Modern-day Prison Epistle 2

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Written by Richard Moore
The glory of the Christ-life.
Richard is an inmate at the dept. of corrections in Arizona.

Your life will change forever when God shows you how Satan used to be your
death-life (your sin nature). He made you poisonously selfish. Until we discover the old mind is from a sin nature, we remain bound to it. A false identity (the memory of sin) continues to reign (as us—a lie). As long as we think it is us, we are trying to overcome something that does not even exist (human sin nature—an evil human self).

We are free of the spirit-nature (Eph. 2:2–3) that gave us an identity as sinners. We must no longer identify ourselves as such, but rather put off the memory of the old man in our thinking and renew our minds to who we now are in Christ (Eph. 4:22 24). The putting off the old and the putting on the new can be clearly seen to be a mind thing (Eph. 4:23); the believer has already exchanged natures (2 Peter 1:4). Human beings are not anything with-in themselves.

This will bring freedom from the
condemnation of the lie and bring conformity to the truth (Christ) within. This is what the death and resurrection of Jesus is all about (1 John 3:8–9).
The Basic Facts Adam was created
(without a father). Father furnishes a seed. Nature comes from a father.

Salvation is an exchange of fathers (and natures). We still have flesh, but we have died to sin and are alive in the Spirit. We have no obligation to the flesh.

The lust of the flesh is the remembrance of our sinful ways. It is the mind where
the memory of sin resides as a powerless ghost as long as it is not falsely identified as you. This mind (who knows what is
in man, John 2:25) can yield to the Christ-person that he is.

Our Father wants us to be at peace with ourselves and come to know who He
is through the expression of His life through us. If we will let Him take us through the cross (our death and resurrection with Jesus), He will resolve our past most marvelously and give us an identity and a relationship with Jesus we never dreamed of.

We will know who we are even as we are known. That which is perfect has come
(the revelation of Christ in us). We are not perfect, but that is the whole point! We
were made for Him, and He is our perfection! In our love relationship with Jesus, we can live with a clear conscience and an awareness that we are pleasing to the Father as we abide in Him. This is the glory Jesus gave us (shame-free living), and the world will know the difference (John 17:22–23). Amen! To God be the Glory!
 
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This and the first post bring up the topic of Old nature VS New nature. Mr. Moore holds to a view similar to John MacArthur's "one nature" position. That our old nature is not us, but the memory of former sins. We instead are a completely new creation in Christ.
 
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This and the first post bring up the topic of Old nature VS New nature. Mr. Moore holds to a view similar to John MacArthur's "one nature" position. That our old nature is not us, but the memory of former sins. We instead are a completely new creation in Christ.

I'm familiar with John MacArthur, I'll read some of his stuff, thanks
 
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