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February 2015

HOW JESUS SEES THE WORLD

“How did Jesus see His world? “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them.” He saw a crowded world. It has been estimated that in our Lord’s time, the population of the world was about 250 million. What kind of world do we see? Five thousand million – twenty times as many!

He saw a helpless world. How contemporary! With all our sophistication, we move helplessly from one crisis to another, with few solutions. Those people were bewildered, crushed by injustice and oppression. His heart ached for them in their inability to improve their spiritual condition.

MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT

“There is a strange sentence in one of the Psalms: “I will bridle my mouth” (39:1b). These are the words of a man sorely tempted to spread gloom and despair and discouragement. Yet he held himself in check, knowing that there was enough pessimism around, that he should rally the courage of those who felt down and out. That’s good advice. The world has its share of cynics and debunkers; it is longing for words of assurance and encouragement.

When will we ever learn? People don’t want to be put down; they are crying out to be lifted up.

HONESTY VERSUS HYPOCRISY

“…the Greek word we translate truth…is aletheia, and it literally means “nothing concealed.” It is appearance being reality. We could read this verse, “I have no greater joy than to hear that My children live with nothing concealed, walking in the reality of how they appear.”

REMOVE THE OLD – INSTALL THE NEW

“If we want to walk with God, know His perfect will and experience the fullness of His plan for our lives, we must change continually. This is the transformation that Paul is talking about in Romans 12:2. A lifestyle involving regular instruction and correction moves us forward in Christian growth.

NEW CREATION: RECREATED HUMAN SPIRIT

God designed the human being as a tri-part being: a spirit, who has a soul, and lives in a body. The real man is a spirit. That is why at the new birth, it is the human spirit that gets recreated. When a person gets saved, his or her body may experience any form of change, except for divine healing. The soul may also not change radically or immediately. The part of the human personality that changes at salvation is the spirit.

NEW BIRTH – NEW IDENTITY

Through the reality of the New Birth, the ‘new man’ in Christ has a new identity: an identity that is completely different from that of the person that existed before. Jesus identified with humanity through His crucifixion, death, burial, justification, resurrection and ascension. He became one with man in death so that man can be one with Him in glory and newness of life.

NEW BIRTH – NEW CREATION

Redemption is not a mere reformation of character, an adoption of or adherence to a new set of moral rules, a rejuvenation of a sleeping soul, or a mere improvement from a lower to a supposedly higher level of spirituality. Redemption is an absolute re-creation of the human spirit and the emergence of a new spirit, a new heart, a new being – the New Creation in Christ. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God…” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

OUR TRUE DWELLING PLACE

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations – Psalm 90:1

Jamie Buckingham, while reflecting on his childhood homestead and his late father, had these to say:

“The removal of the house gave me a new perspective into the past. For the first time I was able to look backward beyond my parents, all the way to my true dwelling place – the dwelling place of God…

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