How to live in the New Creation while still in the Old
—(Part 13 of Seeing Jesus in the O.T.)
Andrew Fountain – Feb 14, 2021
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Goal:
To see more clearly the pictures painted of the New Creation
in the Old Testament and in the New
so that we can learn to live in this New Creation
How to live in the New Creation while still in the Old
Spotting New Creation themes in the O.T.
Jesus Inaugurates the New Creation
How do we Live in the New?
The Creation Week theme
The Creation week: Sabbath rest on the 7th day (Saturday)
But some rituals to be performed on the “8th day” —the first day of a new week
e.g. circumcision, and some festival events
Jesus rose from the dead on the 8th day (Sunday)
the first day of a new creation week
Jesus and the Sabbath
He often did miracles on the Sabbath, e.g. John 5
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
So he told them, “My Father is working up to the present, and I too am working.”
Background to Jeremiah 4
The nation of Israel has become so hopelessly wicked,
that God is going to make a completely new start with them.
Jeremiah 4: Reversal of Creation
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.…
I looked, and behold, there was no human, and all the birds of the air had fled.
For thus says the LORD, “The whole land shall be a desolation;…
For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be dark; for I have spoken;…
Jeremiah 31: New Covenant
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 37:1–14
Isaiah 43
Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
Isaiah 65
For behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
nor will they come into mind.
How to live in the New Creation while still in the Old
Spotting New Creation themes in the O.T.
Jesus Inaugurates the New Creation
How do we Live in the New?
John 1 – Creation Language
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 3
Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” …
Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
How to live in the New Creation while still in the Old
Spotting New Creation themes in the O.T.
Jesus Inaugurates the New Creation
How do we Live in the New?
2 Corinthians 5
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.…
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation.
The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Galatians 2 — New Life in Christ
I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 John 4
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
Colossians 3:1–15
Conclusion
God has put a piece of eternity inside us.
You are called to live out of this new reality
Every bit of the love of Jesus you show for another person is made of the stuff of eternity
Nothing you do for God will be lost
They will survive till the end of time
Thank you God that you have given us the victory! (1 Cor 15:57)
Thank you for the amazing new thing you are doing inside us!