"Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ."One day my friend Steve led a printer friend to a saving relationship with the Lord. The next day he received an excited call from his “baby” brother. “What have you gotten me into? I come in to work and realized I can’t print half the stuff I usually do.”Colossians 2:6-8
Life changes when we are baptized into Christ; we are no longer able to live as we once lived.
Showing posts with label New creation. Show all posts
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Friday, January 25, 2008
SANCTIFICATION: No longer able to!
NEW CREATION: Our spiritual contractor!
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."We know this one thing, if a man owned a house and a contractor offered to restore it, free of charge, he’d be a fool to deny his offer.2 Corinthians 5:17
Why then do so many men reject the offer of God to restore their spiritual homes? We are indeed a people without spiritual vision.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
REBIRTH: Unexpected beauty and purpose for lives which were previously barbaric!
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."In the late '90s, Finland’s hottest rock group was Apocalyptica; their fans don’t use drugs or mosh, instead they sit quietly and listen attentively.2 Corinthians 5:17
Apocalyptica is composed of four young cellists, who study at Sibelius Academy, Finland’s top classical training ground. Their music? Metallica, Faith No More and other heavy-metal musicians.
Jim Heintz, writing for the Associated Press, says,“Apocalyptica achieves something that surprises adults: it finds dignity and intelligence in music usually dismissed as the theme songs of glue-sniffing morons. … The warm, woody tones of a cello can change a riff that that sounds shrill and ugly on an electric guitar into something yearning and lovely.”Heintz goes on to say,“The result is to bring an unexpected formality and deliberation to songs that in their original versions were barbaric yawps. In Apocalyptica’s hands, heavy metal leaves the torture chamber and becomes chamber music.”In the hands of God, the unrighteous and ungodly become dignified, “yearning and lovely”.
The world looks upon what once belonged to it and finds “an unexpected formality and deliberation” where once, “in their original versions,” stood “barbaric” noise.
In God’s hands, sinful man “leaves the torture chamber and becomes” free indeed.
[The Washington Times; July 12-18, 1999; 2]
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
REBIRTH: The Spectrum of the Son!
"you must be born again"Our kids were watching some old Outer Limits reruns on TV; the episode concerned a shift in the radiation spectrum of the Sun, as a result of elevated gamma rays mankind was in danger of annihilation. Man, however, was unaware of the shift or their doom.John 3:7
"if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature"2 Corinthians 5:17
Observing this from another galaxy, some friendly aliens developed an antidote. The aliens sent an ambassador to warn earth and offer the antidote. But the human race faced a dilemma: the antidote caused a metamorphosis of all who submitted. In order to be saved, one had to be changed into a new creature.
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