Everything Old Is New Again
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New Year
New Year
Welcome to 2019!
It’s hard to believe that we’re already 18 years beyond that futuristic vision of 2001 a Space Odyssey, but we’re here.
Through the miracles of modern technology we can send pictures around the world in fractions of a second, heck, we can speak to someone face to face over the internet in live conversation - but hardly anyone does that it seem we’re more likely to text.
Technology advances so quickly. A great example is that it was only a short 11 years ago that the first iPhone came out changing the way we communicate forever. The first home computers were introduced in the late 70’s and early ‘80’s. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982.
We put a man on the moon in 1969 with a computer that couldn’t do simple math. The astronauts still had to do their calculations in a notebook. The first space shuttle had a computer with a 128K of memory. Later this would be expanded to 1 Megabyte. My cell phone has 256,000 times as much memory capacity as the upgraded space Shuttle.
I’m always amazed at the pace of technology. In my grandmother’s lifetime man first flew in an airplane, then flew a plane across the Atlantic, then flew to the moon - landed on it, and even drove a “car” on it. She lived to see the first space shuttle take off and land. All this in the span of one persons lifetime.
Yet despite all of this change, it pales in comparison by the change that happens in us when we become Christians.
Born Again
Born Again
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Put Off Your Old Self
Put Off Your Old Self
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Set Your Focus Above
Set Your Focus Above
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Identify with Your True Self
Identify with Your True Self
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Resolve, Trust, Lean, Fall, Get Up, (Repeat)
Resolve, Trust, Lean, Fall, Get Up, (Repeat)