You Are a New Creation -- Forget the Old Man

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5: 17)

It is disheartening to read and hear how many believers carry themselves, still convinced that they have to try and improve themselves.

The flesh -- our fallen bodies and mind -- are beyond repair:

"For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." (Romans 7:5)

and

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:" (Romans 8: 3)

Purifying the flesh is a dead-on-arrival mission:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3:20)

and

"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." (Galatians 2: 16)

The only tool that the devil has used for so long is to convince believers that they must do more to fix, repair, or enhance their flesh, their dead-in-trespasses Adam old man. Jesus gives us life, and that more abundantly (John 10:10):

"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." (Romans 5: 14)

This "figure" is Jesus!

"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5: 17)

and

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." (1 Corinthians 15: 22)

Beloved, you are a new Creation in Christ! Forget about your "old man"!