You're Fighting for Your Eternal Life

Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Greek Definitions--

Walk-- G4043 peripateo¯ per-ee-pat-eh'-o - figuratively to live, deport oneself
Spirit-- G4151 pneuma pnyoo'-mah - the Holy spirit, spirit (-ual, -ually), mind
Fulfil-- G5055 teleo¯ tel-eh'-o - accomplish, perform
Lust-- G1939 epithumia ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah - what is forbidden
Flesh-- G4561 sarx sarx - human nature, passions, carnal


If we live in the Holy Spirit, being spiritually minded, we will NOT perform what is forbidden in our human nature, our carnal passions.


Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.


Lusteth -- G1937 epithumeo¯ ep-ee-thoo-meh'-o -to set the heart upon


Our carnal human nature sets our heart AGAINST the Spirit.
The Spirit sets our hearts AGAINST our carnal human nature

Our carnal nature is contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit contrary to our carnal nature. To live in the Spirit means NOT living in our carnal human nature. Likewise to live in our carnal human nature means NOT living in the Spirit. We cannot have it both ways! We try though, we really, really do try. We make excuse after excuse for our carnal desires. They are who we are and a leopard cannot change it's spots, right? We are human, born with a human nature subject to things carnal, things that aren't spiritual. It goes against what comes naturally to us, to walk in the Spirit which is unnatural to us. Our natural nature is carnal and we cannot change that. We make the mistake thinking we can change our nature.


We have to LIVE in the Holy Spirit, not just visit the Holy Spirit when it's convenient to us. People just don't get it, and people-- including me because I don't fully understand what it means to LIVE in the Spirit-- struggle with it all. When we are caught up with Christ in the air upon His return to go live with Him forever it will be a reunion, a blessed completion of what is started here and now. We will have been living in the Spirit that He's sent to live with us. We won't be suddenly inspired towards God in that moment, we will have been living in the God called the Holy Spirit. It's an agony for us to live with our human natures constantly at war with things Spiritual. Paul talked of how hard it was and it's so true. But it's a fight we cannot give up on, not for a moment! Satan would have us discouraged that is one of his biggest weapons in this spiritual warfare.


We must LIVE in the Spirit.
We must live so that the Spirit sets our hearts AGAINST our carnal nature.
We cannot let our carnal nature set our hearts against the Spirit.


Our carnal nature with the help of principalities and powers unseen will stop at nothing to set our hearts against God and all things spiritual. By the GRACE of our Lord we must call upon His mercy and His righteousness even when we are at our lowest point because we have to seek GOD first always, no matter what happens in our lives. We must throw ourselves at the feet of our Savior begging for forgiveness seventy-times seven times, endlessly realizing that our self without Him is nothing. We are only truly alive in Him. We are in a WAR! We are! WAKE UP EVERYONE YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR ETERNAL LIFE! Arm yourself with Spiritual armor! Too many are in this battle without any armor choosing to be defenseless and expecting to be on the winning side. Too many are being mortally wounded without ever realizing their eternal life blood is seeping away.


Please Lord! Please! Let us live so that the SPIRIT we live in sets our hearts constantly against our carnal nature and NOT let our carnal nature set us against the SPIRIT.


By your grace, your mercy, your love now and forever! Thank you! All glory, all praise, and all honor unto You our Savior, our King!


Amen!