Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Lincoln Brewster singing … Made New … powerfully singing of how Christ gives us hope thru His redeeming love/grace and making us over into His image.
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Highlight Passage : … John 11:27 [ESV] ... 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
… We are made over in Christ to become a witness for His glory to others.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … 2Corinthians 5:14-21 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Paul shows fellow Christians how we were made new from Christ’s completed sacrifice share our newness with others.
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Reference Passage : … Isaiah 43:18-19 [ESV] … 18 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
… Hundreds of of years before Christ’s finished work on the cross, Isaiah prophesies God’s plan for redemption and reconciliation … a new way from sinfulness to salvation.
Reference Passage : … Galatians 2:20 [ESV] … 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
… In choosing to follow King Jesus as Lord, we are made over and redeemed by His blood.
Reference Passage : … Ephesian 2:10 [ESV] … 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
… Paul shows fellow Christians that we become Christ’s workmanship to glorify His Father with our good works.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 1:6 [ESV] … 6 And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
… Paul knew first-hand, as we should, that God is making us Christians over into His image to prepare us for His second coming.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder, AT THIS LINK writes of how one witnessing Christian transformed South Africa’s most violent prison to a new, more peaceful, culture by sharing the Gospel message with the inmates.
And I know, … personally, … how Christ’s finished work on the cross changes lives, often calling myself a “posterboy" for the truth of today’s highlight verse (from 2Cor. 5:17). Almost 4 decades ago, I was an angry atheist, addicted to sexual sin, who did all I could to convince Christians they were fools to believe and follow Christ. But now, I am an Ordained Minister who leads a ministry to help those shackled in sexual sin to walk free from their habitual, and often addictive, sin to live free in Christ [see this link].
Isaiah had that message of freedom for God’s people hundreds of years before Christ (see Is. 43:18-19); and after Christ’s finished work on the cross, the Apostle Paul had that Gospel message for any of us, who would surrender ourselves and become witnesses for Christ, … showing others how we are made new by His blood and are being made-over into His image by becoming His disciples [see Pauline scriptures above].
And I pray that all reading with me here can - AND WILL - share that truth with others to help them walk free from self by following The Savior.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for making me over today and tomorrow by becoming a witnessing disciple of Christ.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to share the newness we have found in Christ with others. … Amen
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