“The new life that God has planned for you is a supernatural work.”
John 3:3 (NLT) Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:17–21 (NIV) 17 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
When you are reborn: 1. A New Slate
Hebrews 8:12 (NIV) I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
2. A New Identity John 1:12 (NIV) Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
Colossians 3:9–10 (NIV) You have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
“You are no longer identified by your disfunction.”
3. A New Purpose Hebrews 10:20 (NLT) By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way…
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
John 3:16–18 (NIV) 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
