FRESH new person

John 3:3-4

King James Version

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, 

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 

Except a man be born again, 

he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, 

How can a man be born when he is old? 

can he enter the second time 

into his mother's womb, 

and be born?

Tired of the old you?

Feeling old?

Needing new energy?

Wanting real change?

Looking to take a new path?

We can only become new, through CHRIST.

JESUS taught us how to be new.

By becoming born again:

John 3:5-8

King James Version

5 Jesus answered, 

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 

Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 

he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; 

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, 

Ye must be born again.

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, 

and thou hearest the sound thereof, 

but canst not tell whence it cometh, 

and whither it goeth: 

so is every one that is born 

of the Spirit.

We have to let go of the old.

We need to be re-educated.

Not in the ways of the world.

But in the ways of JESUS:

Matthew 9:17

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17 Neither do men put new wine 

into old bottles: else the bottles break, 

and the wine runneth out, 

and the bottles perish: 

but they put new wine into new bottles, 

and both are preserved.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

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6 Your glorying is not good. 

Know ye not that a little leaven 

leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, 

that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. 

For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, 

neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; 

but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 5:17

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17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, 

he is a new creature: 

old things are passed away; 

behold, 

all things are become new.

Colossians 3:9-10

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9 Lie not one to another, 

seeing that ye have put off the old man 

with his deeds;

10 And have put on the new man, 

which is renewed in knowledge 

after the image of him that created him:

When GOD makes you born again, you can't be your old self again.

Ezekiel 36:26-27

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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.

27 And I will put my spirit within you, 

and cause you to walk in my statutes, 

and ye shall keep my judgments, 

and do them.

The HOLY SPIRIT teaches us about JESUS.

Who taught us how to love GOD, and others.

Who taught us how to worship the LORD.

Who called us to repent, and believe the gospel.

JESUS brought forth the New Testament.

Also called a "new covenant".

Scripture explains it beautifully here:

Hebrews 8:6

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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.

Hebrews 8:7

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7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, 

then should no place have been sought 

for the second.

Hebrews 8:8

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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:

Hebrews 8:9

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9 Not according to the covenant 

that I made with their fathers 

in the day when I took them by the hand 

to lead them out of the land of Egypt; 

because they continued not in my covenant, 

and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 8:10

King James Version

10 For this is the covenant that I will make 

with the house of Israel after those days, 

saith the Lord; 

I will put my laws into their mind, 

and write them in their hearts: 

and I will be to them a God, 

and they shall be to me a people:

Hebrews 8:11

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11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, 

and every man his brother, saying, 

Know the Lord: 

for all shall know me, 

from the least to the greatest.

Hebrews 8:12

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12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, 

and their sins and their iniquities 

will I remember no more.

Hebrews 8:13

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13 In that he saith, 

A new covenant, 

he hath made the first old. 

Now that which decayeth and waxeth old 

is ready to vanish away.

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