By Neil Anderson
Greg is a strong believer in Jesus Christ and in the need for revival in today’s Church. He likes reading, writing, music, and spending time with his family and his dog Roxie. By day he is a self-employed non-emergency medical transport driver, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the National War Council, as well as being a political analyst, author, blogger, and an accomplished DIYer. His articles are first published on Inspirational Christian Blogs, and I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel of Christ!, and from there the articles are published on other well-known conservative websites.
The author feels convinced that the Church is in extreme danger of being forsaken by God for being unbiblical and seeks to warn all those with “ears to hear.” He believes we are in the last days of the end times, and that God is building His Remnant Church even now.
Greg is the author of: Spiritual Darkness is Destroying America and the Church
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Categories: INSPIRATIONAL DEVOTIONS
Prophecy’s Direct Dial to Jesus
God reckons us as light even though in one sense we are not yet out of the darkness. That’s one way to understand the tension between the old and new. In Christ we are light, new, spirit. We have “put on Christ” as a new garment, but the old man is still there under the clothes. None of these explanations gets at the whole truth. I am new, new born. I also live in the flesh.
You may choose to live in the flesh, but you do not have too do so. When you accept Christ as Lord you are released from the “old man”…the old man is dead and you are created anew in Christ. Yes you can and will still sin, but you are no longer the “old man” who IS sin.
This is also what baptism is about spoken of by Paul. We are baptized into death with Christ meaning our sin-nature is crucified with Christ and dies. You come up out of the water a new creation in Christ…the new man.
We are all born sinful, we basically ARE sin. Our spirit is dead because of sin. Then we meet with Jesus…and we are reborn, the “old man”…sin is done away with and we are reborn as a “new man” alive in the spirit.
We no longer live in the flesh, we live in the spirit. Therefore although when we accept Christ as Lord we may choose to walk in the flesh, we are no longer OF the flesh.
This is also why the Word of God makes sense to those reborn…but not to those living in the flesh.