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The Word  of   FaithPUBLISHED  B Y K E N N E T H  E.

T U L S A ,  O K L A . ,  74150

HAGIN  EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION,  P . O . Box 50126,

M A R C H ,  1972 V o l . V No . 3

PRESENT YOUR BODIESI  Th ess alo nia ns 5:23, "And the

v e r y  God of pe ace san ctify you

wholly;  and I pr ay God you r

whole  sp ir it and soul and body

be pres erved blameless unto  the

coming  of our  Lord  Jesus

Christ ."

Roma ns 12:1,2, " I bes eec h you

therefore,  bret hren , by the

mercies of God,  that  ye present

your bodies a  l iv ing  sacrifice,

holy,  acceptable unto God, which

is your reasonabl e se rv ic e. And

be not conformed to  this  world:

but be ye tr ans fo rme d by the

renewing  of your mind,  that  ye

may  prove what is that good,  and

acceptable, and perfect,  will

of   God."

This  wi l l  help us seethe  d i f fer

ence betw een the inw ard manand the outward man. Paul said,

" I  bese ech you the ref ore ,

breth ren... " He wasn't writin g

to sinne rs. He wasn't writi ng

to the  wor ld .  He was writing to

the sakito at  R o m e .  He address

es  this  letter, in Romans 1:7,

" To  al l  that  be in R o m e ,  beloved

of   God, called to be  saints."

It  applies to all,  beloved o f  God,

ca l led  to be  saints.  So he sa id ,

"I  bes eech you the ref ore , breth ren,  that  ye prese nt your

bodies. . ."  You do som ethi ng

with  you r bod y. If you don't do

anything with it, nothing  will

" 'ever  be done with it. I don't

know  whether you can see it

or not, but in our  church

teachings we have just  cluttered

up some of   this  teaching until

our minds are all  fu^zy  and

muddy, and it is dif ficul t to get

the real  truth  ove r  to  folks.

I  want you to not ice somet hing.

He  didn't say to pres ent y ou r

se lves  to God. As a  usual  thing,

our cons ecra tio n and dedicat ion

se rv ic es a re all out of lin e. We

don't know what we are doing,

so  that  is the reason they  aren't

as  effect ive  as they ought to be .

He  did not say for you to

present yo urs elv es to God, be

cause  if you ar e a chi ld of God

you  alread y belo ng to Hi m. You

can't  ve ry we l l present to so me

one what al re ad y belo ngs

to them.

He  didn't say a  word  about

dedicating you rsel ves , or  giving

yourselves  in  that  sense. But

you  find  that  if you ar e bornagain, you are His. You are

that  inward man that has be com e

a new man in Ch ri st . II Cor int h

ians  5:17 say s, "T he re fo re if

any man be in Christ, he is a

new  c re at ur e. " What man is he

talking about? Th i s outwar d

man? No, it cou ldn 't be the

outward man because he said

this  man is a new creature.

We  have mis sed it in reli gio us

cir cle s so many t i mes .  Peoplewant folk s to join the  church.

They  want them to do bet te r.

They  want them to try to  live

rig ht. You know, I ne ver have

tried to  l ive  right . I  just  got

born again , and I 'v e been  l iving

right ever since  then.

Living  right is  good, but it won't

make you a Christian and it

won't  take you to heaven. Being

born again  wi l l  though. It be

comes  rel ig io n and it  isn'

Christi anity. Christianity i

being born again. Christianity i

rece iv ing  the  gift  of eterna l  life

When  eternal  life  (which  is the

nature  and the  l ife  of God) i

impa rted to your spi rit , i

changes you.

This  life  of God co mi ng into you

(the re al you) makes  this  inwardman a new man. You don 't have

to make yo ur sel f new. You

couldn't make yourself a new

man anyhow. Bei ng born again

makes you a new man with

ne w  nature.  You have a new

nature  in you because he wen

righ t on to say,  " . . .o ld  thing

are pas sed away; behold, al

things are become new."

You will  have trouble w ith th

flesh,  but you won 't have trou blewith  you.  Again,  some thing

that  we have said are rea ll y

misleading  unless  we teach the

truth.  People  say, "Y ou have to

die  out to old sel f."  No you don't

Old self   is dead and you have

a new  se l f    in the plac e of him

What  you need to do is die ou

to flesh.

The  flesh is not the old self

Your  fle sh i s the same body an

the same fle sh it was be for e youw e r e  saved, but  that  man on the

inside  (which  was the old you

and the old  se lf)  has become a

ne w  self   and a new man in

Chr is t. Th is man on the insid

has become a new man.

When  he becomes a new man

then  "ol d things are passed

away;  behold all things ar e

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become  new." He is a "new

creat ure" in Christ  Jesus.  The

body  is not new . At the comin g

of   the  Lord ,  thank  God, we  will

have a new body . But He exp ect s

the new man,  this  hidden man

of   the  heart, this  inward man

that  has be co me a new man in

Chr is t, to do someth ing with the

body.  He expects you not to let

the body dominate you to be a

carnal Christ ian, o r a body -

ruled Christian.

Do  li ke Paul s aid—I do so me

thing with my body, I keep it

under,  I bri ng it into subjec tion

to my sp ir it . I don't let my body

rule my spir it o r the inwa rd

man. I let the inward man rule

the outw ard man. He sai d thi s,

" I  b eseec h you the refo re, breth

ren , by the me rc ie s of God,that  ye present your bod ies ... "

That is the house you are  l iving

in. You are the car eta ke r of

that  house , not God. Yo u do

someth ing with your body,

" . . . ye  present your bodies a

l iving  sacr ific e, holy, accept

able  unto  God, which is your

reasonable se rv ic e." I l ike

another translation which

read s, "... which is your sp iri t

ual service."

In  the  church  wor ld  we have

those who say,  "Wel l ,  it doesn't

make any difference about the

body,  what the body does, or how

it  sins . Th is o ld body is never

going  to get to heaven anyhow."

But you se e my brot he r and

sister ,  it does make some dif

ference  to God what you do wit h

your body. He wants  t ransfigured  bodies.

Then,  notice in the 2nd ve rs e

that  he says something about

doing  somethi ng with your m ind.

He  sa id, "And be not conformed

to  this  wor ld :  but be ye  t ransformed  by the renewing of your

mind,  that  ye may prove what

is  that  good,  and acceptable, and

perfect,  wi l l  of God ." Th is is

what astounded me when I

r e a l i z e d  something her e. I ' m

so rr y to say  that  I had p re ach

ed  for  fifteen  yea rs bef ore I

saw this.

I  don't know much yet, but  thank

Go d  fo r what I have lea rned.

It  astounded me one day when it

dawned on me what he did say.

He  was wr iti ng here to people

who  we re born again and Spi rit -fi l led,  and yet the ir being born

again and Spi ri t- fi ll ed had not

affected  the ir b odies or their

min ds. How many peop le do

you  know  that  are like  that?

He  is te lli ng them  that  you are

going  to have to do something

with  your body and you're  going

to have t o do some thi ng wit h

your mind. God  isn't  goingtodo

anything with thos e. God con

tacted your spiri t. You contacted God with your spi rit ,

and your spiri t—the inwa rd

man, the hidden man of the

hear t—be came a new man in

Christ. Now then  it is up to you

to do something. He is telling

us  that  we need fir st to prese nt

our bodies a  l iving  sacrifice

and second we need to get our

minds ren ewe d with the  Word,

of   God.

One  of the g reat es t needs o f thechurch  t oday is to have ren ewe d

minds.  Just  bec ause you ar e a

Christian and even Spir it- fil led,

doesn't  g ive  you a renewed

mind.  Your  mind becomes

renewed  with the  Word  of God.

One  reason  that  God put

teac hers in the  church  (those

who  are re al ly called to teach)

is to ren ew our mind s.

We  know  this then,  that  man is

a spi rit . We know  that  he is in

the same cl as s with God, be

cause  God is a Sp iri t, and

because he was made to  fe l low

ship wit h God. God made man

for  His own ple asu re, and so

that  He would have someone to

fellowship  with. Man is not an

animal.

Man  has to be in the same class

with  God or he couldn 't  fe l low

ship with God. Did you ever try

to fello wsh ip with an old  cow?

Well ,  they are in a different

kingdom  than  you are in.  They

are in a different class  than you

are in. We  can't  fel lowship with

them, but we can fel lowship with

one another, and we can  fe llow

ship with God, because we are

in the same cl as s of bei ng as

God.  Praise the  Lord!

To  the woman at the  well  in

Samari a in the 4th chapte r of

John's  Gospel ,  Jesus  said, "God

is a Spirit..." She said, "Our

fathers wors hipp ed in  this

mountain; and ye say ,  that  in

Jerusalem  is the pl ace wher e

men ought to worship." He said

to her, "Th e  hour  cometh, when

ye  shall neither in  this  moun

tain, nor yet at  Jerusalem,worship the Father.  Ye  worship

ye  know not what: we know what

we  wors hip ; for salv ation is of

the Jews. But the  hour  cometh,

and now i s , when the  true  w o r

shippers shall wors hip the

Father in Spi ri t and in  truth:

for  the Father seeketh  such  to

worship him.

"God  is a Spir it ; and they  that

worship him  must  worship him

in spirit and in  truth."  So weknow  that  God is a Spirit; and

yet  God, who is a Spirit, took

upon  Himsel f    a  man's  body.

Jesus  was God manifested in

the fl esh . The fi rs t chapter of

John's  Gospel  s~aid,  "In the

beginning was the  Word,  and the

Word  wa s wit h God, and the

Word  was God, the same was in

the beginnin g with Go d. A l l

things were made by him; and

without him was not any thing

made  that  was made."

Then  in the 14th verse he says,

"And  the  Word  was made flesh,

and dwel t amo ng us." When God

took   upon H imse l f    a human body,

He  was no less God  than  He

was when He didn't have a body.

We  know  that  man at physical

death leaves his body, and  that

when he leaves his body he is

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no less man  than  he was when

he had his body. The story of

Abrah am, L az ar us , and the ri ch

man proves  that.

Paul said,  " W i l s t we are at home

in the body, we are  absent  from

the  L o r d . "  And he said , "We

are confident , I say, and  wil l ing

rather  to be  absent  from the

body,  and to be  present  with

the  L o r d . "  So  then, w e know that

God  is only re ve al ed to man

through the sp ir it . It is the sp ir it

of   man  that  contacts God.

Th e  re al man is sp ir it , he has

a soul, and he  l i ves  in a body.

Yo u  can let  that  body continue

to domi nat e you if you want to.

That body, if you'll let it,  will

want to go on doing the things

it  has alway s done. This inwar d

man has to dominat e it andpresent  the body to God a  l iving

s ac r i f i ce .  That helps us  then  in

Christian  l iv ing  and C hri st ian

life.

ALL  FAITHS CRUSADES

day Afternoon,  A p r i l  2, 2:30

P . M .  The re  wi l l be two services

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at 10:00 A . M . and 7:30 P . M .

MONTHLY  LESSON"F o r  she sa id , If I may touch

but his cl ot he s, I shal l be

whole" (Mark   5:28).

The  lesson  this  month is en

titled, Touching  Jesus.  If we

touch  Jesus,  by faith, we can

have what we say.  W r i t e  for

you r f re e copy today and lear n

more  about  touching  Jesus.

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