April 6, 2024 … Newness In Christ …

April 6, 2024 …  Newness In Christ …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics fromBig Daddy Weave singing … All Things New …  Poignantly and powerfully singing of how we Christians are made new by God’s Spirit in our relationship with Christ.       

Blue Spruce needles ... 

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Highlight Passage: …  Ephesians 4:24 [NLT] … 

24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.            

… Paul exhorts newly born-again believers to put on their new nature in Christ.                                      

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ephesians 4:17-28 … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul exhorts converted Christians to put on the new nature which is Christlikeness..                                

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Reference Passage: …  2Corinthians 3:18, 5:17 (NLT) … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul teaches new Christians that they (we) are being made new in our relationship with our Savior and His Spirit now residing in all new believers. 

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 … 

20 My old self has been crucified with Christ.  It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

…Paul witnesses to how his old self has been put to death by his faith in Christ which is the case for all born-again Christians.      

Reference Passage:  … Ephesians 2:10 … 

10  For we are God’s masterpiece.  He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.  

…God has saved us to be His ambassador of goodness to the world.  

Reference Passage: …  Colossians 3:9-10 …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul again charges fellow Christians to shed our past sinful self and to put on the new nature given to us by God’s Spirit.  

Reference Passage:  … Philippians 1:6 … 

6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. 

…Paul assures fellow Christians (and us) that God’s Spirit is working thru the new nature of all born-again Christians to remake them (us) into Christ’s image.

                   

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Patricia Raybon -  AT THIS LINK -   tells of the blue spruce tree (see photo) naturally shedding many needles annually to grow new needles as it spreads his branches and grows.  

And if my readers today have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I’m praying we all see that in in our new and growing relationship with Christ, we are being made new in Christlikeness by shedding our old nature and taking on the newness Christ implants - or replants - in all His chosen born-again believers.  Do you feel yourself growing in Christlikeness?   I pray so.                                   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for making me over into Your image. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to surrender to Your Spirit, Lord, to be remade in Your image.   … Amen

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