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Vida nova: o que a Bíblia diz sobre recomeço e identidade

Por Bíblia Online

Na Bíblia, ter uma vida nova não significa apenas tentar ser alguém melhor por força de vontade. Significa receber uma nova identidade: o que ficou para trás perde o poder de definir o seu futuro porque Deus trata o passado na raiz e recria a pessoa por dentro.

Essa transformação acontece pela união com Jesus Cristo. A Escritura mostra esse recomeço como uma história em etapas: sepultar o velho caminho, nascer de novo e aprender a viver com atitudes renovadas a cada dia.

Morte para o passado e ressurreição com Cristo

O apóstolo Paulo usa a imagem do sepultamento para explicar que a condenação e o domínio do pecado foram deixados na sepultura com Jesus. Quem crê ressuscita espiritualmente para caminhar em novidade de vida.

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.(Romans 6:3,4)

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for the one who has died is freed from sin.(Romans 6:5-7)

So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.(Romans 6:11)

Uma identidade inteiramente nova

A conversão não é uma reforma superficial da moral humana; a Bíblia chama isso de nova criação. A identidade antiga deixa de governar a existência, e a vida de Cristo passa a se expressar nas escolhas diárias.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.(2 Corinthians 5:17)

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.(Galatians 2:20)

a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, and free, but Christ is all, and in all.(Colossians 3:11)

Trocar os hábitos antigos pelas práticas da fé

A renovação espiritual tem reflexos práticos na conduta. Paulo compara esse processo a tirar uma roupa suja e vestir vestes limpas: abandonam-se a mentira, a ira e o ressentimento para dar lugar a atitudes que refletem o caráter de Deus.

that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.(Ephesians 4:22-24)

But now you also, rid yourselves of all of them: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it—(Colossians 3:8-10)

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(1 John 1:9)

O milagre da transformação do coração

Nenhum ser humano consegue purificar a si mesmo. Desde o Antigo Testamento, Deus promete trocar um coração insensível e endurecido por um coração vivo, habitado pelo Seu Espírito, capaz de amar e obedecer.

Create in me a clean heart, God,

And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me away from Your presence,

And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,

And sustain me with a willing spirit.(Psalm 51:10-12)

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances.(Ezekiel 36:25-27)

Among them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),(Ephesians 2:3-5)

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