Wednesday's Words to Live By For May 9th - May 15th
"God Makes ALL Things New" Part II
Scriptures: Revelation
21:5; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:20; Romans 6:1-7, 10-11;
Isaiah 43:18;
Ephesians 4:22-24
Revelation
21:5 – (www.biblegateway.com – Amplified)
And He Who is
seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record
this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible, and trustworthy)
and true (genuine).
2
Corinthians 5:17 – (www.biblegateway.com – Amplified)
Anyone
who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is
new.
Galatians
2:20 – (www.biblegateway.com – Amplified)
I have been
crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I
who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the
body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in)
the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Romans
6:1-7,10-11 – (www.biblegateway.com – Contemporary English Version)
1 What
should we say? Should we keep on sinning, so that God’s wonderful kindness will
show up even better? 2 No, we should not! If we are dead to sin, how
can we go on sinning? 3 Don’t you know that all who share in Christ
Jesus by being baptized also share in his death? 4 When we were
baptized, we died and were buried with Christ. We were baptized, so that we
would live a new life, as Christ was raised to life by the glory of God the
Father. 5 If we shared in Jesus' death by being baptized, we will be
raised to life with him. 6 We know that the persons we used to be
were nailed to the cross with Jesus. This was done, so that our sinful bodies
would no longer be the slaves of sin. 7 We know that sin doesn’t
have power over dead people.
10 When Christ died,
he died for sin once and for all. But now he is alive, and he lives only for
God. 11 In the same way, you must think of yourselves as dead to the
power of sin. But Christ Jesus has given life to you, and you live for God.
Isaiah 43:18 – (www.biblegateway.com – Contemporary
English Version)
The Lord said: Forget what happened long ago! Don’t think about the past.
Ephesians
4:22-24 – (www.biblegateway.com – Contemporary English Version)
22 You were told
that your foolish desires will destroy you and that you must give up your old
way of life with all its bad habits. 23 Let the Spirit change your
way of thinking 24 and make you into a new person. You were created
to be like God, and so you must please him and be truly holy.
We are dead to
sin and it’s affects, therefore, the things that happened to us because of sin
(born in sin and shaped in iniquity – Psalms 51:5 – because of the
curse brought on by Adam and Eve sinning in the Garden of Eden – Genesis 3) can no longer
hold us back. Jesus has freed us from ALL sins; we are no longer slaves to sin
or to its consequences (Romans 6:6). Therefore, old
things are passed away and God HAS
made ALL things new (2 Corinthians 5:17)!
We are no longer
the person we were BEFORE we
accepted Christ! All those things that happened to us before (abuse,
molestation, sexual assault, neglect, abandonment, rejection, etc.) are under
the Blood of Jesus! Those things (listed above) and others happened to your old
self (“old man”) and you are no longer that person. You do not have to accept
the thoughts the enemy bring you concerning these or anything in your past;
pull down the strongholds in your mind using God’s mighty weapons of warfare and
“lead every thought and purpose away captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:4 – Amplified). Don’t allow
the enemy to speak to your mind or speak to you through others; believe what
the Word of God says that you are a new creation in Christ – old things have
passed away, behold all things are new (2 Corinthians 5:17) – you are a new
creation.
Submit yourselves
to God by believing every word in the Bible, every promise and this will cause
you to resist the devil; then he will flee – he MUST flee! However, he will NEVER
flee if you keep believing and agreeing with his lies!
You are not the
same person you use to be! Sunday, April 29th 2012, after my Pastor
prayed for me, God let me knew that I was not the same little girl I was years
ago when I was rejected by my father. God let me knew that the rejection did
not happen to the new me but to my old self and I am no longer that person; I
have been washed in the mighty, powerful Blood of Jesus and restored to my
heavenly Father – He will NEVER reject me! God also let me knew I was not the
same person because I am a new creation in Him through Christ. The enemy was
trying to bring back those old feelings how my father had rejected me but my
Pastor prayed and God reminded me who I was in Him and that’s what He is doing
to YOU through this teaching.
Romans 6: 4-5 let us know we
died when Christ died and rose from the dead in newness of life when He rose. That’s
why when we accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior, we are “born again;”
the new birth cannot and will not happen without accepting Jesus as your personal
Lord and Savior – He is the ONLY way to the Father (John 14:6: “Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the
Father except through me” – www.biblegateway.com – NLT).
Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:1-8a:
“3 Jesus
replied, “I tell you for certain that you must be born from above (Greek – “in
a new way”) before you can see God’s kingdom!”
4 Nicodemus asked, “How can a grown man ever be
born a second time?” 5 Jesus answered:
I tell you for certain that before you can get into God’s
kingdom, you must be born not only by water, but by the Spirit. 6 Humans
give life to their children. Yet only God’s Spirit can change you into a child
of God. 7 Don’t be surprised when I say that you must be born from
above. 8 Only God’s Spirit gives new life...” (www.biblegateway.com – Contemporary English Version).
Romans
6:6 tell us that our old self was nailed to the
cross with Christ (we were crucified when Christ was crucified – Galatians
2:20) and we are no
longer slaves to sin. Romans
6:7 goes on to let
us know why we are no longer a slave to sin: “We know that sin doesn’t have power over dead people.”
Romans 6:10-11 let us know when Christ died, He died to sin
once and for all (“ending His relation
to it”) and the life He lives is to the Father (“in unbroken fellowship with Him”). Therefore, we are dead to sin
(our relation to it is broken) and
we are alive to God (we live in unbroken
fellowship with Him) in Christ Jesus (as
Christ is so are we – we are joint heirs with – Romans 8:14-17)! As long as we remain IN Christ, we will have unbroken fellowship with God our
Father!
It is imperative that we know who we are IN (joint heirs to ALL God’s promises –
greatest promise is to live eternally with the Father!) and THROUGH (cannot come to the Father
without Christ – must go through Him – Christ is our Mediator) Christ!
In closing, I suggest you read the complete
chapter of Romans 6 and ask God to give you the revelation of who YOU are in and through Christ!
“(God Makes) – All Things New” by Steven Curtis Chapman
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