No Longer Servants

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." (2 Corinthians 5.17)  What does that mean?  What does it mean to be a "new creation"?  Perhaps it helps to consider who we were without Christ.  We were not simply lost in our sin, but as a result, we were alienated from God.  We were enemies of God.  We were considered servants of God.  We were not servants of God, but servants of our carnal flesh, our worldly desires, held captive by the temptations and enticements of all that was opposed to God.  Yet, when we surrender to Christ, allowing His forgiveness to be released within us through the Holy Spirit, we are transformed.  Jesus says in John 15.15, "I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing."

Whereas, when we were separated from God, we did not even consider the things of God, let alone know God, we now can know God.  More importantly, as we will see this morning, "God knows us".  He has called us, and in His calling, by the blood of Christ, God has adopted us into His family.  So, yes, we are no longer servants to the world, but we are now servants of the One True God.