Those who put on the 'newness' ⁽³⁾ that Christ preached,
Have their sins gracefully forgiven. ⁽⁴⁾
No longer mindful of so many errors,
But to gain His favour our spirit is happily driven.

But if spirit dispositions were changeless,
We would all be left with no future hope at all,
And would die in our age-old sins,
Like Adam, we would all forever fall.

So with a waiting attitude until our guaranteed hope ⁽⁵⁾
Is realised: Of a cleansed new heaven and earth; ⁽⁶⁾
After all unclean spirits in humans are abyssed, God will ⁽⁷⁾
Then bring His Kingdom of kings to authoritative birth. ⁽⁸⁾

It was the created flesh of Adam that failed in the creation
Of his everlasting part: the creation of his spirit.
Solomon too, with all his wisdom, failed in his completion.
He also listened to a woman's demon, and obeyed it. ⁽⁹⁾

So what more can be said to your great majority, to all you
Arrogant changeless ones, whose lives are still without meaning?
Only this: Now the 'good news' through faith has ended, ⁽¹⁰⁾
Worship God out of calamitous fear, ⁽¹¹⁾ cease being overweening.

                                                                                          24/2/04.