I like Merriam-Webster’s definition of RENOVATE1.
- to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding)
- to restore to life, vigor, or activity
Romans 12:2 says, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
The word ‘renewing’ in the Greek means to renovate over and over again. When He renews He does so in present pluperfect tense in us meaning “now, now, now, now, now…” and so on. This occurs by grace and revelation and is not done by us. It is His good work and will in us. So, when rhema word comes it renovates. Sounds familiar.
Isa. 55:11, “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.”
Our lives have been bought by His blood. Our spirit is saved at salvation. Our soul goes through sanctification unto righteousness unto holiness and Being in Him. In sanctification, our soul is renovated from the unregenerate particles of the old man’s thinking. The old man’s thinking is nullified in Christ at the cross. A dead man does not have power. Death and the power of the law or self-imposed law has no power over a man that cannot die. This is the spiritual understanding and knowledge that is deposited and diffused into our being by grace and revelation. It is a promise of the New Covenant.
Heb. 10:16, “This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;“
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