The Key to Putting on the New Man
We are told in Ephesians 4:22-24 “that you put off concerning the former
conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. And
be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that you put on the new man, which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”. And in the natural this
seems hard to do, but the key is found in “love” (I John 3:1-3) “behold, what
manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God; therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall
be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall
see Him as He is. And every man that has this hope in Him purifies himself,
even as He is pure”. Also in I John 4:16-17 it says “and we have known and
believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love
dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may
have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world”.
The Bible tells us in Romans 2 that it is the goodness of God that leads you to
repentance.
Abram which was later called Abraham, was called by God and told in (Genesis
12:1-3) “Now the Lord Yahweh had said to Abram, get you out of your country,
and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show
you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your
name great, and you shall be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless you,
and curse him that curses you; and in you shall all families of the earth be
blessed”. Abram went out by faith (Hebrews 11:8-10) “by faith Abraham, when
he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an
inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went. By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with
Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for a
city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God”.
As we continue to read on in verses 4-5 says “so Abram departed, as the Lord
Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and
five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife,
and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and
the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land
of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came”.
Abram as a lot of us obeyed partly, Abram did leave, but he took his nephew
with him. This caused him trouble later, when their herdsmen began to quarrel
over the land and Abram had to tell Lot to separate from him. He gave Lot the
opportunity to pick where he would go, Lot picked the plains of Sodom because
it looked good, and Abram went the other way. Lot walking by sight thought he
made the best choice, but it ended up costing him his family (Proverbs 14:12)
says “there is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death”.
Abram was 75 years old when God told him to leave, he walked in his fleshly
nature for a lot of years. God had told him that, He would make him “the father
of many nations” and Abram had no children at that time. Sarai, his wife tried to
help God by giving her handmaid to him and this produced Ishmael, but this was
not the promised seed.
God had to change his name from Abram to Abraham which means “the father
of many nations”, and after he began to say his name, he was saying what God
had said about him (Romans 4:17-21) “as it is written; I have made you a father
of many nations, before Him, whom he believed, even God, who makes alive the
dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were. Who against
hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations;
according to that which was spoken, so shall your seed be. And being not weak
in faith; he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He staggered
not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God. And being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able
also to perform”.
By saying what God said about him, he was able to put on the new man, and
become fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had said.
Romans 12:1-2 tells us “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be
you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that
good, and acceptable and perfect, will of God”.
Presenting your body a living sacrifice can be accomplished, after all we were
brought with a price and are not our own, in (I Corinthians 6:19-20) it says,
“what? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in
you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought
with a price, therefore glorify, God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God’s”.
Saul who was later called Paul, was called by God, in Acts chapter 9, as he met
Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-6) “and Saul, yet breathing out
threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high
priest. And desired him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found
any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound
to Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly
there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and
heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you Me? And he said,
Who are You, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute; it is
hard for you to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said,
Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, arise, and go into
the city, and it shall be told you what you must do”.
Saul, Paul was able to put on the new man because he received his new birth
and began speaking and acting as Christ did (Acts 9:17-22) “and Ananias went
his way, and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him said, Brother
Saul, the Lord, even Jesus that appeared to you in the way as you came, has
sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And
immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been sales; and he received sight
forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. And when he had received meat, he
was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at
Damascus. And immediately he preached Christ in the synagogues, the He is
the Son of God. But all that heard him were amazed, and said, is not this he
that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem; and came here for
that intent, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests? But Saul
increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelled at
Damascus, proving that this is very Christ”.
He later told us to follow him as he follows Christ.
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: December 21, 2010
We are told in Ephesians 4:22-24 “that you put off concerning the former
conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. And
be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that you put on the new man, which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”. And in the natural this
seems hard to do, but the key is found in “love” (I John 3:1-3) “behold, what
manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God; therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall
be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall
see Him as He is. And every man that has this hope in Him purifies himself,
even as He is pure”. Also in I John 4:16-17 it says “and we have known and
believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love
dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may
have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world”.
The Bible tells us in Romans 2 that it is the goodness of God that leads you to
repentance.
Abram which was later called Abraham, was called by God and told in (Genesis
12:1-3) “Now the Lord Yahweh had said to Abram, get you out of your country,
and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show
you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your
name great, and you shall be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless you,
and curse him that curses you; and in you shall all families of the earth be
blessed”. Abram went out by faith (Hebrews 11:8-10) “by faith Abraham, when
he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an
inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went. By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with
Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for a
city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God”.
As we continue to read on in verses 4-5 says “so Abram departed, as the Lord
Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and
five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife,
and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and
the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land
of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came”.
Abram as a lot of us obeyed partly, Abram did leave, but he took his nephew
with him. This caused him trouble later, when their herdsmen began to quarrel
over the land and Abram had to tell Lot to separate from him. He gave Lot the
opportunity to pick where he would go, Lot picked the plains of Sodom because
it looked good, and Abram went the other way. Lot walking by sight thought he
made the best choice, but it ended up costing him his family (Proverbs 14:12)
says “there is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death”.
Abram was 75 years old when God told him to leave, he walked in his fleshly
nature for a lot of years. God had told him that, He would make him “the father
of many nations” and Abram had no children at that time. Sarai, his wife tried to
help God by giving her handmaid to him and this produced Ishmael, but this was
not the promised seed.
God had to change his name from Abram to Abraham which means “the father
of many nations”, and after he began to say his name, he was saying what God
had said about him (Romans 4:17-21) “as it is written; I have made you a father
of many nations, before Him, whom he believed, even God, who makes alive the
dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were. Who against
hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations;
according to that which was spoken, so shall your seed be. And being not weak
in faith; he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He staggered
not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God. And being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able
also to perform”.
By saying what God said about him, he was able to put on the new man, and
become fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had said.
Romans 12:1-2 tells us “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be
you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that
good, and acceptable and perfect, will of God”.
Presenting your body a living sacrifice can be accomplished, after all we were
brought with a price and are not our own, in (I Corinthians 6:19-20) it says,
“what? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in
you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought
with a price, therefore glorify, God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God’s”.
Saul who was later called Paul, was called by God, in Acts chapter 9, as he met
Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-6) “and Saul, yet breathing out
threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high
priest. And desired him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found
any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound
to Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly
there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and
heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you Me? And he said,
Who are You, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute; it is
hard for you to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said,
Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, arise, and go into
the city, and it shall be told you what you must do”.
Saul, Paul was able to put on the new man because he received his new birth
and began speaking and acting as Christ did (Acts 9:17-22) “and Ananias went
his way, and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him said, Brother
Saul, the Lord, even Jesus that appeared to you in the way as you came, has
sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And
immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been sales; and he received sight
forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. And when he had received meat, he
was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at
Damascus. And immediately he preached Christ in the synagogues, the He is
the Son of God. But all that heard him were amazed, and said, is not this he
that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem; and came here for
that intent, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests? But Saul
increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelled at
Damascus, proving that this is very Christ”.
He later told us to follow him as he follows Christ.
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: December 21, 2010
