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Behold I Will Do A New Thing : Isaiah 43:18-19
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Aug 13, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: 1.NEW PERSONALITY 2.NEW PIETY 3.NEW PRINCIPLES 4.NEW PURSUITS 5.NEW PROVISION 6.NEW POPULARITY 7.NEW POWER
BEHOLD I WILL DO A NEW THING
18 “Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.
OUTLINE
1.NEW PERSONALITY
2.NEW PIETY
3.NEW PRINCIPLES
4.NEW PURSUITS
5.NEW PROVISION
6.NEW POPULARITY
7.NEW POWER
THE MESSAGE
BEHOLD I WILL DO A NEW THING
1.NEW PERSONALITY
The Lord wants to give us a new personality to enable to be all that He wants us to be. Samuel told Saul that he would be changed into a another man when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon him.Jacob the deceiver was changed into Israel a prince with God and man.God wants us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind.Often we want God to change others and to change circumstances.But God wants to change us first and then we will experience a corresponding change in others and in our circumstances.A little child may find it difficult to lift a big chair .But the same child when it grows and becomes an adult will find it easy to lift the same chair because it has now grown bigger and stronger than the chair.Similarly when God transforms us and strengthens us we become bigger than our problems and can tackle it easily.
6 Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but [i]Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
2.NEW PIETY
The Lord wants to lift us to a new level of piety .He wants to remove the stony heart from us and give us a new heart and put a new spirit within us.The stony heart prevents the seed of the word of God from producing fruit in our life. The new heart and new spirit helps us to obey the commandments of God and do His will.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
3.NEW PRINCIPLES
The Lord wants to give us new principles to follow in line with the new things He wants to do. Apostle Peter was told not to consider things unclean when God has cleansed them.Peter had to change his principles in obedience to the ways of God.This helped the spread of the Gospel to the Gentiles.Jesus belonged to the tribe of Judah and according to the Law of Moses he could not be a priest which was reserved for the tribe of Levi.But Jesus became a priest according to the will of God which superseded the laws of Moses.Jesus warned us that we can make the word of God of none effect by our tradition.When God does a new thing He may supersede our traditions and practices and principles and we should be prepared to sacrifice our cherished principles if they contradict what God wants to do.
9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed you must not call common.’
12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law.
13 For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
6 then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
4.NEW PURSUITS
The Lord wants to give us new pursuits.He wants us to seek and pursue the heavenly blessings and eternal rewards.Often we seek only the things of this world and the desires and the longings of our heart are only after earthly blessings.God wants to put new longings and pursuits in our hearts.The disciples tried all night to catch fish and caught nothing.But Jesus told them to cast their net again and immediately they caught a multitude of fishes.The disciples were amazed at this miracle and probably started dreaming about a very prosperous career in fishing with the blessings of Jesus.But Jesus changed their pursuits and told them that they would now start catching men.God wants to do a new thing in our lives and give us new pursuits in our lives.
