Ephesians 4:32

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Ephesians 4:32

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32 And [de] be [ginomai] ye kind [chrestos] one to another [eis], [allelon] tenderhearted, [eusplagchnos] forgiving [charizomai] one another, [heautou] even as [kathos] [kai] God [theos] for [en] Christ's [Christos] sake [en] hath forgiven [charizomai] you. [humin] KJV-Interlinear

32 And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. NASB

When you pursue a legitimate Christian life, which is to say that you engage in a daily bible study, confess your sins regularly, learn, gain understanding from that learning, and grow up in your spiritual life, then your whole outlook on life, your whole demeanor, your whole attitude toward God, people, self and life as a whole, will change accordingly.

Good behavior is not the spiritual life.  Legitimate good behavior is a result of a functional spiritual life.

Anyone can have good manners, but that does not make them Godly.

The difference between a polite unspiritual person and a polite spiritual person, is that the spiritual person’s manners are genuine and without ulterior motives.

By definition, the unspiritual persons behavior is a product of their carnal nature, which is a product of evil regardless of its source.  A carnal person is one who functions outside of Gods defined sphere of fellowship.  And that source is the sin nature, something that we are to all leave behind us and replace with a spiritual nature.

    

Unspiritual includes all unbelievers and all out of fellowship believers.  So anyone can be polite, but only believers in fellowship can be legitimately polite.

The specific politeness stated here, kind, tenderhearted, forgiving and so forth, all place life in its proper perspective.  We know that life is unfair in this devils world, that not all people are equal, that not all people have the good life, and many have very difficult lives.  And regardless if their bad luck is of their own doing, we still need to be empathetic toward all and not contribute negativity to their outlook on life that might lead to further resentment, or bitterness in them.

It is better to place hope or something positive in front of others rather than anything that will keep them sour on life and away from God.

A bitter person seeks to find blame in others or in anything, but one who receives kindness may change if only a little bit, and that can eventually open up the spiritual door to a massive and positive change in their life.

It is far better to give to others a foundation, doctrine, upon which they can set their life, and opportunities, spiritual promise, upon which they can enjoy it.

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Ephesians 4:31

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Ephesians 4:31

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31 Let [airo] all [pas] bitterness, [pikria] and [kai] wrath, [thumos] and [kai] anger, [orge] and [kai] clamour, [krauge] and [kai] evil speaking, [blasphemia] be put away [airo] from [apo] you, [humon] with [sun] all [pas] malice: [kakia] KJV-Interlinear

31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. NASB

Bitterness is something that is a disappointment, sharp, pungent, repulsive, disagreeable.

Wrath, refers to the heavy breathing in a reaction, an overt reaction, to something or someone.

Anger, is more of a mental attitude, an indignation, a desire for vengeance, revenge, or getting even.

Clamor, is the outcry of grief in suffering or in loss.  Vocal, woe is me, types of reaction.

Evil speaking, covers all manner of verbal sins, from gossip, to maligning, to opinions, to mockery and can be anti-God or anti-ideas, or anti-people.

All malice, covers just about every other kind of sin or carnal attitude that a person can have or commit. This would also cover human good and/or self-righteous attitudes as substitutes for the spiritual life.

In other words, all mental, verbal and overt activities that constitute the pattern of life that you have subscribed to day in and day out, that are consistent with the carnal life and separate and apart from the spiritual life.

These continual activities of mind, mouth and body, all serve to suppress the Holy Spirit in your life, and thus they suppress the spiritual life.  So, when you do not comply with Gods spiritual process, then you are the one who causes your life to be dysfunctional.

And this in effect causes the concept of grief, or grieving, or better stated, disappointment in God concerning you.  And of course we know that God cannot be disappointed, but this conveys the idea regarding your failure in a life where God has given you numerous phenomenal opportunities and you simply ignored them.

So, in order to have the perfect and complete and phenomenal life that God intends for you, then you need to change. You need to put off the old habits and put on the new and better habits, namely regular confession, daily study, open mindedness, a desire to learn, an appreciation of Gods wisdom over your own and continue that pattern of life and more, every day for the rest of your life.

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Ephesians 4:30b

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Ephesians 4:30b

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30 And [kai] grieve [lupeo] not [me] the holy [hagios] Spirit [pneuma] of God, [theos] whereby [en] [hos] ye are sealed [sphragizo] unto [eis] the day [hemera] of redemption. [apolutrosis]KJV-Interlinear

30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. NASB

The Holy Spirit is not only the agent or power by which our spiritual life functions, but the Holy Spirit is the seal also of our spiritual lives.

This is not to say that the Holy Spirit made a seal, or did the sealing, but is actually himself, the seal.

When legal correspondence or documents are affixed with some sort of seal, as in a wax with a ring imprint, then that document becomes a part of a permanent and legal record. It cannot be changed, or altered, or removed from the permanent record.

And in this regard, God used Himself, the Holy Spirit, to actually seal our eternal life in us, and that cannot be removed, altered, or changed in any way.

Unto the day of redemption, means the complete recovery of our body, from corruption to incorruption. That is the day when we receive our resurrection bodies, and will have those bodies forever.

Unbelievers do not have a day of redemption.  They have a day of judgment.  Only believers have a day coming when they will receive their resurrection bodies and live with the Lord forever.

Redemption is a concept that originated long ago when property came under a lien or some sort of financial burden, wherein it required money to buy back or to pay off the debt and thus redeem the property back to a debt or burden free state.

In the spiritual life, that concept carried through with the purchase price that Christ paid on the Cross, thus releasing sinners from the burden or debt imposed by sin and the spiritual death that accompanied it.

There are three concepts regarding redemption.  There is the day of the actual payment, which occurred at the Cross.  There is the actual day of the guarantee, which it the moment that you believe in Christ and thus are sealed with the Holy Spirit, which in turn guarantees that redemption is yours.  And, there is the day of the actual redemption, when you receive your resurrection body at which time you possess the permanent eternal essence that God has paid for.

To have the Holy Spirit seal you up until the day of redemption, means that you are sealed until that actual day arrives in your life.  Believing in Christ saves, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit seals that promise, but the redemption process is not complete until you are resurrected.

The mere fact that God seals you, with a permanent seal, gives you the absolute guarantee of eternal security. 

What God seals no one and nothing, can unseal.  That includes you.  There is nothing you can say, think, or do to undo your redemption or saved status.  You can never lose your salvation, otherwise that would imply that God cannot seal with a perfect seal, and that idea is of course ludicrous.

Only arrogance believes that the person is somehow more capable than God, or that God somehow has overlooked something that you yourself have discovered with your superior ability.  And only fools maintain this view.

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Ephesians 4:30

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Ephesians 4:30

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30 And [kai] grieve [lupeo] not [me] the holy [hagios] Spirit [pneuma] of God, [theos] whereby [en] [hos] ye are sealed [sphragizo] unto [eis] the day [hemera] of redemption. [apolutrosis]KJV-Interlinear

30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. NASB

The Holy Spirit is the principle agent for helping you hear, see, learn, and apply spiritual phenomena in your life.

When you suppress the Holy Spirit, then your spiritual life is non-functional, or dysfunctional.  In short, your spiritual life does not function.  The Holy Spirit is the agent by which our spiritual life is powered and operates.

Now, just to make things clear, you cannot see, feel, hear, taste, or smell the Holy Spirit.  You cannot detect the Holy Spirit in any way shape or form in this life.

Those organizations or people who claim that they have the ghost or the spirit or try to impress with various emotions or sounds or verbal activity or whatever, are frauds and evil to the core.

To grieve, ‘lupeo,’ the Holy Spirit means to put in distress, to sadden, to grieve, to make sorry.

This is an anthropopathism whereby an attribute of humanity, is attributed to God in order to explain or describe an action or emotion.  God cannot be grieved, but man can.  So this term is used to describe the affect that your dysfunctional spiritual life ultimately has, not on God, but the affects that it has on your relationship with God.

When a child grieves their parent, the child is consistently doing something that brings grief into the parents life.

Therefore, when we consistently pursue sin, or the world, in effect, we bring grief to God.  Grief is the opposite of something that we can be honored with or proud of, and God is certainly not proud of the person who is openly defiant toward God, toward truth, toward their spiritual life.

This is addressed to believers, by the way, which only goes to prove that believers can sin.  Surprise!  Surprise!

And when believers sin, and keep on sinning, then they grieve the Holy Spirit, or bring shame, or bring dishonor to themselves and disrespect to God, in other words.

Sin, remember is not limited to crime, or socially unacceptable activities.  Sin also includes indifference toward Gods mandates, refusal to study, refusal to learn, refusal or indifference or simply having your own attitude and definition of your spiritual life.  One of the greater committed sins in this world by believers, is their rejection of Gods plan and process for growing and functioning in their spiritual life.

The repercussions of that indifference or apathy, or attitude, result not in blessing but in discipline.  And when God disciplines, life is not fun, but grief for you.  So you in effect become yourself that which you do to God

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Ephesians 4:29

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Ephesians 4:29

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29 Let [sapros] no [me] [pas] corrupt [sapros] communication [logos] proceed [ekporeuomai] out of [ek] your [humon] mouth, [stoma] but [alla] that which [ei tis] is good [agathos] to [pros] the use [chreia] of edifying, [oikodome] that [hina] it may minister [didomi] grace [charis] unto the hearers. [akouo] KJV-Interlinear

29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. NASB

Humanity is a social creature.  We walk, we talk, we interact with others everyday throughout our lives.

We are a mix of personalities and beliefs, and attitudes, and so forth.

More often than not, we clash.  And, from a persons younger years and school friend interactions, to our older years and whatever social skills we have learned, or have not learned, we are always going to be faced with differing opinions and behaviors.

Thus the temptation to be defensive or opinionated is always present.  And often times that interaction is negative and not productive.

So the old saying, ‘If you can’t say anything good, then don’t say anything,’ comes into focus.

Anything that is not productive or helpful, need not be said.  It does no good.  It only promotes bad feelings or worse.

Therefore, let all that you think and therefore say, be productive, such that it helps others, rather than creating adversarial situations.

This does not mean that all of your conversation should be of an academic nature.  Certainly most conversations are simply for social interaction, casual conversation, entertaining, informative, fun and so forth.

No one will want to hear doctrinal lectures 24/7. But everyone wants to hear variety, and positive, and upbeat, and informative, and fun conversation.

Positive reaps positive, so the promotion of the positive is certainly more beneficial than the pursuit of complaints, or gossip, or the sour grapes attitude, or the maligning of others.

Negatives do no good, and only serve to set yourself back, as well as sowing discontent in others.  Nobody wins.

Positives on the other hand, serve to edify, ‘oikodome,’ which stands for the architectural structure of the soul.  It means to build, to construct, to confirm as in the verification that something is really there.

So the positives of life, and certainly doctrine, all help in the construction, the completion, the structural integrity of your own soul as well as that of others.

So, you are responsible for your own soul, just as others are responsible for their own soul, but we all have a certain responsibility to others as well.

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Ephesians 4:28

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Ephesians 4:28

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28 Let [klepto] him that stole [klepto] steal [klepto] no more: [meketi] but [de] rather [mallon] let him labour, [kopiao] working [ergazomai] with his hands [cheir] the thing which is good, [agathos] that [hina] he may have [echo] to give [metadidomi] to him that needeth [chreia]. [echo] KJV-Interlinear

28 Let him who steals steal no longer; but rather let him labor, performing with his own hands what is good, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need. NASB

Morals are the living standards that guide society.  Morals are the sum total of ones conduct, principles, scruples, rules and accepted beliefs that a person lives by.

The opposite of morals is immorality, such as in truth or lie, privacy or gossip, respect or disrespect, legal or illegal, honor or dishonor, promotion without achievement, love without honor, love without virtue, success without integrity, approbation without achievement, and so forth.  In every case trying to get something without earning it.

But morals also reach into the standards by which people live, such as marriage between a man and woman which is morally correct.  Marriage between two men, or between two women, or between man and animal, are all immoral practices.  Being dressed in public is a moral standard.  Running around naked is not. Stealing is immoral, lascivious activities are typically immoral, drunkenness is an immoral act, but then so also is being self-righteous which is a violation of the biblical standard of humility.  And this list can go on and on seemingly forever.

Here we have an act of stealing, which is not only a criminal act, but an immoral act.  And the opposite of this is labor, which is an honorable and honest thing to do in life.  Stealing is trying to get something for nothing, trying to get something that you do not deserve, did not earn, and are not entitled to.  Labor, is the act of working or doing something productive, getting paid or getting some legitimate benefit for your effort, and then enjoying legitimately the benefits of your effort.  Laziness is the opposite.  To do nothing means that you deserve nothing.

Now apply this to the spiritual life.

To reject God, Christ, doctrine and your daily study, is the same as stealing, as laziness, as immorality.  You do nothing, expect everything, but deserve nothing.  Your blessings from God are zip.

To accept God, Christ, doctrine and to pursue your daily bible study, means that you look to God, look to truth, look to your spiritual growth and make an honest and honorable effort to comply with what God expects of you.  In that, you receive blessings now, and especially in eternity, where by the way you will live the bulk of your forever life.

Also, there are always side benefits to your honest efforts.  Others benefit too.

When society on the whole is immoral, then everyone suffers.  When society on the whole is moral, then everyone benefits.

An immoral society experiences famines and flood and storms and economic declines and that affects prices and jobs and on and on.

When government tries to legislate morals then society declines, depravity is the result of false virtue, indolence is the result of false industry, indifference is the result of false ambitions, and ignorance is the result of false education.

A moral society experiences blessings, which in turn translates into prosperity and benefits for all.

Example.  These United States were founded on Biblical principles, we started out a very poor and weak nation, but rocketed into the greatest nation in history. 

Even today as society is seemingly moving toward anti-God principles, the strong foundation that has existed before, still remains and the benefits of those structures will continue for a long time.  Sooner or later, however, even the best of empires, fail under the pressures of immoral standards.  History is the living record of that.

In contrast there are other nations on this planet who reject God, or have their own versions of a god, they have been around far, far, far longer than our nation and yet many aspects of those nations are still living in the stone age, so to speak, with no economy to speak of, no productivity, no innovation, massive poverty that keeps on continuing from generation to generations and on and on.

So, the very best charitable activity that you can possibly pursue, by far, is accomplished by pursuing your daily bible study.  God does the rest.  And others gain help by virtue of your spiritual accomplishments. 

Theologically speaking this is called blessings by association. Living in this country you cannot help but be blessed in some fashion simply by being here. 

On the other hand, there is cursing by association, wherein if you associate with immorality, then you reap the cost of that choice.  And that cost is always bad for you.

The source of morality is God, never you.  The benefits from morality come from God, never you.

So, believer and unbeliever alike can benefit from a strong moral society.

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Ephesians 4:27

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Ephesians 4:27

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27 Neither [mete] give [didomi] place [topos] to the devil. [diabolos] KJV-Interlinear

27 and do not give the devil an opportunity. NASB

The devil is an actual person, sometimes called Satan, the fallen angel whose name was originally Lucifer before he rebelled against God.

Also, the devil stands for many things, namely evil, lies, cheating, sin, anti-God, deceit, wickedness, arrogance, and on and on.

So, when a person is living those types of things, they are actually following the pattern of evil that Satan originated and is promoting in this world.

Satan is one angel.  There are well over seven billion people on this planet.  So, he cannot possibly be everywhere all the time.  But his policies and influence are everywhere, all of the time, and to live evil means that you allow the devil into your life by your adopting his policies.

Most people will never have any direct or even indirect access to Satan.  Surely, he is more interested in world leaders, which excludes over ninety-nine percent of the rest of us.

Satan does not have to be in each of our lives, as anyone who rejects truth, ignores doctrine and so forth will automatically do his bidding without even a single glance from him.

So, just as in the previous verse, you are to review your life regularly throughout the day, in order to make sure that you are keeping on track with your spiritual life, and not slipping away through spiritual laziness or sloppiness or procrastination, or indifference or whatever.

At bed time is a good time to review your life also, since it is generally a time when you are laying back, getting comfortable, relaxing from the days events, and have an opportunity to ponder your day and your life and Gods objectives and purpose for you.  It is also a good time to review your obligations to God and others and life.  It is the best therapy on the planet.

Remember that when you confess your sins, you are in fellowship, and any time spent while in fellowship is time well invested in your spiritual life.  So, being asleep while in fellowship gives you the potential of several uninterrupted hours in fellowship.  And that is a good thing.

Remember that works, your works, are irrelevant in the spiritual life, but your time in fellowship is very relevant.

The more time spent in the spiritual life, means more spiritual development, which by the way, God performs, not you.

So, ponder that when your head hits the pillow tonight .. and every night.

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Ephesians 4:26

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Ephesians 4:26

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26 Be ye angry, [orgizo] and [kai] sin [hamartano] not: [me] let [epiduo] not [me] the sun [helios] go down [epiduo] upon [epi] your [humon] wrath: [parorgismos] KJV-Interlinear

26 Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, NASB

This is the devils world.   This is not a perfect world.  All of your thoughts and plans and expectations of yourself and of others and of things, will fail more often than not. 

And disappointment and frustration and tension and anger and rage and outrage and the desire to take revenge or to get even or to simply hate life, will always place temptation for such infuriated emotions, in front of you more often than not.

To succumb to anger is easy, to rise above the ill feelings is more difficult.

And yet, here God is challenging you to not let the sun go down on your life while you support and feed and allow your anger to keep kindling hot.

The sun goes down regularly, therefore your mandate is to examine yourself regularly, not only at sunset, but throughout the day, to make sure that you are keeping yourself in check and under the review of your own self.

There are two self-checks described and mandated here. 

The first is that you be aware of and in control of your own emotions.  You need to recognize sin when it occurs within you.  Getting hot and angry, for whatever reason, is a sin.  And since this world is chalk full of sin opportunities, then God allows all of these situations to come into your life, in order to train you to be more in self-control over your life.

Training and practice and the repetition of it all, helps you to grow up. It toughens you mentally and spiritually.

Remember that this world is not your end objective.  Eternity is.  Your galaxy of gold and promise is not for now, but for eternity.  Don’t throw it away on the little things in this life.  And remember the entire world is classified as a little thing.

Whether you are a billionaire with everything or a peasant with nothing, all of your things great or small, add up to nothing in this life.  All of your wishes, all of your dreams, all of your hopes, all of your expectations mean nothing in this world.  So do not place great value on the things of this life.

Place value on that which actually is of great value – Bible doctrine, and not on your day to day whims and expectations that for the most part are probably unreasonable expectations from this world.

To expect something, anything, from this world, to get upset over anything or anyone that does not measure up in your mind, and of which cannot fulfill your expectations, is a fools quest.

To pursue that, Bible doctrine and the spiritual life, which can fulfill your ultimate dreams and desires, is the act of the wise.

Which are you?

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Ephesians 4:25

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Ephesians 4:25

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25 Wherefore [dio] putting away [apotithemi] lying, [pseudos] speak [laleo] every man [hekastos] truth [aletheia] with [meta] his [autos] neighbour: [plesion] for [hoti] we are [esmen] members [melos] one of another. [allelon] KJV-Interlinear

25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. NASB

In all of existence, there are only two opinions, that of truth and that which is false.

God is the source of truth.  Every other source is false.

Even though all people can look up and see the sun rising in the East and setting in the West, which is a truth, not all accept that the sun came from God.

All can look at life and see that you learn, gain knowledge, gain understanding and so forth, but not all accept that God has a unique design for inculcating truth into ones soul resulting in a healthy soul and the completion of ones life, rather than learning on ones own apart from Gods design and ending up with a very unhealthy soul.

Not all believe in the same method of salvation, by believing in Christ.  Some think they can earn their salvation.

Not all believe that salvation is permanent.  Some think that God missed something and that they can rise above Gods plan and lose their salvation by means of their works or effort or sin or whatever.  And yet Christ paid the price for all sin.

Not all believe in Gods divine establishment principles – volition, marriage, family, nationalism, authority, economics, government systems, freedom, liberty, work ethics, and so forth.  Some believe in the many social programs that promote bias, unfairness, laziness, poor work ethics, free handouts.

Not all believe in the concept of reservoirs, wherein God defined and designed vast pools of resources for mans use, wealth for mans employment, innovation for mans quality of life, and so forth.  Many try to destroy these concepts making life next to miserable for all except the very few elite who would abuse their position in order to maintain their high positions.

The list can go on and on.  The only way that you can learn what truth is, is by learning doctrine.  You must study day by day, think moment by moment, and eventually develop a truth foundation within you, that is consistent with all believers that pursue the daily course of doctrine.

We are all members of the same family.  We should all be in possession of the same truth, that ultimately defines life for us all.

We are all unique, but truth is constant, consistent, and immutable.

Therefore, learn and then put away the false ideas, and develop the new and correct ideas, and by that, you will learn that there is a vast universe of new and more important, truthful ideas that will open up your entire life to things that you never believed possible.

One more thought.

The angels were created all together at the same time a very long time ago. Everything was given to them, and despite their superhuman intellect, they all failed.

There is no evidence of any innovation, invention, production, or anything designed or defined within their time in history.  Only during mans time, has history seen great invention and innovation.  And yet man is lower than the angels and vastly inferior, but doctrine came to man even in the Garden.

And when man fell, God taught man through the sacrifices, the meaning and purpose of Gods work, and in that sacrificial process man was given clothes of animal skins, learned of fire by the use of the alter sacrifice, learned of cooking, learned of the stars and navigation, learned of angles and construction and the very beginnings of science, and so forth.  History demonstrates this vast knowledge from the very early beginnings of human history.

And yet it all started in the Garden when Jesus Christ walked with Adam on a daily basis and taught him doctrine.  Doctrine that was appropriate to his time.  And as time went on, more and more doctrine was revealed and handed down from parent to child, until Moses finally put it in writing.

And as they say, the rest is history.

In every Christian nation, there have been the foundations and development of great innovation.  In all non-Christian nations, there is very little.  Even the false sacrifices of history got their idea starts from the one true sacrifice.

The common thread throughout history, is truth, which comes from and originates only from God.

Truth never changes.  All falsities started with truth and then developed into distortions of truth in some way.

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Ephesians 4:24

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Ephesians 4:24

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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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