LIVE THE NEW KIND OF LIFE
Titus 3:3-5 (NIV), “At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of the righteous thing we had done.”
Being born again is an introduction into a new kind of life – the God kind of life. This special kind of life has a wonderful nature; when a person receives this new life in Christ, it goes beyond a thing of the heart by showing practically for all to see. Acts 4:13 shows us clearly, “Now when they saw Peter and John, they marveled and they realized that they had been with Jesus.”
The crux of our message from the Lord today is that if you have received the new life Jesus brought, then you ought to put off the old life and switch on this new life by the power of the Holy Ghost. Dear friend, you are no longer enslaved to negative passions and pleasures. You no longer need to satisfy the negative longings of the flesh. Instead God expects you to embrace love, gentleness, peace, kindness and all positive virtues that flow from Christ to you.
Hebrews 12:14 says, “Pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.” Allow the life of God flow from your inside by living in peace with all men. Crucify your flesh and its feelings of jealousy, envy or malice. Pursue after holiness in the fear of the Lord with an understanding of grace, you are not who you used to be. You now have a new nature because you are in Christ Jesus, the old man is dead to sin, the new man is alive to Christ unto righteousness. YOU’VE GOT A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST!
FURTHER STUDY: Romans 8: 13, “For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”
CONFESSION: I BOLDLY CONFESS, I HAVE RECEIVED THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. HATRED, MALICE AND ENVY IS FINISHED FROM MY LIFE. I WALK IN PEACE AND HOLINESS!
ACTION POINT: Embrace peace, gentleness and kindness in your dealings with others.
ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Acts 7 – 8
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