We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

Amen. So we're going to talk about this, this strong delusion. So if any man being Christ, he's a what?

So if you're a new creation, that means Christ has made you new, right? Well, then why do you look the same? If you

made new, why do you look the same? Here's the real question. If you made brand new,

why are all your previous problems still there? See, when people hide behind religion, they want to act like

they're so brand new that all their past problems and issues just disappear. This is going to

mean a lot to somebody. When we use salvation to cover up past mistakes, it can corrupt our core.

Salvation doesn't cover up past mistakes.

It makes you brand new so you don't make the same mistakes.

But your past mistakes are still there.

And you have to still deal with issues.

That's why I preach so hard about you making the right decisions

because you're going to have to live with the decisions you make.

Whether you're in Christ or not, what you do, you've got to live with it.

There are still consequences to your actions.

God don't come in and change everything about your past. He just changes who you are.

You have to go back and deal with that past. Amen. I think the best example in the Bible to me is the

publican tax collector, Zacchaeus. Zachias was a publican tax collector wronged a whole bunch of

people and Jesus came to his house.

Zacchaeus could have easily hid behind the fact that Jesus came to his house.

He could have said, basically, look, Jesus is okay with me because he came to my house.

I am the most in the more because Jesus is here.

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