13TH FEBRUARY, 2022

PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON

ADORNING YOUR CONDUCT

Colossians 3:9-10 (NKJV)
“…since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, …”

We are to adorn our outward conduct with the inner nature and character of God in the hidden, recreated born-again spirit—the hidden man of the heart.

It is hidden, covered by the physical body, because spiritual things are invisible or imperceptible to our physical senses, and the inner man is spiritual.

Hence, we ‘put off’ the sin nature that used to be in our spirits and is still in our souls: minds, wills and emotions and bodies; and ‘put on’ the new, godly nature that is now in our spirits (Rom. 7:22-23; Gal. 5:13-18).

This can be likened to putting on and taking off our physical clothes daily: we launder our clothes and then put them on afresh each day.

Similarly, daily, we are to clean our hearts with the blood of Jesus by confessing our sins (‘drinking His blood’), and ‘put on’ the divine nature by releasing God’s wisdom and power into our souls: wills, minds and emotions and bodies. We do this by speaking God’s Word and praying in the Spirit with tongues and travail (‘eating His flesh’: Jn. 6:56).

This way, you will be abiding actively in Christ and He abiding actively in you, by this regular flow of His blood and life in your heart, then from your spirit into your soul. This implies it is also possible to be dormant and not active in Christ! (Rev. 3:1-2).

So by ‘drinking His blood’ and ‘eating His flesh’, we are also simultaneously and equivalently keeping His commandments and dwelling, or abiding actively, in the love of God (1Jn. 3:23-24; 4:15-18).

As we actively abide in Christ and so perfect His love in us by His blood, Word and Spirit, we will daily adorn our conduct with His nature and character of love, and so draw men to Him by the Spirit, even without preaching the Word to them.

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