Thought for Today - June 21, 2023
The New Life in Christ
By: Robert A. Searles
Jesus said: For us to be saved and enter the kingdom of heaven, "we must be born again" - that is- we must be born in the spirit and become a new person.
When we accept Christ as our LORD and savior, God performs a miracle in our lives. In God's mind we have been crucified with Christ and died to our old nature, and risen wih him to a new life in the spirit. Then, having experienced the new birth in Christ, God expects us to grow in our faith and knowledge of him , and put away our old sinful habits and nature, and lusts of the flesh and be led and guided by the Holy Spirit.
" This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4: 17-31
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