4-10-2016 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 130:1-8

Main scripture: Ephesians 4:17-24

Subject: Put on the new man, which is created in righteousness and true holiness

         We were born putting on the old man, Adam before we were saved. But the Lord Jesus Christ has abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances. He has made both of the Jew and the Gentiles creating a new man in him, and made them in peace each other in him. (Eph. 2:15)

         Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. In other word, God crucified us to death in Christ with him on the cross; and he quickened us spiritually giving us his Spirit when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our spirit quickened spiritually is dwelling in our mortal body.

        Now old things are passed away since we were saved. All things are new. As all things are of God, we also are born of God in the reconciliation unto God from the enmity with him through the blood of Jesus Christ. Now we are the ambassadors for Christ so that we make the world to be reconciled with God showing us as a new man born of God.

         This is the reason why Apostle Paul encouraged to put on the new man unto the saints of Ephesians. As a new born baby cannot behave as a man right away, even a born again Christian of the Spirit cannot live as a new man, Jesus Christ right away either.

        As men born in Adam are putting on the old man, Adam that sinned growing in the world, men born of the Holy Ghost are putting on Christ as they grow spiritually.

         The clothes of Adam, the old man are of sin and of death and of curse, the ones of the new man, Jesus Christ are of righteousness and of blessing and of life. Before we were saved, we were dead spiritually, and our soul was destinated to be destroyed forever in the lake of fire as well as our body without any hope suffering from diseases getting old unto death. One that live in sin and death and curse in the trinity of spirit and soul and body cannot put on the new man, Jesus Christ.

        When we were born again of God through the Holy Ghost by the salvation, our spirit was revived as our soul was saved to be delivered from the hell forever anymore(1Pet. 1:9) Knowing our body still of sin, God let us put off the body of sin through the circumsicion of Christ so that we are no more putting on the mortal body so that we may be able to do as the ambassadors of Christ. Apostle Paul testified of the spirituall circumsicion:”For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. In whom also ye are circumcised of the circumsicion made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Buired with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen wwith him, having forgiven you all trespasses.”(Col. 2:9-12)

         We have put off the cloth of Adam that is the old man through the death of Jesus Christ; now we have to put on the new man, Jesus Christ. As new born baby is taken care by the parents for putting on clothes for the time being before he is matured to do by himself, the children of God have to grow spiritually. Apostle Peter testified of the growth of the children of God:

“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil sspeakings, as new born babies, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”(1Pet. 2:1-2)

         Apostle Paul testified unto the saints of Thessalonians saying, he pray God their whole ssssspirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ(1Thess. 5:23).

       Yeah! The only hope of the children of God is to wait for his comin, because he church of God born of the Holy Ghost is engaged as the bride of Christ through the Holy Ghost.  he is our husband as well as our brother and friend. We are not to dwell in the ccursed world, but to sojourn here momentarily.

       Then, we have to meditate deeply of the life to make our spirit and soul and body blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ come back.

       Our spirit has already become the quickening spirit as our Lord risen with him. The first man, Adam our father in the blood was a living soul, but Jesus Christ that is the last Adam is the quickening spirit (1Cor. 15:45). Jesus spoke unto his disciples, it is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63).

       Not to be blameless our spirit, our spirit has to eat all the words of God as we eat his flesh. In other word, our spirit should be filled with the Holy Ghost. All the scripture is given by inspiration of God; and our spirit is to be led by the Spirit of God when we are filled with the words of God. And when our spirit is filled with the words of God, we are to put on the new man, Jesus Christ.

           We also are to understand of our soul to be blameless through the word of God. Apostle Peter testified of the way that our soul put on Jesus Christ:

“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervantly.”(1Pet. 1:22)

        Apostle Paul testified of the way to make our body put on Christ: “That ye 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 ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”(Eph. 4:22-24)

         He also testified of the body of the children of God once again unto the saints of Corinthians: “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which  is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye ar bought wwith a prise; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s”(1Cor. 6:18-20)

        As we are to be in sickness when when nutritions are not in balance, our spiritual life are also to be in trouble when the spiritual nutritions that are the words of God are needy seriously. When our body is lack of protein, we are to be weak immune system within the body to lose energy In the same manner, when we are lack of the words of God that provide the spiritual immune system, we are in danger of attack from the Devil because of imbalance of our spiritual power. And we are to suffer from spiritual loss through the losing in the spiritual warfare.

       Our Lord is pleased to see us when we are putting on Christ through wearing the whole armor of God through the blood of Christ and words of life and the power of the Holy Ghost. Amen! Hallelujah!