Newness of Life

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 This means that our former days count for nothing!  We all should have to have a fresh start.  (p. 4; Matthew 18:3)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The regeneration that is spoken of in John 3 shows us the need of a </B><B>new life</B><B>, while the turning and becoming like little children that is spoken of in Matthew 18 shows us the need of the nullification of our </B><B>past walk</B><B>.  Everything of the past needs to be torn down and removed.  (p. 4; John 3; Matthew 18)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If a new believer does not break down everything that he had in the past, he will experience much frustration in his Christian walk.  The things he did in the past will continue to haunt him, and what he receives from the Lord will become a mere addition to what he already has from the past.  The result will be a mixture of the Lord's life and his past life.  (p. 4)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Baptism means a burial of everything of the past.  Suppose that a person who is fifty years old is saved and about to be baptized.  The meaning of baptism for him is not just that the Lord buries his life but, more specifically, that the Lord takes away every one of the fifty years of his former life.  Sin has permeated his total constitution.  He is sick in every respect.  Therefore, everything has to go under the water.  Then he has to rise from the grave.  The act of baptism should not stop short of something as serious as this.  (p. 5)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As soon as a man is saved, he should have a fundamental change in his concept of values.  Every past concept concerning values no longer counts; they were all wrong. A man has to see something new; he has to have a new concept of values.  What was precious to him is now refuse.  What was profitable to him is now loss.  He can no longer have the same temperament and use the same vocabulary, and his clothing and food can no longer be the same. Everything is new, and he will need a fresh start.  (p. 5)</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quotes from Church History"><U><B>MORE QUOTES FROM OUR HERITAGE</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>