Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #706, Season 7.
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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: The believer in Christ has become a new person because of the work of Christ. Our lives should match this reality. WE MUST PUT THE PAST BEHIND US!
Two words jumped out of my spirit when I was listening to the previous podcast, those two words: "BUT NOW" burst forth! It became so much more clearer to me that we WERE on our way straight to a burning as convicted criminals and enemies of God! BUT NOW through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we are NOW obedient, faithful children of God, who have placed their faith and trust in Jesus Christ's atoning death, shall receive eternal life!! We are no longer slaves of sin, but slaves of God. No longer slaves of unrighteousness, but slaves of righteousness!
The words "BUT NOW" speaks of a total transformation and a change of program! It's the great BEFORE and AFTER! It's the revealing of the new; no longer the old! BELOVED, A CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE! IN YOU! IN ME, AND IT IS BEING PERFECTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT!
Have you ever considered the great work of salvation that our God has wrought in our lives? His great mercy and grace saved us from an eternity in and by His power, we have been transformed into new creatures and we have been placed into the family of God.
The following Bible verses clearly show what we WERE before Christ and what (or who) we are NOW in Him:
👉🏾From slaves of sin, to freedom from sin. “But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin." (Rom. 6:17-18)
👉🏾From condemned criminals, to legally justified. “…nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:10-11)
👉🏾From dead in sins, to quickened to a new life. “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” (Ephesians 2:1)
👉🏾From being far away from God, to being in Christ. “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:13)
👉🏾From darkness, to light. “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8)
👉🏾From enemies of God, to full reconciliation in Christ. “And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled.” (Colossians 1:21)
👉🏾From lost sheep, to being back in the fold with the Shepherd. “For you were as sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” (1 Peter 2:25)
This is what we were before and who we are now in Christ. Everything now is like the commercial ads: “New and Improved” but wait, there is more, so much more to come for us in the future. When we get to Heaven, we will be so much different than we are now, that our present Christian life will be what “we were” and glorious PERFECTION is what we SHALL have in the eternal NOW.
Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
