The Way Study Blog: May 2015

Saturday, May 30, 2015

According to His Purpose

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

This is a very special verse. I hesitate to say this because so many people, me included, don't comprehend how it could be true but it is true. God's word is truth.

Are we called according to His purpose?

Do you love God?

What's it mean to love God?

Do you give your allegiance to God?

Do you trust God?

These are all very valid questions.

If we LOVE God, we trust God. If we trust God, we believe God. We KNOW beyond doubt that even when the worst of the worst is going on in our lives, that some how beyond our comprehension it will be for good as God accounts good in the realm of eternity, not in this temporary time we have here and now. This is TRUTH!

God's purpose is love, and for us to believe in that love, for us to trust in that love.

We are called according to His purpose, we love God. We know that in this temporary life we will have extreme hardships- possibly physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or all of these. All of what we are called to endure no matter what it is, all of it will somehow far beyond our ability to comprehend, work together for good.

Please, Father God, we would love You and be Yours in all things!

Please. Let us be Yours now and forever.

Amen.

Friday, May 29, 2015

The Spirit- Believe

Infirmities.

Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Our infirmities….

From G772; feebleness (of body or mind); by implication malady; moral frailty: - disease, infirmity, sickness, weakness.

Moral frailty.

Who among us isn't afflicted greatly with moral frailties?

Continuing from yesterday….

We are infirmed. We are diseased. We are sick. We are weak. We are so incredibly infirmed- spiritually, morally infirmed.

The SPIRIT alone can help us with our infirmities.

The SPIRIT makes intercession for us.

Truly in our sin sickness we don't really know what we need to pray for. We have to trust in the Spirit to intercede for us and pray for us.

I love when Jesus prayed for me.

Yes, for ME.

JESUS, our Savior prayed for me!

Joh 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee

Joh 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word

That's ME! I'm believing on Jesus through the word! Jesus prayed for me!

And He did this too--

Joh_15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me

He sent the SPIRIT of Truth to me!

The Spirit that was sent to us is to be all that we cannot be through our infirmed weakness, not able to even know what we need to pray for.

We KNOW our need. We recognize our infirmed state. We believe in our Savior, we believe in the Father, we believe in the Spirit.

We are Christ's.

We must believe!

By the grace of God we must believe!

Joh 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

BELIEVE.

The SPIRIT will pray for us.

We believe, help our unbelief.

By the mercy, love, the grace of our SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!

Now and always!

Amen!

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Our Infirmities

Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Our infirmities….

From G772; feebleness (of body or mind); by implication malady; moral frailty: - disease, infirmity, sickness, weakness.

Moral frailty.

Who among us isn't afflicted greatly with moral frailties?

Tonight I'm afflicted with a sinus headache so hopefully, prayerfully, tomorrow we'll study this much more in-depth.

In the name of our Savior, by His grace and mercy always!

Amen.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Saved By Hope

Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Saved by hope.

Hope.

FAITH- the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED for, the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN.

Things HOPED for.

Rom 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Rom 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Who AGAINST hope BELIEVED in hope.

Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Rom 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Hope of the GLORY of GOD.

TRIBULATION works PATIENCE.

PATIENCE works EXPERIENCE.

EXPERIENCE works HOPE.

HOPE makes us not ASHAMED.

Rom_12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer

REJOICING in hope.

Rom_15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

We through PATIENCE and COMFORT of the SCRIPTURES might have hope.

Rom_15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

GOD of hope.

1Co 9:10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

PLOW in hope.

THRESHETH in hope.

1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Gal_5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Through the SPIRIT wait for the HOPE ---- of RIGHTEOUSNESS by FAITH.

Col_1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Hope of GLORY- CHRIST in US.

HOPE- more tomorrow on HOPE by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

AMEN.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Waiting to be adopted

Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Waiting for the adoption.

Some people know as children what it means to wait to be adopted. It is common knowledge that people prefer newborns and very young children to adopt. It's less common to adopt older children. In fact, the older children get the least likely they are to be adopted. Older children realize this and yet they still hope. Most of those children grow up in foster homes, or orphanages and when they are of age they are set out into the world to continue their lives parentless.

Those children who wait to be adopted have a hope, an expectation, a desire to have parents.

We who wait for the adoption by our Father God can be assured this adoption WILL take place.

The waiting isn't easy, no one said it would be easy. We are told it would be hard. We are told this--

Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Every branch that beareth fruit- he purgeth.

Rev_3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Rebuked, chastened.

Heb 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

So why do we think the waiting for our adoption- the redemption of our bodies that will occur when our Savior returns- should be easy for us?

Monday, May 25, 2015

Subject to vanity

Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

The creature- WE- were made subject to vanity.

Vanity.

This is so true-

Ecc_1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

We are subject to vanity at every turn of our existence. That we would not be vain can in itself be a vanity. We are subject to vanity not willingly. We are given life and allowed to live this life of vanity but it is a life that is also given hope. We are offered deliverance from the slavery of sin, which is the bondage of sure corruption. We all have NO hope if we choose to remain slaves to sin rather than cling to the hope of sinlessness in the righteousness of our Savior, Jesus Christ. There is HOPE for the glorious liberty for us who are God's children.

GLORIOUS LIBERTY. Truly glorious liberty such as we can scarcely imagine.

The WHOLE creation groans and travails in PAIN … until now.

The WHOLE CREATION was hopeless- and to lose all hope means nothing but groaning and travailing. Hope came.

HOPE in Christ!

HOPE in Salvation!

HOPE in Love!

We must have patience, we must wait for the hope, for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Realizing that we live in vanity for all is vanity, means realizing that we are wretched people, saved only by the HOPE of our Savior. Our flesh is vanity. Our hope is CHRIST.

We must love God and love others, this is our hope love through Christ. May the Holy Spirit, the Comforter promised to us bless us with His love - teaching us all things. All through the love of the Gods who love us!

We Wait

Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

We WAIT.

We wait for the glorious day when we as sons of God are MANIFESTED as such.

We WAIT.

In waiting there is a hope or a fear, perhaps a boredom, while waiting. We all know what it means to wait for things. It's a good guess that right now you are waiting for something. It could be simply waiting for an upcoming event. Waiting for a phone call. Waiting for a package. Waiting for a party. Waiting for a special occasion. Waiting for a text. Waiting for an appointment. Waiting for the next hour. Waiting for a show. Waiting for well, any number of things.

We WAIT.

We are often taught not to like to wait because it keeps us from doing things we want to do. We don't like waiting in doctor offices, at stop lights, in government offices - drivers licenses, permits, etc. We don't like waiting in grocery lines or lines of any sort especially slow ones.

Even when we are waiting for good things, things we are anticipating, we don't always like the wait.

So why should waiting for the manifestation of our sonship with God to be realized at the second coming of our Savior, be any different for us at all?

Heb_6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Rom_2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life

Jas_5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain

Jas_5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Luk_21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.

Rom_8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Rom_15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

2Co_6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses

1Th_1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father

Heb_6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Heb_10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Heb_12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us

Jas_1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing

Rev_3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev_14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Patience…

Waiting takes patience.

More on this tomorrow…. By the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ our LORD.

Amen.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Heirs of God

Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

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Truth.

Heirs! Maybe you don't have any inheritance here and now from parents or any other relatives but you can have the greatest inheritance that exists. A heavenly inheritance. Christ received the inheritance upon His death and after three days in the tomb. He was given eternal life, never to die again. We too will receive this same inheritance when our Savior returns and the last trump is sounded.

This is truth!

The Bible is filled with prophecy.

Our history is filled with prophesies fulfilled.

All the Biblical prophecies will be fulfilled, NOTHING can stop them.

We think because a lot of time has passed that the prophecies will not come true.

Did God's people under the Egyptians rule believe this as well? Most likely some did. They were slaves for over 400 years. And the Jewish people taken captive at Babylon, they had a 70 year prophecy. And the prophecy for the Messiah was made many centuries before it came to pass. We tend to think that logic overrules prophecy simply because we don't see it fulfilled. We have so MANY fulfilled prophecies in our past history we'd be FOOLS to believe the future, as yet unfulfilled prophecies, will not come to pass. We remain fools though because we want the prophecies fulfilled in our time, not God's time.

Those who live as prophecies are being fulfilled tend to not notice what's happening. It isn't until they look back they see.

The biggest problem with this for those who are living in the last days, is they won't have any time to look back.

When time is over- BEFORE the last trump is sounded, all will be decided.

We have to look in our current history to see what is taking place leading up to the very last prophecies being fulfilled.

We do have an inheritance. We are heirs with Christ. We will SUFFER with Christ. We will suffer under spiritual warfare as never before. And ALL our suffering is nothing compared to the GLORY that WILL be revealed in us. We do have hope, NOT HERE AND NOW, not for our LIVES here and now, but for the FUTURE, for the inheritance!

We are heirs with Christ because we are CHILDREN of GOD.

Please Father in heaven we would be your children, we choose to be Your children. By Your grace and mercy, by Your love, all through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

Amen.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Adopted by God

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

We are led by the Spirit of God. What does if mean to be Spirit led? It means surrendering self. It means BELIEVING in Jesus more than believing in ourselves. Seriously. If our hope is only in ourselves and what we know of ourselves, we are truly hopeless. Comprehending our dependency is something we, or should I say, I don't do as I should. I can't speak for other people. In my imagination I believe there are very devout Christ followers, people a million times more devout than I am. I believe there are people who wake up in the morning and immediately go to their knees to surrender their lives to God, recognizing their true dependency upon Him for all things, recognizing that life without God is meaningless. I believe there are people who all day long are constantly reminded of their dependency upon God. I need to be one of these people and by the grace of God I will be. I am still wretchedly filled with self. I need to be LED of the Spirit of God, led and KNOW that I am being led. Recognizing my need to be LED rather than leading.

We will be sons of God as we are LED by the SPIRIT of GOD. SONS OF GOD! SONS!

Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The SPIRIT of ADOPTION!

We need this SPIRIT of ADOPTION! We need to be ADOPTED by GOD!

Too many people believe they are automatically God's. The fact of the matter is, once we become old enough and that opportunity that comes to all who are capable of comprehension, to choose God we have to make that choice if we desire to be God's. We aren't automatically rolled over into being God's as we transition from the child innocence of salvation into the age of comprehension whatever that may be for each individual. It comes to all of us. You can be assured that if you've reached adulthood it's happened to you. You've had to make the choice at some point in your life to be God's or not. There are only two choices. If we were all automatically God's we would not need to receive any Spirit of adoption. Those who are born to the parents that raise them are not in need of adoption. We need to be adopted!

Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God

The Spirit with our spirit!

We are children of God. By the grace of our Lord, we are children of God.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

There is a fear of death where there is no real hope of life.

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Spirit of bondage.

A spirit that keeps us bound. That spirit of bondage is a spirit that has no hope. That spirit of bondage has fear.

Heb 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Fear of death.

The surety of salvation, the surety of life after death was only fully given to us AFTER our Savior became our ultimate Sacrifice upon the cross and was raised from the grave by the Father God.

There is a fear of death where there is no real hope of life.

More tomorrow by the Grace of our LORD.

We kill the flesh nature through the Spirit

Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

With Christ in us our body is dead because we are sinners. What is alive in us with Christ in us is the SPIRIT, because of Christ's righteousness.

What does it mean to have living dead bodies? I've spoken about the living dead before but not in this context. I've talked of them as those who don't know Christ that they are alive but really dead. Now I'm talking about us who do know Christ and how we are SPIRITUALLY alive, and yet dead to our carnal flesh nature, our body. We know that we are physically breathing so we aren't dead in that sense. We know that we are sinners and the wages of our sin is death. Christ DIED in our place. Christ was raised up by the Father God, and the Father God will raise us up as well. We who LIVE with the Spirit in us, will belong to God and we will be raised up immortal.

We are in DEBT, but NOT in debt to our flesh nature, we don't have to live after our flesh nature. THROUGH the Spirit we kill the flesh nature.

THROUGH the SPIRIT.

PLEASE Father in heaven, please let us THROUGH the Spirit kill the flesh nature in ourselves so we may live in the Spirit and be YOURS, and be raised by YOU in that day when the last trump sounds and our Savior returns.

In the name of our SAVIOR now and forever.

AMEN.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

A spiritual mind this is our hope

Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

This is TRUTH.

A mind set upon the flesh and all that entails without any thought for the Spiritual, cannot please God. We have a SPIRITUAL birth, a SPIRITUAL life and those who are strictly carnal minded will NOT be able to comprehend the SPIRITUAL, they simply can't try though they might. Without faith it is impossible to comprehend. They might try to understand but there will be something missing, something huge missing from their understanding of things spiritual. They are blind and unable to see, deaf and unable to hear. Just as one who is physically blind and deaf from birth never to have seen or heard they cannot fully comprehend what it means to hear or see, they simply CANNOT it is an impossibility! So why do we expect those who have never seen or heard spiritually to comprehend what it means to belong to our Savior, to be His, to have the Holy Spirit in us, guiding us, loving us. They can't. All they can do is pretend they understand and reject what they understand. All they can do is pretend while living carnally focused. They will not be subject to the law of God, because they cannot know His love- THEY DON'T WANT TO!

If WE turn back away from the spiritual life we have had our hearts open to, is it any wonder it would be worse than never having a spiritual life? If we turn to the flesh and forsake the spirit we are of the flesh and cannot please God.

We choose. It all comes down to choosing.

Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Spirit of God dwelling in us. This is our HOPE.

Our hearts in heaven

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

Carnally minded. Are our minds fixated upon earth? Seriously. Did you think of heaven at all today, even once? Many people have placed God and Jesus upon earth and keep them there. Yes, even God. They put Him in churches, they speak to Him as if He lives right there in their homes and He travels along with them. We are TAUGHT to believe this and I'm not saying that Christ isn't in us, we know this is true.

Col_1:27 ...which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

What I'm saying is this--

Joh_14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Mar_16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

Christ is in us through the Holy Spirit's representation.

Joh_14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever

Joh_14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Joh_15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me

Joh_16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Our Savior is in Heaven sitting on the right hand of God the Father so WHY do we bring them down to earth? Why do we not turn our thoughts upon HEAVEN. Jesus taught us to pray and the first line of that prayer is - 'Our Father which art in heaven' … where should our mind be? HEAVENWARD.

Where are our treasures? They should be in heaven shouldn't they?

Mat_6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal

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

Is it any wonder that to be carnally minded is death, and spiritually minded is life and peace?

If we have our minds focused on the carnal things, things of the flesh, things of this earth, then we are among the living dead. To be spiritually minded is to mind things of the Spirit- HEAVENLY things!

We must pray to our Father in HEAVEN.

We must lay our treasures in HEAVEN.

We must realize our Savior is at the right hand of His Father, our Father.

We must be SPIRITUALLY minded.

To be spiritual minded is life!

By the grace of God may we be SPIRITUALLY minded!

Amen.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

How do we mind things of the Spirit?

Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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.

Minding things of the flesh.

How do we mind things of the flesh?

We place our treasures on earth, that's one way. We do not seek repentance and forgiveness. We do not pick up our cross daily. We do not war against the flesh. We do not mortify the deeds of the body. We do not go and sin no more. We do not love our fellow man. We do not love God. We are selfish.

How do we mind things of the spirit?

We believe in our Savior. We have faith. We seek forgiveness and repentance. We war against the flesh that would rule us and by warring we seek the power of GOD, not any power we have of our own that leads to self exaltation. We go and sin no more. We love our fellow man, we love God. We are self-less.

So while we are consumed with our flesh -with our MINDS we MUST SERVE GOD. The understanding that we MUST choose the spiritual over the flesh is surrendering to God with our mind, not succumbing to the despair of the flesh. Not letting the flesh destroy our spirit all through CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD!

Amen.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Forever Serving God in Our MInds

Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

Recognizing the law of God as good is comprehending the spiritual. To love God is to love the Spiritual.

Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

SPIRITUAL. The law is spiritual

Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual

The law is good. It is us who break the law.

Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Sin dwells in us, sin that we all know too well. We can't comprehend the sin in us. If we could choose wouldn't we rather be without sin?

Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

This is truth. We know what it's like to feel this way. All of us who believe in the Lord desire to obey Him and when He tells us to sin no more we want to obey Him but we are in this war of the flesh and spirit. We know there isn't anything good in us, we want there to be good, but we haven't a clue how to manage it. That's exactly what this is saying and it's truth.

Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Sad but TRUTH!

Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

The war between the spirit and the flesh is alive and real in each of us. We cannot use this verse to excuse ourselves from the sins we commit. We cannot claim it wasn't us because it is us that consents to the sin we are fighting against. When we consent to the sin, when we give into the temptation, we NEED TO REPENT, we CAN REPENT, we have a WAY to REPENT.

Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

TRUTH!

Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

With OUR MINDS we serve the LAW OF GOD.

With OUR FLESH we serve the LAW OF SIN.

The law in our members WARS against our mind and our ONLY hope is our LORD JESUS CHRIST, it is ONLY THROUGH HIM that we have HOPE.

He is our hope when we have NO HOPE. When despair would over take us we must have HOPE in our SAVIOR. He knows that we are flesh creatures that want to be His spiritual followers. We seek forgiveness always, forgiveness only found in HIM.

We must live soberly, under the realization that we live in a spiritual/flesh war. It is a CONSTANT battle and to desire it to be anything but is to set ourselves up for failure. If we long to attain a goal of perfection of our own we will strive in vain. We must seek to be ever closer to our SAVIOR, so close we know we are known of Him. WE need to be known of Him and we won't be known of Him if we are too wrapped up in knowing ourselves.

Please Father, we would be YOURS! In the name of YOUR SON, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD now and forever AMEN!

Flesh Born, Spirit Born

Yesterday I said we must look at Paul, but truly we must look at JESUS and by the grace of our LORD, see Him as Paul saw Him, as Paul through the HOLY SPIRIT depicted Him to us. Men wrote the Bible INSPIRED by the HOLY SPIRIT, it is the HOLY SPIRIT who gave them the words to write, the messages to give. Yes, mankind over the many years has take the unvarnished truth and warped things with misinterpretations and such, but GOD will guide us to ALL truth in HIS word as we need it, unveiling what needs to be unveiled. We will see what we need to see, hear what we need to hear, all by HIS grace!

Let us begin this study-

Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

We are flesh and spirit beings, and our flesh reigns over the spirit in us because of sin.

Jesus told us we must be born again- in the spirit! When you aren't born you have no way of experiencing the life you've been given. A baby passing away before being born has no outside the womb life experience at all. When that baby passes out of the mother's body and is buried there are no living experiences for that infant, none. That baby has lived and died in darkness. When a baby is born living the experiences of that child's life occur in such a way they are capable of being recorded. The child could actually see his or herself from the beginning outside of the womb until whatever age it is the child gets to before watching the recordings. When our spirit is brought to life through being born again of the SPIRIT, a new life truly begins for us. We recognize the LIFE of the spirit in us. We acknowledge we have a spiritual life, a LIFE that recognizes GOD who is Spirit. Unless we are born again in the spirit, we are not living a spiritual life. The potential for a spiritual birth exists in us all, but this birth, unlike our physical one is not nine months of gestation and then the inevitable birthing. This birth is dependent upon us recognizing our need of a Savior, recognizing we need forgiveness, recognizing we need to die to sin and live to Christ.

We know the law is SPIRITUAL.

The law is OF GOD.

We know we are FLESH born, and SPIRIT born again.

We know our flesh nature long before our spirit nature.

We are born slaves to sin, sold under sin

Like Paul, we are carnal sold under sin, and then he goes on...

Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

This is TRUTH.

We do things we do NOT want to do.

We don't do things that we want to do.

Things we hate- we do.

Carnally, in our flesh nature we DO want to do things we should not do. The Holy Spirit reveals to us that we should NOT want to do these things that our flesh nature desires. The Holy Spirit convicts us in the things we should do, and then our flesh nature overrules that conviction and we DON'T do things we want to do. We will do things we HATE on a spiritual level because our flesh nature dominates us.

There is a war, remember we were talking about it yesterday. There is a war and it's not in another land far away from us, but it surrounds us personally. A spiritual war- a war between flesh and spirit. You can't escape the war, you simple can't. However, given the nature of the war you have the option to ignore the fact you are even in a war. Of course, just like a physical war, if you are thrust into the battlefield and choose to ignore you are in a war, you'll soon be killed. Spiritually we can be killed in the spiritual war. The biggest difference being between our Spiritual war and a physical war is we already know the winner of our Spiritual war and we need to choose to be on His side. Ignoring there is a spiritual war and the winner of that war, is eternally life threatening, spiritually life threatening.

All by the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, more tomorrow as we continue to study His amazing truths! Help us Father, help us to learn what we need to know to live IN YOU.

All glory to God in the highest!

Amen.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Happiness in Being God's

Spiritual War.

Yesterday I wrote this…

'We WILL be wounded in this war, there is no escaping that. This is HAND to HAND spiritual combat. Yes, they are spiritual hands and we fight the spiritual fight, but it is REAL if not corporeal. '

Real war.

Yet we expect to laugh and have fun, to be happy and pain free. We do, we expect these things. We go to great lengths to not be bothered by many things. We drug ourselves, we drink away our problems, we fill our lives with past times that have nothing to do with God at all. We seek our pleasure in many, many ways and because we are seeking the pleasure in ways we deem good we feel it's okay. Maybe it is okay, but anything put in place of God isn't good.

Does this mean we need to be unhappy to be God's, no. But it does mean we need to find our happiness in being God's. Our treasures are heavenly treasures, right?

We need to live soberly- truly. We need to do this, but the harder we try the more frustrated we're going to become as we fail over and over again. So what do we do?

Ecc_12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Joh_14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Joh_14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Joh_15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

So HOW DO WE KEEP OUR SAVIOR'S COMMANDMENTS?

How do we GO and sin NO MORE?

We MUST LOOK at Paul, seriously, we have to -