January 5, 2014 Message to the Church - God's Gifts for the New Year

Ezekiel 36:22-28
Jeremiah 31:31-34

Ezekiel 36:26 tells us, A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you.
Jeremiah 31:31/33 says, I will make a new covenant......I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.

It is a new year again.  2013 is gone and 2014 is here, a brand New Year!

Christians are familiar with the language on newness.  At the end of the scriptures we read this says, the One seated on the throne says, I make all things new.

In his writing to the early church, Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation, the old has passed away, the new has come."

Jesus said to Nicodemus, you must be born from above, in other words, you must be born again.

Ezekiel and Jeremiah, faithful hearers and accurate speakers of the Word of God, proclaim a newness in the midst of the destruction of Jerusalem.  Through them, God says, I will give you......

a new heart.......a new spirit.......and a new covenant