A NEW THING UNDER THE SON!

Easter is the time we remember the day Jesus triumphed over even death itself. The day The Lord revealed to mankind the biggest surprise of all. For those who believe in Christ Jesus, death is only the beginning of an incredible new life.

When speaking of the ministry of Jesus many are tempted to focus on the three years up to His crucifixion, but that misses the whole point of the resurrection and ascension. In one very important way the ministry of Jesus did not begin until Pentacost. Up until then it had in many ways been preparation for that ministry to mankind. It was at Pentacost, beginning with those in the upper room, that men began to be born again in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I did not fully appreciate the meaning in Rev 21:5 when it says "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." . That is until I was reading Ecclesiastes the other day and Solomon's conclusion that "there is no new thing under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9) .

At Pentecost Jesus ushered in something "never before seen" new and incredible.  If we but lay down our "same old, same old" lives under the sun, Jesus, by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is able to recreate in us a new life, a new creature unlike mankind had ever before witnessed. No longer confined to, or conformed by, this tiny, same old, same old, world under the sun we become sons of God Himself under HIS Son. 

John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God

But the incredible magnitude and miracle of what it means to be truly born again as "Sons of God" is only fully appreciated if you understand WHO the Bible refers to whenever it speaks of the "Sons of God". When the Bible speaks of the "Sons of God" it is not speaking of man or mankind but of the angels of the Lord, the "elohiym".

But as I look around today it saddens me to see so many "same old, same old" churches and Christians doing the "same old, same old" things everybody else is doing. Trying to gain popularity and members by meeting the community's expectations instead of by meeting its needs. Jesus came, not doing what was "expected", but doing what was needed, regardless of what the world "expected" of Him. We are called to continue what He began.

I see so many who, in truth, are only half dead to the world and only half alive in Christ. That will just tear a person apart. Half and half does not mean we have a foot in both. It means we are, like the Church at Laodicea, not really a part of either and Jesus died for us in vain.

Christ is risen, behold there is now a new and very different thing under the sun - the question we must each ask ourselves is ..... Have I become that new thing under the Son?

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