The New You!

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Transcript

Why We Love New Things

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Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in the Word. I'm Ronnie Cooksy. We usually like new things. New cars, new carpet, new management, a new look. Today we read about the most important new thing in your

The Promise Of A New Creation

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life. In Second Corinthians chapter five, verse seventeen it says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things passed away, behold, new things have come. If any man is in Christ. Now that means anyone. You have the opportunity to be in

What It Means To Be In Christ

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Christ. It means to be born again, that you've admitted your sin to the Lord, repented of that sin, meaning you want to turn from your own ways and follow him. You believe Jesus was God in the flesh, and that his death on the cross is the only sufficient payment for your sin, and you've turned to follow him by his power and his grace. Anyone can have that if you will express that to God and turn to follow him. You'll be in Christ. And it means that then all that he did applies to you. If you're riding in my car and I drive through a toll booth, I pay the toll, I drive the car, but since you're in the passenger seat, you are in my car, and therefore all that I do affects you just the same as it affects me. Are you in Christ? Well, if you are in Christ, the scripture says here that you

Inside Out Change By The Spirit

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are a new creation. Now that is amazing. This means just that new, made new and different from the inside out. Now many people try to do religious things from the outside in to make themselves appealing to, pleasing to right in the sight of God, but God says, No, I want to change you from the inside out. And I want to take my spirit, the spirit of the living God, and when you place your faith in Christ, when you are in Christ, his spirit changes, renews, lives in your spirit. And you can't take the spirit of the living God, the one whom they feared with great reverence, who dwelt especially in the Holy of Holies in the old temple, in the old covenant. You can't take that spirit, put him in your spirit, and have things not change. Now, do we become perfect instantly? No.

Old Ways Gone New Ways Growing

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But things have to begin changing. And he says, the old things have passed away because new things have come in their place. Now the word passed away here, the tense tells us that it means gone. So God's made it where you don't have to have those old ways, the ways that you walked in before you knew Christ, the sins of the world in you. Now we still sin until we enter heaven's gates, but we don't have to anymore, and Jesus even paid for those. It's like digging up a house and building something in its place. The former house is no longer there. It was put away. When I came to Christ, I knew that most of the things in my life needed to go. They were old. They were after the ways of the world. They were different than what God wanted from me because he loved me. Many of the things in my life needed to be trashed so that the new things God wanted to do in my life could be new. Some don't know all the things when they first believe, though all know some of the things because of the truth that God has built into us. But as we grow in Christ, as we read the Scripture, He reveals things that we need to get rid of, allow and ask God to give us the grace to turn away from those things and to eliminate them from our lives. Some of them are obvious. We need to get rid of drunkenness and theft and lying and cursing and living in an immoral fashion and hateful talking and harming others and on and on. Those things are obvious. But as you grow, God will day by day, little by little, reveal things that are from the old life, and he has died on the cross to make it possible for you to live in the new life. So he shows you more and more things. Yes, you still have the same body and the same face, which is unfortunate for me, but he put a new spirit in you and it begins to affect everything else in your life. All things made new, new in substance. All things, the verb tense is permanent, always

Living The New Life Daily

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renewing. Are you living like you're in the new life? Are you trying to go back and live in the old life? Well, the spirit may have convicted you today, so just admit it to God. Thank him that he died for these failures in your life, and ask him to let you live in the new that he purchased for you. This isn't for super Christians. This is the normal Christian life, and God wants to make it so in your life today. May God bless you today, and I'll see you back here next time.