The Eternal Man - Awakening the New Creation Within
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17
The Gospel of the Kingdom does not simply offer a second chance to the old you, it unveils an entirely new order of existence. The eternal man is not a repaired sinner or a polished Adam. He is the manifestation of another species, born of incorruptible seed, carrying the very life of Christ. This man is not subject to decay, bound by the past, or chained to the cycles of time. He is the unveiling of what was hidden before the foundation of the world, Christ in you, the hope of glory.
The Birth That Comes From Above
“Unless one is born from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” — John 3:3
The eternal man is born, not through human will, the desires of the flesh, or the lineage of earthly fathers, but through the breath of God Himself. This birth is not the gradual evolution of human morality but the supernatural impartation of divine life. It is the sudden appearing of the uncreated within the created, the eternal invading the temporal. The seed of God is planted in the soil of your being, and it carries within it the full blueprint of Christ’s image.
This is why the eternal man cannot be produced by religious discipline or theological knowledge. No seminary can birth him, no ritual can form him, and no amount of human striving can bring him forth. He is the result of divine begetting, the child of a love that predates time.
The Death of the Old Man
“Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.” — Romans 6:6
For the new creation to arise, the old creation must truly die. The cross was not a symbolic gesture or a sentimental picture, it was the execution of the Adamic race. In Christ’s crucifixion, every false identity, every inherited corruption, and every counterfeit self was put to death.
Many try to drag the old man into the Kingdom by reforming him, polishing him, or baptizing him into new habits. But the Kingdom has no place for Adam, no matter how religious he becomes. The eternal man does not inherit anything from the flesh. He puts on Christ Himself as his only life. The cross was the final verdict on the old you, not wounded, not wounded-but-recovering, but gone.
The Man Who Cannot Die
“Whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” — John 11:26
The eternal man is born into a dimension where death has no authority. This is not poetic comfort for a funeral; it is a present-tense reality for those who walk in the Spirit. The eternal man does not fear death because his life is hid with Christ in God. Even if the body sleeps, the life within cannot be touched by decay or robbed by the grave.
Jesus did not come merely to promise resurrection in the future, He came to impart resurrection now. The eternal man lives in the power of an endless life, drinking continually from the river that flows from the throne. Death is not an appointment he dreads but an enemy already conquered.
The Image of the Son Restored
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.” — Romans 8:29
From the beginning, the intention of God was not servants alone but sons who bear His likeness. The eternal man is the fulfillment of that original design. He does not simply try to imitate Christ from a distance, he radiates the very nature of Christ from within.
This restoration is not superficial. It is not an external resemblance, but an internal transformation. The eternal man walks with the Lamb’s heart, thinks with the Lamb’s mind, and moves with the Lamb’s authority. Creation will one day behold the Firstborn Son and the many sons standing together, indistinguishable in nature, united in glory.
Walking in the New Creation Now
“As He is, so are we in this world.” — 1 John 4:17
The eternal man does not wait for the “sweet by and by” to manifest resurrection life. He is the evidence of the Kingdom here and now. His steps carry heaven’s fragrance into the earth, his words release life, and his actions bear the signature of another realm.
He does not draw identity from his past, his failures, or his human achievements. His identity is fixed in the eternal, anchored in the One who is before all things. When he speaks, it is the voice of the age to come breaking into the present. When he walks, it is heaven and earth meeting in one frame.
The eternal man is rising in this hour. He is the hidden seed that Babylon cannot crush, the incorruptible life that systems cannot buy or sell. You are not merely a forgiven sinner. You are a son born from eternity, living in the now, untouched by the sentence of death. Let the old be buried once and for all, and rise to walk as the living evidence that the Kingdom has come.
— Joe Restman
Mystic-Scribe | Flame-Bearer
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