The Recreated Spirit

2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
This verse of scripture begins with a hypothetical “If.” The word “If” suggests that there is a condition that must be met before becoming a new creature. And that condition is that you must be in Christ, you must be saved. That is, you must believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, and you must confess Jesus as Lord.
The spirit of man is the part of man that is recreated. It is the part of man that receives zoe, which is the nature and life of God. It is the spirit of man that becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus. It is not the soul that is born again neither the body. However, the soul is to be renewed by the Word of God, and the body presented as a living sacrifice unto God, which is the least thing we can do as new creatures.
Galatians 4:5-6
4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
From the foregoing text, it is quite clear that we become new creatures, sons of God, when God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our own spirit.
But let us go back to where it all began, in the gospel of John
John 14:16-17
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dweleth with you, and shall be in you.
In the 17th verse of John chapter 14, the Lord Jesus made two interesting statements concerning the operations of the Holy Spirit. He said the Spirit shall dwell with you, and shall be in you. In other words, you shall have two experiences of the operations of the Spirit.
The operation of the Holy Spirit in you is established when you receive salvation, eternal life, and you’re born again (John 4:14). While the operation of the Holy Spirit dwelling with you is established when you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost: an experience subsequent to salvation (John 7:37).
Now let us see these two experiences of the operations of the Spirit in the lives of the disciples of Christ:
John 20:22
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
After Jesus ascended unto God the Father and entered in once into the holy place and offered his blood to obtain eternal redemption for mankind (Hebrews 9:12), he appeared to his disciple and said: “Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on his disciples, and said “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.”
Jesus has paid the price of eternal redemption for mankind by his blood, so at this point after the ascension, he is able to impart eternal life unto man. The disciples received this eternal life when Jesus breathed on them and said: receive ye the Holy Ghost. This experience, of recreating the spirit unto eternal life, is the first operation of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the disciples.
In the 2nd chapter of the book of Acts we find something else very interesting:
Acts 2:1-4
1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
2And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Before the Lord Jesus was received by a cloud, the second time, into heaven, he said to his disciples: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me...” (Acts 1:.
Notice the phrase “After that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.”
Jesus did not say: after that the Holy Ghost is come in you, no. He said: after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Or we can put it this way, after that the Holy Ghost dwells with you. Why? Because they, the disciples, had already received the Holy Ghost in them. So now the Holy Ghost is come upon or dwell with them.
The 3rd and 4th verses of Acts chapter 2 say: and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
With those two experiences, Jesus fulfilled his promise that the Spirit will be in you and will dwell with you (John 14:17).
This experience, of the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, is the second operation of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the disciples. This is also the reality of everyone born again child of God. The first operation of the Spirit is received when we confess Jesus is Lord of our lives and believes in our hearts that God raised him from the dead. The second operation is subsequent to salvation. It is received when we thirst for the Spirit (John 7: 37).
When your recreated spirit receives the enduement of the Spirit from on high, that is, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you become more pliable to yield to the leading of the Spirit of God. You become more spirit-conscious.

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