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7 Sermon Illustrations on New Creation

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The new creation in Christian preaching signifies the profound transformation believers undergo through Christ, becoming entirely renewed and victorious over sin and death (2 Corinthians 5:17). Illustrations often use images of precious stones, renewed earth, and eternal temples to depict this hidden yet powerful spiritual rebirth and ultimate triumph (Revelation 21:1).

New Creatures in Christ

Christ transforms believers from filthy rags into pure new creations like fine white paper.

Queen Victoria once paid a visit to a paper mill. The foreman showed her and her attendant over the works without knowing who his distinguished visitor was. She finally went into the rag-sorting shop where men were employed in picking out the rags from the refuse of the city. Upon inquiring what was done with this dirty mass of rags, she was told that, sorted out, it would make the finest white paper. After her departure, the foreman found out who it was that had paid the visit. Some time later, Her Majesty received a package of the most delicate white stationery having the Queen's likeness for a watermark, with the intimation that it was made from the dirty rags she had inspected. That illustrates Christ's work in us. He takes us, filthy as we are, and makes us into new creatures. Receiving Christ is becoming Christ's. After receiving Him, we are as different from what we were before as pure white paper is from the filthy rags from which it was made.

The New Man

1 John 3:9

Being born of God changes desires, removing the will to sin and producing holiness.

“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (that is, practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” 1 John 3:9

It is the grace of God working in the soul that makes the believer delight in holiness, in righteousness, in obedience to the will of God, for real joy is found in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. I remember a man who lived a life of gross sin.

After his conversion, one of his old friends said to him, “Bill, I pity you — a man that has been such a high-flier as you. And now you have settled down; you go to church, or stay at home and read the Bible and pray; you never have good times any more.”

“But, Bob,” said the man, “you don’t understand. I get drunk every time I want to. I go to the theater every time I want to. I go to the dance when I want to. I play cards and gamble whenever I want to.”

“I say, Bill,” said his friend, “I didn’t understand it that way. I thought you had to give up these things to be a Christian.”

“No, Bob,” said Bill, “the Lord took the ‘want to’ out when He saved my soul, and He made me a new creature in Christ Jesus.”

When we are born of God we receive a new life and that life has its own new nature, a nature that hates sin and impurity and delights in holiness and goodness.

Darkness, Regenerated

A diamond formed from coal symbolizes believers' transformation from darkness to light.

Incredible as it may appear to ignorance, on whose admiring eyes it flashes rays of light, science proves that the diamond is formed of the very same matter as common dull black coal. It boasts no native light; and dark in the darkness as the mud or rock where it lies embedded, it shines, if with a beautiful, yet with a borrowed splendor. How meet the emblem of the priceless jewels that adorn the Saviour's crown!

— Dr. Guthrie

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster transformation

Earth, Renewed

At judgment, the earth will be purified and renewed into a new heaven and earth.

As when gold or silver is cast into the furnace, and so tried in the fire, the substance remaineth, but the dross is that which only perisheth: so in the last day, the fire of the judgment shall consume and abolish the corruptible and drossy quality of the creature, but the substance shall continue. What though the fashion of the world pass, and be scoured away by the fire of that general conflagration, yet the matter and substance shall remain. The heavens, indeed, shall pass away with a noise or rushing, or shrink together like a scroll of parchment; the elements, like lead, shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall be burnt up; yet the world shall not be consumed to nothing, but only transshanged into a new form, and converted to a sabbatical and better use. God, out of the very ashes of it, will produce a new world, even a new heaven and a new earth, wherein shall dwell righteousness. Spencer.

New Creature, Formation of the

Spiritual new creation is a hidden, gradual, yet sudden transformation.

The first formation of this spiritual as well as of the natural man was hidden and secret: it was curiously wrought, and in a way no more liable to observation than that of framing the child in the womb, as that is as hidden as the concoction of minerals or precious stones in the lower parts of the earth. No secrets of nature can outvie the mysteries of godliness. Its growth is also by very insensible degrees, as it is with the products of Nature; but its arrival to perfection is infinitely more strange than any thing in Nature ever was. How sudden and wonderful is the change, when, in the twinkling of an eye, the blessed soul instantly awakes out of drowsy languishings and miserable weakness, into perfect strength and vigor! John Howe.

New Creature, Immortality of the

The new creature is God's eternal temple, enduring beyond earthly things.

When Xerxes destroyed all the temples in Greece, he caused the temple of Diana to be preserved for its beautiful structure. The new creature is God's temple adorned with all the graces, which he will not suffer to be demolished. Riches take wings; kings' crowns tumble in the dust; nay, some of the graces may cease; faith and hope shall be no more: but the new creature abideth ever. T. Watson.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster eternal life

New Creature, Triumphs of the

The new creature is born to overcome the world and be more than conqueror.

This man "born of God," "begotten of God after his own likeness;" this hero; this son of God, — was born to conflicts, to victories, to triumphs. While he is yet but in his growing age, "he overcomes the world," as Hercules the serpents in his cradle; "overcomes the Wicked One;" and is, at last, "more than conqueror." John Howe.

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