I was Barabbas once upon a time.
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
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Amen and so we faithfully pursue the truth of this change we leave the old sinner behind and his ways , and seek after the image of Gods son and his ways the ways of Gods children found in the gospel
“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that
ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But
ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that
ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; ( repent )
and
be renewed in the spirit of your mind;( believe the gospel )
and that ye
put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (How do we put on the new man ? )
Wherefore
putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members
one of another.
Be ye angry, and
sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather
let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
And
grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and
be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:17-32
these are the things Jesus teaches us
we hear and believe and then move by faith in those things in this way our mind is renewed first when we believe the gospel
“be renewed in the spirit of your mind”
and we repent
“ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”
and eventually we’re letting the new creation we find in the gospel of Christ take over our mknd heart and lives
Because in maturity weve come to this faith
See we can lose sight of the new man easily and return to following and living in the old if we’re complacent
“Wherefore
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, ( repent ) and
receive with meekness
the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. ( believe the gospel )
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if any be a
hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is
like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
James 1:21-24 KJV
when we’re looking at Jesus and the gospel we’re seeing the new man we’re meant to be one of his disciples to be like Jesus our creator is the new man we’re walking after and trying to become like him and like he said for us to be
as we believe we’re new creations nd we accept the teachkngs part it changes us through faith from old sinner to new child of God