Tuesday, October 25, 2016

We lose our carnal life when we take up our cross.

'Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 
Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. '

We lose our life when we take up our cross.  Not literally our body's life- we keep on breathing, our heart keeps pumping, the life we lose is a different part of us.

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

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

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. 
Rom 8:6  For to be CARNALLY MINDED is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 
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. 
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. 
Rom 8:10  And IF CHRIST BE IN YOU, THE BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN 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.

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Plain as day we can see that the CARNAL MIND, our WALKING AFTER the FLESH, these things are what are contrary to the cross, contrary to our Savior.

When we take up our cross we are taking up the instrument that is to put our flesh, our carnal mind to death.  Our flesh/carnal nature is that of the soul-self in us.  We know that our BODY by itself can't sin, it is the part in our mind that chooses to sin.  The carnal part of our mind and that is the soul-self part of us choosing.  Only by living in Christ, only by having Christ in us, only by living after the spirit can we have hope- the hope Christ brings.

The Spirit raised Christ from the dead and this same Spirit will bring life to us because the Spirit will dwell in us!

Christ died upon a cross.  He could have been killed in any number of ways, but the cross was chosen and He suffered terribly.  We each have a cross to bear, and we need to put to death our carnal flesh, soul-self, and we need to live after the Spirit.  Christ has to be in us, we cannot please God if we live in our flesh.   Did you read those words up there- 'If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.' 

We are told this--

'Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 
Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. '

We have to lose our life and find Christ's.

Christ in us, living for Christ NOT FOR OURSELES, JUST LIKE CHRIST, THROUGH CHRIST!

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