A Changed Life

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“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

What understanding do you have of the salvation of your soul? The work of salvation means that in your real life things are dramatically changed. You no longer look at things in the same way. Your desires are new and the old things have lost their power of attraction.

One of the tests for determining if the work of salvation in your life is genuine is—has God changed the things that really matter to you?  If you still yearn for the old things in your life, it is contradictory to talk about being born from above—you are just deceiving yourself.

If you are a true born again Christian, the Spirit of God makes the change very evident in your thoughts and in your life.  And when a crisis comes, you'll be amazed at the wonderful difference in how you react.  Though your human emotions still feel the pain of  losing a loved one, the blessed assurance lifts you up with a calming surety, an assurance knowing God's plan of salvation will shed the light on your darkest of days.  It is trusting in this hope that manifest a complete change in you that is the very evidence that you are born again.

Many people claim they are born again but fail miserably in their Christian walk when being tested.  Jesus said to Nicodemus in (John3:6) "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

You see, their are two types of born again Christians, as Jesus explained to Nicodemus.  Those "born of the flesh; and those born of the Spirit."  There are those who go to church and do all the formal churchy stuff, pay their tithes, dress up in their best white garments every Sunday with a bible in one hand and a check book in the other, get drunk on Monday, party all week, kick the dog on the way home, go to church on the weekends and do it all over again the following week.  

They go to church but they won't let go of the worldly baggage they bring with them.  There is no renewing of the Spirit, and they bring the world into the church, thinking as long as you are praising Jesus everything is going to be alright.  These are those that are born of the flesh.

Now those who are born of the Spirit is a total spiritual renewing from above.  A good example is the two sisters Mary and Martha in (Luke 10:40-42)  While Mary sat at the feet of Jesus listening to His Word, Martha was busy cooking, cleaning  and getting everything ready, complaining to Jesus about her sister not helping out  v41 "And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things...v42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Though both kinds of people are important members of the church regardless of their faults, they both have their roll.   It is those who are born of the Spirit Jesus says, who hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away.

What difference has my salvation and sanctification made?  True salvation, worked out in me by the Holy Spirit, frees me completely from worldly cares.  And as long as I “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7), God will see His Spirit working in every detailed part of your being.  A true Spiritual manifestation in you, will surely be reveal, "old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new”

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