2. The Poser | The Wild At Heart Experience

2. The Poser | The Wild At Heart Experience | John Eldredge

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@griffin2706 2 ай бұрын

Eldredge’s wonderfully helpful category of The Poser was transformational for me. It helped even more when I searched Scripture for this category - and I found it: The Poser is what the New Testament calls the Flesh. Paul discusses some important things about this in Romans 6 and Romans 7. • In Rom.6:6 Paul says “We know that our old self [or “old man” [palaios anthropos]) has been crucified.” If my old man/self was crucified with Jesus, then my old man/self is now dead. When Jesus arose out of the grave, my old man/self didn’t rise with him. My old man is still dead (Rom.6:6) and buried (Rom.6:4) - twice removed, as I like to say. • So if my old man/self is dead, why do I sin? • Paul answers this in Rom.7:7-20, where Paul turns his attention to the Flesh, which can be thought of as the old self’s (the old man’s) habits. Even though my old man/self is dead, all the habits and trained responses and trained thought life of the old man/self is still active - and those collective, cumulative habits are the Flesh - what Eldredge puts in more practice language as the Poser. • The Poser/the Flesh ISN'T the real me. The False Self Eldredge mentions is the Flesh. The real me - the true me - is a new creation, is the righteousness of God in Christ, is a saint who sometimes stumbles. For the believer, the real man/self is the born-again man/self, the New Man/Self. • NOTE WELL: I am STILL a sinner saved by grace, absolutely. What I’m pointing out here is that is not all that I am - it’s not all that any believer is: - I as the New/Man am qualified by Father to share in the inheritance of the saints (Col.1:12); - I as the New/Man am a new creation - a new man (2 Cor.5:17) - I as the New/Man am the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Cor.5:21). • Eldredge’s use of the term “Poser” is very helpful - it doesn't sound "theological" - and it’s so good to see how this term Poser connects with the Biblical discussion of the Flesh. • BTW and FWIW, the internal civil war going on inside every believer ISN’T between the Old Man/Self and the New Man. The Old Man/Self is dead and buried (Rom.6:6 and 6:4). The internal civil war going on inside the believer - “Part of me wants to do X [a bad thing] but part of me doesn’t want to do X” - that civil war is between the New Man and the Flesh.

@dudewithout Ай бұрын

What an incredible nugget to find in the KZbin comments section. Thank you so much for sharing. This is an awesome consolidation of the struggle and scriptures to help

@thefamily2707 4 ай бұрын

Thats Gods land there brotheren 🙏🏻

@EmilGhiurau 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video.

@noahamoore 3 ай бұрын

Good stuff. Thanks John

@mjd4529 3 ай бұрын

This video and listen to Art’s story is really challenging me to consider myself as a father to my early teen son and daughter and the words I use, and the behaviours I use with them or they see.