Wednesday Service | Re-New | Part 9: Change

Matthew 4:17 (AB)

¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins, live your life in a way that proves repentance; seek God’s purpose for your life], for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Acts 20:20-21 (NLT)

²⁰ I never shrank back from telling you what you needed to hear, either publicly or in your homes. ²¹ I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike—the necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God, and of having faith in our Lord Jesus.

[1] Repentance is the process of all of my old stuff for all of God’s renewing stuff

• Trade #1 My old self for a new

Genesis 1:27 (AB)

²⁷ So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (LB)

¹⁷ When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!

• Trade #2 My old thinking for a new

Romans 12:2 (LB)

² Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think.

• Trade #3 My old ways for his

Psalm 25:4-5 (NIRV)

⁴ Lord, show me your ways. Teach me how to follow you.
⁵ Guide me in your truth. Teach me. You are God my Savior. I put my hope in you all day long.

• Trade #4 Judgement for life

John 3:16-18 (LB)

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. ¹⁸ “There is no eternal doom awaiting those who trust him to save them.

[2] needs to repent

Romans 3:23 (NLT)

²³ For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

1 John 1:8, 10 (NIRV)

8 Suppose we claim we are without sin. Then we are fooling ourselves. The truth is not in us… 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar. His word is not in us.

[3] When we walk in repentance our souls live in

Romans 5:1-2 (LB)

5 So now, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith in his promises, we can have real peace with him because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. ² For because of our faith, he has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to actually becoming all that God has had in mind for us to be.

[4] How do we walk out lasting change?

• We

1 John 1:9 (NIRV)

⁹ But God is faithful and fair. If we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure.

Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

• We ask God for

Hebrews 2:18 (LB)

¹⁸ For since he himself has now been through suffering and temptation, he knows what it is like when we suffer and are tempted, and he is wonderfully able to help us.

• We God’s word in our hearts

Psalm 119:11 (LB)

¹¹ I have thought much about your words and stored them in my heart so that they would hold me back from sin.

• We pray prayers

Matthew 6:13 (NIRV)

¹³ Keep us from sinning when we are tempted. Save us from the evil one.’

Luke 22:40 (NIRV)

⁴⁰ When they reached the place, Jesus spoke. “Pray that you won’t fall into sin when you are tempted,” he said to them.

• We God for victory

1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT)

⁵⁷ But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.