WALKING IN FLESH
OR SPIRIT
1 THESSALONIANS0
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5: 23 And
the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray to God that your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(God
wants wholeness in our spirit, soul and body).
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HEBREWS
4:12
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For the word of
God is alive, and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joints and marrow.
It exposes our inner most desires.
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(The word of God
divides spirit, soul and body).
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We
studied that we are Spirit , Soul and Body and let us study how they function
OUR
SPIRIT:
· Our spirit relates upward to God and aware of
God.
· It is made alive and energized by God,s spirit
at salvation when we are filled by Holy Spirit.
“Its
function are”:
· Revelation from God, Prayer, Communication.
· It Worship/witness to God.
· Conscience, imagination, fellowship,
discernment, curiosity and understanding.
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Our spirit is a Reception area of gifts and fruits of
the Holy Spirit
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Our
Soul
· It is aware of / conscience of himself and
called personality. “The function of soul are”.
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Mind: Ability
to reason and understand.
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Emotion and Feeling: Affected by our thinking.
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Will: ability
to take decision.
5. Our body (made of flesh and blood) and its functions are:
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Receive Information from the world by way of the
senses i.e. through (eyes, ears and touch).
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Reaction: It reacts through muscle system by words and
reaction.
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Expression: The
body can express to the world, through thoughts, feeling and actions of the
soul.
6. Spirit , soul and Body and how they relates
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Our
Soul and Body.
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Our body receive information by way of physical senses
i.e. (through seeing with our eyes, by hearing with ears and smelling with our
nose).
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Our soul interpret, judge and understand what we
receive and to do so we rely upon our reason and memory.
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How we think and
feel about the situation will determine what action we will take. In other word
our will will comes into place.
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We do/say something with our physical body. ( So our
soul and body works together)
7.
Spirit, soul and Body and how they relates.
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Our
Spirit and Soul:
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The spirit man is not fully functional because of sin
before being born again (Born of Hoy Spirit).
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When man repents and receive Christ as his savior, his
spirit begins to respond and interact with God’s spirit.
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By being baptized with in the Holy Spirit we receive
the spiritual power and can live new life received in Christ. Our soul works
with our spirit upwardly.
8.
Holy Spirit and our Soul.
· 1 Corinth 2:14 natural (soulish) man cannot
understand the things of the God).
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It is God’s purpose that all the functions of the
man’s soul should come under Lordship of the Holy Spirit.
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The fruits, gifts and grace given by the Holy Spirit
enable the new born person (spirit and soul) to grow in the Christ, start
obeying God and His word.
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If we grieve the Holy Spirit by natural, soulish way of
living then we hold back the flow of God in our life. We fall back our old way
of life i.e. (soulish –sensual way of life).
9. RESULT OF WALKING IN FLESH MEANS WALKING
INDEPENDENLY OF GOD AND VICE VERSA.
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JON 6:63- It is the spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profited nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit, and they are life.
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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.
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ROM
8:6 - For
to be carnally i.e. (soul and body working independently) minded is death; but
to be spiritually minded i.e. (soul and spirit working with Holy Spirit) is life and peace.
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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.
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ROM
8:8 -
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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JON 7:18 -PUAL SAYS NOTHING GOOD IN ME.
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PHIL. 3:3 - For we are the
circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
have no confidence in the flesh.
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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.
10 WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS ABOUT FLESH / GOD
ANSWER TO THE FLESH
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GAL. 5:24 And
they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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GAL. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me.
11. PUT
ON THE NEW LIFE.
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ROM.
13:14 CLOTH YOURSELF WITH CHRIST
(PUT ON LORD
JESUS CHRIST AND
MAKE NO
PROVISION FOR THE FLESH
TO FULFILL THE
LUST THEROF)
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COLOSS.3:5
Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
”AS WE ARE AWARE OF RESULT OF WALKING IN FLESH
AND THE FRUIT OF IT”.
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GAL 5:
19 Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envying,
murders, drunkenness, raveling’s, 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.
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“RESULTING OF WALKING FLESH” THOSE WHO WALK IN
FLESH WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
12. PUT ON THE NEW LIFE
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GAL.
2:20 I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in
me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son
of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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ROM.6:11-
13 Likewise
reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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ROM.
1:17 For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
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13. LET US PUT ON NEW LIFE
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MATHEW
10:39 He
that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake
shall find it.
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MATHEW
16:24-25 Then
said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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JOHN
12: 24-26 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
14. MADE NEW SO WALK IN IT
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ROM.
12:1, 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. 2 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.
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MATHEW
17:2> And
was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment
was white as the light.
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MARK
9:2> And
after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth
them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured
before them.
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2ND CORINTH.3:18 – But we all, with open
face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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ROM.12.2 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
15. LET US LIVE AS HE
LIVED
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Keep your soul humble before Him.
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Jesus Himself is the example of it
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He denied Himself in order to obey the will of father.
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Phil 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also
in Christ
Jesus
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Christ----Who being in very nature God did not
consider equality with God (something to be grasped) but made Himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
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