I make all things new

“The Bible tells us the gospel never leaves anything it touches the same. It makes everything new. When we submit our lives to the gospel, it redefines our priorities, our dreams, our hopes, our expectations–everything.” “Behold, I make all things new.” (Rev. 21:5). 

On Mission Magazine, Spring 2017, p.13

I am considered old fashioned by many, because I believe salvation changes everything. If there is no change, I question their salvation. If there is no desire to change, then the Holy Spirit does not live within them and they are not saved. Too many in our culture have made a profession of faith in Christ, but it does not represent a surrender to Him, nor a turning from sin (repentance). Just because one “says” they are saved or have trusted in Jesus does not make them saved. What makes them saved is the surrender of their life to Christ as Lord, and the turning of their back on sin (repentance), so as to become like Him. We live in a day when all want a ticket to Heaven, without having to change their life. Of course, they can’t change their own life, that is why they must surrender to Christ. Only faith in Him can bring salvation.

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, not thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you, but you were washed,(made clean) but your were sanctified, (set apart for God) but you were justified (made right in God’s eyes) in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Cor. 6:9-11). (Emphasis is mine.)

There are several lists of sins in the Scripture as in; Rev. 21:8, Gal. 5:19-21, Romans 1:27-32, all showing the power of sins and the condemnation that will send one to Hell. However, what about the sins committed by Christians? Paul tells us to “not to keep company with anyone named a brother” who is practicing sin, “not even to eat with such a person” (1 Cor. 5:11). And in this day of open immorality, Paul warns, “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” (1 Cor. 6:11).

“The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever ... and anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Rev. 20:10, 18)