Dec. 31, 2023

“Out with the old, in with the new” 

Dec 31, 2023

Memory Verse

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here!

There are three stages of the human soul in connection with Christ: 

• The first is ____________ ____________, this is the state of nature.
• The next is _______ _________________, this is the state of Grace.
• The third is __________ _______________, that is the state of glory.

---- Charles Spurgeon

The very instant that you believe and receive Jesus as Lord, everything changes!   

You become a ________________ _________ __________________! 

What does the verse mean when it says, “the old has gone”? 

Sin no longer ________________ _____________ _______________! 

What does the verse mean when it says, “the new is here ”?

 As a new creation in Christ, you become ________________ ________ ___________ and the _______________________ _ ______________!

There is a difference between continuing “to” sin and continuing to “live in” sin.

 The true Christian no longer ________________ _____ ____________  

Verses:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, the new is here!   

2 Corinthians 5:17  

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.  Romans 7:15-17

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.   

2 Corinthians 3:18

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

The Lord bless you and keep you; ²⁵ the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; ²⁶ the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

Numbers 6:24-26