Conversion

Intro: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

If you were to take an unbeliever to a doctor for a physical examination and have the doctor check him out from top to bottom, a physical per say, he would fill out a report on this person’s physical condition and give you his certified opinion on the state of this man. Now if you bring him back some time later after he has become a believer and do the same examination a second time the doctor might say “he is exactly the same as before, nothing has changed with maybe the exception of having a bigger smile,” so what has changed? If you told the doctor that “before he was dead to sin and now he is alive to Christ because now he was converted, and he has put off the old man and put on the new man and because of that he will live forever more” . If the doctor is a Christian he will know what you are talking about and praise God for the event, if not he will look at you and say you are weird and give you the number to the closest psychiatrist because he would argue that he was physically alive now just as he was before and would claim that there has been no change in that person from the first examination to the second or after this so called event of conversion.