Throne of Grace

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Heb. 12:1)

Can you name the SINS that so easily besets you?  Sins- transgressions of God's law.  And God's law is summed up in two directives- Love God, Love Man.  The ten moral laws are more detailed, and Jesus took it even a step further and expounded on the ten moral laws - explaining them even more clearly. Not only are we not to murder- commit the act of murder- we are not to THINK about murder. Not only are we not to commit adultery or fornication we are not to THINK about women/men that are not our partners in a lustful way.  Our HEARTS, we think with our hearts, our thoughts reveal our hearts. When our thoughts are evil we need to fall at the feet of our Savior and beg for forgiveness, we need to surrender to our Savior who alone can save us even from our thoughts.

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Heb 4:13  Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Heb 4:14  Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Heb 4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Heb 4:16  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Do we come BOLDLY unto the throne of grace?

Do we want to find MERCY,?

Do we want to find grace to help us in time of need?

Are we laying aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us?

Again I ask, can you name those sins that beset you?  Or are you like me, with your heart aching from the weight of the sins besetting you, there are so many?

We have to RUN with patience.

We have to BELIEVE that our Savior will be able to perform what He promised.

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

Please, Lord. We know we have besetting sins and we WANT to set them aside. Teach us how! Set them aside for us if possible! Through Your righteousness alone can we have hope. 

Lukewarm

Excerpt From- Watchman What of the Night (Adventist Laymen's Foundation) William Grotheer Sept. 1978

'The Antediluvians scoffed at the ark and its builders; the flood took them away. Lot's wife could not bring herself to cut loose from Sodom; she lingered. (Gen. 19:26) Her reluctance sealed her fate. A golden wedge entranced Achan; a hail of stones buried him. (Josh. 7:24,25) Two talents of silver and two changes of garments made Gehazi a leper for life (2 King 5:23-27). Samson was beguiled by a heathen girl (Judges 14:3); he became the sport of his enemies. The rich young ruler clung to perishable possessions while in the presence of Him who offers riches imperishable (Luke 18:18-23). Passengers there were on the Titanic who ignored the lifeboats hanging on their davits to take them off the fated liner. They lingered in the lounges and sauntered on her decks trusting in "she cannot sink" - a shibboleth drilled into their ears and minds by an arrogant propaganda. But sink she did - within hours the waters of the Atlantic closed over her.

DEPART YE, DEPART YE FROM THEM, TOUCH NO UNCLEAN THING:

GO YE OUT OF THE MIDST OF HER:

BE YE CLEAN, THAT BEAR THE VESSELS OF THE LORD. (Isa. 52:11)

How earnest, how insistent is this call! Jacob, in the fear of God, buried the idols

p 4 -- of his household under an oak (Gen. 35:1-4). The Ephesians, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, burned their books (Acts 18:18-19). Moses turned his back on the treasures of Egypt, choosing rather to cast his lot with a despised and downtrodden people which were heading for "no-man's land," the wilderness! What about us who claim to believe in the imminence of Christ's second coming? Does our life testify to the genuineness of our profession? Should we not, too, turn away, separate and "come out" from everything that stands in the way between ourselves and the gates of heaven? Should not we, at this late hour, take an intensely earnest look at our intimate self? Then, too, at our furniture, our pantry, our wardrobe, our bank account, our book shelves, our discotheque, our correspondence file, our picture gallery, our social circle, our time schedule, our hobbies and our priorities? How do these square with the "Blessed Hope" which we, as a people, profess? How would the unseen Witness evaluate them? Would your neighbor or the "outsider" who observes discern that "Blessed Hope" in us? Would he feel encouraged to enter with you and me into that blessed experience?

THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY:

FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH.

How many a soul has stood on the platform, forlorn, disappointed, defeated, and stunned, watching the last car of the outgoing train disappear behind the curve of the track or the silvery wing of the plane melt into the distant cloudlet! How humiliating, how hopeless, how desperate, how irreversible! It is for that reason that Christ bids us BE READY, not "Get" ready. Between "being ready" and "getting ready" stretches an eternity!

"For all sad words of tongue or pen,

the saddest are these: It might have been."

Look then -- Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Heb. 12:1)

Choose then -- And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15)

Trust then -- Now unto Him that is able to keep you from failing, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God and Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. (Jude 24, 25)

p 5 -- Triumph then -- For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing. (2 Tim. 4:6-8)

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My thoughts-  Truly we are Laodiceans…

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Rev 3:15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Rev 3:16  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Rev 3:21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Rev 3:22  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

WE ARE LUKEWARM!  And we will be spewed out!

We are NOT SPIRITUALLY RICH and even the physically poorest person in all the world can be the spiritually richest person.  Nothing physical should affect our spiritual life. Satan has tied the two together. If things are going well we sink into an apathetic attitude. We like to sit in the boat that is not rocked. We choose to give into the world rather that upset that boat so we don't have to live in a constant state of seasickness. We value our physical comfort, our emotional, our mental comfort WAY over our spiritual rightness with God. We've become LUKEWARM.  We are truly in our way of life living in relative peace and ease, and we begin to forget that we are absolutely spiritually MISERABLE, POOR, BLIND, and NAKED! We do not want to alter our way of life, we are COMFORTABLE! May God wake us Up! May God do WHATEVER it takes, whatever drastic measure we all need so that we will truly shrug off our lukewarmness and be hot, spiritually hot! May God do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING He can to make each of us on fire for HIM, preparing us for HIM and HIS return! Help us God to be ZEALOUS and REPENT! REBUKE US OVER AND OVER AGAIN, we are so, so wretched! PLEASE we would buy of You GOLD TRIED IN FIRE, WHITE RAIMENT, and EYE SALVE! Please SAVE US FROM OURSELVES!

Jesus was not OF this world

Jesus' Truths-

1Jn 2:15-17  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1Jn 5:4,5  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Joh 15:18, 19  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Rom 12:1-3  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Eph 2:2-8  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:  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. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

Jas 4:4-8  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

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The world.

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Joh 17:1-26;18:1  These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.  I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.   Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.   Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.  And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

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Jesus was and is NOT of this world.

Jesus did NOT pray for this world.

We like to imagine Jesus praying for the world, but that just wasn't true.  Jesus prayed for THOSE which God the Father gave Him. Jesus prayed for THOSE who believe on Him through the words of THOSE God the Father gave Him.

First and foremost we are taught the manner of praying by our Savior- remember?

Mat 6:9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Mat 6:10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Mat 6:11  Give us this day our daily bread.

Mat 6:12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Mat 6:13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

FATHER GOD IN HEAVEN.

HOLY IS YOUR NAME.

YOUR KINGDOM COME.

YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

GIVE US OUR DAILY SUSTENANCE IN ALL THINGS.

FORGIVE US AS WE FORGIVE OTHERS.

LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION TO THE PLACE OF DESPAIR.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

THINE IS THE KINGDOM.

THINE IS THE POWER.

THINE IS THE GLORY FOREVER.

AMEN.

Mat 5:44  …pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you

Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

The flesh wars against the spirit

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Filthiness of the flesh and spirit.

We discussed yesterday a bit about the filthiness of our flesh read more--

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Gal 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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.

Works of the flesh-- 

Adultery.

Fornication.

Uncleanness.

Lasciviousness.

Idolatry.

Witchcraft.

Hatred.

Variance.

Emulations.

Wrath.

Strife.

Seditions.

Heresies.

Envyings.

Murders.

Drunkenness.

Revellings.

And all that can be put into any of those categories. 

Do you SEE?!  The flesh rules us in so many ways. We want control of ourselves and yet that control we take is filled with the flesh.  We indulge ourselves, our flesh and we say we are allowed because we are in control. Yes, we've drawn lines and some of those lines are blurred. We say murder is going too far, but strife is fine. We say adultery and fornication are okay, but hatred is not. We say witchcraft is acceptable, but sedition is not. We pick and choose our flesh indulgences and we do that making it acceptable by telling ourselves that we …NOT GOD… are in control of ourselves.

The flesh wars against the spirit and it corrupts our spirit when we allow it to.

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Let us CLEANSE ourselves.    We have to be willing to be cleaned. We can't cling to the filth and expect to appear clean.  No one can hold onto their filth and expect to be clean. If we clench our fists, cover our filthy bodies, the cleansing water will NOT penetrate what we are refusing to expose. God will NOT force clean us, He will NOT put a power washer hose on us ripping into our filthy flesh, using the force of the water to abuse us into letting Him cleanse us.  We have to be WILLING to be cleaned. We need to desire cleansing. We need to comprehend that even while the flesh lusts will give us TEMPORARY pleasures that life - true life is so much more than TEMPORARY pleasure, temporary good times. How many of us lament good times in the past, even though we KNOW they are of the flesh, the filthy flesh? How many of us cling to the flesh pleasures over sacrifice? For some horrific reason we've got it drilled into our minds that we are entitled to good times- flesh filthy good times. And I'm not talking JUST about sex, but all the various flesh filth we've talked about, you don't have to be indulging in sexual activities to be covered in flesh filth. A pious, hate-filled, virginal prude is just as filthy as the worst fornicator. Indulging in anything ungodly is wrong. We must repent, we must seek forgiveness.

Php 3:12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

We must press towards the mark for the prize! We must NOT give up as sin surrounds us covering us in its filth trying to suffocate us into acceptance, drown us into submission.

Cleanse us LORD we would be cleaned by YOU!

Cleanse us.

By Your amazing, wondrous grace!

In the name of Jesus Christ our LORD, now and forever, AMEN.

Do we join in with the world, do we laugh along with the world? Are we of the world?

Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof

From earlier- 'Do you see? Do you comprehend? If we choose to live for our flesh fulfillment we will die and never have a heaven home.  We THROUGH the SPIRIT can mortify the deeds of our bodies!  THROUGH the SPIRIT. We aren't expected to do this on our own but through the SPIRIT.'

We are told to PUT ON the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

We are told MAKE NOT PROVISION FOR THE FLESH TO FULFIL THE LUSTS.

So, how do we put on the Lord Jesus Christ?

Gal 3:27  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Eph 4:20  But ye have not so learned Christ;

Eph 4:21  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Eph 4:22  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Eph 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Eph 4:25  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Eph 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Eph 4:27  Neither give place to the devil.

Eph 4:28  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Col 3:8  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Col 3:9  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Col 3:10  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him

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When we are baptized into Christ we are saying we are PUTTING ON CHRIST- we want to be Christ's.

And to be Christ's we will learn from Christ.  When we put On Christ we are putting OFF other things-

We are PUTTING OFF…

…our former conversation, corrupt according to our deceitful lusts.

We must be renewed in THE SPIRIT of our mind.

We must put on the NEW MAN- which after God is created in righteousness and TRUE holiness.

When we do this- we are PUTTING AWAY…

Lying.

Letting our anger cause us to sin.

Giving place to the devil.

Stealing.

We are PUTTING OFF…

Anger.

Wrath.

Malice.

Blasphemy.

Filthy communication.

Do we get the picture? Do we understand?  Our lives change when we are Christ's. We DO NOT fit in with the WORLD. We are NOT supposed to fit in with the WORLD. We are not supposed to want to fit in. Yet how often do we laugh at off color jokes? How often do we instigate them? How often are we right there joining the backbiting, the gossip, the anger, the wrath, the malice, the blasphemy, that filthy communication… HOW OFTEN!?!? 

How often are we far from putting away the very things we need to put away?

God HELP US! We see, we know, and we need the HOLY SPIRIT to be in us doing all for us that we cannot do! And what we can do, by the grace of our God may we do it! Please, Lord, please!!!!!!!!

More tomorrow by the grace and mercy of our LORD, our Savior, Jesus Christ!!! Now and forever…AMEN.

Heaven Home

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul

Fleshly lusts. What wars against your soul? What temporary pleasures do you seek? If we are STRANGERS and PILGRIMS we should comprehend that we are actively SEARCHING, actively EXPECTING a new home, a place we belong where we will no longer be strangers and pilgrims.  This new home we seek as Christ followers is in HEAVEN, and we know BIBLICALLY we will not attain heaven until our Savior returns.  When He returns the DEAD in Christ will rise to meet Him in the air along with those few living in Christ when He returns.  We must live our lives, our ENTIRE lives seeking heaven, preparing for heaven. And we are told in this verse above that we should ABSTAIN from anything (fleshly lusts) which will WAR AGAINST our souls. Anything that impedes our heaven search should be abstained from.  Easier said than done though because we find temporary pleasure in the fleshly lusts and count that worth any costs, even the cost of our heaven home.  All too often we trade away our future for temporary indulgence. Esau did it with his birthright.  You might say that he was legitimately hungry, starving even, and so it was worth it to him to live. But he regretted that decision greatly. He knew he wasn't at the point of death, just very, very hungry and wanting to sate that hunger. We need to think of and remember this as well…

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.

Do you see? Do you comprehend? If we choose to live for our flesh fulfillment we will die and never have a heaven home.  We THROUGH the SPIRIT can mortify the deeds of our bodies!  THROUGH the SPIRIT. We aren't expected to do this on our own but through the SPIRIT.

More on this later tonight, by the grace of God!

War against the flesh

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul

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 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Gal 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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.

2Ti 2:22  Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

More tomorrow on all this…by the will and GRACE of God.