The new body (seed) which Jesus resurrected with after laying to bed ( death) the sinful body or nature is not our physical body or a new physical body. The new body is the seed of righteousness which birth love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, self-control. Those were the virtues of God bestowed upon us at creation which make us the express image of God, but was lost at fall. The seed of righteousness as it produces those fruits are meant so start consuming and swallowing our old passion of sexual perversion, hatred, jealousy, backbiting, defamation of people's character, envy, malice, selfishness, drunkenness, sectarianism, ethnic bigotry, prejudice, pride, orgies etc. The old man that performed those unspeakable act runs contrary to the new man Jesus handed over to us. The old man can corrupt the new man but not the new seed (Jesus). Whenever we realise that we have been given the new seed to live a new life, we can consciously work in the knowledge and privileges given us to defeat the old man. We would be tempted to see the old man as benefitting, we would be decieved to believe we cannot live free of the old man, we would be hunted by that old man but remember Jesus Christ did it you can do it.
#Youcanwinbyrighteousness.
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