Don't Put On Old Clothes
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★WHEN you take a shower, you don’t put on the same clothes that you had on before. If you did, you’d be canceling out the benefit of the shower. When you clean the inside, you want the outside to match it. Having a clean inside and a dirty outside cancels the point in being cleansed. When you came to Jesus Christ, God gave you a blood bath. You were bathed in the blood of Jesus Christ. You were cleansed from all of your sins. But what many of us have done, which wreaks havoc in the community of faith, is having been washed by the blood of Jesus Christ we put on old clothes. The Lord wants us to take off old clothes, as they do not fit with the new cleansing.
The point
Just as you don't wear dirty clothes after a shower, we shouldn't live in sin after being cleansed by Christ's blood. Our outer life should match our inner cleansing.