Made New (Part 2)

This morning and our last Sunday morning, I'm a little swerve and instead of doing the whole lesson I just in the beginning part and so I'm going to pick up that same situation than the and try to move ahead as we talked about being made new. It's a really exciting thought. I don't know what you think about. You see about a young Maiden do, but a lot of people think, first, we have three grandkids to have woman has September one October month. November 8th and they were all three together yesterday. It was interesting as they were trying to one-up each other about. Well, I'll ask for that. I'm going to ask for that September and then it will be there for you and have a nice little fun, kind of play the air.

When we look at animals, we see in this world some weird situations that's called mental metamorphosis butterflies. We know the process that go through with butterflies, if they change becomes thinking different, probably a lot of people know that if you help this butterfly, Out of the Cocoon, it actually won't let them survive. In means the process of developing strengths in leaving that. So it's all kinds of things that God teaches us, our boys love. Tadpoles when they move to Oklahoma, it was Ted for king, and you just constantly lining the tadpoles watching the process and you're just This creature. Totally changes. Oh, a lot of food at things to see in birth look very different in the adult version of that animal. But they're certainly things that don't then looked very, very similar.

As I was saying last week week, and it kind of a place where we don't really believe that change is possible. Now we don't say that. We don't say no to no, you can't change, but we function as if Somebody has an issue, somebody has a problem. Somebody hasn't difficulty, somebody has seen in their life and we're like, okay? You've been overrun by that they're going to manifest that and what others are consequences? Are we havior? We can't mix that up with the idea that we can't change because we can change and a lot of us to experiment every New Year, okay? These are things, I need to change this time of year. You go didn't work this year. Maybe it'll work next year, and I will try it again because I need to be improved. I need to be better. 2nd Corinthians 5:17. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come the old has gone. The new is here.

That there is the power to make those kinds of important. Changes are three things. I'd like, for us to look at it. Come out of the context of this. For the first is just the miracle of conversion. The miracle that God cared enough to provide a mechanism, not a cheat mechanism for the mechanism that cost him. His only son, We have been given the opportunity to have a new existence old has gone old. Guilt has gone. The old bond is gone, a lot of times we have difficulty forgetting ourselves and letting it go, but God is able to do that. In Romans 6:4.

We were bare for buried with him, through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead, through the glory of the father, we too may live. A new life. And a lost moment. So we start to feel like I messed it up. I bet it wrong. I have so many regrets in the back of my mind. You're just wishing

Gases. I can provide that mechanism. You can do that. And the primary way is to our Baptist, men to Jesus and all that, we've done is Left Behind a new creation as we free in action, actual death, burial, and Resurrection. It's a Wonderful opportunity. And I told you before that, I had people come to me and say, I want to be baptized again. Why I didn't understand what I was doing the first time or I have more information now, but a lot of people say, I want that feeling again. I want to feel like I felt when I came out of the water, it felt so clean and so good. And we don't have to do that. We don't go back into the baptistry so that we are have the subsequent sensation away. God takes those sins away from us and it's a continuing process and I'll show you the passage about that a little bit later on.

I shared this story before, but I'm going to share it again because I liked it so much stories about some Americans who were at a Bazaar in India and there's a place where they're selling birds so that you could take the bird home and actually have it to eat. And so, they have all these personal stake, their birds have a string around their neck, and each string has a circle on it, that's a just put on to this main pole, Maine stake out and the word this walk around in a circle And all all known this guy comes in. He's a visitor and he feels bad about what's going to happen to the bird. This we just, I'm by mall. Advise of all, they cut all the strings, you're free. What do they, what do they keep doing? Parks around the circle. The guy who's paid for them. It's so frustrated that he says do something and the guy who owns the stall takes like a broom and Scattered, but is the man is leaving the bazaar. The Bird the free time. And I'm farting again. There's a circle.

They have freedom. It was offered to them, it was given to them, it was handed to them. What, what was? Knowledgeable. What would a convenient? What was comfortable? What they kept doing and it becomes one of the biggest hurdles in our changing is we're so comfortable. And what we do is very difficult to change that pattern. We can and through God we can but it's a difficult change. The second thing is just a Marvel of change. It is possible. It is real 1st, Corinthians 6:11, 9, and 10, positive point out. Specifically, some of the sins that were in the lives of the members at Courant. And it's an impressive list of things people would be frightened even after all the things that Paul lives there. But right after he lives those, he makes this statement and that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were Sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the spirit of our God. That's what you used to be. But through God, you're not that anymore and you don't have to stay in that Circle. You can break out of that path and live your own life. Ezekiel 36:25.

God says, I will give you a new heart and a new spirit and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from your heart, from you, Your Heart of Stone, and give you the heart of Flesh that song that we sang just a few minutes ago. And again, that was it planned or coordinated together so nicely. Their God promises us, Newhart.

This heart is Damaged. This Heart isn't functioning way. To this heart. Literally for the biblical perspective is said to turn into stone.

But we can have a new heart. Your lot to accomplish interesting thing to me is that passage is in Ezekiel chapter. 36, what's Ezekiel chapter 37?

The Valley of the dry bones. We pulled about The Heirs, as look at these, all these Dry Bones, can these bones live again, could God raise an army out of hollow bones? And for most people that's like, no, that's about as far as you can go. And yet you know is Ezekiel experiences, the clattering of the bones, the pieces coming back together and tendons in the sinews and army is resurrected out of dried bone, goddamn changes. He certainly can change us. Proverbs 4:23 for everything you do for us from it as an important passage from Proverbs. But Jesus is going to reiterate that passage when he's preaching and teaching, because he wants us to know that we can have Newhart They used to be a youth ministry song that.

I'll probably in the 80s, it was more the things I used to do, I don't do them anymore. There's been a great day since I was born in and it's got a great course. And, and youth groups love to sing the song. It's just a lot of fun, but it brings back to that idea that we can be enthusiastic. We can be joyful because we're not stuck where we are. God brings into our world the way that we can reward and we are even more than we wish we could be. Bring that to us.

Manifesting Lottery forum. you know, it's really impressive, his scripture, mentions the guy who was that, I called George, who was to had all the handicaps at, and Jesus change that

I'm a miraculous change and we see miraculous change sometimes.

Developmental change. Even when Jesus says Simon, you're now Peter. He's not there yet. That's the goal. That's the ideal. And it certainly looks from the information that we have. It repeated history close to that. At the very least. Sometimes are shattering things that happen to us. That brings change in our lives, I've shared with you before. There's a guy I guess. I was going to Bible study with and he's a really nice guy and we really enjoyed actually becoming a Christian he was like not ready to do that. He comes home from work on Friday afternoon, goes into his house, he has a little 4-year there, there's a marble table there, a higher. When I get home or what? That's actually call. Joseph put his billfold in his keys into the hobos heading there. That's the last thing. You remember his heart stopped He fell. Bounce his head off the marble table, he's in the hospital for several days and when he is getting released from the hospital, he tells me the phones is, are you at the building? As if I can be and he says I want to be baptized Why? I just died and came back, his wife, when he came in the door terrible. You know, it. And it's why I keep saying the doctor said not to do this. The doctor said not to do this.

So I should have taken care of a long time ago. Now I get this is the experience that this really emphasizes that to me I'm being baptized today. And sometimes God sends something into our lives. Are we experience something in our lives? And it helped us to realize how far out of bounds. We are at that moment and how much we need a new move in the other direction. Another thing that comes into my head is like, talking as I send you about. This is, yeah, we can help each other to change and we can become obstacles for change with each other. I mentioned it, a Wednesday night class. One time that we were really good friends with a couple that had gone. Done very different route in their life. They had met at a state school. They graduated from school, then they have contact with some people that they studied with us and that was a wonderful thing and they were great people but they had a hard time. Having good relationships with the broader group of people at church, because the church people had a tendency to look down on some of the things with their background. even say things like, Just around the runoff, you know instead of facilitating and helping and creating you to Mutual change. That was so available.

We get sometimes kind of caught up in house. Spiritual we are if you are very spiritual, there are people who need your help. We may not be as spiritual as we think we are and we find out in our relationship with others that they're helping us to change it. All of this is a very useful process. Well, the third thing. Is we didn't have after we are changing. We then have this mission of commitment. Why didn't why did I work so hard to make that a reality? Because there's things God wants us to do. There's things that we can do after change that we couldn't do before. John 13:34, a new command. I give you love one another as I have loved you. So you must love one another living, loving laboring, all of those things become different. We were doing those things. Not for our self, not to benefit our self.

The way God has blessed us. Go to 25. Wrestled with this chap. The visitors a long time. I will repay you for the years. The locusts have eaten, the great locusts of the young Locust. The other loaf is and the locust swarm my great Army that I sent you. Pretty hard stuff. I mean, it says your empty Wasted Years. He will restore. We sing that song Or you Sue? I think it's probably still in her phone book. We look a day over here.

You may still have the consequences of physical consequences. Of misuse. Not the spiritual. God says, it's over. It's done with today. With as far as East is to West. It's been removed. God replaces things in our lives that cause us to realize what those Wasted Years for life, and he gives us satisfaction as we respond to What he wants us to do.

Jesus told Nicodemus.

As figgity was wondering why you needed to do to be born again. But you need to do and I mentioned earlier, it feels good when we're born again. In John 1st, John 1:7, it talks about that same experience.

When it says, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, his son purifies us from all sin. I have to go back to the Babbitt street though, I walk in the light by walk in, Jesus Christ that his blood continues to renew, me continues to change me continues to give me the power I need. To make those changes. Prodigal son. Wallowed in. Parable lifestyle until he's lost control of him of his own existence and basically his own first leaving, because he's so taken advantage of What is he say? I will arise and go to my father. Embarrassing. Maybe even humiliating and he probably thought about science the whole way home. Where's the Dad? Was there to say I Told You. So I said this many many times but I don't think my dad would have said a few lectures or that kind of thing.

In the very first Ministry that we have. there was a lady in the church, and She was a gossip extraordinaire. She was just really good at it. And it causes problems, I don't leave her life but in the lives of other people one Sunday morning, she went to the front. Get the invitation. She had written a statement. And I'll never forget the first sentence of the statement said, simply, I am a gossip.

And then she added that she was going to be. She wanted to apologize. If you want to get her her. She ask for their forgiveness. She ask for God's forgiveness. Yes. For help. and she was such a gossip that even I'm sitting there going to

now you see perfect for the rest of her life. I don't know. But she said, I don't want to be this anymore. I need to apologize to you for being that and I need your help and God's help to be something different. And God gives us That opportunity. One Passage. Revelation 21:15 is he was Seated on. The throne said, I am making everything new that he said, write this down for these words are true and trustworthy.

I like a particular song from Jesus Christ, Superstar could we start again please and I guess it's sings the song with Safra things. Have gotten hard things have gotten different, you know, it was kind of a, it was kind of a positive in the beginning and disciples are experiencing

Punishments of the word, but the actions that may actually be the right word. But this character sings the song. Could we start again, please?

And it's just a haunting tune. Because we all in our future shows live have those moments but out of our mouths comes we start again please.

And God says, yes. Yes, you may need to be buried in the baptism. You may need to wash away your sins. If you do, if you need to do that,

You may need to get back on the pass, get back in the light or that Fellowship continues to cleanse. You, you may find yourself in close examination, that you really are doing a whole lot of good things.

And try to manifest those who the Lord. This morning, we're going to offer an invitation. This is the invitation of Jesus, our savior. As there's something you have in your life that needs to be different if I choose to take up the challenge of change, if we can help you with that. Who you guys who I was dancing.