April 21, 2019
Pastor Jeff Struecker
Sermon Notes
Ezekiel 36:26-29
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances. 28 You will live in the land that I gave your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness.
I. Not the same
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
II. Energy to live right
Ezekiel 36:27
I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
III. Without stain
Ezekiel 36:28-29
You will live in the land that I gave your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness.
Next Steps
I need Jesus to make me into a new person. Today, I surrender to him for the first time.
– I keep making the same mistakes. Pray for me to have the energy to live right this week.
+ I want my family and friends to see that I’m not the same this week.
Discussion Questions
1. Christ is risen! What is the importance of the fact that we, as followers of Christ, follow a living and personal God?
2. How is one, “made new” in Christ? What is the significance of this change in our lives?
3. Read Mark 2:21-2:22:
a. What is Jesus communicating to the group through these parables?
b. What is similar about both of these parables as told by Jesus?
c. Consider the imagery used: Is “old” wrong and/or evil in and of itself?
4. In your “old flesh”, what defined purpose in your life? How did you view the world?
5. As you are made new in Christ, what changes have you experienced in your life?
6. What does it mean that as Christians, we now have the responsibility of “the ministry of reconciliation”? (Read 2 Corinthians 5:11-21)
7. Pray for those who do not know Christ, that they may find peace and become new in Him!
