Our annual theme and current preaching series at The Community Fellowship is “A New Thing” based on Isaiah 43:19 that says God will new thing around us and in us. We have been looking at Scripture passages that remind us of how God makes us new.
Since we are new in Christ remember that our enemy want us to not believe that. The question is how do you maintain the truth that God has made us new? That is what we answered yesterday.
Satan’s biggest lie is all about YOU. He says you aren’t enough. He says you have been lied to by God and the church. He says it is all about you. All of those are lies, and to believe the enemy’s lies we miss what God says.
1 Thessalonians 4:8 NLT
Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
God’s biggest truth is that life is about Him and others. Other people help us maintain the facts, the truth and what God says about us.
Hebrews 12:1-3 NLT
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. 3 Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.
Other people have been through what we have gone through. These verses say we are surrounded by others. Others in the past and others even in the present. Hebrews chapter 11 reminds us of Biblical examples of people who lived by faith that are cheering us on from heaven. Love the stories of Abraham, Moses, Rehab and so many others
But there are also people in our lives, before now and even currently, who build up our faith. Remember them. Call those names to your mind. Those people reminds us to keep the faith and believe what God says.
We also have to set our eyes and lives on Jesus as these verses say. The best way to battle lies is by holding on to the truth. And what God says is true. You and I are new in Christ!
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