1. ACCEPTANCE 27 October 2013

2. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

4. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, Romans 6:12

5. NEW CREATURE TRAITS New Family Relationship For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. Romans 8:15-17

6. NEW CREATURE TRAITS New Family Relationship An Inseparable Love What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? … For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, no principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

7. ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED!

8. NEW CREATURE TRAITS New Family Relationship An Inseparable Love A New Reason for Living For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

9. “By this is My Father glorified,” Jesus said, “that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples” John 15:8 Fruit = Good Works

10. NEW CREATURE TRAITS A New Reason for Living For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 God has a Plan for You

11. NEW CREATURE TRAITS New Family Relationship An Inseparable Love A New Reason for Living A New Power for Living

12. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

13. NEW CREATURE TRAITS New Family Relationship An Inseparable Love A New Reason for Living A New Power for Living

14. RELATIONSHIP FELLOWSHIP

15. SIN

16. Grieves the Holy Spirit - Ephesians 4:30 Dishonors God – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Keeps our prayers from being answered – 1 Peter 3:12 Makes your life spiritually powerless – 1 Corinthians 9:27 Causes good things from God to be withheld – Jeremiah 5:25 Robs the joy of salvation – Psalm 51:12 Inhibits spiritual growth – 1 Corinthians 3:1 Brings chastisement from the Lord – Hebrews 12:7 Prevents us from being a fit vessel for the Lord to use – 2 Tim 2:21 Pollutes Christian fellowship – 1 Corinthians 10:21 Prevents proper participation in the Lord’s Supper – 1 Cor 11:28-29 Can even endanger your physical being – 1 Corinthians 11:30, 1 John 5:16

17. When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to Thee, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; And Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin.

18. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

19. As far as the east is from the west, so far has God removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12

20. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit. 1 Peter 3:18

21. confess If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

22. CONFESSION AGREE with God THANK God TURN AWAY

23. GOD accepts YOU! And is proud to call you HIS child and be YOUR FATHER Forever