The Christian life requires for you to put off that old man, that conversation.
So it needs to be a conscientious, you know, habit that you have to basically tell yourself,
you know what, I'm going to put off the old man.
And the putting off is basically the picture that we get there is like you're taking off
certain clothing, okay?
And the old man can be pictured as that old clothing.
So God says, look, you know, in the morning or whenever, you know, throughout the day,
you need to put off that old, those old garments, that old man, that old conversation, the behavior.
You need to change your actions, okay?
Look what it says in 1 Peter 1, verse 13, Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind,
be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lust and your ignorance.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of conversation.
Notice he's not saying be holy in your spirit, because your spirit is already holy, it's
already born again.
The part that we need to work on is our conversation.
And these are, I guess you could say these are like the three aspects of salvation.
We obviously understand that when we get born again, it's already settled, we're saved,
okay?
In order to summarize this process of our flesh and our spirit, we would say it starts
off with justification, which means the salvation of our spirit.
It ends with glorification, which is the transfiguration of our body.
In between that you have what?
Sanctification, where God is continuously sanctifying us, cleaning up our lives as we
read the word of God, as we're obedient children, we're being holy as he is holy.
Now, here's the thing is that if you choose not to be sanctified, you're still saved.
Your spirit is still saved, but your flesh is not going to be saved in this lifetime.
You're probably going to suffer judgment because of it.
God's wrath is probably going to come upon you because you're not allowing yourself to
be sanctified, understand?
Those are great incentives to allow yourself to be sanctified in this lifetime so that
we don't suffer the punishment that God can inflict upon us for our disobedience and rebellion.
So he says there, as obedient children, not fascinating yourselves according to the former
lust and your ignorance, but as he which hath called you is holy, so be holy in all manner
of conversation, because it is written, be holy, for I am holy.
Skip down to verse 18, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible
things as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by the tradition from
your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot, the Bible tells us.
So again, we see the commandment here is to put off that old man.
And here's the thing is that everyone's old men in here are sinful to various degrees,
you understand?
Some people got really old men, they're old, they're just really old, they're just an old
man, they've been in the world for a long time, they grew up in the world, some old
men are just, they got saved when they were younger and they weren't in the world for
that long or something, but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, because
God just says just put off that old man.