It is upon this same Cross (take up your Cross daily), this same altar (the place of death), that I am to be consecrated to God as a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17).
A healthy spiritual birth results in the falling away of many of the more obvious works of the flesh, often causing the new believer to claim 2 Corinthians 5:17 or Galatians 2:20 as his testimony.