Daily Bread - Nov 3 2006

Ephesianns 4:24 - "And be endued with the new man which is created after God in righteousness and true holiness."

The new man is the same as the new creation of 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 6:15. It is clearly God’s desire to equip us with a new identity of ourselves. He wants us to see ourselves as His children, and so He says that we are to be born from above (John 3:3), born of the Spirit (John 3:5), born of Word of God (1 Peter 1:23), and born of the resurrection (1 Peter 1:3). The new man is the miracle of the new birth. The new man possesses the nature of God, a divine nature (2 Peter 1:5). It is through this newness of life that we are empowered to walk as the sons of God (Romans 6:4; John 1:12; Romans 8:16; Colossians 3:9).

The new man has a new and pure heart, a new spirit, a purified soul and body that is the temple of God. As the workmanship of God, we have been made a holy dwelling place for God to live in (Ephesians 2:10; Ezekiel 36:26-27; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Matthew 5:8; 1 Ti 1:5; 2 Ti 2:22; Heb 10:22; 1 Peter 1:22).

Blessings,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org