Ephesians 4:24
24 And [kai] that ye put on [enduo] the new [kainos] man, [anthropos] which [ho] after [kata] God [theos] is created [ktizo] in [en] righteousness [dikaiosune] and [kai] true [aletheia] holiness. [hosiotes]KJV-Interlinear
24 and
put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in
righteousness and holiness of the truth. NASB
The old self, or the old
man, is the sin nature. That is the
source of your sin and evil within you.
And even though you have that weakness within you, you still have
volition and the ability to make the choice between good and evil. So, you cannot blame your failures and faults
on anything but yourself, because in whatever it is that you think and do in
life, you choose those thoughts and actions.
Your new self is the righteousness
and holiness of truth as defined here.
Truth is the sum total of
the Word of God, together with its mandates, principles, precepts, morals, and
so forth.
Righteousness is the
perfection of ones life apart from sin and evil. It is the absence of faults, the absence of
taints, the absence of blemishes, the absence of all that is corrupt and so
forth.
Holiness if the
combination of righteousness, which is perfection, and justice, which is the
washing or cleansing away of all of the filth of sin and evil and human good.
Recall that human good is
not divine good. Human good is only an
extension of human arrogance, wherein the person presumes that they possess
some form of good within them, apart from that of God.
Holiness is accomplished
by only one way and that is by means of the Cross. And that is the work of Christ, which is not
your work. Faith in Christ is that means
of salvation that satisfies justice, the justice of God.
Therefore, in order to
put on the new man, you must be saved.
This never applies to unbelievers.
Once saved, which is
accomplished when you first believed in Christ, then your life is still exposed
to the sin nature, which is in your body.
So, you still commit sins, and in order to clean them up, you do so by
means of confession.
Confession is the
proprietary method of believers only and is used to get them back into
fellowship and the spiritual life.
When you were first
saved, you were forgiven all your sins as an unbeliever, and you were entered
into fellowship immediately. But after
salvation, you sinned again and that took you out of fellowship. So, in order to regain that fellowship
status, you must confess your sins, your current sins since the last
confession, and that places you back in fellowship.
Fellowship is the place
of the spiritual life. It is the place
where your spiritual life functions. It
is the place of righteousness and holiness.
And that is where all of your spiritual activities function and become a
credit to you.
When you study Bible
doctrine while in fellowship, you enhance your spiritual life and begin the
learning and understanding and using process of the spiritual life. Your thoughts and beliefs are transformed
into the correct thoughts and beliefs and activities of your life, and that is
the entire process of changing out the old for the new.
The former things, your
life under the influence and control of the sin nature, need to be replaced by
the new things, that of Gods word.
The former things,
destroy you and your life, making your life meaningless and worthless.
The new things, are the
mode and method of the completion of your life into that which gives you
meaning and purpose, and fulfills that which God intends for you.
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