THE OLD MAN PART IV (4)
Lesson Four – Wheat and Tares Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the […]
THE OLD MAN PART IV (3)
Lesson Three – From Glory to Glory A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35) In the last lesson we discussed the […]
THE OLD MAN PART IV (2)
Lesson Two – The Visible Community One aspect of the Ecclesia we hardly touched on in the last lesson was visibility. If you consider however that the list of nine items in the last lesson are all about what the body should “look like.” This term in itself is a description of visibility. Let’s once […]
THE OLD MAN PART IV(1)
Lesson One – The Ecclesia The Cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call is to abandon the attachments to the world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we depart on discipleship we surrender […]
THE OLD MAN PART III (4)
Lesson Four – The Work of The Cross In the first lesson of this section we spoke about how Christ’s sacrifice being a defining moment when the Father made a way for all mankind to come back into a relationship with him This is an accomplished fact. In the previous lesson we considered Jesus’s “born […]
THE OLD MAN PART III (3)
Lesson Three – Born Again When a person accepts the Lord as his savior in a sincere act of repentance he is said to be born again. The Gospel of John records Jesus explaining this to Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin. This concept of being born again was confusing to the […]
THE OLD MAN PART III (2)
Lesson Two – Atonement for The Whole Man Death entered the world through the fall of man; a spiritual death that separates man from his creator. Death is sin’s unchanging nature, and therefore death has permeated the spirit, soul and body of every man ever born. We discussed in the last lesson that sin has […]
THE OLD MAN PART III (1)
Lesson One – The Cross We have seen previously that we as human beings have inherited the sin initiated in the Garden of Eden, “just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned,” (Rom. 5:12) and that we are fleshly. Our spirit is […]
THE OLD MAN PART II (4)
Lesson Four – Reformation or Restoration? The Bible teaches clearly that the natural man is a slave to sin. Thus, we as humans have a natural inclination to behave a certain way, and that way leads to death. The question raised in the last lesson is – how do we overcome this condition? Let’s now […]
THE OLD MAN PART II (3)
Lesson Three – The Flesh “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” (John 6:60), said His disciples, and many of them walked away as they were offended by what Jesus was telling them. Perhaps it was not that they didn’t understand, but refused to accept the truth of their condition. Our Lord went on […]