Thursday, April 27, 2017

Do you know what is of the flesh?

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
10:35 PM
Flesh and Spirit.

What are some of the things of the flesh that we are to shun?

1Co 3:3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions…

Envying, strife, divisions.

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 
Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 
Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Things LIKE- idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murder, drunkenness, revellings.

Mar_4:19  And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Luk_21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, lusts of other things, surfeiting, drunkenness.

We KNOW what these things are. We know how vulnerable we are to these various things of the flesh. These THINGS of the flesh have become things we have accepted as a part of us, not something to necessarily be shunned. In the world we live in today so many lusts of 'other things' are encouraged. Strife, heresies, drunkenness…. These are a part of everyday life. Anger, jealousies, greed… so much is touted as acceptable though often renamed. Ambition, comfortable in life, a right to be heard, we call things by many different names and often it's to make them acceptable, to cover the truth of their nature as being of the flesh, as being evil, as being contrary to God, contrary to the Spirit, contrary to our Savior.

Truly this statement -

'The more spiritual a child of God becomes the more he is conscious of the significance of walking  according to the spirit and the dangers of walking according to the flesh. But how is he actually to walk by the spirit?'


-is something we need to study more in-depth. All by the grace and will of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever!

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