“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
Sometimes when you begin to remodel your home there will be times where it is just best to completely remove the old construction and start brand new. One time I was fixing up an old camper trailer, and in one part of the walls of the camper the stud supports in the walls had begun to rot away from years of moisture. The wood had become very soft and not really suitable anymore to support the rest of the boards of the wall around it, so I made the decision to completely remove that old board and replace it with a brand new one.
Well when someone is living in their sins as a carnal human being, they are that old board in the wall. When someone makes the decision to begin a new life for Jesus, Christ purchases us with His blood and takes away our sins. Like an old rotten board in a wall, our sins need to be completely removed from our lives, so that we can be built up strong in our faith in Christ. We leave behind the old person we used to be, and be our new life for Jesus.
“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:24
Before someone becomes a Christian, they might do sinful things. But when they become a Christian, they become convicted in their hearts that those things are wrong, and don’t get caught up doing those sinful things anymore. Maybe as an unbeliever, someone used to steal from others but now they give to the poor.
They have become a new person in Christ. The people they used to hang out with might think they’re weird, and call them names like “Bible thumper” or “Jesus freak” because they don’t do the things that they used to do as an unbeliever.
“Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:” 1 Peter 4:1-4
Look at what the apostle Paul did before he became a Christian. As Saul, he went around persecuting Christians and trying to destroy churches, but God changed him. He changed the Pharisee named Saul into an apostle named Paul and Paul used his new life to preach to others and start churches. It didn’t take very long before the Pharisee’s wanted to kill Paul; that’s how much he changed.
When we become a new person in Christ, we put off the old. Instead of walking in the darkness of sin, we walk in the light of Christ. We put off the old man and become new. We must remove those old rotten boards, and be rebuilt new in Jesus!
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