Title: new creature
Contents
Title: new creature
Bible: 2 Corinthians 5:17
2010.1.10.Daytime
1. 3 stages of life
If you look at the process of change in your life, you can see that it changes in three stages.
The first is the mother's life. In the mother's womb, it exists in amniotic fluid. Only through the passage of life connected by the mother's umbilical cord, you receive advanced needs.
The second is life after birth. This life is about 70 years and 80 years. Compared to the life span of 10 months in the mother's womb, they live about 80-90 times. We can say that this is the life we see now.
The third life is the life after death. This life now leaves the physical world and enters the spiritual world. Taejoong's life is a life that you feel rather than see. Life after birth is a visible life. Life after death is an invisible spiritual life.
If we say that we live our visible physical life for 80 years, this life is not 80-90 times, not a thousand times, ten thousand times, but forever. All of these are our lives.
However, many people neglect their womb life and sometimes have a miscarriage. They do not know that it is a sin, nor do they feel any remorse, but artificially kill their lives.
And another life after death, thinking that it does not exist just because it is invisible, sometimes live without any preparation.
Most people live only for the physical life they can see.
But you have to realize that these three lives are all connected. If the mother takes drugs or is under a lot of stress while in the womb, the child has no choice but to give birth to a stillborn baby. That life goes through many hardships and hardships in life. If you live your life without preparing for a spiritual life that is invisible even for a physical life that looks like that, the life in the spiritual world is very miserable and unhappy.
Therefore, we should live today's physical life while thinking of the eternal spiritual life. So how do we prepare?
2. The concept of something new
If we summarize the concept of new, we can think of it in four ways.
First, it is temporally new.
It's the same time concept as 2009 and 2010. However, that is not what we are talking about in today's text. It's 2010 and you don't automatically become new.
The second is the environmental concept.
When the environment changes, we say it is new. When a used car is repaired, it becomes a new car, and when a new house is built or repaired, the house is called a new house. However, we also know the environmental concept of today's text. If I live in an old house and live in a new house, I will not become a new one.
The third is an ontological concept.
When a young lady gets married, she becomes a new wife. Until now, I only thought of my mother and father as my parents, but from now on, I become a new wife and take care of the wrong man's father and mother as my parents. And she lives with love and devotion more than her mother, who took care of her in the arms of a man. The new thing mentioned in today's text is almost nonsensical, but it is much more subtle than that.
The fourth concept is the biologic concept.
Life is forever new. By planting rice seeds, we produce rice and eat it as a form of food. And if you plant that seed again next year, it will sprout and give you new food. In this way, life is always new. However, dead rice seeds never sprout, no matter how much they are planted in the ground, watered, exposed to the sun, and put into practice. Because there is no life in it.
We seemed to have life, but in reality, like the dead rice seed, there was no life. The moment we picked and ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, our lives died.
“We who died in our sins and trespasses…” are declared.
You can never be new in the dead. No matter how much you morally train, meditate, learn a lot, do good, and use all human means, life can never arise in it. Woah woah woah --- Despair--- Oh, I am ruined.
So what do we do?
3. Be in Christ.
God is love. God could not bear to see humans who are drowning in such despair, so He Himself came down to this earth with life. He is Jesus Christ. Therefore, life cannot come into being in us except through Jesus.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Jesus Christ, he is a new creation...”
The first prerequisite must be in Jesus Christ. You must believe in Jesus. To believe in Jesus means to receive Jesus into your heart. Only then will we become new creatures.
“God, who is rich in mercy, through the great love with which he loved us, made us alive together with Christ when we were dead in trespasses.”
What did Jesus come and tell us?
“I Am the Bread of Life”
“I am the living bread that comes down from heaven; if anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. The bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Apostle John still “was life in him...
Only in Christ can we gain life and become a completely new creation.
The new creation now has eternal life. The life that God gives is not the life of the flesh, nor the life in the womb, but the life that will exist forever after death. Therefore, this life is what the Bible calls eternal life.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
What if you don't believe in Jesus?
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son will not see eternal life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
A person belonging to the body. It has nothing to do with eternal life. That is why we live by following the world's customs, following the rulers of the power of the air, and following the lusts of the flesh, sinning and practicing lawlessness. It has nothing to do with God's promises. It is far from heaven.
Their understanding is darkened, and they are alienated from life because of the ignorance that is in them and the hardening of their hearts.”
Dear saints,
This year, we should live our dreams. May you dream of eternal life. I hope you live and dream of heaven
How can Nicodemus come to Jesus at night secretly and gain eternal life? He taught me to be born again. But does he have to go back into his mother's womb and be born again without realizing the meaning of being born again? And I have asked a question that I can't laugh at.
Dear saints,
I hope 2010 will be a blessed year for all of you to be reborn as new creatures in Christ. And longing for the wonderful kingdom of God, experience and taste heaven on earth.
I sincerely congratulate you on your success.