{"id":5120,"date":"2024-05-05T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=5120"},"modified":"2024-11-19T20:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:58:55","slug":"what-is-a-new-creation","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/sermons\/what-is-a-new-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is A New Creation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">What Is A New Creation?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Paul wrote in his second letter to the saints at Corinth, <em>\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new\u201d<\/em> (2 Cor. 5:17).<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s a pretty amazing statement. A great change takes place in the life of one who is a Christian!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I\u2019d like to know what this change is\u2014and how it will affect me personally.<\/li>\n<li>If I am a New Creation \u2013 how does God see me?<\/li>\n<li>And how does this change me, my lifestyle, my likes, and habits?<\/li>\n<li>What old things am I giving up, and how will these new things affect my old way of life?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul gives us answers to such questions.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Ephesians 2 and verse 6 we begin to see some ways a Christian is described&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul wrote in his second letter to the saints at Corinth, \u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new\u201d (2 Cor. 5:17).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a pretty amazing statement. A great change takes place in the life of one who is a Christian!<br \/>\n  1. I\u2019d like to know what this change is\u2014and how it will affect me personally.<br \/>\n  2. If I am a New Creation \u2013 how does God see me?<br \/>\n  3. And how does this change me, my lifestyle, my likes, and habits?<br \/>\n  4. What old things am I giving up, and how will these new things affect my old way of life?<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul gives us answers to such questions.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Ephesians 2 and verse 6 we begin to see some ways a Christian is described&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5120","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-david-scarpino","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/5120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/5120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/5120\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}