gathering sticks, on the isle after being shipwrecked; then out of the fire comes a poisonous snake, which bites Paul on his hand; yet Paul, not being concerned with what just happened, shakes off the snake as if swatting a fly away from his food; all the while knowing that he is going to Rome. This is very similar to when Jesus tells his disciples to get in the boat because they were going to the other side of the lake; Jesus meant that they were going to the other side! Likewise, we that are living as new creatures in Christ, given these new bodies, which are bound for glory, must believe that we are going to get to the other side!!! This is a new law that governs our bodies; no longer bound by the laws of nature; no longer subject to the whims of man; but bound only to Jesus Christ and what is awaiting us in heaven...