God Transforms Us Into New Creations
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In our second devotional focusing on transformation, today we’re exploring the ways in which God transforms us into new creations. Every day God longs to make us new, to forgive our sins and mold and fashion us into his likeness. May God do a mighty work today as we make room for him to move, and may we leave this focused time in his presence with a true feeling of being made new.
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| 0:00.0 | In our second devotional, focusing on transformation, today we're exploring the ways in which God transforms us into new creations. |
| 0:18.0 | Every day, God longs to make us new, to forgive our sins and mold and fashion us into his likeness. |
| 0:27.6 | May God do a mighty work today as we make room for him to move. |
| 0:32.4 | And may we leave this focused time in his presence with a true feeling of being made new. Welcome to the First 15 |
| 0:40.7 | podcast. Our scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17. |
| 1:09.4 | Scripture says, |
| 1:15.7 | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. |
| 1:18.4 | The old has passed away. |
| 1:21.4 | Behold, the new has come. |
| 1:29.9 | One of the greatest lies told to those who have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus relates to our old and new natures. |
| 1:34.2 | So many believers live under the oppression of the lie |
| 1:38.2 | that God in His grace may see us as clean, |
| 1:42.1 | but at our core, we're truly not. We live as if redemption in Jesus |
| 1:48.3 | is like clean clothes, covering up the dirt and filth that will always remain, and as if redemption |
| 1:56.2 | is our get-to-heaven free card. We hold fast to a belief that salvation was more of an illusion of redemption |
| 2:06.3 | than actual transformation. |
| 2:09.9 | And those lies act like weights, dragging us back to the ways and sins of our former selves. |
| 2:19.5 | Scripture could not speak more clearly of the opposite. |
| 2:25.0 | 2 Corinthians 5, verses 17 through 21 says, |
| 2:29.9 | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. |
| 2:36.0 | The old has passed away. |
| 2:38.0 | Behold, the new has come. |
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