New Creation
New Creation with Pastor Matt Pierson
What is the Bible
- 66 books
- 40+ authors
- Written over a span of 1500-1600 years
- Three different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
Four-Fold Shape of Redemption History
- Creation
- Rebellion
- Redemption
- New Creation
“God does not make junk, and He does not junk what He has made.”
Al Wolters, Creation Regained
Outline
- What is the New Creation?
- What the New Creation ISN’T
- What the New Creation IS
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
Life in the New Creation
- Bodies
- Relationships
- Work
- Creation
“Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.”
1 John 3:2
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”
1 Corinthians 13:12
“They say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Everything sad is going to come untrue and it will somehow be greater for having once been broken and lost.
Tim Keller, The Reason for God
