newness of life

Now, walk in the newness of life. Rom.6:4
Something in us doesn’t like God.
It doesn’t matter how nice and religious we are, there is
something in us that doesn’t like God.
This is the sin nature.
It’s the other voice in our soul that arrogantly mocks God
and despises his goodness.
It’s the power that gladly joins the devil in a conspiracy
against faith and truthful thinking.
It is called OLD sin nature, because it resists all growth.
It is not old in time but in it’s character, old and useless.
When the old man is strengthened in a believer’s life
he becomes a strange creature.
He has the angels appearance,
but the devil’s character.
Man is either natural (unsaved without the Spirit) or
spiritual. When the spiritual man thinks and talks like the
natural man he becomes carnal. This is a strange category.
It’s confusing.
Walking in the newness of life means to live by faith.
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.” Heb.11:1
Faith is not based on wishful thinking and fantasies.
It’s based on the Word that became flesh and overcame
the death once and for all.
We are very familiar with the oldness of life.
It doesn’t change.
Sometimes this is mistakenly called security.
God finds no pleasure in it.
God has no place for it in heaven.
His nature is new all the time.
God is not old. He is eternally new.