“New Year_2021:Newness” by Romans
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Happy New Year, everyone! Well... almost, anyway. At Midnight tomorrow, in just over 24 hours, the momentous, if not infamous, 2020 will come to a close. I am sure we are all looking forward to, or at least hoping that, the New Year will see an end to the multiple waves of natural, social, economic and other disasters that were 2020.
We have been going through some rough times lately, individually and collectively. So we would all do well to have a new start, a fresh and positive start as the New Year begins. And I certainly hope and pray that 2021 will be a healthy and prosperous one for each of us, our families, our individual countries, and our planet.
We will take one more break, tonight, from our unfinished Series, “Basic Christianity,” because that is what I would like to discuss, namely, what the Bible says about new starts. God's Word speak of “newness” in a way that no other book, and no other religion speaks about it, or even can speak about it. That is, in large part, because God makes us promises that only He can make, and that only He can and will fulfill.
The word, “New,” of and by itself, is generally regarded as a positive word. Advertising companies have made millions of dollars by introducing or promoting products in almost every category as being “new and improved,” perhaps so often that it means almost nothing to us when we hear it any more. In the Bible, Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:9: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
Well, perhaps Solomon wasn't expecting me to be able to sit in my house in Virginia, hundreds and even thousands of miles away from my hearers, be able to speak into a plastic box without raising my voice (except for emphasis), and potentially have people all over the earth instantly hear me as I quoted what he wrote!
But then, as I think about it, he was correct after all. Technology has merely enabled mankind to obey or disobey God more quickly, thoroughly and efficiently. So since, as I believe, Solomon was actually referring to obedience and/or disobedience, and not the technology used to perform it, he was right, after all: "... there is no new thing under the sun."
But... where God's activities are concerned, the Bible has much to say about “new” things. In the spirit of the New Year, I decided to present a Discussion about just that: the title of this evening's Discussion is “New Year_2021: Newness.” I think you will be as surprised as I was in preparing these Notes, the scope and the breadth of how many times and in how many ways the idea of “newness” is discussed in the Scriptures.
I will be using many topics and Scriptures this evening with some help from Thompson's Chain Reference Bible, and from Torrey's Topical Textbook. The Scriptures and topics I will use tonight will be scattered and reassigned into various combinations of Themes so I won't be able to give specific credit to each Source when they are being used. That is why I am giving them general credit in this introduction for the assistance they both provided me.
I was curious, however, to see where and how the word “new” was first used in Scripture. Without peeking or Googling it, would someone like to guess the first occasion of the word, “new” in Scripture?
It is found in Exodus 1:8: “Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” After all the good that Joseph had done in Egypt, enough time had passed that the rescue from the famine were long forgotten, and the much enjoyed Egyptian prosperity afforded by Joseph's God-given ability to interpret dreams had long been forgotten.
And... a “new king” had come to power. This use of the word “new” had no positive changes in store for the Hebrews living in Egypt. Many generations would pass before they would be delivered from the cruel and merciless bondage that was imposed on them by this “new” king.
Still in the Book of Exodus, several chapters later, after their deliverance, the word “new” appears again. As before with the “new king and its aftermath, the application of the word “new” is not a positive one here, either. Allow me to set the stage for you: The children of Israel had been delivered from Egypt, but they were thankless murmurers, and miserable complainers.
On top of their ceaseless whining, Moses' authority to lead was also challenged. Notice that when Satan wants to introduce rebellion against God, he selects respected, high profile individuals to lead the rebellion. In this case we read of Korah and others taking men, and rising up against Moses along with two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly... men of renown.
God instructed Moses as to how to handle their doubt as to whether Moses was indeed chosen to lead the children of Israel, which brings us to this next occasion of the word, “new.” We read, beginning in Numbers 16:28: “And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men...” (the rebels) “...die the common death of all men... then the LORD hath not sent me... But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.”
The two occasions of the word “new” that I just used are the only two that I will cite, tonight, where there is no specific Theme involved. I thought they were significant enough to cite, because the first one that I cited was also the first one the Bible cited. The second occasion I used was because God was shown to be doing a new thing when the ground opened up to swallow those renowned princes who conspired to undermine Moses' authority.
The word “new” appears 153 times and in many contexts in Scripture. While I think it would be an interesting review to go over many of them, I decided instead to focus on the most edifying occasions of the word. And, I have found, in every case, that it is most edifying when it's applied to something “new” for which God is responsible.
In every instance I will cite in the remainder of this Discussion, the word “new” is used in a positive, mind-altering, heart-altering, life-altering, creation-altering , and even Universe-altering context. And, in each case, it is a new thing in which God is the sole Source, the exclusive Initiator and the only Being capable of seeing to it that the new thing comes to pass.
Let's see what New Things God has planned for those who believe in Him, who trust that Scripture is His written Word, and who have accepted His Son's death for us to pay our sin debt.
The New Things that God Promises will come are Of Divine Origin
John 1:13: “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” After we become Christians, when we look in the mirror, we may see the same face looking back at us, but we are not the same person. We have been given a clean slate, and we are, in God's sight, as His adopted and Spirit-filled child, changed from the inside out.
The Bible Tell us that, as Christians, we are a New Creation:
We read in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
Regeneration is Necessary to Salvation:
Titus 3:3: “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;”
Besides regeneration, the also Bible speaks of a another newness where believers are concerned:
We read in James 1:18: “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
As Christians, we are spiritually renewed. Our whole being is starting again from scratch:
2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;”
Notice, also what we find in 1 Peter 1:3-4: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you...”
We also find that we are renewed by the Word of God, itself:
1 Peter 1:22: “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
We read in Ezekiel 36:26 : “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
In addition to giving us, individually, as new spirit, God will also put his Spirit within us, working in us as a Teacher, Guide, and Sanctifier. The promise of God's grace to fit us for our duty, should quicken our constant care and endeavour to do our duty. These are promises to be pleaded by, and will be fulfilled to, all true believers in every age.”
A new heart and a new spirit. These are just two elements of another new thing God both proposed and brought to pass: The New Covenant. Of it, Matthew Henry writes “All that have an interest in the new covenant, have a new heart and a new spirit, in order to their walking in newness of life. God would give a heart of flesh, a soft and tender heart, complying with his holy will. Renewing grace works as great a change in the soul, as the turning a dead stone into living flesh.
What does Scripture tell us about this New Covenant? Perhaps I should ask first, how and why did the Old Covenant even become an Old Covenant? A Covenant is an agreement between two parties to perform various things. When someone rents an apartment, the renter promises to pay the rent on time, and keep up the property in various ways, while the landlord offers a place to stay, and a promise to repair leaky pipes and leaky roofs, and make sure the heat and air conditioning works in the winter and summer. It is a covenant not in so many words.
Well God had proposed a Covenant with Israel: If they obeyed His Commands, he would Bless and protect them as a nation... as His chosen people. Exodus 31:16 identifies that Covenant between God and Israel as “a perpetual covenant.” So... what happened? How and why was a New Covenant even necessary as a replacement? Because of something else that was perpetual that we read of in Jeremiah 8:5: “Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.”
We read in Hebrews 8:8: “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:” Jesus phrased Israel's resistance to God with these words found in Luke 13:34: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!”
Israel, from the time they left Egypt and agreed to abide to the terms of the Covenant, generation after generation, broke God's Laws, trampled His statutes under foot, and committed spiritual adultery. As with the Apartment Lease, if the tenant stops paying the rent, or the landlord doesn't repair the hot water heater, the Lease is void. Israel's rebellion voided the Covenant.
And we read of that New Covenant in greater detail in Jeremiah 31:31: “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
This New Covenant is made possible only by the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, by His shed blood. We read beginning in Matthew 26:26: “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Romans 11:25: “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”
A Deliverer was to come out of Sion. Centuries of sacrificed animals for sins of all kinds had not diminished the need for more animals to be sacrificed for, as yet, uncommitted sins. But God had done something new. All of those sacrificed animals pointed the Way to the Lamb of God Who only need be sacrificed once and for all.
We read of that in Hebrews 10, beginning in Verse 10: “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”
And the benefits of being rescued by that Deliverer is spoken of in Romans 7:6: “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”
Hebrews 12:24 tells us that Jesus is “the mediator of the New Covenant.”
So... Are there any other mediators? Is there anyone else involved in seeing to it there there not be a repeat of the failings that befell the first Covenant?
No... We are clearly told in 1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” Jesus is also the Author and Finisher of our Faith (Hebrews 12:2). If we have Faith, don't take any bows, yourself. None of us whipped up that Faith on our own. It was a Gift from God Who created it in us by and through Jesus Christ.
Of this, Matthew Henry writes, “Christians have a greater example to animate and encourage them in their Christian course than any or all who have been mentioned before, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ: Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Here observe, (1.) What our Lord Jesus is to his people: he is the author and finisher of their faith - the beginning, perfecter, and rewarder of it. [1.] He is the author of their faith; not only the object, but the author. He is the great leader and precedent of our faith, he trusted in God; he is the purchaser of the Spirit of faith, the publisher of the rule of faith, the efficient cause of the grace of faith, and in all respects the author of our faith.
[2.] He is the finisher of our faith; he is the fulfiller and the fulfilling of all scripture-promises and prophecies; he is the perfecter of the canon of scripture; he is the finisher of grace, and of the work of faith with power in the souls of his people; and he is the judge and the rewarder of their faith; he determines who they are that reach the mark, and from him, and in him, they have the prize.”
He is also our High Priest... but He is far more because, as we read in Hebrews 4:15: “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
Albert Barnes writes, “Our High Priest is not cold and unfeeling. That is, we have one who is abundantly qualified to sympathize with us in our afflictions, and to whom, therefore, we may look for aid and support in trials. Had we a high priest who was cold and heartless; who simply performed the external duties of his office without entering into the sympathies of those who came to seek for pardon; who had never experienced any trials, and who felt himself above those who sought his aid, we should necessarily feel disheartened in attempting to overcome our sins, and to live to God.
His coldness would repel us; his stateliness would awe us; his distance and reserve would keep us away, and perhaps render us indifferent to all desire to be saved. But tenderness and sympathy attract those who are feeble, and kindness does more than anything else to encourage those who have to encounter difficulties and dangers. Such tenderness and sympathy has our Great High Priest.
But was in all points tempted like as we are - “Tried” as we are. He was subjected to all the kinds of trial to which we can be, and he is, therefore, able to sympathize with us and to aid us. He was tempted - in the literal sense; he was persecuted; he was poor; he was despised; he suffered physical pain; he endured the sorrows of a lingering and most cruel death.
Yet without sin - “Who did no sin.” “He had done no violence, neither was there any deceit in his mouth;” “Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.” The importance of this fact - that the Great High Priest of the Christian profession was “without sin,” the apostle illustrates at length in Hebrews chapters 7–9. He here merely alludes to it, and says that one who was “without sin” was able to assist those who were sinners, and who put their trust in him.
The New Covenant has the provision that we read in Ezekiel 11:19: “And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” Jesus' continued Ministry and intervention into our lives is what enables the Scriptures to call us New Creatures... brand New Creatures.
Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” We are re-created in Christ as a “new man:” Notice in Ephesians 4:24: “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Also notice Colossians 3:10: “And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”
We are renewed in knowledge. Paul wrote in Romans 12:2: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Let's not miss the full impact of Paul's statement. The Greek word that Paul used when he wrote that we should be transformed is “metamorfoo,” from which we get the English word, metamorphosis.
Paul tells us that our transformation from who and what we were before God called us out of darkness into His marvelous light, should be as radical a change as what happens when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. There is no resemblance between those two creatures, and the same should be true of us. We have, in God's eyes, become a new creature, unrecognizable from who and what we were:
2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
When something is new, it is not necessarily or automatically better. When the “new” Pharaoh came to power, he was not better, at least not where the Hebrews living in Egypt were concerned. When God did a “new” thing, opening the mouth of the earth to swallow Korah and the princes who opposed Moses, it certainly was not a better thing where the rebels were concerned.
But this was not only a New Covenant, it was a better Covenant, and was called better in a number of places, and for a number of reasons: We read in Hebrews 8:6: “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
The promises of the Old Covenant assured prosperity and safety to God's people on an earthly and physical plane. Everyone who lived under the terms and promises of the Old Covenant, also died natural deaths under the terms and promises of the Old Covenant. The promises of the New Covenant go far beyond living a limited physical existence within the confines of a single geographic area, however blessed that life or land was.
Matthew Henry writes of this: “But the covenant here referred to, was that made with Israel as a nation, securing temporal benefits to them. The promises of all spiritual blessings, and of eternal life, revealed in the gospel, and made sure through Christ, are of infinitely greater value. Let us bless God that we have a High Priest that suits our helpless condition.”
The New Covenant was delivered via a Better Revelation:
We read in Hebrews 1:1-4: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”
The original covenant was delivered and administered by various men, leaders and prophets. The New Covenant was delivered, made possible and administered and mediated by the Son of God, Whose voluntary sacrifice brought it about to begin with.
The New Covenant provided a Better Hope:
Hebrews 7:19: “For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.”
The New Covenant is characterized by a Better Priesthood:
We read in Hebrews 7:20-28: “Hebrews 7:20: “And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood...
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”
The New Covenant was ratified with Better Sacrifices:
Hebrews 9:23: “It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:”
The New Covenant offers Better Possessions:
We read in Hebrews 10:34: “For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.”
The New Covenant promises a Better Resurrection:
Notice Hebrews 11:35: “Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:”
The New Covenant promises our being Raised from Physical Death:
Romans 8:11: “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”
Ephesians 2:1: “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;”
Ephesians 2:6: “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”
Colossians 2:13: “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;”
And lastly Colossians 3:1: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” We shall appear with Him in Glory. The Old Covenant never came remotely close to a such a Promise for those who lived under it.
The New Covenant speaks of a Inheriting Better Country:
Concerning all of the righteous departed named in the opening Verses of Hebrews 11, we read in Hebrews 11:13: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.”
What city has been prepared for those under the New Covenant?
And why do we need a New City to be prepared for us?
That is answered in Hebrews 13:14: “For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.”
Revelation 21:10: “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,”
Revelation 21:2: “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”
And when that happens, the New Covenant also makes provision for the re-creation of not just the arrival of a New Jerusalem, but of the entire planet and the entire Cosmos as we know it!
And we read of it in both the Old and the New Testaments: Isaiah 65:17: “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”
Isaiah 66:22: “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.”
2 Peter 3:13: “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
Revelation 21:1: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away...”
When all is said and done, and everything is new, we read of our place in that New Heavens and New Earth in Revelation 3:12: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
Tomorrow night at midnight, we will be crossing over into the New Year: 2021. And we can look forward to it, and hope that the New Year will bring our families and our nations stability and health and prosperity, and a return to normalcy. Actually hope that we don't return to the normalcy we knew before 2020, but a new normalcy that has America living up to its boast of being “one nation under God.” I hope we can become an America that lives according to Biblical precepts, and allowing God's righteous ways to guide our words and our actions.
Above and beyond that, Scripture holds out to us Promises of New and Wonderful Things, beyond our ability to imagine or express them, that God has been eagerly anticipating to shower on those who love and obey Him.
We serve a God of inestimable Majesty and Glory Whose good pleasure it is to invite us to share as joint heirs with Christ. not only Eternal Life and Fellowship with Him but also a New Jerusalem, a New Heaven and a New Earth and Blessings that we cannot begin to grasp. I will close with this Verse found in Revelation 21:5: “And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”
This concludes this Evening's Discussion: “New Year_2021: Newness.”
This Discussion was presented “live” on December 30th, 2020.
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