To explain that let me tell you that this version is pretty clear about it.  Being enfolded in something means to be hidden in it; it’s saying the same thing as Acts 1:8 where Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will envelope you; spiritually you won’t be seen.  Now, what is related to the old order of your life?  Would the nature of a sinner be in that old order?

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Look at this parable:  John is a professional football player.  During a particularly rough game John breaks his leg and also gets a concussion.  Well, while in the hospital John’s doctor gives him the news that his football playing days are over, for good.  Now, John tries coaching but, for some strange reason, he can’t keep his concentration centered on the game.  To make a long story short, John finally starts his own sporting goods store.  I ask you, is John still a professional football player?  Well, he still knows how to play football, but if he tried to go to his old coach and get back on the team to play his coach would tell him, “John, you’re not a professional football player anymore.  You’re a store owner, I guess with a bad memory because the doctor took you out for ever.”

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I’m sure you know of doctors who have lost their license to practice medicine.  They lost their title of doctor.  They still know the medical practice and if an emergency happened and they—he or she—was the only one who could help then he would.  But is he a doctor still, or just someone with that knowledge?

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You know that the “Once saved, always saved” deal, meaning forever set for heaven no matter what you do, is a crock; it is an excuse for not doing what you should be doing.  Well, the idea that when someone gets born again that person is still a sinner, only now he is saved by grace, is also like spitting in the face of God saying, “You didn’t do what You said that You could do.”

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I have never met a child of any father who has never missed it and made a mistake.  As I told a friend, as a child of Gery Torborg I have not always done what he wanted and sometimes I blatantly did the opposite.  Just so, as a child of God I have not always done what he wanted and sometimes I blatantly did the opposite.  Sometimes I thought I knew better than Gery, and sometimes I thought I knew better than God.  But I repented and did it his way after thinking about it, and I received His forgiveness.

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As I had told my pastor a while ago, I’m not a sinner, I’m a repenter.  Sinners don’t repent.  Actually, I’m a child of God who misses it and sins, but comes back to repent and receive forgiveness.