RENEW

Renew, Greek - anakainoo: Anakainoo is made up of “ana” which means again and kainoo which is from the Greek root kainos which means “new”, qualitatively new and different from the past, new in nature.  Kainos carries the sense of better, unfamiliar, unexpected and wonderful.  Kainos differs significantly from “neos”, another Greek word also translated new which means new in time, numerically another one newly acquired, but no different than the others.  A look at the way kainos is used in scripture demonstrates its qualitative difference to neos:

* The new heavens and new earth - Rev. 21:1; 2 Peter 3:13

* The New Jerusalem - Rev. 3:12, 21:2

* The new wine - Mk. 14:25

* The new name - Rev. 21:7; 3:12

* The new song - Rev. 5:9

* The new creation - 1 Cor. 5:17

* The new covenant (in Christ’s blood) - Lk. 22:20; 1 Cor. 11:25

* The new commandment (of loving one another) - Jn. 13:34

* One new man (Jews and Gentiles) - Eph. 2:15

* New man (us!) - Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10

* New tongues - Mk. 16:17

* New lump (us - unleavened) - 1 Cor. 5:7

* Behold, I make all things new - Rev. 21:5

Kainos is a most important word to understand as a resident of God’s Kingdom.  If we could somehow take all that is bad out of the world, all the meanness, pain, sorrow, suffering, wars, death, all the tears, and make it new - we are not even close to the kainos heavens and kainos earth that God has prepared for those who love Him.  When God renewed His covenant with us He went from the Law of Leviticus, straight to the Grace of John 3:16 to create a “new” covenant in the blood of the Son of His love.  We need to understand when God renews something it is majorly new and majorly better - it is only “re” newed because He is changing something that existed before, making it so much better that He calls it “new.”

 Anakainoo means new again - to make new again... and qualitatively better.  The first and unique renewing of the Holy Spirit saved us (Titus 3:5), and we are to put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge (Col. 3:10) as our inward man is renewed daily (2 Cor. 4:16) so we can walk in the newness of life (Rom. 6:4), and serve in the newness of the Spirit (Rom. 7:6), having a bold new (prosphato) living access into the Holiest of Holies (Heb. 10:19,20) - through a Life to a life!

RENEWED INTO A NEW MAN