We will have a church dinner after the service on September 27^th to celebrate Gary Faulkner’s 70^th birthday. Sign up sheets for food are in the vestibule.

CLEANSED FROM SIN

John 1:7 says “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin”. The more I read that precious phrase, the more my heart rejoices. I am so completely sinful that I cannot do anything to remove my sin. But the Lord Jesus Christ is so righteous His blood cleanses me from all sin. The blood of Christ cleanses me from original sin in Adam, from sins of commission, from sins of omission, from inward sin, from outward sins, from sins of thought, word and deed. There is complete pardon in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The crimson stain of sin is washed whiter than snow in the blood of Christ. What good news for sinners!

Did you hear what Jesus said to me?

They’re ALL taken away.

Your sins are pardoned and you are free.

They’re ALL taken away.

THAT IS, IN MY FLESH

Romans 7:18: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:…

Why did the apostle Paul make the distinction so that we would be sure to know he was talking about his flesh when he said in my flesh, dwelled no good thing? The flesh is the old man, the sin-nature, we received from Adam. But in addition to the flesh, a believer has a new man, a new nature, which we received from Christ. So the believer’s fleshly nature is of Adam while our new spiritual nature is of Christ.

In regards to righteousness, the old man was created in unrighteousness by Adam’s disobedience in the garden; the new man was created in righteousness by Christ’s obedience unto the death of the cross. In regards to holiness, the old man was created unholy when born of Adam by corrupt seed in nature generation; the new man was created holy when born of Christ by the incorruptible Seed in supernatural regeneration. (Eph 4: 22, 24; Col 3: 9-10; 1 Pet 1: 23-25)

This is why the apostle Paul was careful to make a distinction between his old man of flesh and his new man of spirit. He would not dare say there was anything good in his old man while he would not dare charge God with creating anything less in the new.

Understand, this distinction is not to encourage men to look to the new man within us, we look only to Christ. But it is to make certain we do not deny the glory of God who created a new man in the righteousness and holiness of Christ within these old bodies of fleshly death. Without God creating within us a new nature, we would never know that a believer has two natures.

Pastor Clay Curtis

I recently received a note from Pastor David Eddmenson where he made the following statement that is so needed in our day.