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17 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. 18 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. 19 They have become callous…

What's New?

Are you new creation? If so, are you living like it?

Salvation is not a matter of improvement or perfection of what has previously existed—it is total transformation! I. The Walk of the Old Self - (4:17-19) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings…

I am no longer a sinner. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I no longer have sin nature. I no longer have a fleshly or carnal nature. I have a Christ-like nature. I have a divine nature.

A new spirit Ezekiel 36:26–27 (NASB95) 26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe…

Imagine yourself 10 years from now. One version is calloused and has given up. The other version, crafted in the likeness of God, is becoming unique and beautiful. How you think today will determine your tomorrow.

Have you ever put on the wrong clothes on… worn two different socks or shoes. You feel weird because you know you are not dressed right. Have you ever over dressed or under dressed for an event. You feel very self aware and you feel pretty sure that someone is laughing at you or talking about you. Wearing…

In the great banquet each invited guest at the second invitation ignores the interests of the host and instead focuses on his own interests. The host then excludes them and instead invites the despised of the city (Jews) and the more despised outside the city (gentiles). Paul points to our getting ready for the banquet by “putting to death” the vices of the gentiles and then also the vices of the Jews and many Christians so as to but on Christ (the full baptismal picture) leading to divinization. While this does not demand instant perfection, it does demand a calling out for virtue and a clothing ourselves by grace with Christ’s nature so that we will be ready to come with him in glory.

Big Idea: Put off your old life in the world, and put on your new life in the body of Christ.

Introdução! Nas últimas vezes que pregamos nesse texto falamos sobre “OS DONS E OS SEUS PROPÓSITOS”. (10 versículos - separamos v.7-13 e v14-16) Falamos da necessidade que temos de servir a Deus e aos irmãos com os nossos dons. Aquilo que recebemos do Senhor precisa ser usado na Sua Igreja para a edificação…

Introdução Texto Base: Colossenses 3:1-17 Eu não entendo muito de moda, mas dizem que a moda é circular e que de tempos em tempos coisas que já foram itens da última moda e que depois caíram em desuso voltam a tona repaginados e as vezes melhorados. Existem estivamativas que esse ciclo que antes poderia…

This week we look at the choice between serving God or sin and what it looks like to live that out.

Here Paul details the spiritual realities which underly circumcision and baptism and the transformation that take place in the life of those who are united with Christ by faith.

God rebuilds those who are reconciled through Christ, with a new nature.

Jesus displays authority over traditions.

Genuine Believers have been given the nature of Kingdom citizens

The effects of Salvation on the heart and it's actions

Introduction Throughout Scripture there are multiple ways that we are introduced to the idea of salvation and deliverance. This is no surprise, as the Gospel is rooted in salvation. Salvation is both relieving and humbling. This is especially the case when what we need saving from is ourselves or the…

Reading the Word of God New Century Version Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely,…

First John: 1 John 5:18-The Child of God’s New Divine Nature Never Sins and God Protects Him from the Devil

Now that the believer has a new life in Christ, the believer is to actively participate in the growth process!

First John: 1 John 3:9-The Child of God Received a New Divine Nature at Justification Which Can Never Sin

Condition of Man Before Sin Man was perfect and upright. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Made after the likeness of God. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish…

How is your life changed when you are a Christian?