Here’s where this topic comes from: as we’ve surveyed the big story of the Bible, it’s hard to miss that this big story, from Abraham onwards, has largely been about an ethnic people group. And that’s where we are today, talking about the people of God. That level of specificity.īut before we get into those specifics, before we’re really free to talk about our place in the story, there’s one more stop we need to make. The week after that we’re talking about money and then marriage and then singleness. Like, our jobs and our work at home and in the church. The arrival of the New Creation in our inner self allows us to fight sin and rejoice in suffering and even count death as gain.Īnd that’s really what this next leg of our series is about: what does all of this mean for you and I today? And we’re going to get specific. Even though sin and suffering and death are still around, our relationship with them has been totally changed in this time of already-but-not-yet. Our bodies are still a part of this old creation, and we still struggle with sin and suffering and death.Īnd yet we saw that the arrival of the New Creation has changed so much for us.

That much is already true of us.īut we also saw that there’s so much that’s not yet true of us. Another way of putting that is to say they are a part of the New Creation.

We began by looking at 2 Corinthians 5:17, which says that if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. And now, we’re turning to see what our place in this story is. Starting back in the fall, we’ve explored the big storyline of the Bible, and then seen how Jesus is the main character of that story. Last week we made a significant transition in our sermon series.

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