You Can Keep the Change

Acts 3

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2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

creatures <Rom. 6:5-11>. “New” [kainee  (grk 2537)] implies a new nature quite different from any previously existing: not merely recent [nea], a different Greek word <Gal. 6:15>.

[Creature], [ktisis  (grk 2937)]– `creation, ‘ and so the creature resulting from it

As we are “in Christ,” so “God was in Christ”

Eph 2:10

10       For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Col 3:10-15

10       And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

11       Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

12       Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

13       Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

14       And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

15       And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

2 Corinthians 5:17  PP1

[Old things]– selfish, carnal views (cf. <2 Cor. 5:16>) of ourselves, of others, and of Christ.

[Passed away]– spontaneously, like the snow of early spring before the advancing sun.

Changed by the Word:

You’ve got to see what it is that changes you.

“Fasten his eyes”

·        You may be looking in the wrong places

·        You may not be expecting it to come your way

2 Cor 3:13-18

13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

You’ve got to make an effort and reach for it.

·        Took the hand of Peter

2 Cor 10:7-14

7          Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

8          For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

9          That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

10       For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

11       Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

12       For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

13       But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

14       For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

There can still be struggles with the change.

Jacob to Israel

Mary Magdelene

REAL CHANGE will always take you closer to God.

·        He went immediately into praise the Lord.

·        Devil gets bigger, we get Closer.

2 Tim 1:6-14

6          Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

7          For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

8          Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

9          Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

10       But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

11       Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

12       For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

13       Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

14              That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

Keep the change, so that others may be changed.,

Acts 28:4-6

4          And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

5          And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

6          Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

1 Cor 15:51-52

51       Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52       In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.