New Life - a podcast by Brunswick SDA Church

“We live in a world of sin. We are sinners. But we need not remain under the power of sin. I recently joined a group of friends on a whale-watching excursion in the North Atlantic Ocean. The sea was rough. We were thrilled to watch the huge creatures gracefully playing in the ocean by the side of our tiny boat. Then a large wave came over the prow of the boat. My friends on the lower deck got drenched. Fortunately, the water rushed over the deck and ran out the back of the ship.
Someone shouted, "It's all right to have the ship in the ocean, but it's not a good thing to have the ocean in the ship."
We do live in an evil world. But it is not God's will that evil con-tinue to rule within our lives. God has made provision to give us victory over sin. He has given us the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is "the power of God unto salvation to every one that be-lieveth" (Rom. 1:16). Without Jesus there is no hope, for "neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
Jesus spoke of this salvation as a new-birth experience. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). In His interview with Nicodemus, Jesus repeated thrice this divine imperative of new birth. Paul also emphasized this necessity for new life. Humbled in the dust of the Damascus highway, he saw what the gospel of Jesus is all about. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (2 Cor. 5:17).
This is the good news. In Jesus there is hope for every sinner. Through Him we have forgiveness, reconciliation with God, and peace. Through Him we be come sons and daughters of God. Through Him we have new life.”
- James Zachary, “New Life in Jesus” Ministry Magazine, 1995

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