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My old man has been crucified with Him,
With all its foul corruption deep within;
And buried too its nature serpentine,
Completely finished—this great fact is mine,
I hold it fast.
With all its foul corruption deep within;
And buried too its nature serpentine,
Completely finished—this great fact is mine,
I hold it fast.
2
But there’s a Person in my spirit now,
Born as a babe so small, so weak, so low;
Who by the Word’s pure milk will grow to be
The overcoming inner man in me
To gain my heart.
Born as a babe so small, so weak, so low;
Who by the Word’s pure milk will grow to be
The overcoming inner man in me
To gain my heart.
3
Christ as my Person must possess my heart
And be preeminent in every part.
The former owner died but haunts it still.
O Lord, move in; my mind, emotion, will
Now welcome Thee.
And be preeminent in every part.
The former owner died but haunts it still.
O Lord, move in; my mind, emotion, will
Now welcome Thee.
4
In spirit mingled, we are one, O Lord,
The human and divine in one accord;
Yet Thou must have a proper faculty
That all Thy glorious personality
May be expressed.
The human and divine in one accord;
Yet Thou must have a proper faculty
That all Thy glorious personality
May be expressed.
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So, Lord, I give my heart to Thee today,
That it may be Thy home in every way,
A place for Thee to come and settle down,
And all Thy grand recovery work to crown
In one new man.
That it may be Thy home in every way,
A place for Thee to come and settle down,
And all Thy grand recovery work to crown
In one new man.
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With the Jews and the
Gentiles as the Materials
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According to Ephesians 2:15 , Christ used the Jews and the Gentiles as the materials in His creating of the new man. Christ created the new man by imparting the divine nature into the redeemed humanity of the believing Jews and Gentiles.
In Himself as
the Divine Element
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Ephesians 2:15 says, “That He [Christ] might create the two in Himself into one new man. ” The new man was created in Christ as the divine element. When we were the old man, we had the human element but did not have the divine element. Since God Himself has been imparted and added into us, we now have the divine element in us. Since we have the divine element, we have become something new. This new thing in its totality is the new man.
Through His Death
on the Cross
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The new man was created through Christ’s death on the cross. Thousands of Christians have read Ephesians 2:15 ; 4:24 ; and Colossians 3:10 , and they have seen the term the new man according to the letter, but they do not know what the new man is. Our becoming the new man was not merely a matter of our repenting and being sorry for our past and thereby becoming new. This is the teaching of Confucius; it is not the teaching of the Bible. In the creating of the new man, first our natural man was crucified by Christ on the cross, and then through the crossing out of the old man, Christ imparted God’s element into us. Thus, we became an entity that is different from the old man because we have God’s element in us.
Ephesians 2:15 tells us that Christ did this creating work on the cross. We usually consider that Christ’s work on the cross was related only to negative things, to cross us out, to crucify us. But Ephesians 2:15 tells us that on the cross Christ did something positive to generate us, not to put us to death. This divine thought is clearly seen in Ephesians 2:15. The cross of Christ not only destroys and kills; it also generates and brings in something divine.
The God-men
Chapter 1 (LSM)
CWWL, 1994–1997, vol. 2
CRUCIFIED WITH HIM
Romans 6:6 : “Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves. ”
Verse 17 : “But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which you were delivered. ”
This is a vital doctrine in our belief: that by faith, we are crucified with Christ, and the old man is annulled. I do not crucify myself. When Christ was crucified, I was crucified with Him. By this I am set free from sin, being no longer a slave to it. In this way I can reckon myself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ. This is a big doctrine that hinges on the person Christ.
LIBERATED IN HIM
Romans 7:24-25 : “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. ”
Here is a man who was constantly defeated by his own fleshly lusts. When he was at the end of his hopes, crying for deliverance, he saw the way of salvation: liberation by the Lord Jesus Christ. The power of liberation is also in the Lord.
The Normal Christian Faith
CWWN, vol. 27
Chapter 6 (LSM)
Fremont, California, United States
Praise the Lord! May the Lord shine on us and cause us to see that we have been freed from the old man with his law, and we have been joined to Christ as our new Husband to love Him, live one with Him, and depend on Him! Hallelujah 😀
Lagos, Nigeria
So Lord l give my heart to thee today
That it may be Thy home in every way
Amen!
Oyen, AB, Canada
Christ as my Person must possess my heart
And be preeminent in every part.
The former owner died but haunts it still.
O Lord, move in; my mind, emotion, will
Now welcome Thee.
Austin, Texas, United States
Amen! Our old man has been WHOLLY CRUCIFIED! PRAISE THE LORD
Easton, MD, United States
Stanza 5 is so all-inclusive and means the world to me! My prayer is to be saturated with the reality of every word so that my Lord could settle down and have His complete home in me!
London, United Kingdom
Praise the Lord for two sides to this wonderful truth. Our old man HAS BEEN crucified! Completely finished this great fact is ours! But we still sense the haunting of the former owner so we pray O Lord move in to every part of our heart, today!
Church In Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
So uplifting and freeing! The Lord will do it all if we will just co-operate and submit to Him. We are coming out of our oldness into the newness of Life! Praise the Lord for His Mercy and Grace. May all the saints experience The Divine Life in Oness.............. Bless You all..........
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Amen that our old man has been crucified!!!