What's New?

Editor's Notes

1. This message was taken from Duane White’s message entitled “It’s Time for Something New” and used with permission from him, for more info go to www.beyondtheseshores.com.Isa 43:19 NLT For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
2. The difference between us today and the new testament believer is that for us it goes well when our circumstances are good, for them it went well when they could respond correctly to whatever the circumstance was.
3. God can use all three.1. God uses this to get you to trust Him more in the midst of circumstances beyond your control. During this change God will do new things in us so he can do new things around us.2. God will use this to give you a fresh start. 3. God can even use this to show me the real change He is looking for is internal. If I am constantly changing external circumstances and some point I must recognize that I must change if anything is to really change. For instance poverty is a mind-set more than just a bank balance.A new thing requires a new of thinking.
4. You can’t improve on the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit doesn’t change who He is but he can do new things all the time. He can do new works in our lives all the time.
5. 2 Cor 5:17 New creature = Kainos – kind, when we are born again we don’t just become fresh we become new in kind. We are completely a new creatureCol 3:10 New man = neos. Although you are new in kind but every day you put on the new thinking about the new man that you are.The New Covenant is both new in time and in kind.A new car is new in time if it is just a new model of the older model. God wants to do something new in time but he needs to give him something new in kind. Luther changed the church because he thought new structures to the church. Individually we need to give God our thought patterns in order to allow God to do the new thing He wants to do. John 20:11-18.
6. She saw Jesus but did not recognize Him, often when Jesus has come to do a new thing we do not recognize Him. She wanted to mourn over the Jesus of yesterday and build a memorial. But when He spoke she recognized His voice, it is vital to commune with Jesus so You can hear Him so your name and be able to recognize His voice when you can’t recognize His actions, voices determines choices. She then responds Rabonni teacher, she then grabbed unto Him. Jesus then says don’t cling to me in this way; she had to let go of yesterday in order to get hold of today. Mary had old thought patterns that she was clinging to. The scripture said no-one that had drunk old wine immediately desires the new, once we have been used to the old we find the new strange. If we have never had the old we have no problem with the old, but once something has happened a couple of times we become familiar with it. If God then wants to do something new we often resist it, we long back for the old. If you never change the way yo think of your wife you cannot have God do new things in your marriage. God wants to do something new in your finances, job, studies, and relationships. But it is not about what He does in your circumstances but abut we ha can do in you.
7. What is God saying to You that you need to hear and obey so that He can do something new in You in order to do something new around you?Has change bee forced on you? Are you seeking God for change or are you trying to escape? Remember that change can lead to bald results, seek council, make big decisions with the input of the people that disciple you.