2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

A do over is inadequate to describe being in Christ. A do over is the same man doing different things. A makeover in Christ is not merely a new hairdo, weight loss, and new close, it becoming a new creature, a new being.

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

I was a nonconformist in my former life. I was my own man. If I thought I saw another like me, I would make sure he knew I was different. I was not going to be anyone’s copycat.

When I surrender to Christ I didn’t have to decide what to change, I didn’t even know how to change. Thanks be to God that He took care of all that for me.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Ephesians 4:23-24 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

How was I made new? By the effectual workings of the Word of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Ephesians 5:26-27 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Hebrews 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

The first of the five saves is the Holy Spirit as an external agent sears the conscience of your sins. Sin is no longer as satisfying. You have begun to loose your taste for it.

Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

The second save is the eternal life but do not think that it does not begin until death.

John 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Sin once held us captive but Christ has set us free, our third save.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

The illusive fourth save is tied to the presence of sin in our lives. While we strive for perfection, we are not yet perfected and therefore need Christ continually.

1 John 1:8-9 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Which brings us to our final save, to be saved from the presence of sin.

Revelation21:1-4 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.