Give Online: https://pushpay.com/pay/gatecitychristian Website: https://www.gatecitychristian.com/ Decision Card: https://gatecity.churchcenter.com/people/forms/371658 NEW Now What - Part 8 11/19/2023 NEW kainos - newness in sense of fresh existence neos - newness in the sense of renovation, repairing something NEW CREATION Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17–21 ESV Truth: I am a creation that didn’t exist previously Application: I am not bound by same constraints as before I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 ESV NEW LIFE/SELF Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:17–24 ESV (see also Col. 3:5-10) We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4 ESV Truth: God breathed new life in me through the Holy Spirit Application: My strength and power now comes from the Spirit Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20–21 ESV NEW HEART And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Ezekiel 36:26–27 ESV Truth: What matters most to me has and is changing Application: I find joy in new places, new experiences, and new purposes’ The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 1 Timothy 1:5 ESV Warning: What the heart does and is exposed to matters Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:23 ESV Maintaining a New Heart 1) You must remove yourself from the equation 2) Trust the Lord 3) Find joy outside yourself in His purposes and presence 4) Feed your heart what is pure 5) Obedience is not optional 6) Surround yourself with people of the same heart 7) Expect rejection (Rom. 12:21 “overcome evil with good”) 8) Seek every chance to grow GOD made me a New Creation GOD is my source of New Life GOD gives me a New Heart And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” Revelation 21:5 ESV