“Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life,” (Ephesians 4:22, The Message)
"When God calls a man, he bids him come and die." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer agrees with the statement of Eph 4.22. When one comes to faith in Christ, everything connected with one's old way of life has to go. It is rotten through and through. Which is why when God calls a person to follow him, it is a bid to come and die to self and let Christ come and live in him (Gal. 2.20).
What does a man gain for this death? Everything. Jim Elliott once said: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
Just so.
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