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Here are the key Scriptures we discussed during our BS last Sunday, 2011.01.09. The title was: A New Creation. 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. We explained that when we were baptized into Christ, we died with Him, and we were also raised with Him. And so our old person died and we are now new creations in Christ. We stressed on that phrase, "behold, all things are become new" meaning we got to see it (as what the word behold means) with our faith because this change is not perceivable in the physical. 1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 1Pe 1:23 says that we are born again. When we received Christ, we got born again that is why the Bible calls us new creations. And that happened when we received the Gospel, when we believed what the word of God says concerning Christ. And so we w...

Here are the key verses we studied during today’s Bible study Col 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. -> As new creations in Christ, we are to seek the things that are above, the things of Christ, the things of God. In contrast, unbelievers are much too concerned about the things of this world, about their needs, troubles and problems. But the more they are concerned about them, the more that they get buried into them. Joh 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. -> We are no longer of this world. God has chosen us OUT of the world. Joh 8:23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. “ -> We were from below but God has translated us into the kingdom of His Son. We were raised with Christ. We ar...

Abraham looked for a city... By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Heb 11:9-10) But I was born there! A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains. The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. (Psa 87) Are you born again?

Christianity is all about character. Some become Christian because they know that if they just stick with God, there will be blessings. True. But Christianity is not about that. Christianity is about character. I know a Christian who lost her job and nearly lost her mind too! That's what happens when your Christianity is attached to the blessings. Christianity is not about the good life either. That's part of it but that's not what Christianity is about. For everyone shall be salted with fire. And God will let lose the Tempter to test everyone that is on the earth. We know that man was created in the likeness of God. And that means 100% like God. Not just 50%, say our face looks like Him but our character is of someone else. I believe that God made man to be really like Him. That we be all that God is. That's why He says, do not worry. Because God's resources are infinite! There are more important things that we must give attention to than our bod...