Evil wasn't promised forever

Do you sigh and cry for the abominations done in our world?

There are so many abominations that leave me in tears. I can't fathom the horrors we live with. I can't understand HOW people can be so incredibly cruel to others- to people, to animals. I just can't understand and yet it happens all the time. I know I have said cruel things to people before and I've regretted them. Sometimes I might say something hurtful and the moment it's out of my mouth I'm appalled, other times I don't feel the regret until much later.  Words can be cruel we all know this.  People can be so incredibly cruel. We don't like to think about that cruelty, we want it to be far from us. On any local news we can hear of cruelty, it's never far from us. 

Eze 9:4  And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

We are supposed to sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done. We aren't supposed to harden our hearts to them and pretend they don't exist. We aren't supposed to grow more and more callous, we aren't supposed to find humor in the horrors and yet so many do.

My soul hurts when I think of the horrors- the abominations.

We have to know that there will be an end to the abominations.

All but those who are crying and sighing for the abominations, which will have the mark upon them, will be destroyed.  Those who have love and empathy, those who comprehend that this world is not supposed to have abominations, that the abominations were never supposed to exist, these will not be destroyed.

Evil was never promised forever.

Eze 9:1  He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

Eze 9:2  And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

Eze 9:3  And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

Eze 9:4  And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Eze 9:5  And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

Eze 9:6  Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Eze 9:7  And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

Eze 9:8  And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

Eze 9:9  Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

Eze 9:10  And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

Eze 9:11  And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

Dear Heavenly Father, please help us to sigh and cry to know that all abominations will one day end, that all who love you are safe in You and Your love!

Please Father, may we be saved through our Savior and His love, His sacrifice.

Please.

In the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, our Lord now and forever.

Amen.

Is God your heavenly Father, or is the devil your father?

When we do not abide in truth- we do not have a heavenly Father, but rather a devil for a father.

They thought God was their heavenly Father. They believed the same heavenly Father of Abraham was their heavenly ancestor. They laid claim to Jesus' Father, as being their Father and yet they did NOT believe in truth.

Joh 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Joh 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Joh 8:45  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Joh 8:46  Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

They believed and they were wrong.  They believed and they rejected the truth.  They were raised to believe. Their entire lives from infancy to adulthood was spent learning of God and yet all their learning meant nothing because it was based upon the lies they wanted to believe, not truth.

The letter of the law DOES NOT SAVE ANYONE!  They lost sight of this! Even with all the animal sacrifices of their religion going on daily they lost sight of the needed sacrifice, they lost sight of the LOVE in all the rituals, the love of one for another. The love of God for them- they lost sight of this.

Jesus was revealing God the FATHER to them, He was revealing Him in person to everyone and they didn't even recognize this because to them God the Father was not about love, He was about rituals and sacrifice.  God was for people who would love- Him and others.  But this was lost sight of along the way.

Jesus wanted all to know this LOVE.

Jesus came to reveal all this LOVE.

The people claiming to know God didn't even recognize God's Son, they didn't recognize God's love.

Today people claim to know God, but how many of them wouldn't really recognize God's son, God's love? Would you, would I?

How many of us have the devil as our Father and not God even though we believe God is our Heavenly Father. 

Lusts, murder, no truth, lies, are you familiar with any of these? The men Jesus was talking to- were they murderers? Liars? Consumed by their lusts? Not in their own minds. They were not guilty of anything they followed their laws to the letter. How many of us today follow the letter of the law, and consider ourselves to be upstanding, honest, hardworking, caring, truthful people, just like they believed of themselves?  We need LOVE in all, we need CHRIST in all! 

We need HIS righteousness! We need HIS love. May we KNOW YOU HEAVENLY FATHER! You are our all in all!

May we not be deceived by our own selves. Open our eyes, our hearts all to YOU and YOUR LOVE as YOU revealed to us in Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our LORD now and forever!!!!!!!

Please, Father, please!

Thank you!

Amen.

At the last trump- present with the Lord

2Co 4:13  We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

2Co 4:14  Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2Co 4:16  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2Co 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2Co 5:1  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2Co 5:2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

2Co 5:3  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

2Co 5:4  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2Co 5:5  Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2Co 5:6  Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2Co 5:7  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2Co 5:8  We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2Co 5:9  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

2Co 5:10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad

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The same writer of the above verses wrote the following too-

1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

At the last trump we are changed.

At the last trump those who are in death's 'sleep' awaken.

At the last trump we are raised in corruptible.

When Paul writes here in 2 Corinthians about being absent from the body to be present with the Lord He's not telling us that upon death we are present with the Lord. If that were true PLEASE explain to me WHY our Lord would raise ANYONE from the dead. Why would he bring anyone back from their spiritual presence with God? Why would we NOT want to die if it had us sooner in God's presence? The truth is- once we die the next thing we will know is the presence of the Lord.  BUT the truth also is, we won't know that until we WAKE up from death's sleep.

When you sleep you know nothing until you wake up, this is truth!

So it is true that once we are divested of our corruptible bodies upon waking up when the last trump is sounded will be absent from our current corruptible bodies as we know them and present with the Lord in the new flesh He will give to us!

And we do want more than anything to be accepted of our SAVIOR.

We walk by faith not by sight.

We walk with the hope, sight unseen, to be Christ's when He returns. Christ gave us the EARNEST of the Spirit. Through the Spirit we have hope. 

So many want to believe Satan's lies.

But Christ did NOT go to heaven when He died.  So He couldn't have been with the thief on the cross next to Him in heaven that day.  Christ was telling that thief today, he was giving him the news that day.  Just as if I were to tell you today that I will be in Virginia with you, but you know my trip to Virginia isn't planned for another year.  Nothing stops me from telling you things about the future- today.

People grasp at straws trying to get things to fit their idea of how things should be, they twist and turn things until they can believe lies easily enough and are blinded to all truth.

LOGIC of God's love tells us that upon death we do not go to heaven in any form at all, especially when we know Christ didn't even go to heaven when He died.   When we know He raised people from the dead- which would be CRUEL if they were already with God having passed through the suffering of this life.

I want to be absent from my body to be present with the Lord and I want this at His return when the last trump sounds and the dead in Christ will rise and those living will rise also to meet Him in the air! I want this so desperately and it's by HIS grace that it is possible, only by His grace through His love!

All though HIM.

In Jesus' name now and forever, AMEN!

Loving the Love in God's Law

Joh 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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.

Joh 15:11  These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Joh 15:12  This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Joh 15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus KEPT His FATHER's COMMANDMENTS.

Did He at ANY time tell anyone NOT to keep His Father's commandments? 

He DID tell others they did good when they kept His  Father's commandments.

Mat 19:16  And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Mat 19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

Mat 19:19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mat 19:20  The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

Mat 19:21  Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Mat 19:22  But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

Luk 10:25  And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Luk 10:26  He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

Luk 10:27  And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Luk 10:28  And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

You see, Jesus knew and knows that ALL who do choose to keep His Father's commandments in TRUTH and LOVE are keeping any commandment He, Himself gives as well.

LOVE.

This is why God's moral law could NEVER be done away with, never. It's Jesus' moral law too.  Jesus could keep His Father's commandments ONLY if we too are expected to keep them in Him. Jesus would NEVER have kept a single commandment of His Father's if He were going to do away with them! He would have made a HUGE deal about how wrong they were, and tell people NOT to follow those commandments. Instead, Jesus told those keeping the commandments that they were doing good. Jesus didn't want people to just keep the letter of the law, He wanted them to keep the love of the law.

Love of the law, is the love IN the law. Loving the LOVE in the law, not the letter. If we love the letter of the law we love the form of it, we love the idea of it giving us the power to save ourselves and when we love the idea of saving ourselves we are NOT loving God first, we are NOT loving others first. 

Sometimes we call people crazy when they do something very obvious to hurt someone they love. We say things like, they had to know that would hurt.  And then if we ask that person about it they might say they didn't know, no one told them. 

Our God wants us to love Him and love others and while maybe it should be obvious how this love is revealed, so many people weren't loving Him or others. God spelled it out, in His moral law He spelled it out for people. But people twisted it so they believed they were saving themselves by keeping the law. They lost sight of who saves, of what saves and that's love and GOD IS LOVE.

May we, through the love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, know the LOVE of God, know the LOVE of loving others.

All by HIS grace and mercy!

Amen.

Satan will take you any way he can get you, he's not picky

A Christ follower gives up SELF.

And while some reading this might shout- "No way, ain't happening." - this is truth.

A Christ follower gives up SELF and all that means.

Giving up self does not mean giving up a tiny bit of yourself to God. Giving up self does not mean giving up a tiny bit of yourself to others.  Giving up self is a FULL surrendering, not a partial surrender.  If you think about it, when you need someone to trust you completely and they refuse by holding on to a bit of mistrust, who do they end up hurting? Themselves. Our refusal to trust completely ends up hurting us. That mistrust we love to hold onto, calling it a bit of self-preservation so we don't end up duped, hurt, or otherwise- can and does grow until it eats away at all the trust.  We yell that we've been hurt before when we've trusted completely and that person we trusted broke our trust. We yell we can't trust completely because what if, for just a fraction of a second, what if that trust is misplaced?  Giving up self completely, surrendering self to trust in God- some are definitely going to call you a lunatic. Some will tell you that God is most untrustworthy because time and time again horrible things are allowed to happen to God's people. God stands by and watches suffering of magnificent proportions so how can He be trusted? In fact many give up on God entirely because they believe He should never have allowed any suffering at all.  They believe if they had the power equated with God they would end all the suffering in the world instantly and everyone would live happily ever after. 

They would MAKE everyone live happily ever after.

And that sounds good doesn't it? Forced to be happy.  Forced by an outside controlling influence. This is the kind of God people want, the forceful kind as long as it's a forcing of good things.

What's the problem with force?

Don't you know?  Can you figure it out?

We call people who are forced by anyone to do anything- abused.

Children can't wait to become adults and get out on their own so they aren't forced by parents to do things (yes, things that are NOT harmful to them in any way).

Forced love.

Forced happiness.

They sound so incredibly contradictory don't they? That word 'force' just ruins things because force kills choice.  And time and again people will try to explain why forcing is good for certain things and we can't refute them can we? Forcing parents to care for their children properly or having them removed from them- this is a good thing, right?  Forcing people not to kill each other or they'll be punished, another good thing, right? Forcing people to follow the rules of society, a good thing, everyone is happy, yes? I suppose it depends on the rules of the society because most assuredly following the rules of the Nazi society would mean completely obliterating people for not following their rules- one of which is not to be Jewish.  Force.  It is used all around us and for the most part we don't mind, it protects us the best way it can. Yet force will forever take away choice.  I might be forced into a marriage, that takes away my choice. I might be forced to believe my family's religion, that takes away my choice. I might be forced to eat a certain food for dinner- that takes away my choice.  Forcing takes away choice, taking away choice creates slaves.   And yes, we are all slaves to society's rules and we cannot break any of them without the possibility of repercussions.

God does not want to force a single human being into submission to Him, NOT ONE!  And anyone in the name of Jesus Christ who tries to force others to submit to God is NOT GOD'S!  Would you believe you were loved if you forced someone to love you? You might get all the trappings of what love is supposed to look like etc, but if you force someone to love you, you know they aren't doing it willingly and that takes something vital away from it all.

Mankind under Satan's deceptions has almost completely destroyed what it means to truly belong to Jesus, to be a Christian, a Christ follower. 

Rev_12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

A remnant will exist.

Rev_11:13  And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

A remnant is a small portion.

Rom_11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Remember yesterday--

Mat_7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it

Few- a remnant is a few compared to the multitude.

Mar_13:20  And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

Mat_24:24  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

The elect- the few- the remnant. 

So yes, when people choose not to believe in the Savior, in God the Father, in the Holy Spirit I understand why they might do so if they are basing their choice not to believe on the false Christ followers in the majority.  The false Christ's reveal total hypocrisy in many ways as they wave their Christian flag. The wolves in sheep clothing are plentiful. 

The truth as we are taught by the Holy Spirit- is FEW there be that find the narrow way! And ONLY by the grace of God will we be among those few.  To NOT surrender ourselves completely to God so that He may work in us His work, refining us, purifying us, washing us clean, is to choose to believe in a false God.  The false god will never call for a REAL complete surrender, and guess what? Satan doesn't care if he gets you on his side while he wears the garb of Christ, he'll take you any way he can get you, he's not very picky, no not picky at all.

Please, Father in Heaven, please we would be YOURS completely, teach us to fully surrender to You! Please be our all in all! Be in us DAILY as we die daily to self. All in the name of Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever, we would live for You! Amen.

Daily -

Take bread.

Deny self.

Take up cross.

Follow Jesus.

Search scriptures.

Die.

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Mat_6:11  Give us this day our daily bread.

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Act_17:11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

1Co_15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Die Daily

Daily.

Is it possible we make the tragic mistake of not surrendering our lives to Christ daily? 

We ask our Heavenly Father to do this--

Mat_6:11  Give us this day our daily bread.

Daily sustenance.  Anyone who has ever had a bad stomach virus knows you can go a day or more without food, right?  But can anyone even the most healthy person go a single day without Christ? The answer is sadly, yes. Every single human being can choose NOT to love Christ and they'll survive in their flesh. Can anyone and I mean just that, can ANYONE in the entire world claim salvation without Christ? Not in truth they can't. If we do not have our DAILY spiritual sustenance, our DAILY spiritual Bread of Life, we are not living in truth.  If Christian is just a label you claim when it's convenient, otherwise you have no REAL living breathing relationship with Christ, then you do not have Christ, not in truth. Many false Christs exist and even more follow those false Christs. And by false Christs I'm not talking mad, lunatic seducing people calling people to follow them personally.  By false Christs I'm talk every single Christ that is held up in untruth!  People might believe that Christ is Christ and if you say you're a Christian you are all following the ONE Christ, but it's not true.  Remember- BROAD is the way that leads to destruction and MANY go in that way.   MANY are going to be following an idea of what Christ is to them, what they want Him to be for them, but all they've done is erect a false idol, a false god and labeled him with Christ's name when in truth he isn't Christ at all.   THIS is why Christ will be able to tell so many that He never knew them and they will be shocked!

I want to be an alarmist! You read that right. I WANT to be an alarmist! I want to scream out right now to ANYONE who is reading this, and say- IF YOU ARE IN AN ORGANIZATION that is very popular and prestigious, IF YOUR Church is FULL to over flowing with people PLEASE, please start questioning what you are choosing to follow! Seek to KNOW all the beliefs your church has, every single one, and then seek to know God's truth -ALL HIS TRUTH, and you might just be able to get off the broad path that leads to destruction!  We ARE accountable for who and what we choose to follow. If we choose to remain in the broad path thinking we can just blame it on the pastor who led us astray, then think again. 

 If you want an easy, feel good religion then please know you are following a FALSE religion.  That's right, a FALSE religion will give you that easy feel goodness that you think you want more than truth. Truth reveals sin!  Did any of the Apostles have it easy? Were they in the business of promoting a easy, feel good religion? They gave TRUTH to people and a lot of those people lived a very hard life, a lot of those people died to live that truth.  How EASILY we give up truth to keep that feel good easy religion going. 

CHRIST SAID THIS--  NOT ME-- CHRIST!

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Are you taking up a real daily cross? Or are you putting on a daily padded, cushiony cross given to you by a false Christ that hardly calls for you to ever suffer at all, in fact tells you to keep that cushion well-padded because you shouldn't have to feel any pain from that cross at all.  Keep your cross painless, but the truth says that NO cross taken up should be painless.  Yes, we're talking SPIRITUALLY here! I'm not telling anyone to go get a real wooden cross and abuse their bodies with its splinters. I'm talking about what our Savior was talking about-   If any man will come after HIM that man has to DENY HIMSELF, and take up his cross daily and follow HIM. DENY SELF! We spend so much time pitying ourselves, building up our fragile egos, believing we need no saving, we scarcely can imagine denying ourselves.  It's all about US. What  WE WANT, from the moment we get up we start serving ourselves. God help us all!

Act_17:11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Searched the scriptures DAILY.  And what were they searching for? TRUTH!  They didn't just believe and that was that. They searched DAILY. They found the truth and kept it before them, daily!

1Co_15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

I DIE DAILY.  What part of Paul died daily? It sure wasn’t a physical dying, he was not resurrected daily.  He spiritually died daily! He had to die to SELF and a study I did recently talked about how full of himself Paul was before he was converted. And that nature in Him wasn't totally wiped out. Paul fought DAILY against His self!  Paul fought against his flesh nature. He was at war - spirit and flesh, daily!

Heb_3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

DAILY we have to keep each other in truth! Daily we have to lay before the throne of grace! Daily we have to seek the Spirit renewal. DAILY.

All by the grace and mercy, the love of our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord!

Amen!

Lead us by the Spirit

Flesh or Spirit?

Gal 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

1Pe 4:6  For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Dead in sin- alive in the Spirit!

Living according to God IN THE SPIRIT.

Tit 3:3  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Tit 3:4  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Tit 3:5  Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Tit 3:6  Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour

Flesh serves lusts and pleasures.

Flesh lives in malice and envy, is hateful.

Spirit serves God.

Spirit lives in mercy, saved by Jesus Christ- washed regenerate- renewed of the Holy Spirit.

Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Eph 2:5  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

The PAST should be fulfilling the desires of the flesh, the mind.

The PRESENT quickened with CHRIST, living in HIS mercy!

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.

WALK 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.

Do WE mind the things of the flesh?

Or

Do WE mind 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; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Christ in us we are Spiritually alive.

Christ in us our flesh is dead.

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.

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.

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

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

Please LEAD us by the SPIRIT OF GOD!

Please, through our SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!