Break Out – 4 – When You Need a New Start – How to Live a New Life

 

Welcome

 

Break Out

Jesus broke out of a tomb… So can you.

There is a plan for freedom and a better life.

Week 1 – You need hope.
Week 2 – You need to believe.
Week 3 – You need to leave the dead end and TURN AROUND.

 

Today – When You Need a New Start

 

Me – I know what it is like to need a new start.

Turn around moment – I am going to live different.

Healthy – something pulls me back to my unhealthy ways.

Better Dad/patient, loving – Angry/Serenity Now/Failure

We know what it is like to try and get a new start.

Discipline & Success – Get up early, read, productive…
Stop broken habits –
Start trusting –
Spiritual growth –

My “New Starts” are getting old

Energy & Force…
Brain power, Muscle power, will power…

We are surprised every time…

There are other forces at work

Natural forces – gravity, wind resistance, mass, weight, tension

 

It is not enough to hope, believe, and start again… There is a force at work that does not want change.

 

Sir Issac Newton’s Third Law of Motion – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

 

Paul talks about this equal and opposite force… Romans 7:15.

15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am!

There are other forces at work

This is important.
To have the life you desire you must solve this problem.

• Career
• Education
• Marriage
• Health
• Freedom
• Faith

God has a lot to show us…
When You Need a New Start – How to Live a New Life

 

We have tried enough new…

-diets
-workout plans
-self help books
-life-hacks

We have had enough new starts…
God offers a NEW LIFE.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

 

Not a…

• new start
• turning over a new leaf
• being slightly better

BUT A NEW CREATION

 

The Old Must Go

• Old relationships
• Old habits
• Old thoughts
• Old places

They must go… They are the force that is at work against the new.

They are the gravity pulling you back.

 

How do we Embrace the New?

Acts 2 review

• “You killed Jesus.” – Peter
• What do we do? – people

Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins…

A Natural & Supernatural lesson.

Romans 6:4 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

 

Baptism is the burial of the OLD and the embrace of the NEW.

Natural & Supernatural lesson

 

#1 Bury the dead 

 -You don’t touch dead bodies. Don’t touch dead habits. Bury them!

 

#2 Go Public

 -Tell people you trust.

 -Embrace accountability.

 -Makes it harder to go back.

 

#3 Name it!

 -Baptism applies the name!

 -Identity – Name it!

 -Vision – Define and Articulate

 -The vision does not belong to you.

 -You belong to the vision.

 

#4 Rise (Next Week) 

 

As long as the old and new are on stage in your life you will always pendulum back and forth.

Uninstall the pendulum. Give yourself to NEW.

 

Imagine climbing that ladder…

No longer between Old and New.

Imagine giving yourself to NEW.

Is that worth praying about today?

 

MAKE A MOVE

#1 Come pray

• Bury the dead. (remove the old)
• Go Public. (tell someone you trust)
• Name it. (Embrace a new identity)

#2 Be Baptized. (Text #NEW to 469-467-8111)