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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"BEING A NEW CREATURE IN JESUS" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
BEING A NEW CREATURE IN JESUS
DID YOU KNOW THAT BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, WE WERE NOT INCLUDED IN GOD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM? IT WAS FOR THE JEWS ONLY AND WE WERE ALL LOST, BEING GENTILES. HOWEVER, WE ARE IN A NEW COVENANT OF GRACE THROUGH JESUS. JEWS AND GENTILES WERE RECONCILED THROUGH HIM BUT IT IS A NECESSITY FOR BOTH TO RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOR.
I USUALLY USE THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE IN MY MORNING MESSAGES BUT IN READING EPHESIANS 2:11-18 IN THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, I REALLY LIKED IT AND DECIDED TO USE IT HERE. I QUOTE IT BELOW.
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)—remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
JESUS DIDN'T MAKE US JEWS AND DIDN'T MAKE THE JEWS INTO GENTILES BUT HE MADE US ALL NEW CREATURES. 2ND CORINTHIANS 5:17 TELLS US THIS, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." WE ARE NOW ALL ONE IN JESUS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BORN AGAIN. WE NEED TO PRAY FOR OUR JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE ONES THAT HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS BUT ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVEN'T. THEY ARE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE AND THE BIBLE EVEN SAYS IN PSALMS 122:6 TO "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem." PLEASE KEEP THEM LIFTED UP IN YOUR PRAYERS.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
