You are a new creation | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | Oct 19th 2025

I want to talk about the New Creation, and specifically,

I've got scriptures in there that talk about the ten trees,

the ten trees of your heart garden. And this is

kind of a new thing. I put it together for

Africa when I went over there. And so these are

scriptures about the ten trees of your heart garden. And the.

Purpose of these scriptures.

Is to get you thinking like Jesus, to get you

processing life more like Jesus and seeing life from his perspective.

I really wish, I really wish what happened. I wish

that when we bring you up here to the baptismal tank, right,

and then we throw you in the baptismal tank. How

many of you got thrown in the baptismal tank. So

I really wish, and here you are, and you are

dead in the baptismal tank. I really wish right after

that we could take you out to another room and

hook you up to a IV that would fill your

heart with the way God sees life. Right, and John

seventeen right, the Father and I are one. We know

that Jesus is the Word of God made flesh right.

So but you know, how does he think? How does

he process life. What's his perspective, And what we discover

in scripture is that the more we see the he thinks,

then the more we become like him by partnering with

our faith. Everybody say faith. So this is so important,

and I want to just I want to go back

to where I left off at the end of the

at the end of the service two weeks ago, we

left off with tewod Corinthians ten three through five, and

we can go there. And here it says, though we

walk in the flesh, and that is walk in the

earth suit, walk in the sense realm, welcome the natural.

We don't war according to the flesh. Now he's alluding

to this idea that we're we're up against we're up

against adversity, and adversity is up against us. So and

for us to be productive in life. And we all

have a desire to be productive in life. And in

this booklet of scriptures, I'm giving you the ten Trees

of Life. We talk about it restored life. And that's

kind of my focus in this booklet of scriptures, because

I think every one of us are trying to be productive,

and our productivity is often focused on these kinds of desires,

and Father has a way for us to actualize those desires.

Marriage and family, legacy, influence, vocation and purpose, sexuality. I've

got ten of these trees listed in there that I

think are the They're actually what many times we're focused on,

and when we don't bear fruit in those areas and

we're not seeing the goodness of God in those areas,

if we don't know what to do scripturally, then we

end up going into frustration. If our marriage is falling apart,

if our finances are falling apart, if our purpose is

not fulfilled, if we're not building or leaving a legacy,

just any of those ten. Wherever there's hope deferred Proverbs

thirteen twelve, hope deferred makes the heart sick. And so

where there's a defermative hope, many times then as we

might reflect on that area of our lives, we find

that we're a little discouraged, maybe depressed, maybe self loathing,

maybe embarrassed, may be ashamed. And God has given us

this beautiful thing wherein as.

We are raised up out of.

Death to Adam and we come into the new creation life,

then He partners with us for the fulfillment of the

very desires he's placed in us. Did you know that

he placed those desires in you? He placed all these

the desires that he placed within you, as I've listed

him here. These desires are not The desire is not unclean.

The desire is not demonic. The desire is not fleshly

or carnal. It's what gets attached to that desire. And

either we attach the methodology and the plans and the

promises of God, or we attach the methodology of the

unclean realm. So here we are, and if we could just,

you know, go back a little bit to our timeline.

Here we are in Adam, and I'm just going to

draw Adam here. This is Adam. And Adam has a

grumbly face because he's in a bad mood because he

just got kicked out of the garden. And so he's

got a grumbly face and his hair isn't doing good either.

His chin is sagging, and yeah, it's just it's a

bad day for Adam. So but the problem is with

Adam and grumblely Eve is that you were in his lineage.

And here you are down here somewhere, and I'm gonna

draw you down here, And here you are with your

grumbly face. And here you are down here, and you

were made in his image, you were made in his likeness.

Johnny forty four says, this is the words of Jesus.

That's pretty important. He says, you are of your father,

the devil, and then he goes on to define the

devil as a liar and a murderer. And then over

here in Ephesians chapter two, Ephesians Chapter two, verses one

and two, he says that we were all children deserving

of the wrath of God because the spirit of disobedience

was dwelling on the inside of us, moving us and

motivating us. And so in Adam things were bad. And

I'm just gonna put this in here so you don't forget.

This is Adam, okay. And so this was a bad day.

The fall about him was a bad day because these

are his breeches. Nobody say bitches. So the Bible says,

you were in his loins when he fell. That's somewhere

in his breeches. You were in his loins when he fell.

And so so Romans five seventeen says that through the

sin of that one man, we were all given over

to condemnation and death because we were in him when

he fell. And so this negative way of thinking, it's

like we had the IV. We were hooked up to

the IV of negativity. This negativity was natural for us.

It was natural. We didn't Profanity was natural. We didn't

think anything of it, and cheating was natural, and deceiting

was natural, and lying was natural, and hating was natural.

And bitterness with our enemies are eukidding me? That was natural.

We didn't think an We didn't have to have anybody

train our mind. There was no renewing of the mind.

We didn't have to learn any of these unclean tactics

or techniques. We didn't have to learn any of them.

They were downloaded into our nature sure, as a part

of us. And the Bible says we were born in iniquity.

Iniquity means that we were perverted. It means to pervert,

to twist, to distort, and that's our nature. Our very

nature was perverted, twisted and distorted from birth, from birth,

and nobody had to train us the stuff like we

could get angry when we were How old did you

were you when you had your first temper tantrum? Right?

Come on, somebody, you know if you've raised children, you know,

you watch you watch them having a temper tantrum. Nobody

had to train them how to have it. They didn't

have to go to school to learn temper tantrum. There

was no education with that. There was no special class

for temper tantrum class. Right, So what because it was

a part of it's a part of our nature. It's

just the way we're already wired. So, but what happens

is we're going to church. Here we are we come here,

We're going to church as a part of our nature.

And then we we learn along the way. We learn

that this behavior has made us a child of wrath,

the wrath of God is on us, and that we're

separated from God. And we learn that we could be forgiven.

And as we learn that this behavior is not of God,

but it's a partnership with the demonic realm, because over here,

over here, we told you that a moment ago, the

Lord over Adam was Satan. So we're going along and

we find out we can be forgiven. And so as

we embrace John three three through five, and we're born

of the spirit. As we embrace that and we're born

in the spirit, then we discover something. We discover that

we can have a relationship with God. We have peace

with God, we have forgiveness, and we have eternal life.

Shout yes, somebody, So something happens with us. But we

continue down this trajectory and we continue to act like

Adam even though we're forgiven. We're acting like Adam even

though we're forgiven. Anybody ever have that problem, anybody in

the room. So then we want to get over here

into the trajectory of Christ, but we don't know how.

So then we're instructed that way out of Adam is death.

The only way out of Adam is death. Excuse me.

Psychology is not the way out about him. Counseling is

not the way out of aout him. No counseling can help, right.

Counseling can lead us to death. But we essentially needed death.

We need a death. I think, I'm okay. We essentially

need a death. And so this is what the water

of baptism is all about. We go into the baptismal

tank and I'm gonna read you some scriptures on this

in a minute. But in baptism, we embrace death, and

we embraced the death of Jesus in baptism. So just

as he came in the likeness of Adam but then

sacrificed his life on the cross because of his perfection.

When he did that, he was putting to death. The

power of Satan over those who are in Adam. If

those in Adam will join him in death, they have

to join him. We have to join Jesus in death

and declare that we are dead to who we were

in Adam. Sounds crazy, does sound kind of crazy, but

it works. This is a powerful thing. All of Heaven

is watching this, The whole spirit realm is watching this.

Everything in heaven is watching this. Like Baptism is a

significant event that Satan and all of the demonic forces

have to honor because we are identifying with the death

of Christ and we are dying to who we were

and coming up out of the waters of baptism. We

are coming up out of the waters of baptism into resurrection.

And Jesus is the founder, He's the beginner, He's the beginning,

He's the fountain head of a brand new race of people.

So you are no longer who you were. But once

you've encountered death and resurrection, you come into the second atom,

So Jesus is called the second atom. He's also called

the last atom by scripture. So up here we have

to be real careful because religion is telling us you're

still gonna mess up. You're still gonna have bad thoughts,

you're still gonna blow it. You're still gonna have timber tantrums.

You're gonna have a lot of fear that keeps you

from doing things. You're gonna have worthlessness, you're gonna have anger,

you're gonna have bitterness, You're gonna have all of that.

But the focus of religion is forgiveness. And so this

is what religion is telling you. So as long as

you memorize First John one nine, you're gonna be okay.

You just need to memorize First John one nine. Become

very familiar with First John one nine. Now, first John

one nine says that if we sin right, we can

confess our sins, and He is faithful and just to

forgive us of our sins and the cleanses from all

in righteousness. So that's a valid picture of the love

of the Lord over our lives, and it's a valid

picture of the power of his sacrifice to us and

over us. But The problem is it's not worth where.

It's not where we're supposed to camp. Have you ever

camped at the wrong spot? You camped in a tent

when you found out there was an RV waiting for you,

and he had running water and a shallow and a toilet.

It had a toilet. You didn't have to get up

in the middle of the night and kind of meander

to a bush somewhere or the backside of a state park,

you know, latrine. Hello, somebody, But you camped at the

wrong spot. And this is what believers are doing. This

is what religion is leading us to do. To camp

at forgiveness instead of camp at perfection, to camp at

forgiveness instead of camp at restoration. And so we're told

that this is where we camp, and so we continue

with the mind of Adam. Now I'm talking about people

to get baptized. We actually get baptized, and we celebrate baptism.

We actually celebrate baptism and we get baptized. But when

we spring up into the new life, we don't discover

who He made us to be. Now that's why I'm

handing out this stuff today because I want you to

read this. I want you to read who he made

you to be. I want you to read what he

has for you in your marriage, what he has in sexuality,

what he has in your purpose, what he has in

your finances, what he has in rest and recreation. You know,

rest and recreation is one of the things that actually

you desire to be fulfilled in. And you're probably thinking,

he doesn't want that for me. Wow, he never wants

me to rest. What in the world God would celebrate

my recreation? So let's look at the Bible, Let's look

at scriptures. Let's find out what the mind of Christ is,

because really, I can't come into the fullness of my

restoration over here. And this is supposed to be resurrection life.

Is it two rs or two s's what is it?

Don't trust me on that one. So this is supposed

to be resurrection life, right, I'm supposed to be living

resurrection life. But if I don't know what that looks like.

If I don't know, because resurrection life is the Christ life. Yeah,

But because we don't have a renewing of the mind

iv bag, we don't. We don't. We don't have that room. Now,

maybe when we build on the church, we'll add that

in but right now, right now, when you're baptized in

the waters of baptism, we don't have a room where

you take We take you in, hook you up to

an IV of the mind of Christ and then we,

you know, drain a couple of bags into your heart

and next thing you know, you've got you walk out

and you're like, you know yeah, and you're like a

wonder working word machine. And we just say, how are

you feeling today? And you say, I am blessed with

every blessing in heaven. Okay, that's good. Tests number one okay, Uh,

do you feel like you're sick today? No, I am

an overcomer of sickness and disease by his stripes, I

was healed. Okay. Question number two, that's good. Uh, you

said si. And we ask you about ten of these

questions you know about your ask you about your finances. Oh,

my goodness, My God supplies all of my needs by

his by his riches in Christ Jesus. Right, and you

just know all these promises, you know, whatever the topic is, right,

you know the well, we don't have that IV bag

and that room in operation. So what happens is you

have to be you have to be the one who

renews your mind with the word of God, renews your

mind with the life of Christ, with the essence of

who he is. Because He is your life, he is

your identity, He is the last atom. He is the

fountain head of your new creation. And as I said

maybe two weeks ago, I say it often if you're

having a thought that isn't in agreement with God or Christ,

it's not your thought. Doesn't mean you don't take doesn't

take it, doesn't mean you don't take responsibility for the thought.

But if I'm having an inappropriate thought about my money,

if I'm having a depressing thought about my recreation, if

I'm having a depressing thought about my sexuality, if I'm

having a depressing thought about my purpose, if I'm having

a negative thought, if I'm having a theft thought or

a fear thought about one of these ten trees that

God has placed the desires of within me, then it's

not me having the thought. It's an influence from Adam.

That is an unclean influence from Adam. And I don't

need to come into agreement with it. Now.

I do take responsibility over it. I take it captive.

I take it captive and then I grab that thought

and I bring it back into obedience to the fountain

head of my life. Adam is the fountain head of

my life. Second Adam, last, Adam, victorious, Adam, overcoming Adam.

He is the fountain head of my life. Now over here,

this stuff just was natural. It was just flowing, like

something flowing in my veins. Right, it was just natural

for me to have these yucky thoughts. So now that

I've put those thoughts to death and the power of

those thoughts, and I'm no longer listening to the demonic

realm that was orchestrating those thoughts, what am I going

to think about? What am I going to think about?

This is why we're exhorted to read the word. This

is why we're exhorted to look at the word. This

is why we're exhorted to meditate on the word day

and night, and do not let anything else come out

of your mouth. What's what's Joshua one six through eight? Say?

Meditate on my words day and night. Don't let anything

else come out of your mouth? Is Joshua one six

through eight? Then you will make your way prosperous and successful.

Did you hear that? Oh? No? God's gonna make my

way prosperous and successful. Yes, he will, in a partnership

with you. It's a partnership with you. You will make

your way prosperous and successful because you have come into

agreement with the resurrected life that is yours. You and

I have to come into agreement with his resurrected life

that is ours. Okay, it's almost time to quit. Already,

time is flying. Let's read some verses Romans chapter six

eight through eleven. Half we died with Christ. You might

die with Christ. This is baptism. Okay. If we died

with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.

Now it's not talking about heaven. The topic is not heaven.

Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies

no more death no longer has dominion over him. For

the death that he died. He died to sin once

for all. Sin is the master of Adam. Satan is

the master of sin in the waters of baptism, that's

put to death. Yes, he died to sin once for all,

But the life that he lives, he lives to God. Likewise,

you also consider reckon believe that you yourselves are dead

indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus,

our Lord. So you're not just dead, you're alive. You're

alive Lord, but you're alive to Christ Jesus. You're alive

in Christ. Jesus. Yes, Colossians two, verse nine. For in Christ,

all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form.

And in Christ you've been brought into fullness. He is

the head of every power and authority. In Him, you

were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands.

Your whole self rule by the flesh was put off

when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with

Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him.

Through your faith, through your what.

Now, you can't have faith if you don't know the word.

There's an assumption with Paul. He's assuming that you're learning

the word. He's assuming you're learning the word. If you're

not learning the word, you can't have faith. Faith is

not based on air. Faith is not a thurial. Faith

is not a cloud somewhere that you grab. Faith is

not a happy thought. Faith is based on the Word

of God. Romans ten seventeen. Faith cometh by and hearing

the word of Christ. The word of Christ. Christ makes

the word alive, and the word word in Romanston seventeen

is rama. He makes the rama of the word alive

to your heart. And you can't have that if you

don't devour the logos. You have to devour the logos

that Christ will then buy the Holy Spirit quicken it

unto rama. You devour the logos, he turns it into rama.

Holy Spirit turns logos written word into rama. As you

devour the word, I'm cheating. You came early, she came early,

Colossing three one. Since then you've been raised with Christ.

Set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated

at the right hand of God. Now that doesn't mean

set your heart on clouds. Set your heart on the

way he thinks about money, the way he thinks about marriage,

the way he thinks about recreation, the way he thinks

about legacy, the way he thinks about influence, the way

he thinks about ministry, the way he thinks about family.

Set your mind on the way he thinks about these things.

For you died, who died? Adam died.

Your lineage in Adam has died, and your life is

now hidden with Christ, the last atom in God, who's

become the fountain head not just of your salvation or forgiveness,

he's the fountain head of every thought, of every thought,

of every thought, of every thought. The weapons of our

warfare are mighty unto God. Taking every thought captive, how

many thoughts, every thought captive, and bringing those thoughts into

the obedience of Christ. Why Christ, it's not his last name.

He's the anointed one, he's the Messiah, he's the Savior,

he's the Redeemer. But he's also the fountain head of

your being. He is the last atom, and your life

now springs up out of the last atom, not the first.

So we're learning in these scriptures how God thinks. We're

learning how he thinks we're learning his thoughts over us.

They're not just promises. But this little thing I handered

out to you today is filled with promises. But it's

more than promises. But it's the essence of how He

thinks about all of these desires that stir you and

move you, and that really you need. You need a

word on them. You need a word on those desires.

You need faith on those desires, and faith comes through

His word when you partner with His word, that's partnering

with faith. When you partner with faith, things begin to happen.

Mountains begin to move, things begin to change, things begin

to get transformed, and you begin to experience this resurrection

life that we all desire. Hello, somebody one more if

he's a four seventeen. So I tell you this and

insist on it in the Lord that you must no

longer live as the gentiles do in the futility of

their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated

from the life of God because of the ignorance that

is in them, due to the hardening of their hearts,

having lost all sensuality or sensitivity. I'm sorry, having lost

all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so

as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they're

full of greed. That, however, is not the way of

life that you learned when you heard about Christ and

were taught in Him in accordance with the truth that

is in Jesus. Wow, this is why we learn. We

learn because only by learning about Him can we have

a renewed mind. And only by having a renewed mind

can we taste of the resurrection life He's ordained for

us only only only by renewing our mind to the

word of God and to the thinking of God over us.

You were taught verse twenty two with regard to the

fore our way of life, to put off the old self,

which is being corrupted by deceitful desires, and to be

made new in the attitude of your minds, and to

put on the new self, created to be like God

in true righteousness and holiness. It's a work of faith,

but the faith has to be activated by the word

of God. And so we take these scriptures, we study

these scriptures like I want to go to a ministry

right now, So turn over to whatever page that is

we've got. Page one is my health and well being.

Page two my vocation and Purpose, Page three my sexual fulfillment.

Page four my ministry and serving. Look at this one.

Look at this one. This is amazing now that you've

been recreated in the image of Christ. Did you know

what You have a ministry. You're called to the ministry.

You have a ministry. God wants to use you. As

long as I stay up here, If I stay at

the pup tent of forgiveness. If I linger at the

pup tent of forgiveness and I think this is maturity

for me as a Christian, and I'm running to the

outhouse and I'm suffering, and I'm coming squirting tears all

the time because I keep blowing it so much. Then

I feel unworthy. I don't get involved in ministry. I

don't see myself as a minister. I don't see that

I have anything to give. I just see myself as

I just never get it. I'm just I'm worm. I

just don't have it. It's because I'm not moving on

to the recreational vehicle, the RV of resurrection life. When

I come over here and I realize, oh my goodness,

I'm going to run after the mind of Christ, the

thoughts of the Lord. I'm going to get a renewed mind.

I'm going to soak in the word of God. He's

called me to resurrection and heaven on earth. When I

get over here, I realize I'm partnering with Him even

in ministry. And so here's what the Word says. The

Word says, I have a unique calling. Romans, Chapter twelve,

verse four. I have a unique calling. Let's go there.

On the screens.

For just as each of us has a body.

With many members, feet, hands, arms, ears, and those members

don't have the same function. So in Christ, oh I'm

in Christ. I'm no longer in Adom. I'm in Christ.

So in Christ, the many form one big body. We

all have different members, and the members belong to one another,

and we have different gifts according to the grace given

each of us, and so we exercise those gifts. That's

part of what this is about this morning, is we're saying, hey, Church,

we got thirty one ministries here in the church, not

counting small groups, thirty one ministries. And you have a

place in these, like you have a place serving at

Nitro or Refine, or serving with Kingdom kids or serving

with tribe youth. You have a place. You have a

place in engagement and involvement. And all of these ministries

need the various different functions of gifting. They all need

administrative help, they all need prayer help, they all need

prayer teams, they all need prophetic help. They all need

serving gifts like help gifts every one of these ministries.

And so we can find a place in these. And

here's what we believe in New hoverizon. We believe a

new horizon that you should serve the Lord with your

primary calling, but you also should serve someone else in theirs,

And maybe serving someone else in theirs is actually the

door to the fulfillment in yours. Look sixteen nine through

eleven says that if you're faithful with another man's calling, stuff, goods, talents,

if you're faithful with another man's God will make you

ruler over your own. So sometimes one of the most

wonderful things we can do instead of just wondering, Okay, well,

I don't know what I'm called to, so I'm not

going to serve. One of the most wonderful things we

can do in a house of lively stones like this,

where God's building us up and strengthening us and making

us a family together is just get involved somewhere. Okay, well,

I'm just going to serve somebody else in their vision.

Let me find another place where I can serve. And

as I present myself to the Lord in another vision,

then I know he's gonna activate mine. He's going to

strengthen me and mine. Would you stand with me this morning,

I'm gonna send the leaders to their tables. We've got

all the department leaders around the room. I want to

celebrate even before we dismiss I want to celebrate these

department leaders. Every department leader is a partaker of grace,

every partake.

Every department leader is the partaker of.

Grace through faith. Every department leader, something's happened with them,

where there's awakening, where there's strength, where there's grace. And

so they're partnering together with us as a church to

care for the flock. Feed the flock, crow the flock,

encourage the flock, equipped the flocks. This is a beautiful thing.

We had a great revival in the nineties up at

a church in Marysville. It was in the youth ministry.

Benny Perez was the leader. About eight hundred young people

were coming every Wednesday night to youth group. You knew

who the ultra workers were, people with gray hair. You know,

the greatest harvest is the greatest harvest is eighteen and under.

And we can all serve. We can all serve that harvest.

You're thinking, I'm not very hip. I don't have the

coolest stuff. You got the coolest thing on the planet.

You have love, You have the love of the Lord.

You have the love of the Lord. You have a hug,

you have friendship, you have kindness, you have maturity, you

have a prophetic word in your mouth. Oh well, you

could serve in any of these children's ministries. Any of

these children's ministries needs you because of the love of

the Lord that's in your life. So we just think

about all these ministries here. I want you to run

around and maybe visit three of them as you sign

up today. You're not signing up under commitment, you're not committing,

You're just saying I'm interested. And so maybe today there's

two or three of these you're interested in, and you

just sign up on the sheet and then let them

know by doing so, then they'll reach out to you.

And this is really just our way of getting you

familiar with our teams, our leaders, our ministries. And it's

not all thirty one represented here today, but there's a

bunch of them here today, and we want you to

say hi out front. Some of the ministries are serving

you with food this morning while they tell you about

the menu street. So we just said, you know what,

what if we could do something fun where we feed

the flock and make some lunch available and at the

same time, just tell you about the ministries, so let's

have fun together. Father, We thank you for this morning.

We thank you for your grace on us. We thank

you that you've led us not only to forgiveness in

the Cross, but you've led us into the new creation.

You've ordained a resurrected life for us. And we welcome

right now your word to be imprinted and grafted sewn

deeply into our hearts so that we can receive the

renewed mind, so that we can receive the faith of Jesus,

and so that we can partner with you in heavenizing

the earth. We give you the thanks for it. We

shot your blessing over these ministries and over this time

together in Jesus' name. Amen, any man, Amen,