Bible Study February 13, 2025
“From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:16 – 19 (ESV).
Having celebrated a birthday yesterday I began thinking about a comment I received from a good friend who now lives in Texas. They camped with Cindy and I and we became very good friends. His comment was “It must be tough to be an old man.”
My response was “As they say its only a number but the number always goes up.” Then I thought the idea of “all things being made new.” We are in a message series at Asbury Chapel on Heaven. This week the message is titled “Paradise.”
Just stop and pause your day for a few moments and think what the “new heaven and the new earth” will look like, what it will it be like to live in it. There are many people who have never lived in a new home, in fact many people do not even have a home but one day theirs will be brand new. Not remade or redone but brand new.
Revelation 21:1 from the New Living Translation gives us a look. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone.”
Time to prepare for the future is today. Your retirement planning should involve plans being made to live an eternal life in the “new heaven and the new earth.”
God Bless.
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