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Intro:
Jekyll & Hyde, The Hulk
First “bookend” - you died to this world.
Paradox of now but not yet.
glory
V. 1-4 - Our moral vision - definition of right and wrong needs to be controlled by the reality inside us and what we will experience one day.
Transformation in our lives isn’t a “rehab” or “renewal” of the old person.
We’re not slapping a new coat of paint on our old ways of thinking and doing things.
Recall earlier:
Death to the Old Life
Getting into the struggle we still have as we interact with the fallen creation:
Vices - immorality, sinfulness, evil.
First section is about desires, idolatry.
Illustrated by sexual sin.
God gets angry at sin.
He does not wink at it.
v. 10 - We now have a moral free-will choice.
Unlike Dr. Jekyll or Dr. Bruce Bannon, we don’t have to submit to our dark nature.
Why?
Because we died to sin once and now, daily, submit ourselves to God.
We are works in progress.
The truth is we are either dead IN sin or dead TO sin.
Nurture the New Life
V. 10 brings to mind 1:15ff where Paul tells us who we follow.
You must - this is urgent!
Rule - same word in the warning about letting someone “referee” your life and disqualify you from the prize.
In this case, it’s good to submit to Christ as the arbiter of our actions.
This is how we kill off the old sinful nature and nourish the new nature.
We choose to love like Christ.
Do Everything Like Jesus
Conclusion:
Will we continue to experience bouts of chaos and mayhem, wanting to “HULK SMASH”?
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