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New Life COTR Wednesday March 28, 2007
LAYING ASIDE THE OLD MAN
INTRODUCTION: A couple of weeks ago on Sunday we looked at the life of Esau as recorded in Genesis 25:27-34.
Here we see a man controlled by his “sin nature,” his flesh. The appetites of the flesh. THE OLD MAN!
GOD HAS CALLED US TO LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN AND ITS DESIRES.
James 3:13-17- Turn and Read
Earthly wisdom versus heavenly wisdom. The flesh versus the spirit.
Ephesians 4:17-24- Turn and Read
LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN
Do you have a Spirit controlled mind? What controls your thoughts is what will control you.
Many people are controlled by their emotions.
1. Unstable, impulsive, live in a chaotic condition.
2. Your mind can be controlled by your emotions and not the Spirit.
HAVE I LAID THE OLD MAN DOWN OR ARE MY THOUGHTS STILL BEING CONTROLLED BY THE OLD MAN!
IMPULSIVE EMOTIONS- The lust of the flesh, this is where chaos come in.
Unable to make plans and follow through with them. A mind that is controlled by emotions.
A person carried along like the wind out of control.
Anger comes in, one gets depressed, the old man is forming the emotions.
THOSE EMOTIONS CAN CONTROL YOUR LIFE AND FORM THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND!
WHAT’S THE SOURCE OF YOUR THOUGHTS? IT WILL DETERMINE YOUR OWN MOODS IN LIFE!
WHEN YOU’RE RULED BY YOUR EMOTIONS IT ENABLE A SPIRIT OF FEAR TO RULE YOUR LIFE.
Fear paralyzes and you’re unable to make decisions! When you don’t make decisions nothing changes and that’s the whole plan of the enemy.
Then we sink down with hopelessness. So with fear comes depression!
That is the strategy of the enemy to trap you!
TRANSITION: WHAT HAS FORMED THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND?
FIVE ROOTS THAT FEED YOUR EMOTIONS AND CONTROL YOUR MIND!
I. THE SPIRIT OF REJECTION
a. A spirit of Fatherlessness, a sense of worthlessness or failure, don’t know why you’re here.
b. IT ROBS YOU OF DESTINY AND RELATIONSHIP!
The Spirit of Rejection makes a wanderer of a person. Here and there with no destiny or purpose.
It will isolate a person. They will be afraid to make decisions. A spirit of unbelief will take root.
Afraid to step out in faith!
A spirit of fear will control your mind and rob you off destiny.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection. WHAT IS CONTROLLING YOUR MIND!
A SPIRIT OF REJECTION WILL LEAVE YOU IN A TRAP WHERE NOTHING CHANGES!
TRANSITION: What has formed the spirit of your mind? The next root that will feed your emotions and control your mind.
II. BITTERNESS AND HATRED
This will isolate you. Pain is something that goes very deep. You will live in conflict afraid to trust anybody.
All your relationships will begin to shut down!
TWO THINGS COME OUT OF PAIN
1. A broken spirit that forms depression
2. A bitter spirit
Depression is a sense of hopelessness, someone without hope!
A bitter spirit is anger, aggression, live in conflict, division. Pain will turn into bitterness and anger is you allow it.
TRANSITION: What has formed the spirit of your mind? LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN! What’s controlling your thoughts? LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN
The third root that will form the spirit of your mind.
III. A SPIRIT OF REBELLION
Forms the spirit of your mind and controls you.
1. Easy to live isolated and to yourself
2. You want freedom from restraint, no restrictions, freedom to be what you want to be.
3. When you seek freedom you loose self-control
Lust will dominate your life. Your body will rule over you.
REBELLION REJECTS ORDER! ANY COMMAND! PARTICURALLY GOD AND HIS GOVERNEMENT!
“The mind set on the flesh is hostile to God.” It rejects God’s order.
Rebellion is a spirit of disobedience, no authority! Wants freedom!
Disorder comes in, no peace and the flesh rules over that person!
A spirit of rebellion is lawlessness in your mind!
TRANSITION: These are all formations of the OLD MAN. These were all the things we were under before we came to Christ.
Romans 12:2- “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” TAKE ON THE NEW MAN. LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN.
The fourth root that forms the spirit of our mind.
IV. THE ROOT OF PRIDE AND DECEPTION
Sometimes our mind can be easily deceived. It is one of the major tools of the devil
IF THE DEVIL CAN CONVINCE YOU OF A LIE HE CAN CONTROL YOU. DECEPTION ABOUT GOD AND OTHER PEOPLE!
PRIDE OPENS YOUR HEART AGAINST DECEPTION! The essence of pride is deception!
It lifts you up! Everything is about me, my life, my possessions! Pride will lift you up!
You become independent because pride will build you up beyond who you really are!
PRIDE WILL BUILD AN IMAGE THAT WILL BECOME AN IDOL! THAT IMAGE OF A GREAT PERSON!
An image that is a lie or deception is also an idol that you are bowing down to!
Not able to let anyone know who you really are. That’s pride and deception.
Where there’s a strong root of rejection there will also be a strong root of pride.
TRANSITON: These things can form the spirit of our mind. LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN!
TRANSITION: The last root that feeds our emotions and forms the spirit of our minds.
V. GUILT AND SHAME
Within man is the consciousness of right and wrong.
THE FEAR OF BEING KNOWN. Someone finding out. SHAME CAUSES ONE TO HIDE AND COVER.
GUILT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOVERED THEN SHAME HIDING AND COVERING.
GUILT IS A SENSE OF NAKEDNESS BEING EXPOSED THEN SHAME COMES AND YOU HAVE TO COVER!
These people normally become very religious people. Underneath is a lot of hypocrisy.
THEY ARE MOTIVATED TO SEEK GOD OUT OF GUILT, NOT LOVE!
CONCLUSION: What controls the spirit of your mind? IT SHOULD BE THE SPIRIT OF GOD AS YOU PUT ON THE NEW MAN.
These roots will form the spirit of your mind if not careful and you’ll be ruled by your emotions.
1. The spirit of rejection
2. Bitterness and hatred
3. A Spirit of rebellion
4. A spirit of pride and deception
5. Guilt and Shame
Could it be that Esau was ruled by one or two of these and that’s what formed the sprit of his mind and he was deceived and sold his birthright for a bowl of soup?
YOU AND I DON’T HAVE TO LIVE THIS WAY. WE CAN LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN.
2Corinthians 5:17- “If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away and behold all things become new.”
New Life COTR Wednesday March 28, 2007
LAYING ASIDE THE OLD MAN
INTRODUCTION: A couple of weeks ago on Sunday we looked at the life of Esau as recorded in Genesis 25:27-34.
Here we see a man controlled by his “sin nature,” his flesh. The appetites of the flesh. THE OLD MAN!
GOD HAS CALLED US TO LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN AND ITS DESIRES.
James 3:13-17- Turn and Read
Earthly wisdom versus heavenly wisdom. The flesh versus the spirit.
Ephesians 4:17-24- Turn and Read
LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN
Do you have a Spirit controlled mind? What controls your thoughts is what will control you.
Many people are controlled by their emotions.
1. Unstable, impulsive, live in a chaotic condition.
2. Your mind can be controlled by your emotions and not the Spirit.
HAVE I LAID THE OLD MAN DOWN OR ARE MY THOUGHTS STILL BEING CONTROLLED BY THE OLD MAN!
IMPULSIVE EMOTIONS- The lust of the flesh, this is where chaos come in.
Unable to make plans and follow through with them. A mind that is controlled by emotions.
A person carried along like the wind out of control.
Anger comes in, one gets depressed, the old man is forming the emotions.
THOSE EMOTIONS CAN CONTROL YOUR LIFE AND FORM THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND!
WHAT’S THE SOURCE OF YOUR THOUGHTS? IT WILL DETERMINE YOUR OWN MOODS IN LIFE!
WHEN YOU’RE RULED BY YOUR EMOTIONS IT ENABLE A SPIRIT OF FEAR TO RULE YOUR LIFE.
Fear paralyzes and you’re unable to make decisions! When you don’t make decisions nothing changes and that’s the whole plan of the enemy.
Then we sink down with hopelessness. So with fear comes depression!
That is the strategy of the enemy to trap you!
TRANSITION: WHAT HAS FORMED THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND?
FIVE ROOTS THAT FEED YOUR EMOTIONS AND CONTROL YOUR MIND!
I. THE SPIRIT OF REJECTION
a. A spirit of Fatherlessness, a sense of worthlessness or failure, don’t know why you’re here.
b. IT ROBS YOU OF DESTINY AND RELATIONSHIP!
The Spirit of Rejection makes a wanderer of a person. Here and there with no destiny or purpose.
It will isolate a person. They will be afraid to make decisions. A spirit of unbelief will take root.
Afraid to step out in faith!
A spirit of fear will control your mind and rob you off destiny.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection. WHAT IS CONTROLLING YOUR MIND!
A SPIRIT OF REJECTION WILL LEAVE YOU IN A TRAP WHERE NOTHING CHANGES!
TRANSITION: What has formed the spirit of your mind? The next root that will feed your emotions and control your mind.
II. BITTERNESS AND HATRED
This will isolate you. Pain is something that goes very deep. You will live in conflict afraid to trust anybody.
All your relationships will begin to shut down!
TWO THINGS COME OUT OF PAIN
1. A broken spirit that forms depression
2. A bitter spirit
Depression is a sense of hopelessness, someone without hope!
A bitter spirit is anger, aggression, live in conflict, division. Pain will turn into bitterness and anger is you allow it.
TRANSITION: What has formed the spirit of your mind? LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN! What’s controlling your thoughts? LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN
The third root that will form the spirit of your mind.
III. A SPIRIT OF REBELLION
Forms the spirit of your mind and controls you.
1. Easy to live isolated and to yourself
2. You want freedom from restraint, no restrictions, freedom to be what you want to be.
3. When you seek freedom you loose self-control
Lust will dominate your life. Your body will rule over you.
REBELLION REJECTS ORDER! ANY COMMAND! PARTICURALLY GOD AND HIS GOVERNEMENT!
“The mind set on the flesh is hostile to God.” It rejects God’s order.
Rebellion is a spirit of disobedience, no authority! Wants freedom!
Disorder comes in, no peace and the flesh rules over that person!
A spirit of rebellion is lawlessness in your mind!
TRANSITION: These are all formations of the OLD MAN. These were all the things we were under before we came to Christ.
Romans 12:2- “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” TAKE ON THE NEW MAN. LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN.
The fourth root that forms the spirit of our mind.
IV. THE ROOT OF PRIDE AND DECEPTION
Sometimes our mind can be easily deceived. It is one of the major tools of the devil
IF THE DEVIL CAN CONVINCE YOU OF A LIE HE CAN CONTROL YOU. DECEPTION ABOUT GOD AND OTHER PEOPLE!
PRIDE OPENS YOUR HEART AGAINST DECEPTION! The essence of pride is deception!
It lifts you up! Everything is about me, my life, my possessions! Pride will lift you up!
You become independent because pride will build you up beyond who you really are!
PRIDE WILL BUILD AN IMAGE THAT WILL BECOME AN IDOL! THAT IMAGE OF A GREAT PERSON!
An image that is a lie or deception is also an idol that you are bowing down to!
Not able to let anyone know who you really are. That’s pride and deception.
Where there’s a strong root of rejection there will also be a strong root of pride.
TRANSITON: These things can form the spirit of our mind. LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN!
TRANSITION: The last root that feeds our emotions and forms the spirit of our minds.
V. GUILT AND SHAME
Within man is the consciousness of right and wrong.
THE FEAR OF BEING KNOWN. Someone finding out. SHAME CAUSES ONE TO HIDE AND COVER.
GUILT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOVERED THEN SHAME HIDING AND COVERING.
GUILT IS A SENSE OF NAKEDNESS BEING EXPOSED THEN SHAME COMES AND YOU HAVE TO COVER!
These people normally become very religious people. Underneath is a lot of hypocrisy.
THEY ARE MOTIVATED TO SEEK GOD OUT OF GUILT, NOT LOVE!
CONCLUSION: What controls the spirit of your mind? IT SHOULD BE THE SPIRIT OF GOD AS YOU PUT ON THE NEW MAN.
These roots will form the spirit of your mind if not careful and you’ll be ruled by your emotions.
1. The spirit of rejection
2. Bitterness and hatred
3. A Spirit of rebellion
4. A spirit of pride and deception
5. Guilt and Shame
Could it be that Esau was ruled by one or two of these and that’s what formed the sprit of his mind and he was deceived and sold his birthright for a bowl of soup?
YOU AND I DON’T HAVE TO LIVE THIS WAY. WE CAN LAY ASIDE THE OLD MAN.
2Corinthians 5:17- “If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away and behold all things become new.”
