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God is operating in us both the willing and the working Phil.
We will not just pass on certain teachings, doctrines, and knowledge to others. Mounce and William D. They often strive desperately to prevent this inevitable process. Then, God has provided us with the cross, the Holy Spirit, our mingled spirit, and the word of God to help us be renewed. When our outer man is reduced and our inner man is renewed, we are kept in the Holy of Holies.
As those who love the Lord, seek Him, and pursue Him with our whole heart, we need to learn to open to the Lord with our whole being at all times, whether good or bad, and allow Him to add His new element into us day by day. Starting in the morning we need to open to the Lord to be revived every morning , and then throughout the day we need to be renewed day by day.
We need to allow the cross to operate in our being and daily kill our self, crucify our flesh, and put our old man to death, and as this happens, we need to just be open to the Lord, be in His word, and allow the Holy Spirit to renew us. Oh, how much we need to be renewed day by day by being nourished with the fresh supply of the resurrection life so that we may live in resurrection! At the time of our regeneration we received the divine life, the new life of God, and we became new; our entire Christian life is a life of having the God of resurrection added into us morning and evening day by day so that we may grow with the growth of God Col.
Though our outer man is decaying both through the operation of the cross in our being and by the growth in human life unto…oldness! This is all in the unseen realm; our Christian life is in the unseen spiritual realm, for the seen things are temporary, but the divine and spiritual things in the unseen realm are eternal 2 Cor.
God is operating in us to energize us and add His divine element which has the renewing capacity; this renewing element is His resurrection life, the life that has passed through death and came out in resurrection. As we contact the Lord every day, we enjoy the renewing capacity of the divine life in resurrection.
As we contact the Lord and confess our sins, we die to ourselves and reject ourselves, and the Lord applies His death to our being so that His resurrection life would operate in us. As Paul said, the putting to death of Jesus operates in us so that life may also operate 2 Cor. Then, His resurrection life operates in us to renew us by adding the divine element to our being. Praise the Lord, our real Christian life is not a life of suffering but a life of being renewed day by day by having the God of resurrection added into us morning and evening and day by day! Lord Jesus, we open ourselves to You for the new addition of Your element into our being today.
Lord, renew us in our mind, emotion, and will.
Spread from our spirit into every part of our inner being. Oh Lord, nourish us with the fresh supply of the resurrection life and add Your new divine element to us more today! God has provided many things to help us be renewed day by day. In order to receive the renewing capacity of the divine life in resurrection, we first need to contact God, open ourselves to Him, and let Him come into us to be a new addition into us day by day see Phil.
Then, God has provided us with the cross, the Holy Spirit, our mingled spirit, and the word of God to help us be renewed.
As we bear about in the body the cross of Christ , the life of Jesus is also manifested in us 2 Cor. The Holy Spirit renews us Titus 3: The renewing of the Holy Spirit is a reconditioning, remaking, and remodelling with the divine life. We also have our mingled spirit , our human spirit mingled with the divine Spirit; our spirit is the place where the renewing takes place.
The Holy Spirit dwells and lives in our spirit, and as we set our mind on the spirit and exercise our spirit, the mingled spirit spreads into our mind to renew our mind and become the spirit of our mind Eph. Furthermore, God has provided us with His holy Word for us to be renewed; Christ washes us, cleanses us, and beautifies us as the church through the washing of the water in the word Eph.
We need to be in the word of God daily, being washed by the Lord and even beautified by Him through His word to become His bride. What makes us old is not forgiving others and not seeking to be forgiven.
Other ways to be renewed is by having a thorough confession and a thorough dealing; keeping short accounts with the Lord and seeking to be forgiven by others will keep us in the process of being renewed by the Lord day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. New Living Translation That is why we. Being Renewed Day by Day. CONTENTS. Being Renewed Day by Day · The Renewing Capacity of the Divine Life in Resurrection.
For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. As expressed in the latter part of chapter four: I believe the "inward man" back in 4: We have this body or this tent, but there is something inside the tent, the inner man; the "building from God.
The physical body is merely the tent, the outer shell; a temporary dwelling place, in which we sojourn till the day comes when it is dissolved and we enter into another realm. Paul was motivated to faithfulness and endurance, longing to shed the outer tent and enter into another existence to serve and to adore God. Now, Paul did not despise this life but he longed for the better and lasting home. His attitude was - What does it matter of my body-tent is destroyed. I have another body, a building from God, and that inner man will enjoy a more glorious existence when mortality is swallowed up by life, and God has guaranteed this!
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