The New Man
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
As most of you know we have been studying “The Glorious Church Of Christ” within the pages of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians in our Prison Epistles Series and so far we have determined..
The body or church of Christ is that which has been eternally planned ().
When we are “outside of Christ’s body” we are dead in our trespasses and sins which is why it is so important to be a part of the “body of Christ” ().
God made it possible to “enter into the eternally planned church” through the blood of Christ and His Law it created which unified all the peoples both Jew and Gentile ().
This “unity of the spirit” keeps the bond of peace through adhering to the “calling to which you have been called” through proper leadership in the “The Glorious Church Of Christ” ().
That brings us to our text today wherein we read of “The New Man” found in Christ that is better than that old sinful self.
With this in mind let’s look at our lesson today.
Walks Not In Futility
Walks Not In Futility
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
The word futility means uselessness.
The word futility means uselessness.
It means without value.
In other words walking according to the world is without any spiritual value and is pointless therefore.
4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Walking in futility means...
Walking in futility means...
Walking in the dark blind.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Walking with hardened hearts.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,
Walking in a corrupted life full of deceitful desires.
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
Summery
Summery
Walking in a spiritually pointless and valueless life seems crazy and dreadful.
That former “old self of sin” was not one of joy and excitement but anxiety and dread.
This is why it is so important every new man...
Walks According To The Truth In Jesus
Walks According To The Truth In Jesus
Requires being taught Jesus.
Requires being taught Jesus.
Eph
21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
This means studying Jesus.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
This means studying Jesus’ Word.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
This means studying Jesus’ Word in light of judgment.
48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Requires putting off the old self.
Requires putting off the old self.
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
Eph
This is the life outside of Christ.
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Requires being renewed in the spirit of your mind.
Requires being renewed in the spirit of your mind.
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
Eph
This is the renewal of the Holy Spirit during the washing and regeneration i.e. baptism.
5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Requires being created in the likeness of God.
Requires being created in the likeness of God.
24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
This means being born again () as righteous.
Mt 4
48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
This means being born again () as holy.
15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
When we are born again into righteousness and holiness there is an expectation by God that...
This new man walks in truth.
This new man walks in truth.
Eph
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
He doesn’t lie to his neighbor but in love always speaks truth putting his neighbor’s soul front and center.
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
This means he doesn’t lie about his friends lost soul.
1 And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. 2 And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3 And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” 4 And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
This also means he doesn’t lie about his brothers or sisters sin.
1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
He doesn’t allow anger at sin to corrupt him.
Eph 4:
26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil.
31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Anger to the point of sin is always walking according to the flesh not the spirit.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
He doesn’t steal but works hard and is able to help others.
Eph 4:
28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Stealing is taking and at no time are we, Christians, to be takers but givers when it comes to benevolence.
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
He doesn’t speak with corrupting talk.
29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Corrupting talk, by definition, destroys and tears down instead of building up.
Talk that is meant to corrupt others steals their joy in Christ instead of encouraging them.
18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
He is kind, tenderhearted, forgiving as God forgave in Christ.
32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Forgiveness requires our kindness and tenderheartedness toward the one that sinned against us.
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36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. 37 “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Summery
Summery
We who have been “born again” () into a “new creation” () have been made “free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death” ().
“The old has passed away” making “you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Conclusion
Conclusion
We must never walk according to worldly, fleshly standards but according to the highest standards there are, the standards of our Creator.
When we fully appreciate our “new selves” we can then truly appreciate our God.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.