Be ReNEWed!

BE reNEWed!
Out with the old and in with the new
2 Corinthians 5:17

Today I want you to embrace what it means to be made NEW. A new year gives birth to new hope, new opportunities and living in a new way! My prayer is that we will see with great expectations all that God has in store for each one of us. His Word speaks to us of many new things, a new wine, heart, spirit, covenant, tongues, way of the Spirit, new teaching. It is all with one purpose in mind: to give you a new self, new name and put a new song in your heart. God is in the business of making all things new so stop fighting it and just be reNEWed!

What God has always done, He is doing now and always will do!

1. He TRANSFORMS US from the inside out !

God does new things in spite of ourselves!

Isaiah 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

The word ‘see’ comes from the Hebrew word ‘hennai’ which means to behold. There is a
huge emphasis on the need to pay attention. God is revealing a very important truth here. The new thing originates with him. He shows us faithfulness in spite of ourselves, He shows mercy in spite of ourselves, He shows forgiveness….In this passage Israel has seemingly done everything wrong, they have messed up their best resolutions, their most valiant attempts at honoring God or lack thereof and God says what…I will remember your sins no more. It is huge because He is making a point. The only way through your desert, the only way to find streams in your wasteland is to receive it. Receive the grace from God, acknowledge the fact that He loves you in spite of yourself

God wants you to taste the new wine.

Joel 2:24 The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Matthew 9:17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."


Many different OT passages refer to a time when God will bring the new wine. The new wine is the realization of the coming of the Holy Spirit and the refreshment that He brings. New wine was never meant to come in the old package of the truth being dropped in your lap. The new way of receiving was that it would be revealed in the heart by the Holy Spirit. The old way had everything to do with appearances, to conform to a code of behavior and in doing so to bring change. However real change cannot happen from the outside in. A person cannot be told to act like a believer if they don’t have the living presence of the Spirit of God in them.

It is the very reason that if your walk with Jesus is about following the rules, you have a lifeless walk with God.

At my first Bible College, self control was praised. It was the belief that through external pressure, control and conformity to rules that somehow Spirit led control would happen. Unfortunately what it led to in most was pride and a sense of personal spiritual accomplishment. The new wine was the Holy Spirit and until you drink the fullness of the Spirit of God you cannot have Spirit led control. We have to experience the Holy Spirit from the inside out!

God want to give you a new heart and spirit

Exekiel 18:31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit.
Ezekiel 36:26 will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Repentance is necessary and we need to get serious about dealing a death blow to our stubborn hearts that would rather do it our way. The way that we would like to go would short circuit the process. Our natural learned tendencies tell us we can will ourselves to be more spiritual. Will power will only take you so far in the Christian life before you burn out and are running on fumes. We desperately need heart surgery because left to ourselves we can pretty anything up and make ourselves look pretty good. The process of transformation must go down the road less traveled. It is the place where His refining fire burns. Get serious with God about what He needs to expose and let him give you a transplant from the inside out. The motivation, the passion to follow must come from a burning heart within us.


Matthew 27:60 They placed Jesus in a new tomb and that is where He needs to place you to bring forth the resurrection power in you.

God want to give you a new life Acts 5:20

Acts 17:19 He wants you to embrace this new teaching which will always be in friction with any man made religion. The new way is a new and living relationship with the Creator of the universe.

Romans 6:4 new life – we can only experience new life if a death has already first taken place


Romans 7:6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

the new way of the Spirit is a way that responds to the inner promptings, listening with your heart.




1 Cor 5:7 that you may be a new batch

God has one purpose for you…


2. God wants you to minister from the INSIDE OUT

The only way that you can minister the new covenant is if you are breathing, living and moving in it

1 Cor 11:25 new covenant in my blood and it has to flow through you. Those streams in the wasteland – you weren’t meant to watch from the banks of the river, you were meant to step in.

2 Corinthians 3:6 ministers of a new covenant

2 Corinthians 5:17 if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation

Galatians 6:15 what counts is a new creation not external rites of passage

Ephesians 2:15 he create in himself one new man out of the two – He brought all of us together in one family.

Ephesians 4:23 so that we would be new in the attitude of your minds

Ephesians 4:24 put on the new self

Colossians 3:10 put on the new self

Hebrews 8:8 new covenant

Hebrews 9: start reading at verse 8 -10 new order AMAZING!

Hebrews 9:15 new covenant

Hebrews 10:20 a new and living way opened for us

Hebrews 12:24 new covenant

1 Peter 1:3 new birth

1 Peter 2:2 new born babies

2 Peter 3:13 new heaven and new earth

God wants you to speak a new language - love 1 Corinthians 13 It is birthed from a new command

1 John 2:7 new command

2 John 1:5 new command ….love one another

The end result of God’s purposes being fulfilled in you is:


Revelation 2:17 new name
Revelation 3:12 new Jerusalem
Revelation 5:9 new song
Revelation 14:3 new song
Revelation 21:1 new heaven and earth
Revelation 21:2 new Jerusalem
Revelation 21:5 I am making everything new!