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5 Sermon Illustrations on New Life in Christ

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New life in Christ signifies the radical transformation believers undergo through faith, becoming new creations as old ways pass away (2 Corinthians 5:17). It emphasizes spiritual rebirth and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit to shape Christlike character within us (Romans 6:4). Illustrations often use images of fresh beginnings, renewal, and inner change to convey this profound spiritual reality.

Ending and Beginning

In Christ, old things end and new life begins, continually reshaped by the Spirit.

Revelation 1:8 reads, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord." Have you ever given thought to how many things about us are constantly ending and beginning? For example, today will end with the beginning of night and night will end with the beginning of tomorrow. Our Lord is both the beginning and ending of everything! 2 Corinthians 5:17 speaks to us about some endings and beginnings within our own lives: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passing away, and all things are becoming new." For the believer, there is a constant change going on. Life is being re-shaped. It begins in a new-birth experience and as we grow in the Lord, this new life constantly changes, as we are reshaped into the image of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit dwelling within us.

Spiritual Resurrection

Receiving Christ changes desires so sin is no longer wanted, like refusing to eat dirt.

"Oh, how many things I would have to give up!" said a sinner who was wondering whether to receive Christ or not. "So many things I do now I would no longer be able to do." "Don't be afraid," an experienced Christian told him. "Even now aren't there things you can't do? For instance, can you eat dirt?" "No, of course not," was the reply. "I don't even want to eat dirt." "This is exactly what will happen when Christ begins His life in you," said his friend. "The sin that you now desire you will not want at all."

Living the Christ Life

Galatians 2:20

Living the Christ life is impossible without being born again and Christ living in us by faith.

“Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Galatians 2:20

I was holding a series of evangelistic meetings in a church in Virginia. One evening, a visiting minister was asked to open with prayer. He said, “Lord, grant Thy blessing as the Word is preached tonight. May it be the means of causing people to fall in love with the Christ life, that they may begin to live the Christ life.” I felt like saying, “Brother, sit down; don’t insult God like that.” But I felt I had to be courteous and I knew that my turn would come when I could set forth the precious truth as to God’s way of salvation.

The gospel is not asking men to try to live the Christ life. If our salvation depended upon our doing that, apart from a second birth, we would all be just as good as checked through to hell. It is impossible for an unregenerate man to live the Christ life, no matter how much he may admire it as seen in Jesus, as it would be for one who had no sense of tune or of rhythm to live the Paderewski life or the life of any other great musician. One may enjoy music and admire musical ability who could never play or sing himself. It takes the soul of a musician to enable one to live a musician’s life, just as it takes the eye and hand of an artist to be a painter or a sculptor.

When born from above, Christ dwells in our hearts by faith and as He lives out His life in us we are enabled to walk as He walked. There is no other way whereby we may live the Christ life.

Age, Changed to Youth

Spiritual renewal through Christ brings perpetual youth and transformation.

Jason asked Medea, whose magic arts he had proved to be remarkable, to take some years of his life and give them to his then aged father. She consented to add years to the father's life, but refused to shorten his. She sacrificed to the gods, then wrought a mighty enchantment, filling her caldron with magic herbs, heads of crows and owls, the entrails of a wolf, and remnants of other things tenacious of life. Then she cut the throat of the old man. Eson, who was laid beside her on a bed of herbs, and poured into his mouth and his wounds the juices of her caldron. When he had imbibed them, his beard and hair laid off their whiteness, and resumed the blackness of youth; the signs of age were gone; his veins were full of blood, his limbs of vigor and robustness. Aison is amazed at the change, and remembers that such as he now is he was forty years before. Religion has a greater than Medea's power to renew the age. It gives perpetual youth.

Old Age, Alleviated

True age is counted from regeneration, not physical years, reflecting new life in Christ.

A Persian emperor once asked a gray-haired old man, "How old art thou?"—"Just about four years," was his reply. He counted only the years of his regenerated life.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster regeneration

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