DONT FIX THE OLD MAN (page 2)

John 11:25 "Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,"

If YOUR OLD MAN complains, remember, it’s just an echo. Ignore him. Ignore him every time altogether as if he’s dead… because HE IS! Live as if you are free, because you are! Live FREE.

Luke 5:36 “And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.”

Ask Jesus to REMOVE the OLD MAN. Don’t bother teaching the old man. He doesn’t listen or learn, so don’t bother. Instead, FOCUS on YOUR NEW MAN! See your new man everywhere you look. Teach the NEW MAN! The harvest is ripe!

Luke 5:37 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.”

Jesus showed us a great deal of GOOD, and He ALWAYS demonstrated the ABSOLUTE GOODNESS of God, His FATHER. Jesus IS the way, the truth, and the life, and He often said, “Follow me… or do this like me…” WAS IT JUST A SUGGESTION?

1 Peter 5:10 "After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you."

Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, HIS STUDENTS. Jesus taught, instructed, applied, and PRACTICED with His disciples, and HE STILL DOES every day. Jesus is IN YOU, doing the work, transforming you INTO HIS IMAGE.

Mark 2:22 “No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

Jesus LIVED IN a community, He led a core group, and many followed Him. Jesus taught and practiced with His disciples UNTIL THEY GOT IT, and then HE ascended to the FATHER, where HE SITS ON THE THRONE OF GRACE until ALL enemies are made HIS FOOTSTOOL.

John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

We PRACTICE putting on the NEW MAN. We focus on the NEW COVENANT and everything JESUS accomplished on our behalf by GRACE. Meaning, JESUS DID IT ALL ALL MEANS ALL. Because Jesus took our place and GAVE US HIS LIFE IN EXCHANGE, we KNOW it was a FULL EXCHANGE.

1 John 4:17 "By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world."

It is DONE. Therefore, we NOW walk and abide IN CHRIST. We walk and abide IN CHRIST, who is IN THE FATHER.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ."

We work from HIM and IN HIM and THROUGH HIM. We are ONE with the FATHER IN CHRIST.

Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”

We put off the old man and put on the new man. It’s a FULL EXCHANGE and a progressive transformation from ONE level of Glory to another.

2 Corinthians 3:18 "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."

Jesus does the work and the will IN US and FOR US. We practice putting off the old dean man and walking in the NEW MAN in LOVE.

John 4:23-26 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

We practice abiding in HIS LOVE, JOY, PATIENCE, and PEACE because we have HIS LIFE. When we practice putting off the old man and putting on the new man, there’s no performance review, no grading, and no failure.

2 Corinthians 4:4 "in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."

JESUS DOES THE WORK AND THE WILL IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU.

Philippians 2:13 "for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure."

There is ONE LIFE, SPIRIT, LORD, and TEACHER. He is our SHEPHERD too, and we know HIS VOICE ALONE.

Ephesians 4:4-7 "There is ONE body and ONE Spirit, just as also you were called in ONE hope of your calling; ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE baptism, ONE God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift."

Scripture Soak… soak on the following Scriptures, read them out loud to Jesus, showing Him, as your teacher, all that you have learned from Him, sharing all that you know and have learned from HIM, especially the parts about the ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF GOD!

1 Peter 1:13 “Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.”

Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

1 Thessalonians 1:3 “constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,”

Philippians 1:27 “Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;”

Romans 10:17 “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”

Ephesians 3:1 “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—”

2 Corinthians 10:5 “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,”

1 Corinthians 4:1 “Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.”

Philippians 1:8 “For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.”

Ephesians 3:4 “By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,”

Romans 15:5 “Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,”

2 Corinthians 3:14 “But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.”

2 Timothy 4:1 “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:”

1 Peter 5:1 “Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed,”

Philippians 2:16 “holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.”

2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

Romans 7:25 “Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.”

1 Corinthians 1:10 “Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.”

Romans 2:16 “on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 2:5 “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,”

1 Peter 4:1 “Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,”