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Life is funnel shaped.
It all depends on which way you go into the funnel.
A worldling goes into the funnel at the big end, where he’s offered grandiose opportunities, possibilities, freedom.
Then life for him narrows down into boring smallness.
However, God has turned that funnel around for those that are his.
For “narrow is the gate” that leads to his life.
But as you go in through the narrow way you find that it broadens out into beautiful freedom, into glorious newness.
It opens and keep opening into God’s vast will for your life.
There is no boredom.
There is no smallness when you walk with God only continual newness.
WITH GOD, ALWAYS MORE
I often think that life itself is funnel-shaped.
It all depends on which way you go into the funnel.
A worldling goes into the funnel at the big end, where he’s offered grandiose opportunities, possibilities, freedom.
Then life for him narrows down into boring smallness.
But for the Christian, God has turned that funnel around.
For “narrow is the gate” that leads to his life.
But as you go in through the narrow way you find that it broadens out into beautiful freedom, into glorious newness.
It keeps opening and opening and opening into the vast will of God for your life.
There is no boredom.
There is no smallness when you walk with God.
Within that life there is continual newness.
You may look at your life and think, “What’s the use?
I’ll never be anything!
There’s no sense of greatness in life to me at all.
I’m in a rut.
I’ve tried to break loose, but I just cannot – so why try?
I’ll settle for what I am, and that’s all I’m going to be, nothing more.”
I want to tell you that the Christian life offers to you wide horizons.
It offers to you great new beginnings.
It’s possible to have a fresh start.
Whoever you are, you can begin again.
GOD’S WORD TO US
I want you to see first of all the promises that we have for a new beginning; the price of it; the plan that you might have.
First, the promise.
The growing Christian normally experiences constant renewal.
Be renewed is in the present tense which means “keep on being renewed.
It begins in the mind, the thinking center.
God wants to change the entire way you look at the life that you have.
He wants it to become increasingly new.
God wants to change the entire way you look at the life that you have.
He wants it to become increasingly new.
says to “be renewed in the spirit of your minds….”
And that is in the present tense.
“Keep on being renewed” in your vitality, in the spiritual youthfulness that God wants to give you.
It begins in the mind, the thinking center.
God wants to change the entire way you look at the life that you have.
He wants it to become increasingly new.
Remember that Paul says,
What a promise to the Christian.
He is refreshed, and should be continually refreshed.
2, “If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.”
That word really means that “the new has come and is coming.”
That’s the normal life of the growing man and woman of God.
We were born again; we are becoming a new creation.
God does something fresh and new when you receive Christ.
The new has come, and as you walk along with Jesus Christ the new keeps coming.
“I will be one who lives in fresh newness of life.”
And in , “If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.”
That word really means that “the new has come and is coming.”
That’s the normal life of the growing man and woman of God.
We were born again; we are becoming a new creation.
God does something fresh and new when you receive Christ.
The new has come, and as you walk along with Jesus Christ the new keeps coming.
“I will be one who lives in fresh newness of life.”
And in , “If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.”
That word really means that “the new has come and is coming.”
That’s the normal life of the growing man and woman of God.
We were born again; we are becoming a new creation.
God does something fresh and new when you receive Christ.
The new has come, and as you walk along with Jesus Christ the new keeps coming.
The word means that “the new has come and is coming.”
We were born again; we are becoming a new creation.
God does something fresh and new when you receive Christ.
The new has come, and as you walk along with Jesus Christ the new keeps coming.
Now, God is the God of beginnings.
Sometimes His newness is a process, and other times He brings it in crisis.
TO ONE, OR TO MANY
In Isaiah chapter 43 the prophet is talking about the gathering again of Israel as a people.
This is normal, then, for the individual Christian.
And what is normal for the individual is going to be a crisis one day for the nation Israel.
In Isaiah chapter 43 the prophet is talking about the gathering again of Israel as a people and that there is going to come a day when Israel will become a national power far greater than it is today.
But Israel is on the front page of all of our papers because God has plans for them.
And we read this is
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God says about Israel, “I’m going to do something new.”
He actually puts it in the present tense, as though it were already done.
God says about Israel, “I’m going to do something new.”
He actually puts it in the present tense, as though it were already done.
See the power of God doing something great for a whole nation of people who seemed so dead, so unlikely; verse 1:
He says, “I am never going to let you go.”
And He promises them in verse 6,
“But now, thus says the Lord, He Who created you, O Jacob, He Who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.’”
He says, “I am never going to let you go.”
And He promises them in verse 6, “I will say to the north, ‘Give up,’ and to the south, ‘Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth….’”
And God is going to give them a new future.
He is going to blot out their transgressions,
If God has the power to do that for the entire nation of Israel, -- my friend, He can do it for you!
Let me tell you something – the whole plan of history from God’s point of view ends in glorious newness.
The Bible ends with a new heaven and a new earth.
Your little world is under constant renewal by the grace of God, and it’s going to end in a grand conclusion.
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