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THE OLD MAN UNDER THE LAW DOES NOT EXIST WITH A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST
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"THE OLD MAN UNDER THE LAW DOES NOT EXIST WITH A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST"
The death of the old man is not a process, but occurs once and for all
A RENEWED REFORMATION IS URGENTLY NEEDED !
Author: Rev. G.P. Peter Burggraaf
This booklet is wriiten to proclaim the necessity of a renewed Reformation, by exposing en rejecting the Pelagian heresy of the unity of the old and the new man, which is also settled in the so called "Reformed churches" for decades and is a source of heresies. God's child is not a dual man, but a new creature in Christ. Even in Romans 7, Paul does not speak of his "old man", but of the "body of death", the corps of the old man. He gives witness about the old man's death, "For I through the Law died to the Law", Gal. 2:19a. Every human being by nature lives as an old man under the Law, under the curse, under the wrath of God, and is along with all the world condemned before God (Rom. 3:19). God's people have died the death of the old man through the ministration of death and come to the end of the Law at the feet of Christ: "For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes", Rom. 10:4. Then they become a new creature in Christ, by the life-giving voice of the Son of God (John 5:25). That old man's life under the Law is forever past: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new", 2 Cor. 5:17. God's people have put off the old man en put on the new man: "Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him", Col. 3:9-10. Because of the body of death, God's children remain entirely carnal (Rom. 7:14) until their last breath, yet at the same time they are perfect in the Perfect One (1 Cor. 1:30). This booklet ends with a fragment from an alarming sermon of Ebenezer Erskine about the flood of heresies in the church of Scotland at the time. Paperback - 98 pages ISBN 9076100XXX
PUBLISHER "DE ROKENDE VLASWIEK" REFORMED LITERATURE THE NETHERLANDS - CANADA
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