THE NEW ORDER OF MAN

THE NEW ORDER OF MAN

There is really no difference between the nature of man and the old man. The word old nature I do not think occurs. The effort is to spare in some way the first man. Let us begin by insisting that such as the heavenly one, such also are the heavenly ones, and then it is easy to see that there is an entire change of race.

That is the truth to be contended for, and the truth that in every heterodoxy is undermined. There is a total change of race — “As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly” (1 Corinthians 15: 49). Nothing but personal identity will remain of the first man. I shall know that I am a new man, but all the ideas and feelings of the old man will have passed away.

The idea with those who seek to spare the first man is, that if the evil nature were eliminated, that then the old man would be free of all that is objectionable and would be continued. Not so at all.

^[p. 73] I am of the order of the great heavenly One — and hence the old order has terminated in judgment on the cross.

The mass of Christians do not see that a Man has come from God, the Son of man which is in heaven. Many a Christian would be glad that his bad qualities were replaced with good ones; but that all must be crucified, as said to the young man in Mark 10:23, is too much for them.