Jan 15, 2025 … A New Walk

Jan 15, 2025 … A New Walk   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Big Daddy Weave singing … All Things New … showing that faith in Jesus as Messiah makes all things new.

Rembrandt's 1633 painting of a New Life in Christ

  

Highlight Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] … 

8 But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.          

… Paul teaches of Christ dying on the cross while we were still sinners to save us forever from our sins.    

Highlight Passage (in context): … Romans 5:6-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians truth about our salvation to those who believe in Christ’s finished work on the cross to save mankind from our sins.                                                 

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 43:18-19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

,,, God’s promise, thru Isaiah, to make a new thing for His people, which was the promise of the work of Christ on the cross.   

Reference Passage: … Ezekiel 11:19-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

 … God’s promise, thru Ezekiel, to give His chosen people a new heart so that they (we) can - and will - obey the Lord.                                     

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 5:17-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians of God’s redemptive plan to die on the cross and make all things new for sinners who believe on Him as Messiah.   

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul witnesses his faith in Christ and his restoration by Christ living in his (and our) life thru our faith in Christ’s redeeming work on the Cross.         

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul teaches Christians that God has made over formerly broken sinners into the newness of a restored relationship with God.       

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to put on the new nature and become more like our Savior, Jesus, Who is The Christ.                         

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  James Banks  … AT THIS LINK  - makes a point about us becoming new thru our faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, which was illustrated in the 1633 painting by Rembrandt who painted his own portrait into two people at the foot of the cross (see photo), making the statement that he, … Rembrandt, … put Jesus up on that cross, which actually made him over into a soldier for Christ, … who was also in the painting, another self portrait, waling away in new garments.  

And the whole point of today’s ODB entry was that all, who believe in Christ’s finished work on the cross, are made new by Christ’s redeeming work on the cross and we now can walk in that restoration and grace.  That’s me today, doing al i can to put on the newness of the grace my Lord affords me.   How abut you?  Are you walking  with me in His love and grace today?            

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You , Lord, for walking away into my new life through Your blood, shed on that cross. 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to walk in the newness of our restored relationship with You.       …  Amen

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