'To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.'

Rom 8:3  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Rom 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Rom 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Jesus condemned sin in the flesh. Jesus was God in flesh. Jesus divested Himself of His God power after He agreed to enter into humanity through the flesh and the Spirit in the womb of a human being. The power He had to work miracles was from His Father. The power He gave to His disciples to work miracles was from God the Father. God the Father sent God the Son to be born of flesh and Spirit.  It was because He became one of us that He could in fact condemn sin in the flesh. God the Father did condemn sin from the beginning of it's existence, yet to be able to prove to humanity that sin could be conquered in the flesh- flesh had to conquer sin. Flesh with the same ability to sin as our flesh.  A God defeating sin would have NO bearing on us. But a God who became FLESH, weak flesh with the propensity towards sin, ABLE to be tempted, that God did and does have a bearing on us.  Christ did for us what we could NOT do! Don't we get that?!  So many want to believe that He could NOT sin, and used His own power to keep from sinning. So many want Him to be SUPER MAN in the sense that He could NOT sin, but that's a lie.  He COULD sin! But HE DID NOT. He WAS tempted, and we ALL know what it means to be tempted towards sin. Most people also know what it means to succumb to temptation.  Jesus did NOT succumb to temptation but surrendered to His Father's will, seeking NOT His own way.

We seek our own ways, our own very selfish ways and we sin.

We have to CHOOSE not to walk after our flesh but after the Spirit. We have to choose God OVER self, Spirit OVER flesh! We will face temptations CONSTANTLY, sometimes non-stop one after the other over and over and over and OVER. And through the Spirit may we choose to live by the Spirit rather than our flesh, through our SAVIOR.

If we choose to seek things of the flesh, minding them then we are of the flesh! We HAVE to choose the SPIRIT.

If we choose to be CARNALLY minded we are choosing to die eternally. If we choose to be spiritually minded we will have life and peace eternally!

WE CHOOSE!

Living through the Spirit we are choosing LOVE, and to LOVE GOD and to LOVE OTHERS. WE choose to LOVE, not hate. We choose the things of LOVE, the things of the Spirit!

We may falter and fail time and again, but as long as we constantly seek to live in the Spirit, through the Spirit, all by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST we will live in love.

We can't fix the world, we can only live our lives loving as our Savior wills us to love, to live.  He is the power, He is the SAVIOR, He is all in all, He is everything.

All though HIS LOVE, His righteousness, all in HIM our loving Savior!

Amen!