The Old Self and The New Self
The Old Self and The New Self
by Danny C. Wash
of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of
His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was
crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might
be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves
to sin; for the one who has died is freed from sin. Now
if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised
from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is
master over Him. For the death that He died, He died
to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He
lives to God. So you too, consider yourselves to be dead
to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Romans 6:5-11
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I
who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I
now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20
“...and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and
there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be
any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have
passed away.” And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold,
I am making all things new.” Revelation 21:4-6
Just think of the magnitude of those verses.
“Crucified with Christ.” Think of the reality of
that or can you really believe it? Now, that wasn’t
our physical body. It was in the spirit and we were in
the spirit with and in Christ. Not as a part of His
redemptive suffering but we were somehow by God
included in His death. We each have a non-physical
“old self”inside us who is a rebel against God and that
we inherited from our ancestor, Adam, who by the lie of
the devil caused sin and death to be released into the
world. Our old self is aligned with the devil and our own
selfish interests alone. When Jesus died upon the cross,
He had all of our old selves in Him in the spirit in God’s
eyes, which are the Ones that count. The death of Jesus
caused the old self in our inner person to die, remain in
the tomb under that death sentence, and become inactive.
Now, is this just some ethereal meaningless words of
fantasy? Well, it can be for the one who does not by faith
believe it and receive the Holy Spirit into their personal spirit,
our inner person. When we believe it in faith, we are then
given spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear God’s truth
and it then becomes real in us, just as real as your eyes that are
reading this right now. This was God’s decree and judgment on
our old self, but it doesn’t become active or a benefit for us until
we receive the revelation from above that it is true and that when
God raised Jesus out of the tomb, the “new self” was born from
above in each of our spirits in our inner person and came into a
union with Christ in the Spirit when we believe in faith that this
occurred. Our faith is like the switch that turns on our new self in
Christ in our spirit. The old self is under a sentence of death
and as God has reckoned it so, we must also reckon it as so. Although,
there is a sentence of death on the old self, it can still at times rear its
head, if we entertain it or look back to it. If this happens, the old self is
met with the Holy Spirit declaring a firm “no” in our spirit and we are
at a standstill until we agree with the “no” and allow the Holy Spirit
to send it back to the cross and the tomb of death and silence. The cross
is God’s doorway between the old creation and the new creation. God
has rejected and closed the door on the old creation. That is why, even
though our spirits are renewed, each of us eventually die physically.
Our spirit and soul are the only thing that comes into God’s new creation
in the spirit by coming through the doorway of the cross in Jesus. As
the Bible tells us all things have become new and none of the old can
come into the new. Eventually, when Jesus returns from Heaven, He
will give us the new resurrection physical body of the new race out of
Him and like Him and His redemption of man, the new heaven, and
the new earth will be complete. Sin and death will be no more, and all
negative things will be gone from among us. For all eternity, we will be with
Him and in the presence of God.
