How to be a New Creation

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How to be aNew Creation
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How to be aNew Creation

• Part 1
• Rules of Engagement

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How to be aNew Creation

• Part 2
• The Ultimate
• Relationship

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How to be aNew Creation

• Part 3
• Extreme Makeover
• GOD Edition!

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2 Corinthians 5 17

• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
  creation the old has gone, the new has come!

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Four Questions . . .

• Overriding Considerations?
• Relationship with God?
• Affect on others?
• Affect on me?

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Four Questions . . .

• Overriding Considerations?
• Relationship with God?
• Affect on others?
• Affect on me?

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How will this affect others?
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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?

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Romans 1421

• It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to
  do anything else that will cause your brother to
  fall

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?
• Will it build up faith?

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1 Corinthians 1426

• When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a
  word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an
  interpretation. All of these must be done for the
  strengthening of the church.

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?
• Will it build up faith?

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?
• Will it build up faith?
• Does it edify?

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1 Corinthians 1023

• Everything is permissible but not everything is
  beneficial. Everything is permissible but not
  everything is constructive

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?
• Will it build up faith?
• Does it edify?

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?
• Will it build up faith?
• Does it edify?
• Does it tempt a weak conscience?

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1 Corinthians 89-12

• Be careful, however, that the exercise of your
  freedom does not become a stumbling block to the
  weak . . .

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• For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who
  have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple,
  won't he be emboldened to eat what has been
  sacrificed to idols?

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• So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is
  destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against
  your brothers in this way and wound their weak
  conscience, you sin against Christ.

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How will this affect others?

• Will it cause a fall?
• Will it build up faith?
• Does it edify?
• Does it tempt a weak conscience?

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Four Questions . . .

• Overriding Considerations?
• Relationship with God?
• Affect on others?
• Affect on me?

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How will this affect me?
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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?

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Romans 1423

• But the man who has doubts is condemned if he
  eats, because his eating is not from faith and
  everything that does not come from faith is sin

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?
• Is the root selfishness?

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Philippians 23

• Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain
  conceit, but in humility consider others better
  than yourselves.

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?
• Is the root selfishness?

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?
• Is the root selfishness?
• Is it spiritual Show Tell?

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Acts 51-4

• Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife
  Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.

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• With his wife's full knowledge he kept back part
  of the money for himself, but brought the rest
  and put it at the apostles' feet.  

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• Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan
  has so filled your heart that you have lied to
  the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some
  of the money you received for the land?

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• Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And
  after it was sold, wasn't the money at your
  disposal? What made you think of doing such a
  thing? You have not lied to men but to God."

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?
• Is the root selfishness?
• Is it spiritual Show Tell?

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?
• Is the root selfishness?
• Is it spiritual Show Tell?
• Am I denying self?

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Luke 923

• Then he said to them all "If anyone would come
  after me, he must deny himself and take up his
  cross daily and follow me.

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How will this affect me?

• Am I of two minds?
• Is the root selfishness?
• Is it spiritual Show Tell?
• Am I denying self?

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How will this affect me?

• Am I deceiving myself?

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1 Corinthians 318

• Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you
  thinks he is wise by the stand-ards of this age,
  he should become a "fool" so that he may become
  wise

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How will this affect me?

• Am I deceiving myself?

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How will this affect me?

• Am I deceiving myself?
• Am I making excuses?

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Luke 1615

• "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the
  eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is
  highly valued among men is detestable in God's
  sight.

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Colossians 39-10

• Do not lie to each other, since you have taken
  off your old self with its practices 10and have
  put on the new self, which is being renewed in
  knowledge in the image of its Creator

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2 Corinthians 5 17

• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
  creation the old has gone, the new has come!