The Significance Of A New Creation-7 Series

Illustration:

Different, not what we used to be

Dentistry/‘Back in the day’ my Dad(a dentist) used Amalgum(mercury alloy) for fillings/Today, Plastic Composite Resins are used as restorative adhesives(forming & adhering to odd shapes)/A gel or fluid composite fills the roughened shape where the cavity was removed...BUT when exposed to a certain wavelength of light, it takes on an entirely different nature...it polymerizes & hardening into a solid filling/NEWNESSes

Epoxy—a glue + a compound hardener/A reactive synthetic(?) polymer(a macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits) reacts when a catalyst(hardener)/NEWNESSes

Application:

?Are New NEWNESSes apparent in your New Creation?

?Your New Creation Significant?

?Is yours a truly New Creation or a Creation by your own hand?

9—A new creation is significant in its New...

RELATIONSHIP--Reconciliation(5:18-19)

Explanation:(5:18-19)

5:18—“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, & has given us the ministry of reconciliation,”

“Now”, since “all things” are “new” in Christ, we approach our world recognizing God’s revelatory hand in all these new things(:17).

“God” is the very One who “has seen fit to “reconcile us to Himself.” He loved us that much. So much so that the reconciliation was accomplished “through” His only-begotten Son “Jesus” who is His Anointed One(“Christ”). If we(myself & the church) are to be about the business of reconciling the world to God thru Christ, then we must first know & experience reconciliation ourselves.

Recognizing God as the Author of their(Paul & Timothy’s) & our reconciliation, God has seen fit to grant to these “the ministry of reconciliation.” We are to take up the mantle, as it were, to openly offer “reconciliation” to others(cf :19). Thus, such “reconciliation” is to be the crux of our “ministry,” as it has begun with the crux of the apostolic & Christian leader’s “ministries.”

1st—A relationship with God is Established(:18a, 19a)

2nd—Those in relationship are Enabled(:18b)bought/redeemed to enable in others, a similar relationship with God.

“Now”(See :16)—de—Conjunction—1) But, moreover, &, etc.. Strong—a primary particle(adversative or continuative); But, &, etc..

“All things”(See 5:17; 6:4, 10, 14)—pav—Adj.—1) individually—1a) Each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything; 2) collectively—2a) Some of all types. Strong—apparently a primary word; All, any, every, the whole.

“Of”—ek/ex—Prep.—1) Out of, from, by, away from. Strong—a primary preposition denoting origin(the point whence action or motion proceeds), From, out(of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative; direct or remote).