You Are New Ephesians 4:17-24

That is God dealing with your sin, not overlooking it. Justification, I read this this past week. Justification is all about Jesus. Jesus' work, not our works that save us. Jesus' life, not our life. That is our hope. Jesus' death, not our religious work, is our payment for sin. Jesus alone forgives sin. So we are to repent of our sin to Jesus and Jesus alone gives righteousness. He is our justification. We are in Christ. Jesus and Jesus alone justifies us. [00:39:10] (42 seconds)  #JesusAloneJustifies

That one statement, that one verse encapsulates this whole justification thing. What does it do? It says to you and I that on the cross, God the father took God the son and made him to be sin even though he knew no sin so that we might become the righteousness of God. Our guilt, our standing, our sin, all of it was dealt with and only when it was dealt with could we be forgiven by God for what we have done and who we are. That is justification. [00:38:33] (37 seconds)  #RighteousByTheCross

There is a question that quietly sits beneath every single decision any of us ever makes. The question is very simple. It's one that we've devoted our entire year thus far on Sunday mornings to examining. The question is, who do you think you are? Who you think you are is going to determine virtually everything that you do at any given moment. If you are someone who is hindered or hampered by your past, you are someone who is going to make decisions and have certain outlooks that are tied deeply to your past. [00:27:17] (42 seconds)  #IdentityShapesEverything

But understand something, justification is not a one-sided transaction. What do I mean by that? Your justification before God is not God's simply saying, you know what man, I know you're trying your best. And I'm feeling generous today. I'm a God who is patient and loving and long suffering, all that good stuff. So we're just not gonna worry about the stuff that you do, the standing that you have. We're not gonna worry about that sin. Henceforth and forevermore, you're just. That's not what happened. It's not a one-sided transaction. [00:37:30] (33 seconds)  #NotOneSidedGrace

And what we're going to do today, we're going to spend our time together looking at following the road map we just read to show and see for ourselves once again this glorious truth that we are new, but yes, to also see what it took for us to be new. There are three things I wanna show you from God's word this morning as it relates to you being made new. The first is this, I want you to see that you are externally externally new. New. Justification. [00:31:49] (29 seconds)  #ExternallyMadeNew