Bible Reading - 1 Samuel 24, 1 Corinthians 5, Ezekiel 3, John 4

Out With Old, In With New

This past week Brandon Miller preached a great word to Urban Church. In this message he discussed culture and what is acceptable in certain cultures maybe completely contrary to other cultures. This statement is so true especially when it comes to Godly living and worldly living. By the worlds culture Godly living is completely counter cultural when in reality we as Christ followers have just stepped out of an old culture and into a new one.

1 Corinthians 5:7 says, "Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed". This passage is referencing that we need to get rid of an old way and system of doing things and get into a new way of doing things. This is the difference between and old culture and a new culture. It goes on to say in verse 8, "Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth". In other words since we are in a new culture let it be seen in the way we live or life or it will be seen in the way we live our life. Out with the old culture and in with the new culture.

The key to getting out of the old culture and into the new one is simply letting go, letting go of the old culture that is. Now this is not always the easiest thing to do and it truly takes time. There must be a learning curve to this whole process because although you may have been taking out of the old culture it takes time to get the old culture out of you. God knows this and His grace is sufficient. God is not expecting and overnight transformation (although it can happen) that is why it says in 1 Timothy 4:7, "Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly".

This exercising that it talks about in 1 Timothy is the process of us getting the old culture out and the new culture in. Or as it says in 1 Corinthians getting the old leaven out that it does not mix with the unleavened lump. God does not like mixture but in the process of getting the old culture out of us and the new one in He patient and His grace is sufficient. Let's all be out with the old and in with the new today.

Check out last weeks message when you get a chance.

Tomorrow's Bible Reading - 1 Samuel 25, 1 Corinthians 6, Ezekiel 4, John 5

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