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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We are so glad to

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Speaker 2: have you listening.

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Speaker 3: With us here today to day's topic is what God

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Speaker 3: says about new Beginning. We will return after a brief

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Speaker 3: message from response. What God Says about New Beginnings written

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Speaker 3: by Aaron D. Anthony Brown read Feverrochelle Alberti Bible Reading.

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Speaker 3: But that is not how you came to no Christ,

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Speaker 3: assuming you heard about him or we're taught by Him

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Speaker 3: as the truth is in Jesus. To take off your

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Speaker 3: former way of life, the old self that is corrupted

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Speaker 3: by deceitful desires, to be renewed in the spirit of

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Speaker 3: your minds, and to put on the new self, the

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Speaker 3: one created according to God's likeness, in righteousness and purity

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Speaker 3: of the truth. Ephesians four twenty through twenty four CSB.

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Speaker 3: There's plenty to appreciate about new things, like the smell

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Speaker 3: of a new car or the feel of new clothes.

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Speaker 3: That is all more true of a new marriage or

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Speaker 3: a newborn baby. Newness in life can be and often

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Speaker 3: is good and exciting. Yet while we can usually appreciate

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Speaker 3: new material things or relationships, we don't always show the

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Speaker 3: same gratitude towards the newness found in God, the newness

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Speaker 3: that is God. Perhaps that is because we don't fully

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Speaker 3: fathom what he says about new beginnings. Scripture tells us

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Speaker 3: how the Lord creates within us a new self, and

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Speaker 3: how he offers new mercies every morning. He takes off

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Speaker 3: the shackles of sin that once defined us and helps

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Speaker 3: us become better in the bearers of his son. The

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Speaker 3: old self was corrupted, but the new self was created

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Speaker 3: in his righteousness. If our faith in Jesus Christ makes

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Speaker 3: us new, then we don't.

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Speaker 2: Have to be like our old selves. Whatever sinful habits

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Speaker 2: or unhealthy relationships or trauma that once seemed permanent can

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Speaker 2: be undone. A new beginning is possible. Chances are, on

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Speaker 2: an intellectual level, we believe in the new beginning because

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Speaker 2: we know that change is possible. Yet another part of

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Speaker 2: us says that change is hard, and oftentimes not just hard,

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Speaker 2: seemingly impossible. That's when we have to remember I am

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Speaker 2: able to do all things through Him who strengthens me

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Speaker 2: Philippians four thirteen. If God makes us new and grants

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Speaker 2: us the power to walk in that newness, then we

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Speaker 2: should ask ourselves, why aren't we hear laziness ignorance. If

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Speaker 2: we are new, then we are not stuck in the old.

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Speaker 2: We can grow, and we can embrace a new beginning.

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Speaker 2: After reading scripture and understanding that God makes us new,

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Speaker 2: the next step is figuring out how to apply this

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Speaker 2: knowledge to our lives.

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Speaker 3: Intersecting faith in life. Here are a few ways you

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Speaker 3: can apply God's new beginnings to your lives starting today. One,

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Speaker 3: Thank God for new mercies.

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Speaker 2: Today doesn't have to be like yesterday, and tomorrow doesn't

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Speaker 2: have to be like the day. If God brants us

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Speaker 2: new mercies, we would be foolish not to accept them.

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Speaker 2: That means mercy in the form of forgiveness, mercy in

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Speaker 2: the form of a chance to write our wrongs, mercy

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Speaker 2: in the form of seeing another day. The average life

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Speaker 2: expectancy for Americans may be around eighty but no day

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Speaker 2: is guaranteed. That should caution us to make the most

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Speaker 2: of each day we are given, not using it as

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to serve the flesh or our old ramping,

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Speaker 2: but striving to be something better, something new. Thank God

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Speaker 2: that his mercies are new every morning, and make wise

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Speaker 2: use of them.

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Speaker 3: Two.

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Speaker 2: Thank God for new opportunities with Every new day comes

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to do something different. Maybe yesterday brought a

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Speaker 2: contentious argument with a spouse or a relapse an addiction,

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Speaker 2: but today doesn't have to follow the same pattern. Today

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Speaker 2: can be different because the past does not predict the future.

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Speaker 2: We often see new beginnings as impossible until we're in them. Dostically,

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Speaker 2: not believing in the new beginning prevents us from reaching

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Speaker 2: it in the first place. Recall and thank God for

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Speaker 2: the new opportunities He has given you in the past,

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Speaker 2: whether in relationships, jobs, or financial security. Remember those past

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Speaker 2: blessings and use them to encourage yourself today. If a

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Speaker 2: new beginning was possible before, indeed it can happen again.

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Speaker 2: Free be encouraged that you are new, understanding that you

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Speaker 2: have been and are being made new. Every day will

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Speaker 2: feel hard to believe some days, but we have to

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Speaker 2: press forward. Newness runds something to God, and He delights

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Speaker 2: in his children growing in the likeness of his son.

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Speaker 2: The sinful part of you may say that isn't true.

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Speaker 2: But if you have to ask yourself, do I want

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Speaker 2: to believe sin or do I want to believe God?

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Speaker 2: Which would you pick? If you pick God, then choose

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Speaker 2: to embrace your new beginning to day further reading and

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Speaker 2: listening Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, Second Corinthians by seventeen

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Speaker 2: Isaiah forty three, eighteen through nineteen, God Gave Us a

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Speaker 2: Future by Marvin Winans, and The Perfected Praise Wire.

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Speaker 3: Sunday Is Coming by sell Wicko.

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