You're a new creation!
Just as the
restoration process for the teakwood furniture, so is our Master Yeshua
for us in our lives. We are all in a process of restoration. He know us
from the beginning and knows our potential even we still living in sin
in the world! There is hope and He, our Master,
as a specialist will see the "your real color of the teak-wood", even
before its restoration process. He can see what behind all the sin,
dirt, pain, and "moisture". There He knows out of by His Divine wisdom
your real personality & character, it is still there, but with natural
eyes you will not see it. The L-rd will see it as it is already restored;
renewed and how much work need to be done to get it as you were original
created! He will have the absolute confidence & faith in His
Divine restoration operation even before He even started, no matter how
bad the conditions of your life were on that moment. There is still
hope!
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Yeshua/Christ (the Messiah) he
is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral
and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh {and} new
has come! (2
Corinthians 5:17;
Amplified)
Two Old Things that Pass Away
1 .
The spirit, nature, and power of sin the old man, which is nothing more
nor less than the spirit, nature, and power of the devil working in men
of disobedience (Jn. 8:44;
Eph. 2:2; 2Cor. 4:4; 1Jn. 3:8; 5:18). This is
what the Bible calls:
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(1) The old man
(Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:22;
Col. 3:9)
(2) Sin
(Jn. 1:29; 8:34; Rom.
6:4 -- Rom. 8:2)
( 3)
The body of sin
(Rom. 6:6)
(4)
The power of satan (Acts
26:18)
(5)
The body of this death
(Rom. 7:24)
(6)
The lusts of the flesh
(Eph. 2:3)
(7)
The lust of the eyes
(1Jn. 2:15-17)
(8)
The pride of life
(1Jn. 2:15-17)
(9)
The works of the flesh
(Gal. 5:19)
(10)
The world
(1Jn. 2:15-17; Jas. 4:4)
(11) Vile
affections
(Rom.
1:26,29)
(12)
The lusts of the mind
(Eph. 2:3)
(13)
The lusts of sin
(Rom. 6:11-12)
(14)
The motions of sins
(Rom. 7:5)
(15)
The law of sin and death
(Rom. 7:7 --
Rom. 8:2)
(16)
The carnal mind
(Rom. 8:1-13)
(17)
The god of this world
(2Cor. 4:4)
(18)
Spiritual wickedness in high places ...
rulers of darkness
(Eph. 6:12)
(19)
The lusts of your father
(Jn. 8:44)
(20)
Sin that dwelled in me
(Rom. 7:17)
(21)
The course of this world
(Eph. 2:2)
(22)
The body of the sins of the flesh
(Col. 2:11; Gal. 5:24;
Rom. 8)
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2. Outward
sin or transgression of the law (1Jn.
3:4; Rom. 4:15; Jas. 1:13-15).
The outward acts are listed in
Mk. 7:19-21; Rom. 1:18-32; 2Cor. 6:9-11; Gal.
5:19-21; Col. 3:5-10)
Source: Dake's Annotated
Reference Bible.
He is the "Divine Craftsman" who knows all things!
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and
before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained
thee a prophet
unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5
KJV)
The sense in which G-d {YHVH} forms men in the womb
is by being the author of nature and the creator. He is the "Divine
Craftsman" who knows all things! He knows your secrets, your calling,
your destination. It's all laid down in front of Him.
He know us from the beginning and
knows our potential! He, our Master,
as a specialist will see the "real color of the teak-wood", even
before its restoration process!
I have wrote your name in the palm of My hands
Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a
picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands; [O Zion] your walls are
continually before Me (Isaiah 49:16 Amplified)
This is a figurative way of saying that G-d would
never forget His own {Righteous un-comprising saints} people would be in
everlasting remembrance before Him. You are called the "ensigns" {Sealed
by His Holy Spirit; Roach HaKodesh} of the L-rd!
Leaving
your faith "unattended"
Job 15:11 Are
G-d's consolations [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for
you? Is there any secret thing (any bosom
sin) which you have not given up? [Or]
were we too gentle [in our first speech] toward you to be effective
Remember
that leaving your faith "unattended" and open to damaging environmental
spiritual conditions your life with G-d, can also "erode" the "quality" and
"color" of your spiritual life, while ignoring steps in the
"care process" being mature in Him, Our Master maybe also resulting in the
"gray color"
& a "ruff surface" in returning of your life-style, outside G-d, the
Eternal Creator of the Universe {YHVH}.
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How to prepare your whole heart and seek the L-rd?
Examine
your heart in which condition it is!
(2
Corinthians 13:5)(Ezekiel 2:5)
Confess your
sin
one by one, not by just general
confessions! (1 John
1:9)
Give you heart to
Yeshua,
not to
other loves
that infinitely offended the Lord!
Sow yourself in Righteousness
(Hosea 10:12)
Reap in Merci (Hosea 10:12)
Break up your fallow Ground
(Hosea 10:12)
Prepare ye the way
(Isaiah 40:3)
For it’s time to
seek the L-rd with all the heart
(Hosea 10:12) (Deuteronomy
4:29)
Return from
backsliding
& sin
Stop doing
evil
(Jeremiah 4:3, 4)
By humbling yourself
before the L-rd! (2
Chronicles 7:14)
Continually
(1 Chronicles 16:11)
By prayer
By preparing your heart
(2 Chronicles 19:3)
Diligently
(Hebrews 11:6)
Conversion, a change
of direction, a new walk with G-d!
(Psalm 19:7; Psalm
51:13; Matthew 18:3; Luke 22:32; Acts 3:19; James 5:19-20)
Source:
Living Waters
An intensive, patience full,
long-suffering and intensive work
You have to realize
G-d's restoration process over your life as well is an intensive, patience full,
long-suffering and intensive work, to obtain these results. A
woman or man of G-d, a righteous one, without compromise; to be an
over-comer.
With
having the absolute necessity of faith and the secret of pleasing G-d, you have to come
to G-d in the right attitude; with the right motives and endure with your
cooperation the Divine restoration process over your life continually!
"Reap
in mercy”
This means to
accept and appropriate the mercy of G-d extended to us. If we do not accept
mercy from G-d it will not be ours, for both sowing in righteousness
and reaping in mercy are our responsibility. Righteousness is here to do,
and mercy is here to receive, but neither will be a man's experience until
he does what is right and accepts the mercy provided.
(Matthew 5:7; Mark
11:25-26)
Source:
Living Waters
I added some illustrations of my last restoration of the Teakwood Outdoor
furniture work. The table set below is about 22 years old, and was in a very bad shape, but
after intensive restoration, it started a new life. So Our Master.
He gave us new life after we came to Him with repentance, and He,
Yeshua, will make us a NEW creation!
For our sake He made
Yeshua/Christ [virtually] to be
sin Who knew no
sin, so that in {and} through Him we might become [endued with, viewed
as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of G-d [what we ought to
be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His
goodness]. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
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