Avoid That Smell - The Way Family Church Greeneville TN

There is much teaching about the Blood of Jesus and well there should be. It is the Blood of Jesus that pays for our sin. It is faith in the payment He made with His Blood that brings the new birth and guarantees eternal life. We need to realize when we receive the new birth we get the new spirit man we will have for all eternity! That’s right. As believers the day is coming when we will be given new bodies and new minds but we should be ever mindful we’ve already been given our “new spirit”.

According to Peter our new spirits are born of “incorruptible seed” and our spirits are “partakers of the divine nature”. The new spirits we have received are incorruptible because they are born of God’s spirit and therefore like God’s spirit. They are “divine”. The Greek word for divine is “Theios” which simply means “Godlike”.

God cannot sin. Since our new spirits are like Gods they cannot sin. This is the immediate work of the Blood applied by faith to a lost person’s life. We get a brand new, recreated, incorruptible spirit that has the same nature as our Father who is God. Wow!

Eternal security? You better believe it. Otherwise Peter was very confused and the “seed” we are born of is not “incorruptible” and it was capable of producing something other than the “divine” nature.

Now….all that being said when we are born again we don’t get a brand new incorruptible body or a brand new mind that is divine. Oh no. We’ve still got to deal with the same old bodies and minds we had to start with until the day arrives that our spirits are joined with new, incorruptible, glorified bodies and minds.

While we will not get an incorruptible body or mind in this lifetime we have been given a powerful cleansing agent that can make them “clean”. This is exactly what the “Water of the Word” will do. If we will take the time to wash ourselves it the water of the word it will clean us up to the point we are able to make “life giving” choices.

You see if we don’t wash ourselves in the “water of the word” we’ll continue to make choices and decisions out of our lust. James 1:14 says our lust gives birth to sin. We know sin always results in death. Even though our spirits are alive if we continue to allow our lust to give birth to sin we will constantly experience “death filled”, miserable, unfulfilling, destructive situations in this life.

Just as our lust gives birth to sin we can see in James 1:17&18 “the word of life” conceives something. The word of life gives birth to good things that come directly from the father. These good things from the Father bring life.

If we will wash ourselves in with the “water of the word” then and only then can we cleanse our minds and bodies to the point where we are able to act, choose and make life giving choices based on the word!


Listen….It takes both to live an abundant life now. Blood and Water. Jesus said he came so we could have life and have it more abundantly. To that end he gave us the blood but never forget he also gave us the water. John 19:34 clearly takes the time to point out from Jesus’ side flowed “Blood and Water”. In Lev 14 1-6 it is clear the cleansing for leprosy (a loathsome disease of the flesh) required blood and pure water.

Every decision and choice we are faced with will be made from our lust and bring sin and then death or will be made based on the word and bring good things that result in abundant life.

Let’s choose life. Let’s wash ourselves in the water of the word. We must fill ourselves with the word daily. You can’t get washed and stay washed from going to church on Sunday morning. Do you just take one bath or shower a week? I’m glad I don’t go to church with people who bathe one a week. What a smelly place church would be. Likewise if we wash in the word once or twice a week or never at all what smelly lives we will lead.

Pastor Ken

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