{"id":1104,"date":"2022-05-16T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:14:35","slug":"new-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2022\/05\/16\/new-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"New Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 3:16, &#8220;God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking about how beautiful it is that every sin can be forgiven. That we are not only are forgiven, not recycled sinners, we are new creations in Christ Jesus. I mean, God didn&#8217;t just clean us up a little bit and then push us on out the door. You are not an accident looking for a place to happen. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus. You may have had many issues in the past but the old things have passed away and behold all things are becoming new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So where do I stand as a believer? I&#8217;m not all that I want to be but I&#8217;m not what I used to be and I am on my way to being everything Jesus died for me to be. That&#8217;s what it is all about. Every sin forgiven and the chance for a new beginning. I&#8217;m a new creation in Christ Jesus. I&#8217;m justified &#8211; just as though I had never sinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus made a way so that none should perish. It is a beautiful transformation we experience as we walk in daily relationship Him. From lost and broken sinner to beautiful new creation. All because God so loved the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 3:16, &#8220;God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.&#8221; I was thinking about how beautiful it is that every sin can be forgiven. That we are not only are forgiven, not recycled sinners, we are new creations in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2022\/05\/16\/new-creation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Creation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermon-excerpts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/John316.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lc9u-hO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2026\/03\/16\/forgiveness\/","url_meta":{"origin":1104,"position":0},"title":"Forgiveness","author":"Bob Nichols","date":"March 16, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cWhen God forgives, He forgets.\u201d For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 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