THE BIBLE SHOWS THE OLD MAN (PERSON) AND NEW MAN
Verses that will give you a better understanding of:
The Flesh or Old Nature and New Creature or New Nature
Ephesians
The Flesh or Old Nature
In Ephesians chapter 4: 22: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
New Creature of New Nature
Ephesians 4:23-24: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Romans
The Flesh or Old Nature
Romans 7:23-24: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
New Creature of New Nature
Romans 7: 22, 25 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: vs 25 is an answer to Paul’s question in vs 24: 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans
The Flesh or Old Nature
Romans 8:7-8 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
New Creature of New Nature
2 Peter 1:4: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
THE BIBLE SHOWS WE CAN WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD
Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
• We should not sin so that grace may be abundant or abound
• Says God forbid
• We should seek to walk in newness of life.
Also Read Romans Chapter 6
When we are born into this world, we receive the old nature or old man which is also called the flesh.
• We receive the new nature when we believe in Christ and are born again.
• Our “Spirit Man” comes alive to Jesus Christ and the things of God
• Our Quest is have the spirit man take dominion over the flesh.
• This was made possible and can be done according to the Word of God
1 John 2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• So we don’t have to live in the bondage of sin
• We have the flesh to contend with but we shouldn’t make it bigger than it is
THE BIBLE CALLS US NEW CREATURES (CONCENTRATE OF THIS PART) MAKE THIS PRIORITY IN YOUR LIFE.
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.
• You have a part in the Body of Christ
• God has given you talents and gifts
John 3:6 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• We were born with a body of flesh and bones
• But flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven
1 Corinthians 15:50 :50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
• This flesh we live in cannot go into heaven
• We have a part of us that is Supernatural
• A part of us that will never die
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY THE FLESH IS REFERRED TO IN THE BIBLE:
• Our old self or sinful nature that all human beings have as descendants of Adam
1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven
• By accepting Jesus Christ, we are born of the Spirit
• Jesus Christ came to redeem us from that sinful nature
• Jesus has won the war that is between the flesh and the spirit
• Our bodies won’t be redeemed until the Rapture
Give your heart to Jesus today by saying this prayer:
Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. Please forgive me. Come into my life. I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Now, help me to live for you the rest of this life. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, I pray.
Amen.