Title “A New Creation”/Ezekiel 36:24-31
Content “New Creature”
(Ezekiel 36:24-31, Matthew 9:14-17, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21)
It's already been a month since the new year. But it's another new year. It is the day to welcome the new year in the lunar calendar. In the new year, you will have a lot of thoughts about “newness” or “newness”, and you will have to constantly renew yourself with a sense of crisis that you cannot survive without being renewed in a new and changing world. Paul’s teaching on “a new man who is changed and not conformed to the world” (Romans 12:1-2), “a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17), and “the new man who puts off the old man” (Ephesians 4:23-24). are doing Today, I hope that there will be enlightenment and determination as we organize what is really new based on the words Paul said, “Look, I have become a new creature.”
1. How did you say, “How do you become new?
1) “If anyone is in Christ, he is made new.” “Whoever is a new creation in Christ” (1 Corinthians 5:17) means that we are renewed by ‘belief’ in Jesus Christ as Lord. The phrase “in Christ” means that when you truly believe in Christ, God puts believers in Christ. “Faith” means establishing a relationship, and the power to receive and live together in it. God has placed those who believe in Jesus as Lord so that they may live with the life, death and resurrection of Christ in all that belongs to Him. The apostle Paul said that he was in Christ, and that Christ lives in him (Galatians 2:20).
2) When we receive the power of the Holy Spirit, we become new. We are born again of water and the Spirit. (John 3:5, Ephesians 5:18)
3) We are renewed by the word of God. (Ephesians 5:26, 1 Peter 1:23)
When a person believes and receives Christ, he or she becomes united with Christ in Christ and becomes christian. If anyone enters the furnace of love called “Christ”, they are melted with the Holy Spirit and the Word, all impurities are removed, and they become one whole with Christ.
2. What did you mean by “renewed”?
1) Existence is renewed. (2 Corinthians 5:17) The dead become living beings (John 5:24).
2) Your identity will change. (John 1:12, Romans 8:14-17) Children of the wrath of being abandoned become children of God.
3) The relationship is different. (2 Corinthians 5:18-21) It changes into a harmonious relationship with God, a harmonious relationship with humans, and a harmonious relationship with nature. You will also have a relationship of life. (John 15:5)
4) Values are renewed. (Philippians 3:8) The standard of value that discerns and judges all things is replaced by the standard of Jesus Christ.
5) The center of gravity is different. (1 Corinthians 10:31) As we change from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, we will live a life that values our neighbors.
6) The direction, goals, and purpose of life change. Become a person who sees things through the eyes of Christ. (Philippians 3:12-14)
7) Hearts, thoughts, and motives change. With a good conscience, with good thoughts, it is motivated by a pure, good, unselfish love. (Ezekiel 36:26-27, Phil 2:5)
8) Your attitude towards life will change. (Philippians 4:8-9) Always adopt a positive, positive, and creative attitude in life, and in no case despair, you will live a life of hope.
9) Words and deeds become new. (Colossians 3:5-8) Above all else, there is a consensus between words and actions.
10) Knowledge is renewed. (Col 3:9-10) We will put away false knowledge and diseased knowledge, and we will have life-saving knowledge and sound knowledge. Faith in the fear of God the Creator will be taken as the basis of knowledge. (Proverbs 9:10)
conclusion. The new person who is in Christ does not become a strange person, but changes his entire personality and becomes the most complete person who resembles Christ. From the moment of receiving Christ, change takes place, and you walk on the path of sanctification continuously and gradually, and finally enter the stage of glorification.