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The Word of God says that He Makes All Things New.

II Cor. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

The concept of reincarnation imagines the dead being born again as someone else or something else, making a new start from a new perspective.

Poem by Wallace McRae:

"What does reincarnation mean?"

A cowpoke asked his friend.

His pal replied, "It happens when

yer life has reached its end.

They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,

And clean yer fingernails,

And lay you in a padded box

Away from life's travails.

The box and you goes in a hole,

That's dug into the ground.

Reincarnation starts in when

Yore planted 'neath a mound.

Them clods melt down, just like yer box,

and you who is inside.

And then yore just beginnin' on

Yer transformation ride.

In a while the grass'll grow

Upon yer rendered mound.

Till some day on yer moldered grave

A lonely flower is found.

And say a hoss should wander by

And graze upon this flower

That once wuz you, but now's yer in

Yer vegatative hour.

The posey that the hoss done ate

Up, with his other feed,

Makes bone, and fat, and muscle

Essential to the steed.

But some is left that he can't use

And so it passes through,

And finally lays upon the ground.

This thing that once wuz you.

Then say, by chance, I wanders by

And sees this on the ground,

And I ponders and I wonders at

This object that I found.

I thinks of reincarnation,

Of life, and death, and such,

And come away concludin': Slim,

You ain't changed, all that much."

We all hope for a better new start than that someday, but it won’t be in this world, unless you're talking about the new start God gives us at salvation. It's a clean slate, and things have changed radically!

Read 2 Cor. 6:14-17a -¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹⁶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;

What a huge change has happened on the inside, and we should let it work its way out!

Someday we’ll have a new home, a new body, and a new start, but our text says we don’t have to wait…that all things are become new for the Believer who has been ‘born again’!

We can be made new through the work of God in our life.

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil