"If any man be in Christ, [it is] new creation," says the apostle (2 Cor. 5:17). That is what "in Christ" means-a new creation. At new birth there is dropped into the soul the seed of divine, eternal life. It is not, as so many think, merely a moral change which is effected, but just as that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Those so born are truly partakers of His nature, and thus not simply adopted but real children of God. Christ is their life, the new Adam of a new creation, but in which He is Creator as well as Head as we have seen. F. W. G.

From "Help and Food" 1886, p. 225.