(God makes) All Things New - Steven Curtis Chapman

The 48th Epistle of Bondservant007 to the church at youtube: Grace and Peace to y'all! The Good News, the Gospel, you have all read and seen.

But have you heard? Did you listen when the Lord calls us to be Born Again? Are you a new Christian, a new child of God? GROW IN CHRIST, metamorphosize from the baby cocoon and grow through all of the stages that God places in your life. Transform the way you think by "the renewing of your mind" (study His Word!). In life the Lord will take our journey down through the desert, through the valley, and continue to "bring us up in the nuture and admonition of the Lord" until we are TRANSFORMED into His will, a beautiful display of His workmanship, a butterfly wearing a coat of many colors.

Revelation 21:5
"And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

Romans 12:2
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."

2 Corinthians 5:17
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

"You Must Be Born Again"
These are the words Jesus spoke to one of the most religious men of his day (John 3:1-8). Nicodemus had come to Jesus one night to inquire about His new doctrine. Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews. He believed in God, he prayed, fasted, tithed, attended worship services, read the Scriptures and tried to keep high moral standards. Yet, with all these credentials, Jesus told him he had to be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God.

Jesus said, " Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."(John 3:3). "Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5). Later in the book of John he said, "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you" (John 15:3). Paul wrote that Christ gave Himself to sanctify and cleanse the church with the washing of water by the WORD (Ephesians 5:26). Peter wrote that we are born again "not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, (1 Pet 1:23). The WORD is the seed that comes into your heart and causes faith to grow.

Not only must you have God's Word in order to be born again, but you must have God's Spirit. It is "not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the HOLY SPIRIT" (Titus 3:5).

There are several ingredients needed in making concrete. You need sand, cement, and water primarily. There is plenty of sand in the desert, but concrete doesn't appear just because it's there. There is an abundance of water in the ocean and plenty of sand, but the ocean is not full of concrete. Likewise in order for you to be saved, the Word and the Spirit must be mixed with repentance and faith in your heart.

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[silentonall]

I love this!

[bondservant007]

Thank you - it's one of my favorites too ;-)

Be blessed! bondservant007

[arcenciel50]

que de beau dessins magnifique !!c'est un régal pour les yeux .avec la musique c'est extra merci QDVB

[bondservant007]

Merci boucoup. ;-)

[Crazygirl1910]

How can people live without the spirit of God?

It boggles my mind. I wonder how stayed alive without Jesus.......Now I can't go a day without praying!!!

[maxbooker]

Yes, God makes all things new. Praise HIM \o/

[MiristWurst]

Thank you for putting this marvelous video together. I'm so sorry that so many people use every venue they can, to make a vendetta against Islam (short of obeying Jesus and loving their "enemies".) "spitefullove" sounds like..well "suspect" to me. But anyway I guess they want to just ignore Ephesians 6, and drop a third of the Old Testament, which others might costrue as Christians being obligated to "whup up" on the "bad guys".

I live among Muslims: good and bad, just like Christians, you &me.

[spitefullove]

So I would not say Islam equally persecuted nor that they are not a war-like religion. Their holy book the Quran actually tells all Muslims to wage war on infidels, and that means anybody not of the Islamic faith. So it is not the extremists who are the exception to their religion but the other people, the "normal" Muslims who are the exception to Islam. This can be found in the Quran in 8:39, and 9:29 which are just two out of almost 200 verses on fighting the infidels. So if you say islam

[HighRizeR1986]

Does someone the title of the very last song on this vid?

[armyofchrist100]

@warmsteel

BEFORE I CAN PREACH LOVE , MERCY AND GRACE , I MUST PREACH SIN , LAW AND JUDGEMENT

-JOHN WESLEY

THEY WILL NEVER ACCEPT GRACE UNTILL THEY TREMBLE BEFORE A JUST AND HOLY LAW

-C.H . SPURGEON

[warmsteel]

@kenjg67 I think there is one flaw in this argument: Islam is equally heavely persecuted, does that make Islam the truth too? I think why christianity is so heavely persecuted is because some 'christians' threats people with hell, preach war and so on. Islam is equally attacked because of it's extremists too. For example, if you were an atheist, and somebody threat you with hell all the time, wouldn't you too be angry then? I would. I think we have a responsibility as christians to be loving.

[bondservant007]

@everIastingism Your are obviously the same troll, using a fake Christian name, and still posting/harrassing on quite a few of my vids ... I am blocking you and removing your posts. Satan is a sissy. Shalom.

[samuelwentzel]

This one of my top 5 Steven Curtis Chapman songs :)

[goodalle1987]

@kenjg67 I coulnd't agree with you more! I think that's exactly why Christianity is so heavily rejected and why we try and eliminate it from America, where as we don't care who worships budda or follows The Janes. Saten doesn't attack the religions in which there is no life or truth, he only goes after the one true God and his people. The song "Loser" by Switchfoot says exactly what your saying :) and is how we should all live

[kenjg67]

@goodalle1987 you know why Christianity is so heavily persecuted. I believe that it's because it's the truth. Throughout history it's not the people that have been wrong that have been ridiculed. The people that have been made fun of have turned out to be right.

[scarletaurora]

I had no idea untill today that this song was not just SCC singing it, but also singing is Jason Wade from Lifehouse!!!!!! YOu can not even hear him! He is singing harmoney with him, and singing with him on the verses. No joke, look it up!