Lesson 2: A New Creature (2)
Read 6:11-18 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/gal.6

The last lesson showed us we are created by God for a purpose, but sin separated us from the ability to hear and obey Him. In this lesson we look at two more ways of who we are as new creatures in Christ.

God created us with the ability to choose several things. We must choose if we will serve God or someone else. We cannot choose to make no choice – which is simply a choice against God. Jesus said, “If you are not for Me, you are against Me” (Luke 11:23). God never promises us more than one chance. In His grace He may offer us a second chance, or even more, but it is never guaranteed. He only guarantees we will have at least one chance to choose (Hebrews 3:15).

He created us to be loved and to want to be loved. God loves us more than we can ever imagine. His love is beyond anything we have ever seen or known, and yet His is the only love which can ever truly satisfy our need for love.

When He gives us our new living spirit He gives us the ability to talk with Him, hear Him, understand Him. Learning to do so this well will take the rest of our lives.


All choices have consequences. If you choose to eat something which doesn’t agree with you, you will suffer the consequences of feeling ill, and you may even have to seek a doctor’s help to recover. When you choose to belong to God you enter a battle zone like you’ve never experienced before because you gain an enemy more powerful than yourself, called Satan, who will hate you simply because God loves you. But do not let this battle discourage you for God has promised us the ultimate victory in this battle because God, now living inside of you, is far greater and more powerful than Satan (1 John 4:4). He has already won (John 16:33). As you allow Him to He will change you to be like Him (Romans 12:2). Your responsibility is to get to know Him and you can only do this by reading His word (the Bible) and talking with Him. He will take you along a road filled with adventures, pain, terror, despair, love, and joy beyond anything you have ever imagined as well as indescribable peace.

Being a new creature means God is now able to make us into the unique person He created us to be. We must choose every moment to allow His changes to our lives, and we must also obey His every request of us, every command. Being a new creature also means we are set free from slavery to sin. This does not mean we will no longer sin, but it means we can now recognize sin in our life because the Holy Spirit is now able to point it out and we can hear Him (1 John 1:7-9). God promises He will finish what He started in you, "And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6

*What does the hope of promised completion give you?
*How does this encourage you today?