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.