Tuesday, December 3, 2013

We live in the flesh, but we do not war after the flesh

We walk in the flesh.
We do not war after the flesh.
Our weapons are not carnal.
Our weapons are mighty through God.
Our weapons through GOD cast down imaginations.
Our weapons through God cast down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
Our weapons through GOD bring into captivity EVERY THOUGHT to the OBEDIENCE of CHRIST.
Our weapons through GOD are ready to revenge all disobedience- when our obedience is FULFILLED.

Do you look on THINGS after the OUTWARD appearance?

If we are CHRIST'S we must think that Christ has a people that are HIS-and we are among those people.

2Co 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2Co 10:4  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2Co 10:7  Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

This is truth.

We have to realize that even though we must walk in flesh- we most certainly cannot step out of our flesh and live on- it's impossible.  We walk in flesh. But we DO NOT WAR after the flesh.

I know, you're probably thinking that you war after the flesh all the time, we fight with each other often don't we? We have wars of flesh where people die from this sort of warring, but that's not what we are focusing on here because we have a different sort of war, a spiritual war. If we die in the battle of the flesh, it doesn't mean we've lost eternal life. If we die spiritually, we have lost eternal life. So which war is more important? Seriously?

Every single day it seems we are put to the test. Just how important is eternal life to us? Is it more important than family? Friends? Government? Is it?

Keeping peace in the flesh, or peace in the spirit, which is more important?

Keeping peace among each other, among family and friends, and even strangers is this more important than peace in the spirit?

Flesh or God?

Yes, God wants us to love one another, but we are not to sacrifice God for others.  The two great commandments that encompass all ten moral laws are these--

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Love God.
Love mankind.

Without the love of God we CANNOT love mankind, it's IMPOSSIBLE.  We can pass something off as love, but it won't be true love.

Flesh or God?

God.

Spirit first, flesh second.

God first!

We are Christ's!  As being Christ's we must know that the spirit comes first.

Our warfare is a spiritual one.

We walk in the flesh.
We do not war after the flesh.
Our weapons are not carnal.
Our weapons are mighty through God.
Our weapons through GOD cast down imaginations.
Our weapons through God cast down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
Our weapons through GOD bring into captivity EVERY THOUGHT to the OBEDIENCE of CHRIST.
Our weapons through GOD are ready to revenge all disobedience- when our obedience is FULFILLED.

Amazing!

Read this--

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

The POWER OF HIS MIGHT! CHRIST'S MIGHT! ALL THROUGH GOD!

Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints

More tomorrow by the grace of God, our LORD, our SAVIOR!

Please let us know we are YOURS, let us think on YOU, CHRIST JESUS. Let us live in the SPIRIT that we are born again into all through YOU.  Though we walk in the flesh, let us live to YOU!

Please!

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