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Old and New
Just a quick thought today in regards to Chapter 3. In the ESV this section has the subheading "Put on the New Self". This theme of old and new comes up several times in the NT, and I think that it communicates something very important and practical.
The Bible tells us to "put off" the old, or "put to death" the old man, but it never stops there. It always moves on to what we should "put on". We cannot simply stop doing bad things. We cannot simply empty our lives or we'll be just that: empty. We MUST put on the new. The Christian life is more than simply avoiding "bad" things. You can't live your life that way. We can never defeat sin by simply thinking about how much we want it to go away. We MUST look to the cross. We MUST look to Jesus. We MUST be new creations.
Don't just take off the old - seek the new and be changed.
Old and New
Just a quick thought today in regards to Chapter 3. In the ESV this section has the subheading "Put on the New Self". This theme of old and new comes up several times in the NT, and I think that it communicates something very important and practical.
The Bible tells us to "put off" the old, or "put to death" the old man, but it never stops there. It always moves on to what we should "put on". We cannot simply stop doing bad things. We cannot simply empty our lives or we'll be just that: empty. We MUST put on the new. The Christian life is more than simply avoiding "bad" things. You can't live your life that way. We can never defeat sin by simply thinking about how much we want it to go away. We MUST look to the cross. We MUST look to Jesus. We MUST be new creations.
Don't just take off the old - seek the new and be changed.
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