Aim: To reject our old selves, and embrace our new ones (in Christ).
Doctrine: Regeneration leads us to intentional acts of shedding sin, and donning Christ. This flows from the church's hearing of the gospel, which results in ever-increasing Christlikeness.
Exegesis: How believers are to manage their spiritual wardrobes: first, faith frees our will—so that we may make sanctified choices (vv. 20-21); then, we consciously scrap our flesh-shells—leading us to fresh thinking (vv. 22-23); finally, we adorn our souls with our true selves—which are clothed in Christ's righteousness (v. 24).
Further application: Practical principles surrounding the churchman's ''new clothes'': it means we must make sanctified judgments about all things; this will govern the way we act.
Key verse: v. 24 ''...And that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.