Walking
in the “new man” in Jesus Christ
Off
with the ‘Old Man’ and On with the ‘New Man’
in Jesus Christ
The Washing and Regeneration by Renewing
of the Holy Spirit
By
Trevor Davis
3/1/2011
www.soundingthealarm.com
This
is really good news!
Below are key elements of scripture that show
the way of liberty from corruption and sin by Jesus Christ the
Lord.
It takes faith to believe for this liberty. The
religious world is largely in unbelief just as Israel and Judah were
concluded by God. Having head-knowledge will never deliver a person
from sin. But, faith, believing in one's heart, will activate the
power of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Not to believe, is to
remain in the flesh. Religious flesh people live a life in a cycle of
sin and death, guilt and pseudo repentance. But God is calling for
the release of the captives who sit in darkness and are held in sins'
prison. Be free in Jesus' name and believe the gospel.
God is calling His people to walk in the power of a righteous life by faith in Jesus. 1Pe 1:15-16; 2Pe 3:11; 2Cr 7:1
To be obedient is to believe from the heart the doctrine of the gospel of Jesus. Rom 6:17
Believing from the heart activates the power of God in that persons’ life. 2Pe 1:2-4
The body of sins are destroyed, buried, and the believing person is vivified in newness of life and able to walk, yield, and follow after righteousness in the “new man” nature which is of God from above. (Romans 6-8; Eph. 4:22,24; Col. 3:9-10)
Out of a believing heart one lives unto righteousness.
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For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. |
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Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: |
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And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith |
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
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Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
This message is part of The Gospel of Peace presentation in which the author seeks to promote a scriptural dynamic of the gospel that too few realize. God loves people. From that love He has not only promised His Son but He has already sent Him to take away the sins of the world and to redeem us to God by His own blood. God has sent His Spirit to those who ask Him. God has inspired prophets and apostles to record His Word so we can study and learn of Him. God has given us His grace. He has given us the gift of faith. He is our righteousness and salvation. Everything that a person could need is found in the Lord Himself for He is our all in all, our very sufficiency. It is the will of God that you believe the gospel by faith and enter His Kingdom.
Too often in the religious world, the truth of God is distorted and lost. God is not looking for a form of righteousness but He is looking for the actual power of righteousness to be manifested in our lives once we believe on Jesus. We have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. We are to be born again, born from above, that we may truly serve Him. But these terms and ideals are largely not understood or achieved. That is the tragedy. I hereby write this message that you would search the scriptures and inquire with the Lord to see these things fulfilled in your life in Jesus' name.
When Jesus came to His own, they received Him not. The Jewish religious system had all the props and lingo of the scriptures but their hearts were not right with God. They did not have the love of God since they despised the One He had sent. They did not have the Word of God abiding in them since they would not relate to the words of Jesus that spoke. The religious system in that day had the external shell of God-ordained worship but their worship had become vain because they had absorbed the traditions of men that violated the scriptures. They did not hold to the truth and hence, became degenerated to the point that they sought a way to murder the Just One who came in His Father's name.
There is a lot for us to learn and consider that transpired among the Jews religion. We should fear lest the same despicable thing happen to any of us. One of the things Jesus chided the religious leaders in that day was the fact that they would go to great expense and effort to make proselytes, but in the end, they would ruin people and put them in bondage. What infuriated Jesus even more was that these leaders were hypocrites in that they were largely acting a part of religion when their hearts were corrupted before God. The religious system was concerned by the reaction of the people rather than God Himself. That is the danger of being in religion since not rightly having God in view a person forgets that He sees everything, knows everything and hears everything. God knows our hearts. He weighs the hearts and motives. If we love God then we desire to please Him. That is why this message is being shared today so that you may enter the Kingdom of God and serve Him to His delight. Matthew 23
By
faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, the believer has the power of
the resurrection of Jesus to walk in a new life in the spirit.
(Romans 6; Ephesians 4:21-24; Colossians 3:9-10)
There
is a washing and regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit that
changes the individual from the inside out. Titus
3:5
Thus,
a person’s heart
is expressed in their behavior whether
righteous, or evil based on the abiding faith and power through this
scriptural dynamic of God. Mat
15:18-20
Paul
wrote about having “faith in the operation of God”
Colossians
2: 11In
whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ: 12Buried
with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through
the faith
of the operation of God,
who hath raised him from the dead.
13And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses; 14Blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15And
having
spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly,
triumphing over them in it.
John
3 discusses a leader of the Jews, Nicodemus, who came to Jesus by
night. Nicodemus was friendly towards Jesus but immediately Jesus
made it clear that this ‘master of Israel’ needed to be
“born again” in order to see the Kingdom of God. This was
an amazing thing that Jesus said. Consider that Nicodemus was a
well established doctrinally learned man but this was useless to the
Kingdom of God unless he became born from above instead of merely
born from below—which is of the earth.
Jesus likened this to one hearing the wind and observing its path but not knowing where he came or went. So, Jesus likened everyone that is born of God is like the wind that a person can not discern. The carnal worldly man from below, or from earth, does not have the spiritual capacity to perceive and know those born from above or born again. This is vital since there are many in the church world that are in the same state as Nicodemus. Head knowledge about the scriptures are not beneficial alone. We must be born from God. Being born from God which is stated to be from above, is a spiritual regeneration and a different sphere of life. What is flesh is flesh. What is spirit is spirit. Above is above from God. And below is of the earth and earthly. They that are from below speak of the earth. They that are from above speak from above. Therefore, carnal natural unregenerated people, though they know God in their head, if they are not actually born of God will not perceive the Kingdom of God and are still mere men. Natural, carnal, worldly, earthly men. This is not what God has called His people to be.
Put
off the “old man”. And put on the “new man”
which is created after God in righteousness and true
holiness.
Ephesians
4:21If
so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as
the
truth is in Jesus:
22That
ye put
off concerning the former conversation the old man,
which is corrupt
according
to the deceitful lusts; 23And
be
renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24And
that ye put
on the new man,
which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Colossians
3: 1If
ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set
your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For
ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When
Christ, who
is our
life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 1If
ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set
your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For
ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When
Christ, who
is our
life, shall
appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is idolatry: 6For
which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of
disobedience: 7In
the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8But
now ye also
put
off all
these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of
your mouth. 9Lie
not one to another, seeing that ye have
put
off the old man with his deeds;
10And
have put
on the new man,
which is
renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11Where
there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
free:
but Christ is
all,
and in all.
Now we
understand why Jesus said “you must be born again”
Jhn 3:3;7.
Jesus
said likened the first old man nature is of Adam of the earth
and is flesh. But the new man in Jesus Christ is a spiritual
man 1Cr
15:45,47
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. |
We
must be born again by faith in Jesus so we do not live like
Adam who is of the earth and earthly. The flesh is of the
world and is earthly. God has called us to His Kingdom but we
can only enter by the washing and regeneration by renewing of the
Holy Spirit. Titus
3:5
By faith,
we are to put on the new
man that
is created after His image and nature. The new
man is
spiritual and is sourced from God. Peter said we are born again
by the Word of God. 1Pe 1:23
Titus
3:5Not
by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing
of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6Which
he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7That
being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to
the hope of eternal life.
Peter the apostle of Jesus declaration of the new life for believers in Jesus Christ.
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1Peter,
an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10Of
which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied
of the grace that
should come unto
you:
11Searching
what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in
them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of
Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12Unto
whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;
which things the angels desire to look into. 13Wherefore
gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for
the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ; 14As
obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the
former lusts in your ignorance: 15But
as
he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation; 16Because
it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Trevor Davis
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