17. The Creation of the New Life with the New Identity¶
Because the problem of self-deception arises in the spirit of man, it can only be solved within his spirit. Because man was no longer able to do this himself, God found a way to help him. However, God created the spirit in such a way that He cannot control it from outside. The spirit must bind itself to the source of love from within through trust. In its error, however, the human spirit can no longer accomplish this, which is why God Himself conceived a human being into Adam's life.
The conception of Jesus in Mary by the Holy Spirit was the only way to give man a way out. In accordance with the law of inheritance, Jesus inherited the truth about Himself, the true identity - I am a son of the Father - by being conceived by the Father. Through the truth about Himself, the embryo became bound to God. This cleared the hurdle that a child conceived by an earthly father could never have overcome. The man, Jesus, was connected to his Father. He was in the right physiological bond.
However, in accordance with the law of inheritance, Jesus also inherited the error from his mother, Mary. However, He never used this false identity, but had to destroy it within Himself. During His time on this earth, Jesus had to resist the temptation to want to be God in His existence as a human being, even though He was also fully God. The fact that Jesus existed as God from eternity is important to understand. Jesus covered His divinity with man as with a garment. In this way, His humanity was visible and His divinity hidden. This makes Jesus the Son of God on the one hand and the Son of Man on the part of Mary - and thus from Adam.
Jesus therefore lived on earth for 33 ½ years. He was repeatedly provoked to do things that his identity as a child of God did not allow.1 He would have had to doubt His true identity in order to respond to the multiple attacks and deceptive maneuvers. The possibility of doubt existed and was the goal of all of Satan's temptations in order to prevent the redemption of man.2 However, Jesus never questioned His identity as the child of His heavenly Father. As a result, no one could tempt Him to do anything wrong. Jesus remained in connection with His Father until He gave up His spirit on the cross.
It was Jesus' mission to expose and fight the error in the spirit of man in Himself through the connection to His Father and in cooperation with the Father. Jesus removed the sinful nature, the false identity, in Himself. This was completely removed when he cried out on the cross: "It is finished!" (John 19:30). Now the life of Adam, the man from whom we all come, was freed from the sinful nature.
But it did not stop there. The whole man had to die, because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Adam's life was dead because of his one-time sin. Man can no longer bind himself to God and is therefore no longer able to keep his life. Nevertheless, man exists solely by grace, but only for a limited time, in order to give the individual the opportunity to emerge from the old life.
By entering into the life of Adam - from which all people live - and taking the cause of all sin (the error "I am God") and destroying it within Himself, Jesus took the sins of the whole world upon Him in order to judge them justly. Jesus bore the sins of all people who have ever existed and died as the victor over the cause and consequence of sin. For this to happen, Adam's life had to come to an irrevocable end, where it ceased completely. That is why Christ had to lead the whole human being to death on the cross. For our redemption, it was necessary to completely destroy the old life and to create a completely new life through the resurrection from the now purified components (body and spirit) of which this life consisted.
Through the resurrection on the third day, Christ became the second Adam - a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45). When Christ rose from the dead, with an immortal being and forever united with God, He became, and is a new creature. He is now forever in the truth. He is the firstborn Son of God. The wonderful message here is that we all become sons and daughters of God through faith in Jesus. That is our salvation. There is no other possibility for man. This one new life is all we need! If the old man accepts it in faith, the new man is a partaker of the divine nature. Our righteousness and all our hope lie in Christ alone. His new life leads us back into the presence of God.
The new man is inseparable from God. Self-deception is forever excluded in the new life. This is brought about by redemption. God has done something so that self-deception is no longer possible. The Creator has inseparably united Himself with man. God has established complete clarity for the entire universe that there is no alternative to the Creator. No spirit will ever be able to doubt or break this again. No spirit will ever again be able to deceive itself in its identity. The deception has been unmasked once and for all and shown to all beings: The relationship of Creator and creature is absolute, it is unchanging, good and right.
God offers the new life created by the resurrection of Jesus to every person so that they can accept it through faith. Receiving this new life through faith is the solution to all human problems. The separation from God, which began with Adam and Eve through the fall of man and affects all their descendants, cannot be reversed by man's own efforts. A return to God is impossible for us - which means that we have to die. The only way out is to accept the life of Jesus in faith.
For salvation, we need both His earthly life and the new life that He created when He came out of the grave as the second Adam. For me personally, this means forgiveness of all my sins and entry into a new life - into His life, the life of Jesus. The Holy Spirit plays an essential role in this. He can make the life of Jesus available to us through faith. The Holy Spirit must work on the heart of every person.
The question is: How can people apply the new life so that they can live in freedom?