Mark these Key Words: New, Renewed, Transformed
The absolutely unexplainable scientific miracle that atheists and evolutionists cannot begin to understand or fit into theory of godless evolutionary biology is the marvelous wonder of metamorphosis through which a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly or moth. Careful study of this mysterious process reveals that the caterpillar weaves for itself a tiny coffin (cocoon or chrysalis) in which it dies. In a matter of hours, the caterpillar’s very DNA develops into the basic molecules from which its DNA was formed. Yet, somehow in this process of complete decomposition there is a “dream” on a destiny inside that tiny casket of a sense of a “new creation”; a moth or butterfly in no way similar to the furry little crawling creature from which that moth or butterfly originated. The original creation dies and deteriorates at the molecular level and somehow “knows” how to reestablish itself into a majestic winged creature that from the first minutes of regeneration knows how to soar in the wind never to return to its lowly journey in the dirt of its pre-existing life.
The New Testament uses the same words to describe the transformation of a non-believer in Jesus to a converted believer in Jesus. Let’s study how the bible describes this magnificent process in which the “old “ has passed away and behold the new has come.
Ephesians 4:22-24
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
What does it mean to be “renewed in the spirit of your mind?”
Renew means to “begin something again.” In other words, God is giving us a new beginning; He outlines a new way to think and act in scripture and in order to live that out we must fill our minds and hearts with the words of the Bible.
Describe how you have “laid aside the “old self” in the past 12-24 months.
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Describe the “new self” that you have seen emerging in yourself over the past year or two.
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