The Newness of Jesus

Ecclesiastes 1:9
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.

Nothing is really new. We use different terms and different wrapping, but most things are just recycled.

I did look up what some “new” things would cost.
New House: $152,000
New Mercedes-Benz: $75,835
New Harley: $11,000
New Adventure (going into space): $200,000

A New Relationship with Jesus: YOUR LIFE

Jesus did a brand new thing when He came. Jesus did an unheard of thing when He came.

GOD BECAME A HUMAN!

It was so new that the old systems could not handle it. Jesus tells us that we have to let Him make a new system because the newness of who He is and what He is doing will destroy the old system.

Mark 2:22
No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins.

Jesus brings newness.

Paul tells us that in Jesus, everything about us becomes new when we surrender ourselves to Him.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

God gives us a new LIFE.

Ezra 9:9
We are slaves, our God has not abandon us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings, giving us new life, so that we can rebuild the house of God and repair its ruin, to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Romans 6:4
By our baptism, then, we were buried with Him and shared His death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might have a new life.

Two things will make up that new life.

New Praise

Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.

New Hope

Isaiah 43:19
See, I do a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

God gives us a new HEART & SPIRIT.

Ezekiel 18:31
Rid yourselves of all offenses you have committed and get a new heart and a new spirit.

Romans 7:6
But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

A new heart means a new will to obey Jesus.

A new spirit means a new aliveness and freshness in life.

God gives us a NEW & LIVING WAY.

Isaiah 40:3
A voice is crying out: “Clear the Lord’s way in the desert! Make a level highway in the wilderness for our God!”

Hebrews 10:20
By the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh.

That way is brought about by a New Birth.

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

This leads to us following a New Teaching.

Mark 1:27
Amazement gripped the audience, and they began to discuss what had happened. “what sort of new teaching is this” they asked excitedly.

This allows us to experience a New Covenant with God.

1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way, He took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and His people - an agreement confirmed by My blood.”

God gives us a NEW ATTITUDE.

1 Samuel 2:35
Then I will appoint a faithful priest to serve Me. He will do everything I want him to do.

Ephesians 4:23
Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

This new attitude leads to New Compassions.

Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases: His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
The new attitude allows us to have New Treasures.

Matthew 13:52
He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storehouse new treasures as well as old.”

God makes you a NEW PERSON.

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image; in the God He created them, male and female He created them.

Ephesians 4:24
And clothe yourself with the new person created according to God’s image in justice and true holiness.

The fact that you are a new person in Christ allows you to be One New Person. We don’t have to be everything to everybody. We can be who God wants us and created us to be.

Ephesians 2:15
He canceled the detailed rules of the Law so He could create one person out of the two groups, making peace.

As a new person in Jesus I have been given a New Command - to love others.

John 13:34
So now I am giving you a new command: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

The old is not working in:
Government
Marriage/Family
Finances
Life

We are given a promise by God in Revelation 21:5: And He Who is seated on the throne said, “See! I make all things new.”

Let Jesus make you new!

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls will continue into a new year. I am expecting Jesus to do some new things in our lives. We can not produce those new things but He can. We can submit ourselves fully to Him and let Him produce awesome new things in us and through us.

As you end 2013 and start 2014, start fresh and new, putting the past behind and letting Jesus make you NEW with His Newness.

Newly Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls
Joe