In Christ Jesus, you have become a new creation and a son of God.

• We compare ourselves now in Christ to ourselves before without Christ.
• The second comparison is ourselves now in Christ to the fullness of Christ.
• The first appreciates how far I have come. The second recognizes how far I’ve left to go.
• We are new.
• Newness is from God, who graciously, through Christ, doesn’t hold sin against those who are in Christ. 
• We are new creations because we move from enemies of God to children of God.
• Your old garments are gone, clothed in Christ, you have a new identity that comes with the full rights of the citizenry of heaven.
• You were hostile to God.
• You could not please Him.
• But Christ could and did.
• In Christ alone, you have been chosen, loved, redeemed, justified, and made new, by the grace of God. 

2 Corinthians 5:17-21, Titus 3:5, John 3:6-8, Revelation 21:4-5, Galatians 3:26-29, Romans 8:1-2,5-7,8,10,13,17,37-39