It is not so much that God accomplished the new creation by Christ; it is that He accomplished the new creation in Christ. We often hear Christian preachers and teachers talk about Christians having an “orphan spirit.” The reality is Jesus promised us, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you” – John 14:18. In John 14:2 – 3, 6 Jesus said, “In My Father’s house are many abiding places; if it were not so, I would’ve told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive (take) you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” Jesus said that we would no longer be orphans because He would come to us and take us to Himself (graft us into His person). We were in Christ at the cross where our sins were paid for in His person, and in Him the old self who was at enmity with God, was crucified and buried. A whole new self emerged in Him in His resurrection, and in His ascension – in union with Him – we were carried into the presence of the Father to participate in His eternally joyful, infinitely passionate, unimaginably intimate, forever inseparable relationship with the Father. Simply put, we were grafted into the Sonship of Jesus, and according to Galatians 4:4, “God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying Abba! Father!” The Holy Spirit actualizes in us the Abba Father relationship Jesus has with the heavenly Pater. All this is to say that in Christ, the “orphan spirit” or “orphan mindset” has been obliterated. We have been grafted into the life Jesus lives and the intimacy and favor He has with the Father.
