Soldiers

Conscious choice daily from the heart- choosing to BELIEVE.  Choosing to believe in a living GOD, to believe in a SAVIOR-Jesus Christ, to believe in the HOLY SPIRIT, to believe that we belong to all three of them.  Choosing to believe the Holy Spirit will live in us opening our hearts and understanding to the love of our Savior Jesus Christ.  The SPIRIT with our spirit.  With our minds - our spirit

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.

Law of flesh- the carnal nature.  Law of our minds- the conscious choice, the believe, the hope, the faith needed.

The law of the flesh will WAR against the law of our minds.

The law of the flesh will try desperately to bring our MINDS captive to our sins, so we have NO hope, NO faith, NO belief.  We talked about MORTIFYING the deeds of our flesh, doing ALL within our limited ability to rid ourselves of sin, and allowing our minds to comprehend that Christ alone can fully and wholly rid of us sin. Christ alone is righteousness, and He will clothe us with HIS righteousness, not with righteousness of our own.  We must desire to serve the LORD with all we are, thanking GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST that He will do all we cannot do.

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.

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.

CHOOSING the SPIRIT.

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.

If we choose to live embracing our carnal natures, nurturing our carnal minds we are choosing to forsake God. If we tell ourselves that we are weak and will always be weak, that we sin and will always sin, that we are LOST to our flesh nature, our carnal nature then we are choosing to serve self over God. YES, we are WEAK- our strength is CHRIST. YES, we are sinners- our SINLESS SAVIOR saves us from sin! YES, we have a flesh nature that will WAR with our spirit, and we must choose the spirit over flesh!

1Pe_1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ

We MUST GIRD UP our minds!

We MUST HOPE to the end!

We MUST HOPE for GRACE, the GRACE of our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

WAR!

FIGHT!

Don't give in to sin, ANY SIN!  Don't ACCEPT any sin you are prone to as being okay! Do NOT call sin, good! Do NOT excuse away any sin, not a single one!  If you are being pricked in your conscience that something you are doing, thinking, is sin then seek forgiveness! Go to WAR against the sin that so easily besets you! We ALL have to do this, there isn't a single human being who doesn't have to WAR if they would be Jesus Christ's!

To be Christ's means you have become a SOLDIER in the battle between good and evil! What kind of soldier you'll be is truly up to you and the choices you make- choosing to BELIEVE in the GIFT of SALVATION, choosing to BELIEVE in our HOPE JESUS CHRIST always! Choosing to WAR against the carnal nature, against sin in ourselves! Choosing to REVEAL CHRIST to all you are called to reveal Him to.

Soldiers of Faith in Jesus Christ!

All by HIS GRACE and MERCY forever and ever!

AMEN!