The old man of ours was crucified.

The old man of ours was crucified.

The old man is who we were in Adam.

The old man is a kind of man whose history God ended at the cross.

The old man is the race of mankind who were slaves to sin and under the law.

The old man is who we WERE naturally.

We WERE by nature children of wrath. (EPH 2:3)

The New Man is who we are in Christ. The new man is a kind of man whose history begins with the resurrection.

There is ONE new man, a new kind of humanity made up of born-again Jews and Gentiles who are in Christ Jesus.

The Old Man and New Man are inclusive terms for a kind of man.

The old man stands for all we were Federally in Adam. The New Man is who we all are Federally in Christ.

Something that had been ours was crucified.

So that something else might be put out of business.

So we would no longer serve a third something.

The Greek text for this verse clearly says “our old man” and not “self”.

katargeo = to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively.

aorist passive subjunctive

to be reduced to inactivity; to be rendered useless; to be deprived of its power, to be put out of business.

The aorist subjunctive indicates an act that occurs but there is uncertainty as to the time when it occurs.

The body of sin is clearly not the same thing as the old man.

The body of sin is not the same thing as sin.

Sin is not the same thing as the old man.

Sin singular describes the authority, power and principle working to drive man to disobey God.

Sin is a master and an enemy.

“our body of sin”is a synonym for the word “flesh”.

The flesh is the manifestation of sin in the as-yet unredeemed body.

The flesh, sin entrenched in the body, is unchangeably evil and will war against us until Christ comes or we die.

Only the Holy Spirit has power over “the flesh”, over our body of sin.

Sin the thing, the rebellion against God, still has a manifestation in our unredeemed bodies.

The Bible calls this manifestation “the flesh” or “the body of sin”.

One thing
-the old man -
was crucified.

A second thing
- the body of sin -
is to be put out of business.

A third thing
- sin -
is no longer to be served.

ISIS headquarters with ABab has been wiped out, …

so that the ISIS army might at some point be put out of business, …

so we would no longer be held hostage by radical Islam.

Our old man was crucified with Christ,

so that the body of sin might be made useless, so that we would no longer be serving sin.

In the past…our old man was crucified.

In the future, our body of sin will be put out of business.

In the present, from now on we should not serve sin.