Vida nova
Em Cristo, toda pessoa é transformada em uma nova criação. O velho passa e tudo se faz novo. A vida nova é o resultado da obra redentora de Jesus em nosso coração.
Morte e ressurreição com Cristo
O batismo simboliza nossa morte para o pecado e ressurreição para uma nova vida. Fomos sepultados com Cristo e ressuscitamos com Ele.
3 Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?4 We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.7 For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin.
11 So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nova criação
Quando aceitamos Jesus, nascemos de novo. A velha natureza dá lugar a uma identidade renovada pelo Espírito Santo.
17 So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
11 where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ.
Despir o velho, vestir o novo
A vida nova se manifesta em abandonar os velhos hábitos e revestir-se do novo homem, criado segundo a vontade de Deus.
22 for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,24 and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.
8 But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.9 Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,10 and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him,
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.
Renovação interior
Deus promete dar um coração novo e um espírito novo. A transformação nasce do arrependimento e da purificação divina.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.11 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a 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 ordinances, and do them.
3 Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.4 But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,5 even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),