Pour Water on His People: Washing of Water by the Word

We have to make sure we are continually cultivating our soil, so that as the spirit is being poured out upon us we absorb (assimilate) it into our spirit man, to purge out the old man putting him to death, mortifying the body (members of our flesh where we would not obey it in the lust thereof, yielding our selves unto unrighteousness but unto righteousness. We should allow the word of God to wash away all the vestiges of the old man, along with those thoughts bringing them to captivity.