The scripture says “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” What is the new creation? What does it mean that old things have passed away? What is the new nature? What is the difference between the old nature and the flesh? How do we live by the Spirit from the inside out? All of these questions are answered, as well as a clear explanation of the difference between mercy and grace. Have you received the mercy of God, but have not fully received the grace of God? The mercy of God is the forgiveness of our sins. The grace of God is the life-changing and profoundly humbling truth that we have become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!

Session 2: “I Am a New Creation” transcript/ notes

Introduction

Welcome to Session 2 of “As Jesus Is, So Am I.” This session is entitled, “I am a new Creation.” I think there is going to be a part 2 to this message because I won’t get to the main nugget that I wanted to get to. I felt led to lay groundwork first.

So what I plan to share is very basic, but powerful.  Sadly, it’s something I didn’t understand for many years even though I was a believer.

I didn’t understand the new creation and the difference between the new nature, the old nature, and the flesh. I thought I had two natures battling within me. I thought that when the Bible spoke of the new man and the old man, I was a little of both. I thought the old man and the flesh were the same thing, but they are not. I’ll explain as I go. 

Here’s our new creation passage: 

2 Corinthians 5:16-21 – Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. [Jesus came in the flesh as us to become our sin at the cross. But we don’t regard Him in the flesh anymore. He was raised from the dead, glorified, and seated at the right hand of God. And as He is so are we in this world.] 17 if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

In that passage we see the familiar phrases: new creation; old things have passed away, the ministry of reconciliation, ambassadors for Christ; the righteousness of God in Christ.

We’ll get back to that passage in a minute. But today I want to be an ambassador for Christ to the body of Christ – who, in my opinion, does not know who she is.

Mercy and Grace

When I think back to a very illuminating moment in my own life, when Jesus opened my eyes to how He sees me in my new creation identity, the words “mercy” and “grace” come to mind because those are two words the Spirit of Jesus spoke to me in that encounter. 

It is often said that 

• Mercy is not getting what we deserve, and 
• Grace is getting what we could never earn.

I want to expand on those simple definitions:

• Mercy is Jesus, who knew no sin, committed no sin, and in whom there is no sin, becoming sin by bearing our sin at the cross and taking our nature of sin to the grave.
• Grace is receiving what we could never earn: a new nature just like His. 

• Mercy is the forgiveness of our sins. Forgiveness, the Greek word “aphesis,” means the letting go of a debt. My debt of sin was let go of because Jesus paid the debt I could never pay.
• Grace is a slate wiped clean of sin – justified, just as if I’d never sinned. Grace means I can say, “As Jesus is so am I. I am righteous.”

• Mercy is being severed from the Old Creation and the nature of First Adam.
• Grace is being brought into the New Creation as a partaker of the divine nature of Last Adam, Jesus Christ.

• Mercy is Jesus’s identification with us at the cross.
• Grace is our identification with Him in the resurrection.

And in my personal testimony,

• Mercy is found at the brazen altar
• Grace is found in the mirrors of the laver

My testimony is that in my moment of awakening as I was contemplating the tabernacle, Jesus led me to the brazen altar – an Old Testament shadow of the cross of Jesus. I saw my sin being punished in the body of Jesus.

I saw the blood flowing from the crown of His head, flowing from His hands, His side, and His feet. I saw the enormity of His sacrifice for me and the absoluteness of God’s forgiveness of my sins. The Lamb of God had washed away my sins in His own blood.

I said, “Lord, is this Your grace?”

He said, “No, the brazen altar  – the cross – is My mercy. I took the punishment that you deserved. Go on to the laver.”

That’s where I would find His grace. The laver was a bowl, lined with mirrors and filled with water that the priest would have to wash in before he would go into the Holy Place.

Once your sins are washed away at the Brazen Altar, what do you have to wash away? You’re clean!

I sensed Jesus saying to me, “Look down into the mirrors of the laver.” So in my heart I looked down in the bowl through the water, and what I saw in the mirrors of the laver is what changed my life forever.

As I shared in my last message, I saw what He sees when He looks at me: glorious, blameless holiness. 

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. That is pure grace. That is something I could never earn. As Jesus is so am I. The implications of this truth are astounding, mind blowing, life-changing, and profoundly humbling.

Two blessed states

Mercy and grace are two “blessednesses” that we receive through the work of Jesus.   Forgiveness, which is His mercy, is only but one of those two blessed states. But often it’s the only part that people receive. 

The righteousness of Christ, which is His grace, is the other. Righteousness is our brand new nature.

Romans 4:6-8 – …just as David also describes [in Psalm 32:1-2] the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works. [Paul is getting ready to describe two distinct blessed states for the person who doesn’t have to work to be right with God] 7 [#1] “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 [#2] Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin.”

The first blessed state is that our sins are forgiven because the debt has been paid. The wages of sin is death, but Jesus paid the wages for us with His precious blood. He took what we deserved. The first blessed state is God’s mercy.

The second blessed state is different than the first: it says “blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”  That means that all of the record of our sin has been wiped out! It’s as if we never sinned in the first place – a fresh slate! That’s His grace!

“The Lord shall not impute sin.” Impute is the Greek word “logizomai,” it’s an accounting term. It means crediting something to an account or counting something as true. The Lord shall not count sin against us. Instead He credits us with His own righteousness. 

Romans 4:3 – [The same word, “logizomai,” is used in Romans 4:3 – ] “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted [logizomai] to him for righteousness.” [It’s the same for us. By simple faith in Jesus, His righteousness is credited to our account. It is imputed to us by pure grace.]

“The Lord shall not impute sin.” “Shall not” is the Greek phrase “ou mē” – it means He “shall not, never, certainly not, not at all, by no means will He ever impute your sins to you – because the record of your sins – past, presernt, future – does not exist in heaven!

It’s been taken away by the cross! God will not find fault with you because He found fault with Jesus for all your sins!

Hebrews 8:12-13 – [Blessed state #1 – ] For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, [Blessed state #2 – ] and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” [“ou mē” again – God says, “NEVER, certainly not, not at all, by no means will I ever remember your sins.” And that is the covenant-activating clause of the New Covenant] 13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete.

• God does not identify us by our sins. He identifies us by His Son.
• God does not identify us by the deeds of our flesh. He identifies us by the finished work of His Son.

Receive the Mercy and Grace of God

When was this grace is imputed to us? When did become a new creation? When did we become the righteousness of God in Christ? Was it when we were saved? Or when we go to heaven one day? Or something in between?

1 John 4:17 – As Jesus is so are we in this world. [present tense]

2 Corinthians 5:17 – If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. [present tense]

Ephesians 2:6 – [He] raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. [past tense – meaning in the present tense we are in heavenly places]

Colossians 3:3 – Your life is hidden with Christ in God. [present tense]

Colossians 1:22, NLT – Yet now He [God] has reconciled you to Himself [past tense] through the death of Christ in His physical body. As a result, He has brought you into His own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault. [present tense]

But often we live as if all of the above is future tense. Maybe, one day – in the next life, maybe, or in this life if we’re good enough or have enough faith, all of that will be true, but right now we are just dirty, wretched sinners muddling through this life.

Colossians 2:6 – As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.

When you believed, did you receive the mercy of God, but have not fully received the grace of God? Did you receive the forgiveness of sins, but not your new identity in Jesus?

Whatever you believe is what you will receive. However you receive is how you will live. 

If you stop at the mercy of God and don’t receive your full identity in Jesus, you’ll walk in the forgiveness of sins – which is a great thing, but will you walk in victory over sin? Will you walk in power? Will you get beyond sin consciousness to Christ consciousness? Will you walk in resurrection life in your body, in your relationships, in your ministry?

If you stop at the mercy of God and don’t receive your full identity in Jesus, you may even have the revelation that all of your sins – past, present, and future – were paid for at the cross and that you were fully forgiven.  You may be relieved of feeling like you have to confess every sin and beg forgiveness all the time – which is a glorious revelation, but if you don’t believe you are still righteous even when you fail, you’ll walk through life believing that you are a sinner by nature.

You are not a sinner! As Jesus is, so are we in this world. Is Jesus a sinner? No! Then neither are we.  We are the righteousness of God in Christ. we are a new creation in Christ.

Colossians 2:6, again – As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.

Whatever you believe is what you will receive. However you receive is how you will live.

Romans 5:17 – For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, [Who is that? Adam] much more those who receive abundance of [His] grace and of the [free] gift of [His] righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. [At one time death reigned. Now we reign in life through Jesus.]

• those who receive: Receive is the Greek word “lambano” and it means take hold of, to seize upon. It’s an aggressive, active verb. And it’s in the Greek present active participle tense. (“ing”) We are to keep on keeping on receiving. Receiving what? Two things:

• #1 – the abundance of grace: Not just a little grace, but the abundance of it! The Greek word means superabundance.

If you think of grace as the unearned, undeserved, unmerited favor of God to give you a new nature that is holy and blameless, without fault and without guilt before Him, then keep on receiving that revelation. If you can receive this one thing, you can receive everything! If you understand that revelation, then you’ll understand  that all the promises of God are yes in Jesus.

• #2 – the gift of righteousness: The simplest definition of righteousness is the state of being right with God. You are reconciled to God. You are innocent before God. Whatever sins you have committed, they are not just forgiven, they are forgotten.

You have been given the free gift of a standing before God that is the same standing as Jesus. That’s why you can go boldly before the throne of grace.

When we receive and keep on receiving the superabundance of His grace and the free gift of His righteousness we will reign in life through Jesus. 

Reign in life: reign is the Greek word “basileuō” which means to “exercise kingly power and authority; to exercise the highest influence.”

What does it look like when we reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ? Life is the word “zōē.” Zōē is the heavenly abundant God-life that Jesus came to give us.

When we reign in life through Jesus, we will walk in heavenly authority, heavenly power, and heavenly abundance.

John 10:10 –  “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.  I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” [zōē – God life – heavenly life is a life that reigns over death; this is a life that will undo what the devil has done. It restores what the thief has stolen, killed, and destroyed.]

We are not looking towards death. We’re not looking to the grave. Death is behind us.

We’re looking to Jesus. He is our life. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) Life came through Jesus. From the second we step into our new identity, we are looking towards heaven. 

Colossians 3:1-3 – If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life [zōē] is hidden with Christ in God.

Spiritual nature: dead or alive

Now, I want to talk about “nature” for a minute. The new creation has a new spiritual nature. The new creation is a partaker of the divine nature of Christ. (2 Peter 1:4)

When we speak of the new creation, we are speaking of the birth of a spiritual life. When we speak of the old creation, we are speaking of spiritual death. We are not speaking of the soul and the body. We are speaking of the spirit. 

Adam was told that he would “surely die” if he ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Genesis 3:3) He ate the fruit, and he did die. But he did not die physically at that moment. He died spiritually which means in his spirit he was separated from God because of the barrier of sin.

When he died spiritually, sin entered the human race, and Adam’s sin nature spread to all mankind from that point forward.

Romans 5:12, 19 – Therefore, just as through one man [Adam] sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men,… [But then when Jesus died on the cross, He removed the barrier of sin between us by becoming the barrier. He became sin. so that nothing would stand between us and God. We are in right standing before God.] 19 For as by one man’s disobedience [Adam] many were made sinners, [by nature] so also by one Man’s obedience [Jesus] many will be made righteous. [by nature]

At one time, when we were dead in our sins and in the uncircumcision of our flesh. At one time we were joined to the flesh and identified by the deeds of the flesh, but the cross of Jesus cam and cut away the flesh from our identity. In Ephesians 2, Paul wrote that Jesus made us spiritually alive – we

Ephesians 2:1, 3-6 – And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins… [we were not “alive in Christ.” We were “dead in sins.”] 3 [Paul said that we were] by nature children of wrath, just as the others. [NIV – we were deserving of wrath by nature.] 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…

We are right now  not only physically alive, but we are spiritually alive “in Christ Jesus.” If you are “in Christ Jesus,” you are “as Jesus is” in your spirit. You are created anew in Him with a new nature like His.

Titus 3:4-7, NLT – When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, 5 he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit. 6 He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 Because of his grace he made us right in his sight.… [By His mercy He forgave us. By His grace He made us right with God.]

Sarx

There are some who teach that we have a sinful nature. I want to explain why that is not true. There are modern versions of the Bible that use the term “sinful nature” to describe a believer. For example:

Galatians 5:17, NLT – The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. [What a hopeless dilemma we would be facing if we had two natures: a new nature in Christ and a sinful nature in Adam]

What the word should be instead of sinful nature is “flesh.” And that’s what the older translations use. The phrase translated “sinful nature” in that translation is the Greek word “sarx.”. But “sarx” doesn’t mean “sinful” or “nature.” It simply means “flesh.” 

Unfortunately, because of mis-translations of the word “sarx,” many Christians believe that their ongoing battle is with their own sin nature.

If it is my spiritual nature to sin – which means it is in my identity to sin – then how can I go against my nature? You cannot undo a nature. Only Jesus can do that by His Spirit.

But those who believe they have a sinful nature at the core of their identity believe that most natural thing for them to do is to sin, and the most unnatural thing for them to do is walk in the Spirit. In fact the more they try harder in their own self-effort to walk in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, the more they believe it’s just not their nature.

But nothing could be further from the truth if you are a new creation in Christ! The most natural (nature – al) thing for you to do is to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit in your spirit, and live, move, and have your being in Him. That is your true nature. Nature speaks of our origin. Where we come from. Many don’t think of themselves as citizens of heaven, representatives of heaven.

Spiritually speaking, we either of the fallen race of Adam or we are born again from heaven as children of God.

John 1:12-13 – [John wrote – ] As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. [God is a Spirit, so when we are born again, we are born of His Spirit, which means our true identity is in our spirit.]

Flesh is not the sinful nature. Flesh is just our earth suit. Or flesh can also mean the self-effort in the flesh to be righteous (we call that self-righteousness), or flesh can refer to the works of the flesh from the influence of sin. That’s flesh, not sin nature.

At one time we had a sinful nature. We don’t anymore. What we have is flesh, and we will have flesh until we go to heaven. But the good news is that our flesh is subject to our spirit from within. We’re not left without power.  The spirit has dominion over the flesh.

Now ALL things are of God…

2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. [“new” – kainos – fresh, unused, unworn, of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of.]

The new creation is unstained with the guilt of anything and has no history of sin or future of sin. The new creation isn’t new until it is old. It is forever new. The old nature has passed away, all things have become new.

The new birth is not a modification of the old man through a change in behavior. The new birth is a new creation of a whole new spiritual man. The old man with his sin nature went into the grave, and the new man with a whole new nature was born again in the resurrection of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:18 –  [next verse – ] Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ…

Think about that phrase “Now all things are of God” – obviously, this can’t be talking about behavior or emotions or decisions because they aren’t always “of God”! 

When you became a new creation, you didn’t all of a sudden become a perfectly behaved person with a perfect attitude, exhibiting perfect peace all the time!

God has totally changed us in our spirit, in our innermost being. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 and 18 is not a process. It’s an accomplished fact, a done deal. But the transformation of the soul and the body is a process.

But the first step in the process of the progressive manifestation of the new creation in the life of the believer is to reckon the old man crucified, dead, and buried, never to rise again. 

God see us in Christ

Remember verse 16 from the last message – “from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh”? God never sees us from the outside, but always “in Christ.” Whatever happened to Jesus, happened to us.

• When He died, our old nature was crucified with Him.
• When He was buried, our old nature was buried with Him.
• When He rose, our new nature rose with Him.
• When He ascended to heaven, we ascended to heaven with Him.
• When He sat down at the right hand of God, we sat down with Him. The work is finished. It’s all under our feet!

Galatians 2:20 –  I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh [sarx] I live by faith [not by works!] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Galatians 2:20 is one of the most practical verses in the Bible! It tells us how to live by the spirit: it’s by faith in Jesus’s life within, not by the self-efforts of the flesh.

Spirit / Soul / Body

First, we must understand that we are a spirit who has a soul that lives in a body. The soul and the body comprise the flesh. We have spirit, and we have flesh.

Our holy, righteous, faultless, and perfect spirit is the only part of us that was saved in the new birth. Our emotions and our bodies need transformation, renewal, restoration, and healing.

The life of Christ, the mind of Christ, and the power of the resurrection is in our spirit. The life of the spirit flows through the soul to the body. 

The function of the spirit is communion with God through our union with Jesus.

1 Corinthians 6:17 – He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

God’s Spirit speaks to our spirit the things of God.

1 Corinthians 2:12-14 – Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know [“eido” which also means “to see”] the things that have been freely given to us by God. [the superabundance of grace, the free gift of His righteousness, wisdom, healing, provision, etc. Remember when Jesus said, “I only do what I see My Father doing”? When did He say that? He said that after He had healed the man at the pool of Bethesda. He saw God healing the man in heaven first, and then Jesus healed him on earth. We can see the things that are freely given to us.] 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

John 6:63 – [Jesus said – ] “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” [His words are zōē – God life]

The word of God feeds our spirit. It’s Spirit to spirit communion. And from that communion we have spiritual wisdom and revelation and imaginations and knowings and understanding of scripture. (Like the two on the Road to Emmaus!) This is the fellowship with the Holy Spirit in our spirit which goes out and permeates our soul. The “18 inch journey” isn’t from your head to your heart. It’s from the spirit to the soul.

The soul is the mind, will, and emotions. The function of the soul is to think with the mind and to make decisions with the will and to feel with the emotions. All can be used for the glory of God when we live from the inside out.

The mind has to be renewed to the word of God revealed to us in our spirit. The soul is refreshed and restored through our communion and fellowship with the Lord in our spirit.

As we feed our spirit with scriptures and worship and intimacy with the Lord and with fellowship with the body of Christ, our soul will respond. With the agreement in the room, even a nod, we feel the presence of God. “Where two agree, where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am,” says the Lord.

We’ll get to the place where what we see when we look at Jesus as in a mirror is more real to us than the mirror we look at in the morning that just reminds us of our weakness and frailty.

We’ll become more conscious of Jesus in us than our own weakness. We’ll hear Him say, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

When we see Jesus as in a mirror, we can say, “As He is so am I in this world. I am righteous. I have power through the Holy Spirit. I have gifts and talents that the church and the world needs.”

And our soul will respond with good decisions, with joy and peace, with patient endurance and boldness to live in the truth and share the truth.

The eager expectation in our spirit from revelation of the goodness and faithfulness of God will flood our soul with hope.

As our soul prospers, this prosperity and health will flow from spirit to soul to body.

3 John 2 – Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Your body responds to a prosperous soul. The body is our physical members and our five senses. The functions of the body are taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound. 

Spirit prosperity brings soul prosperity which gives life to our mortal bodies and heals the body so it functions well and does what needs to be done to succeed in life’s journey.

Prosper – euodoō [yoo-od-o’-o] – it means to help along the journey and lead to success. To grant a prosperous journey. To cause success.

The verb “prosper” in both instances in that verse is passive – you were prospered in your soul, and then you were prospered in your body in all things, including health. 

Here’s the progression: Your spirit was prospered when you were born again. All at once, in one fell swoop, God lavished you with His grace, and you became a new creation in Jesus! Your spirit was dead until He made you alive. There was nothing as a dead person that you could do. The Spirit of God breathed His life into you, and when He did that He breathed His prosperity into you. He gave you everything! Everything for life and godliness and abundance! He granted you prosperity and success. You are completely successful an prosperous in your spirit. There is nothing you can do to improve on the new creation!

Through fellowship and communion in the Spirit and meditation on His word in your spirit, your soul begins to prosper. The soul isn’t making itself prosper. The help is coming from the inside out. If you want true peace, it comes from the spirit. Jesus said, “My peace I give to you, not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid.”

When the soul prospers, then all things, including the body, prospers. This prosperity didn’t come from the outside. The body didn’t make it happen. Everyone seems to be trying to make their bodies prosper outwardly. Why are the healed trying to be healed??? It comes from the inside out.

Conclusion

When we get a bad diagnosis, are we going to just accept it and cower in fear? Or will we go to the word of God, feed our spirit, worship the Lord, and renew our minds to His promises and command our soul to line up with truth?

When we have a problem with a child, are we going to become anxious and surrender? Are we going to resort to control and manipulation? Or will go to the word of God, feed our spirit, worship the Lord, and renew our minds to God’s plan for our families and command our soul to line up with truth?

When our bodies and our emotions tell us we are too tired and depressed and discouraged to keep moving, are we going to give up and give in? Or will we go to the word of God, feed our spirit, worship the Lord, and renew our minds to the encouragement and life-giving words of our Savior, “I came to give life and life more abundantly”? Will we command our soul to line up with truth with the Master’s own words?

Did you ever notice that one of our favorite passages is a command to our soul?

Psalm 103:1-5 – Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

We believe therefore we speak. Speak to the soul. That’s how we live from the spirit!

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