The making of the new creation….

[Not me]

1 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV)
for you are still carnal. For where [there are] envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like [mere] men?

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‘for you are still carnal etc,’ or, ‘for you are still fleshy etc’, or, the same truth just put forth with different words;

~for you are still under the control of own will if you are behaving like a mere man~

For being made free from own will is the transition of life put forth in many different ways in scripture…  For denying of self, dying to self, being dead in Christ, being crucified with Christ, not I but Christ, Christ living His life in and through, Christ our life, or whatever other terminology scripture uses to describe this truth of the transition of life….. For coming out from under the control of own will is the one and only thing that brings one out from under the control of one’s fallen nature….. For until one does, envy, strife, divisions, and behaving like a mere man will be that which can not help but be the fruit of one not coming out from under the power of one’s fallen nature… 

For the will seeking after what own will wants, what own will thinks, what own will desires, what own will imagines, rather then seeking after righteousness, is that which keeps one under the power of own will… For seeing the circumstances of life are not the issue, but the manifestation of righteousness in those circumstances… For this is where this truth of transition is experienced, it is this, which can, will and does, free one to walk in the newness of life that is put forth in scripture…

For carnality is the fruit of being under the power and control of one’s own will, seeing the necessity of being made free from it is that which is necessary… Then a knowing and a believing that Christ’s death frees one from own will, is the doorway out from under the power and control of this will…Then, the simplicity of faith is that which is required, a believing into it, a reckoning it to be so, because Christ did die, and took our fallen natures to death with Him on the cross and therefore being joined with Him in His death, frees one from own will if one but wants to be freed from own will enough to believe it to be so…….

For Christ did die and therefore, he that is willing to enter into his own death by faith will be set free from sin, or, the same truth, but as scripture puts forth this truth; ‘he that has died is freed from sin’, and again in still other words, he that has died is freed from own will, own will being that from where all sin comes from…

For being set free from behaving like a mere man will be found nowhere, but in the very denying of one’s self, picking up one’s cross, and following Him, so one might experience the transition of life… For to the degree one embraces one’s death in Christ, to that degree will one walk in newness of life, or, to that degree will one experience the making of the new creation…

Unto Him be our all, Not me 

[Riverwalker]

Agreed  but with patience

1 Cor 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

When we come to  God we are saved and our Spirits are made new,

But the "renewing of the soul" takes a little longer

It is a process and in this process we fail, in this process we fall, and in this process we get up  and we learn from Our mistakes, and God gives us grace to cover our weaknesses, and mercy to cover our sins

Romans 12:1 I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Embrace the process as long as you are moving forward its all good. Let patience (endurance / perserverence) have its perfect work

James 5:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing

 

[Not me]

9 minutes ago, Riverwalker said:

Agreed  but with patience

1 Cor 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

When we come to  God we are saved and our Spirits are made new,

But the "renewing of the soul" takes a little longer

It is a process and in this process we fail, in this process we fall, and in this process we get up  and we learn from Our mistakes, and God gives us grace to cover our weaknesses, and mercy to cover our sins

Romans 12:1 I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Embrace the process as long as you are moving forward its all good. Let patience (endurance / perserverence) have its perfect work

James 5:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing

 

As the Spirit of Christ teaches you Himself, may the truths in scripture ever be experienced….

Unto Him be our all, blessings…

 

A fellow follower, Not me