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  In Efesios 4:22 Apostle Pablo does a clear reference to our old sinful habits. The difficulty is in that almost nobody speaks today about the habits acquired before becoming Christians and that to do with them. The life style of the gentiles was consisting of sinful bosses of life in which they were born and became accustomed in thought and conduct. Because when you turn you bring these sinful habits with you, you have to be taught to what you must do with them. 

  The habits are part of the life. We are customs beings. We do things repeatedly automatically, unconsciously, skillfully and comfortably. These are four characteristics of a habit. This is a God's blessing. This is what allows us to do more than one thing simultaneously. We can guide and speak. That's why you put brake when it changes the semaphore to red, and that you listen to radio while you do other things. To do things for habit is like the “second nature”.

  But, in a sin world, every blessing can return in curse. For example, we have to learn not to be sick badly for evil as we are accustomed but to be sick well for evil. That's why Pablo says than as for our past way of living: "you undress the old man” and “that you are renewed in the spirit of your mind.”  This education consists of a fundamental dynamics that finds in the versículos 22 and 24: "deprive you of the old man” (to come out) and “dress of the new man” (to put itself). 

  The old person that one was before the conversion, like a piece of clothes that is rejected, she has to be removed of our life. Your “old person” is not another thing than your old man I with his sinful life boss. He is an important intransigent being with the old conduct bosses to be able to be deshabituados. But, allow me to wonder a little: When is it that a thief stops being a thief? When is it that a liar it stops being? If you think that when of to steal or of lying, you are wrong. Only they are taking a rest in what they have opportunity to do it again.

  According to the Word of God, the thief stops being a thief when instead of stealing it begins to work to gain him the money, and the liar, it it stops being when only he speaks the truth. In other words, when the new habits of the Christian life substitute those of the old creature. It is not a question of breaking simply with an old habit but of replacing it by the new one that is in accordance with the new creation in Christ. 

  He remembers that the God's Word denounces that your old sinful habits come from your old man (sinful nature) that is corrupted by deceitful desires. There are things in your life which change will be like breaking vice. But you have to take your decisions and act, on the base what are the thoughts, words, actions and attitudes that please God.

  Fortunately, you are not alone to change. God is with you. It has done to you a new creature capable of conquering your sinful desires, and has given you the victory of Jesus Christ on the sin and the temptation, and the power of the Holy Spirit to achieve it, and that you have no excuse to live as God is in charge.

(Taken of The Christian Counselor's Commentary (Ephesians) for Jay E. Adams.  Translated and adapted by Milton Villanueva).

    Some of that we begin our departments at the end of the forties and at the beginning of the fifties we know how it was the thing then. Christen us of today they have no idea. The liberals were in charge! They had stolen all the churches fix in the biggest denominations, together with his schools and seminars. The Federal Council (now the National Council) of Churches also had taken control of the means: you could not be in the air, except across them! It was a time when those who believed something were thrown aside and ridiculed. It was a time when the conservative preachers were forced to meet in commercial places because they were already not welcome in the principal denominations. I remember it well.

    Now, the rolls have been changed – the conservatives have everything; the liberals are trying to support his head out of the water. It was not so bad earlier – you knew who was who. If you believed any thing, you would be thrown aside. This way, you knew who the real believers were. Of him the same way that you, they began again with his small gatherings. There was no miscellany with those who were denying the Word God – except to evangelize them. Two camps were separated for to the realities of the situation.

    Of course, the Biblical believers had never thought to be present at a meeting of the Liberals, Catholics, Mormons to suggest to work together! Horrifying what so at least to weigh it! The only reason to do it would be to preach the Gospel and to press to lost to come to the faith and to be safe. You can imagine to J. Gresham Machen (founded of the OPC) in the shoes of Rick Warren, stopped where the estuvo and saying what he said?

    The times have changed – not everything for the best thing. We live in the age of Michael Jackson, in which the Christians – and the preachers – are still guided by this generation to be adopted much of what they do not to be too offensive. The times are not as to negotiate with the Roman Catholics, as any of them think, who still believe that Jesus's sacrifice in the cross is not sufficient to save, to be mixed by religious bodies that took the sword against our ancestors in North Africa and swept Agustín's church, or to bring to consideration the matter of the doctrine of the justification for the alone faith. We still find out about these things, and we the old men tremble.

    Instead of that, it is a time to stop – although it is separate – for the God truth. Párate I join those that brought the prosperity that now you enjoy. He studies the history. You will see that those “educated academicians” in our seminars who wanted to dance with the German liberals deliver the ball to them. This can happen again. In fact in some places, it seems that it is happening. Do not allow it. Stand up for the truth; párate!

Taken of http://www.nouthetic.org/blog/?p=2169

Translated by Milton Villanueva

When the Advisers Nutético treat with the past: in fact do they do it?

           They do not treat with the past although sometimes it seems that they do it. How is this explained? Compare what they do with the archaeological expedition of the "Freudian ones" in the past of the person. Freud worried for investigating in the past to discover what his patient had led to his present problems. The Adviser Nutético does not believe that this is Biblical – or inclusive possible. To try to raise the stones in the past of a person to discover the vermin, not only is an impossible mission; it is unnecessary, unproductive, and harmful.

           The Adviser Nutético treats with the past when it is at present present.

           What means this?

           Simply, when somehow a person needs to repent of anything done in the past, the thing it has never been arranged satisfactorily with God, and it is not, therefore, a matter of the past. It is at present a present reality. He has business not ended up attending. The target in these cases is to treat with the matter in such a way that it is possible to turn into a matter of the past.

           Similarmente, when someone had an event in his past that it brings unnecessarily to the present and does of him a present reality, the target must be to help it to put where it him belongs to be – in the past it. If, for example, someone has been smart, and it allows this tragic event to govern his present life, this person has brought his past to the present. If it fails in treating with that, how a believer must do it, it can transport anger and pain with it for the rest of his life. To the measurement that he continues this boss it will have as a result an unhappy and fruitless life. A Christian has the skill, for the God's grace, to solve matters of this nature to such a point that does not have need to think nor to speak about himself as “a smart person”, likewise other persons do it.

           The Advisers Nutéticos help the persons to live in the present with the eye put in the future. They cheer up to advised to look at the past only to remember the God's kindness for with his lives in the times that stayed behind. Of another form, it is as if they are condemned to a small use in the kingdom in the future days, and they will be planning for their own lives a course in which the tragedy will guide them to the suspense, and almost, to a miserable future insurance.

     Not long ago there was a psychological theory called "Ventilation". I am not sure if he has already died everywhere. But theory or not theory, it seems to be a popular idea still – if you have something being waved  inside, it is better that you extract it to yourself, for your own good.

    “What is wrong with that?”

    Since several things. I think to mention at least two.

First, the life centralized in one himself is clear. What imports what it spends to another person when I spill all my anger in it – here the one that counts it is me who is!

    “Well, I can see that. What is the second thing?”

    Allow me to read yourself what God says on this matter in Proverbs 29:11: 

“The idiot gives free rein to his anger,

but the wise person suppresses it.” (Lbla)

    “Wao! He did not know that God had spoken about this matter!

    Quite explicit. Who wants to appear to himself as an idiot? And it does not hurt you “to suppress it” as the Freudian ones think, neither. In fact, while more hysterical you put yourself and finally you burst, worse there put themselves the things – not better. Not only for you – but for all what they surround to you.

    And you know it well, you are going to have to go round there apologizing. To ventilate the anger is something so much in all the forms that you could imagine. Take it as an insurance, the "ventilation" is not an option for the believer.

Something to think it: no?

    “Skylight that yes!”

Many of the problems that a Biblical advice confronts are the direct result of the inaction of her in exercising the ecclesiastic discipline as the Gentleman established it in Mateo 18, versículos of 15 from now on. When the shepherds and the Meeting of llegan to think that they know better that Jesus how to direct your church, major problems will always arise.

Then, when you remedy others they proved to be unsatisfactory, the adviser possibly is named to solve them, and he needs to do it bíblicamente, finding more difficult and complicated the task of what could have been if the Gentleman had been obeyed first of all.

How of this problematic person about whom you have worried? Is it the ecclesiastic discipline what corresponds to him? If it is like that, do not fail in exercising it – Jesus promised to be involved to be with you in the process when you do it.

Taken of the blog of Dr. Jay Adams http://www.nouthetic.org/blog/

Translated by Milton Villanueva