bornagain11
Member
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2008
- Messages
- 80
article put together by Jim Wright
Works of the flesh/works of the spirit.
This is why a born again Christian should and will walk after the spirit because GOD says this for those that walk according to the flesh.
This I say then: Walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the FLESH. For the FLESH lusteth against the spirit, and the SPIRIT against the FLESH; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would.
But if you be led by the SPIRIT, you are not under the law. Now the works of the FLESH are manifest, and they are these:
Adultery, Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, Rivalry, Wrath, Strife, Seditions, Heresies, Envying, Murders, Drunkenness, Reveling, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those WHO do such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. {Galatians 5:16-21}.
There is therefore now no CONDEMNATION for those who are in CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT. For the LAW of the SPIRIT of LIFE in CHRIST JESUS hath made me free from the LAW of SIN and DEATH.
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,
That the righteousness of the LAW might be FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT. For those who are according to the FLESH mind the things of the FLESH; but those WHO ARE according to the SPIRIT, the things of the SPIRIT. For to be CARNALLY MINDED is DEATH, but to be SPIRITUALLY MINDED is LIFE and PEACE, BECAUSE the CARNAL MIND is ENMITY(hostility,hatred) AGAINST GOD, for it is not subject to the LAW OF GOD, neither indeed can BE.
So than, those who are in the FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD.
But you 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. And if CHRIST BE IN YOU, the body is dead because of SIN, but the SPIRIT is life because of RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jesus)
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.
Therefore, brethren, we are DEBTORS, not to the FLESH to live ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; For if you LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH YOU SHALL DIE, BUT IF YOU THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO MORTIFY, to put to death, to take away) THE DEEDS OF THE BODY YOU SHALL LIVE.
For as many as are led by the SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD.
For you have not RECEIVED the SPIRIT of BONDAGE AGAIN TO FEAR, but you have RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, WHEREBY WE CRY, ABBA! FATHER!".
THE SPIRIT ITSELF BEARETH WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD. Romans 8:1-16}.
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 OF THE WORLD.
And the WORLD PASSETH AWAY, AND THE LUST THEREOF: BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOR EVER.{1 john 2:15-17}.
Now concerning the things where you wrote unto me: it is GOOD FOR A MAN NOT TO TOUCH A WOMAN.
NEVERTHELESS TO AVOID FORNICATION, the illicit sexual intercourse of unmarried persons, or with a divorced man or woman) LET EVERY MAN HAVE HIS OWN WIFE, AND LET EVERY WOMAN HAVE HER OWN HUSBAND.{1 Corinthians 7:1-2}.
FLEE FORNICATION, every other SIN which a man doeth is outside the body, BUT he that COMMITTED FORNICATION SINNETH against his own body.
WHAT? Know you not that your BODY is the TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU AND WHICH YOU HAVE FROM GOD, AND THAT YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN?
FOR you are BOUGHT with a PRICE. Therefore GLORIFY GOD in your body and SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GODS.{1 Corinthians 6:18-20}.
Know ye not that you are the TEMPLE OF GOD, and that the SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU? if any MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY. For the TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, AND YOU ARE THAT TEMPLE.{1 Corinthians 3:16-17}.
MORTIFY to put to death, to take away) therefore your MEMBERS which are upon the EARTH; FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, the impurity,luxurious,profligate living). INORDINATE AFFECTION depraved passion, vile passions).
EVIL CONCUPISCENCE desire for what is forbidden, craving, lust) and COVETOUSNESS greedy desire to have more)
WHICH IS IDOLATRY worship of false gods, or money).
For which things sake the WRATH OF GOD cometh on the children of DISOBEDIENCE; in the which you also WALKED SOME TIME, WHEN YOU LIVED IN THEM. But now you ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE; ANGER, WRATH, MALICE wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws, naughtiness) BLASPHEMY, FILTHY COMMUNICATION OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, seeing that you have put off the OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS.
AND have put on the NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN THE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM. Colossians 3:5-10).
SUCH is the way of an ADULTEROUS WOMAN; SHE EATETH, AND WIPED HER MOUTH, AND SAITH, I HAVE DONE NO WICKEDNESS. proverbs 30:20).
WHAT shall we say then? SHALL we continue in SIN, that GRACE may ABOUND? GOD FORBID. HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?. Romans 6:1-2).
BE not DECEIVED; GOD is not MOCKED: For whatsoever a man SOWETH, that shall he also REAP.
FOR HE that SOWETH to his FLESH shall of the FLESH reap CORRUPTION; BUT he that SOWETH to the SPIRIT SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING. Galatians 6:7-8).
BUT those things which PROCEED out of the MOUTH come forth from the HEART; AND THEY DEFILE A MAN.
FOR out of the HEART PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS, MURDERS, ADULTERIES, FORNICATIONS, is the illicit sexual intercourse of unmarried persons. or with a divorced man or woman.) THEFTS, FALSE WITNESS, BLASPHEMIES: THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT DEFILE A MAN. Matthew 15:18-20).
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN. john 8:34).
ETERNITY is real, and HELL is real. JESUS stated in JOHN 12:48, HE THAT REJECTEH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM: THE WORD I SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY. YOU HAVE READ GODS WORD, AND YOU HAVE GODS WORD ON THIS.
PLEASE STOP TRUSTING YOURSELF AND YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND PUT YOUR COMPLETE TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED FOR YOUR SINS AND WAS BURIED AND ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY.
TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINFUL WAY OF LIFE AND TURN TO GOD AND RECEIVE JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOUR AND BECOME A BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD WHO WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE WITH HIM FOREVER.
Works of the flesh/works of the spirit.
This is why a born again Christian should and will walk after the spirit because GOD says this for those that walk according to the flesh.
This I say then: Walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the FLESH. For the FLESH lusteth against the spirit, and the SPIRIT against the FLESH; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would.
But if you be led by the SPIRIT, you are not under the law. Now the works of the FLESH are manifest, and they are these:
Adultery, Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, Rivalry, Wrath, Strife, Seditions, Heresies, Envying, Murders, Drunkenness, Reveling, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those WHO do such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. {Galatians 5:16-21}.
There is therefore now no CONDEMNATION for those who are in CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT. For the LAW of the SPIRIT of LIFE in CHRIST JESUS hath made me free from the LAW of SIN and DEATH.
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,
That the righteousness of the LAW might be FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT. For those who are according to the FLESH mind the things of the FLESH; but those WHO ARE according to the SPIRIT, the things of the SPIRIT. For to be CARNALLY MINDED is DEATH, but to be SPIRITUALLY MINDED is LIFE and PEACE, BECAUSE the CARNAL MIND is ENMITY(hostility,hatred) AGAINST GOD, for it is not subject to the LAW OF GOD, neither indeed can BE.
So than, those who are in the FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD.
But you 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. And if CHRIST BE IN YOU, the body is dead because of SIN, but the SPIRIT is life because of RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jesus)
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.
Therefore, brethren, we are DEBTORS, not to the FLESH to live ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; For if you LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH YOU SHALL DIE, BUT IF YOU THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO MORTIFY, to put to death, to take away) THE DEEDS OF THE BODY YOU SHALL LIVE.
For as many as are led by the SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD.
For you have not RECEIVED the SPIRIT of BONDAGE AGAIN TO FEAR, but you have RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, WHEREBY WE CRY, ABBA! FATHER!".
THE SPIRIT ITSELF BEARETH WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD. Romans 8:1-16}.
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 OF THE WORLD.
And the WORLD PASSETH AWAY, AND THE LUST THEREOF: BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOR EVER.{1 john 2:15-17}.
Now concerning the things where you wrote unto me: it is GOOD FOR A MAN NOT TO TOUCH A WOMAN.
NEVERTHELESS TO AVOID FORNICATION, the illicit sexual intercourse of unmarried persons, or with a divorced man or woman) LET EVERY MAN HAVE HIS OWN WIFE, AND LET EVERY WOMAN HAVE HER OWN HUSBAND.{1 Corinthians 7:1-2}.
FLEE FORNICATION, every other SIN which a man doeth is outside the body, BUT he that COMMITTED FORNICATION SINNETH against his own body.
WHAT? Know you not that your BODY is the TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU AND WHICH YOU HAVE FROM GOD, AND THAT YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN?
FOR you are BOUGHT with a PRICE. Therefore GLORIFY GOD in your body and SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GODS.{1 Corinthians 6:18-20}.
Know ye not that you are the TEMPLE OF GOD, and that the SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU? if any MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY. For the TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, AND YOU ARE THAT TEMPLE.{1 Corinthians 3:16-17}.
MORTIFY to put to death, to take away) therefore your MEMBERS which are upon the EARTH; FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, the impurity,luxurious,profligate living). INORDINATE AFFECTION depraved passion, vile passions).
EVIL CONCUPISCENCE desire for what is forbidden, craving, lust) and COVETOUSNESS greedy desire to have more)
WHICH IS IDOLATRY worship of false gods, or money).
For which things sake the WRATH OF GOD cometh on the children of DISOBEDIENCE; in the which you also WALKED SOME TIME, WHEN YOU LIVED IN THEM. But now you ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE; ANGER, WRATH, MALICE wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws, naughtiness) BLASPHEMY, FILTHY COMMUNICATION OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, seeing that you have put off the OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS.
AND have put on the NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN THE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM. Colossians 3:5-10).
SUCH is the way of an ADULTEROUS WOMAN; SHE EATETH, AND WIPED HER MOUTH, AND SAITH, I HAVE DONE NO WICKEDNESS. proverbs 30:20).
WHAT shall we say then? SHALL we continue in SIN, that GRACE may ABOUND? GOD FORBID. HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?. Romans 6:1-2).
BE not DECEIVED; GOD is not MOCKED: For whatsoever a man SOWETH, that shall he also REAP.
FOR HE that SOWETH to his FLESH shall of the FLESH reap CORRUPTION; BUT he that SOWETH to the SPIRIT SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING. Galatians 6:7-8).
BUT those things which PROCEED out of the MOUTH come forth from the HEART; AND THEY DEFILE A MAN.
FOR out of the HEART PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS, MURDERS, ADULTERIES, FORNICATIONS, is the illicit sexual intercourse of unmarried persons. or with a divorced man or woman.) THEFTS, FALSE WITNESS, BLASPHEMIES: THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT DEFILE A MAN. Matthew 15:18-20).
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN. john 8:34).
ETERNITY is real, and HELL is real. JESUS stated in JOHN 12:48, HE THAT REJECTEH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM: THE WORD I SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY. YOU HAVE READ GODS WORD, AND YOU HAVE GODS WORD ON THIS.
PLEASE STOP TRUSTING YOURSELF AND YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND PUT YOUR COMPLETE TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED FOR YOUR SINS AND WAS BURIED AND ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY.
TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINFUL WAY OF LIFE AND TURN TO GOD AND RECEIVE JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOUR AND BECOME A BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD WHO WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE WITH HIM FOREVER.
