The Infirmity of The Flesh

Mat 16:24 ASV - Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.     This was before he went to his own cross !   The cross GREEK  stau-ro's  a well known instrument of most cruel and ignominious punishment ,  An instrument of death through suffering .  Do you realize Jesus had to have some one put him on his cross . And it will be the same for every one that conforms to the word of their cross.        Mat 10:39 ASV - He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:25 ASV - For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.     This is the spiritual sacrifice we must have in our daily walk,  to lose our carnal identity with this world and become sons of God .    The only way that we can bear fruit is to be pruned  ,    Jhn 15:2 ASV - Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.   The old nature has to be cut back so the new nature can grow in us ,  pruning is that purpose. Fruit will only grow on new growth .    Col 1:10 ASV - to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Col 1:11 ASV - strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
Col 1:12 ASV - giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
Col 1:13 ASV - who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;    As you read this word of God you must know it is to you for your salvation.    Religion is the opposite of righteousness and being righteous demands sanctification .

  Rom 6:19 ASV - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
Heb 12:14 ASV - Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:       Greek: hagiasmos

Holiness, Holy, Holily:
  the resultant state, the conduct befitting those so separated, 1Th 4:3, 4, 7, and the four other places mentioned above. "Sanctification" is thus the state predetermined by God for believers, into which in grace He calls them, and in which they begin their Christian course and so pursue it. Hence they are called "saints" (hagioi)
Conduct befitting those so separated ,  Eph 2:8 ASV - for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Faith Greek: pistis   Belief, Believe, Believers:
"faith," is translated "belief" in Rom 10:17; 2Th 2:13. Its chief significance is a conviction respecting God and His Word and the believer's relationship to Him.

 Rom 12:3 AMP    For by the grace [of God] given to me I say to everyone of you not to think more highly of himself [and of his importance and ability] than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has apportioned to each a degree of faith [and a purpose designed for service].    I was lost and doomed for destruction not knowing the sacrifice of Jesus for me and the great salvation afforded to me , lost in sin . Than Gods mercy came and he is a God of love and mercy  he gave me through grace the gift of faith . Faith is a gift and it came with measure or degree the word says.  The word says no man can come unto God except the spirit draw him .
Jhn 6:44 ASV - No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.
Jhn 6:65 ASV - And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.
Mercy absolute Mercy of God . That is how we are saved by grace it is the gift of Faith to believe and than we are to build on that faith daily . Just excepting Jesus is not scripture and Jesus himself says you did not choose me ! I chose YOU !    The word says before we even knew him he first loved us .  The word calls this a calling in you life ,  God calls you to come and learn of him
Mat 11:28 ASV - Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 ASV - Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 ASV - For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
The three verses above describe a lot of Gods people today , not by works of righteous we have done but according to his mercy he has saved us.   All ye that labor and are heavy laden
Jesus says that there is a rest for his people as soon as we understand we can not save ourselves by our works.  What is the yoke of Jesus to us,  Yoke Greek: zugos Yoke, Yoked:
"a yoke," serving to couple two things together, is used  (1) metaphorically,
(a) of submission to authority, Mat 11:29, 30, of Christ's "yoke," not simply imparted by Him but shared with Him;      For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light . The yoke is our cross  and by his grace we must stay on our cross and surrender our carnal nature to be burned up just as the sacrifices of old .     Christ's "yoke," not simply imparted by Him but shared with Him;    
It is a spiritual walk our salvation is a daily walk we must take ,   and the out come of not obeying this truth is  Rom 8:13 ASV - for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.   1 Cor 15 says that flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God 1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit in corruption.     What is this saying to us The kingdom of God comes not with observation , the kingdom of God is within you the carnal nature will not enter the kingdom of God . The word repent is to have a change of mind to turn from sin , being sorry for your sins repent !    There is a cost to walking with God you must follow the word of Christ you must daily die to self . You must eat his flesh and you must drink his blood   Jhn 6:51 ASV - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.  You feed you flesh daily to live in the flesh so to you must feed your new man your born again spirit . The bible says Lev 17:11 ASV - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

  His nature is that blood to drink , the fruit of the spirit is his nature Love,Joy, Peace, long suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith ,Meekness, Temperance against such there is no Law !   2Co 7:10 ASV - For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.  Regret  Greek: ametameletos
Repent, Repentance:
"not repented of, unregretted" (a, negative, and a verbal adjective of A, No. 2), signifies "without change of purpose;" it is said

(a) of God in regard to his "gifts and calling," Rom 11:29;

(b) of man, 2Cr 7:10, RV, "[repentance (metanoia, see C)]... which bringeth no regret" (AV, "not to be repented of"); the difference between metanoia and metamelomai, illustrated here, is briefly expressed in the contrast between "repentance" and "regret."    The worldly church is not sorry for their sins ,   for the most part they are not taught repentance the man preaching the true gospel cannot get around this .  The word specifically says that John the baptist had to come first and than cometh Jesus . John was a forerunner for Christ .  Get every thing that promotes sin out of your life . 

Jhn 15:19 ASV - If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Eph 1:4 ASV - even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
1Jo 2:15 ASV - 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.
Gal 5:16 ASV - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
1Jo 2:16 ASV - For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Eph 2:3 ASV - among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--   To live in this world to be friends of this world are by nature children of wrath .   2Co 6:16 ASV - And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1Jo 5:21 ASV - My little children, guard yourselves from idols.


1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.   The redemption of our souls comes through the cross ,  Jhn 6:55 ASV - For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Jhn 6:56 ASV - He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
Jhn 6:63 ASV - It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.   God gave us a body and that body is our vehicle of motivation for our spirit .  The only way your flesh can die is that your spirit leaves first .
This word is for you God demands we be holy as he is holy , trying to be holy in the flesh is not possiable but living in the new man the Holy Spirit it is power from God to be save and stay saved.
The word saved in the Greek is to be healed by his stripes we were healed saved from ourselves and Adams carnal nature .
1Co 6:18 ASV - Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1Co 6:19 ASV - Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; 
Gal 5:16 ASV - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Jas 1:14 ASV - but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 ASV - Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
1Co 6:20 ASV - for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.  The way to glorify God is to stay on you cross , Jesus said it is easy my yoke is easy because my burden is light   and what is the light ?   the truth of the gospel .  Jesus said why do you call me lord ,lord and do not what I say Luk 6:46 ASV - And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
1Jo 1:6 ASV - If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jo 1:7 ASV - but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  The word cleanseth is an ongoing word a progressive walk with the word . We are being saved daily by this word,   cleanseth =     in a moral sense, from the defilement of sin . 
Col 1:26 ASV - even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,
Col 1:27 ASV - to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 ASV - whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
Col 1:29 ASV - whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.       Paul is saying he is walking daily this same walk striving according to God working in him also .  
 .Jas 1:4 ASV - And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.    Entire   Greek: holokleros  Entire:
"complete, sound in every part" (holos, "whole," kleros, "a lot," i.e., with all that has fallen by lot), is used ethically in 1Th 5:23, indicating that every grace present in Christ should be manifested in the believer; so Jam 1:4. 

1Jo 1:7 ASV - but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jo 2:1 ASV - My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1Jo 2:6 ASV - he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.


1Co 1:18 ASV - For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.  Saved is being healed daily from the power of this world and sin.
Phl 3:14 ASV - I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Phl 3:15 ASV - Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
Phl 3:16 ASV - only, whereunto we have attained, by that same rule let us walk.
Phl 3:17 ASV - Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
Phl 3:18 ASV - For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:    There is perfection in Christ to those that believe this word declares it , but remember this the cross is to die to self daily .  The cross is a instrument of suffering it is our altar unto sanctification.
Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 ASV - He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.    Cross  Greek: stauroo      Cross, Crucify:    metaphorically, "the putting off of the flesh with its passions and lusts," a condition fulfilled in the case of those who are "of Christ Jesus
so of the relationship between the believer and the world .  At the cross is where the blood is applied the blood of Christ that cleanses us , And there is a time when his blood covers us because of ignorance and lack of knowledge of his word .  As we grow into that perfection of Christ and continue on our cross we come to a place of holiness , to sin is to miss the mark the word says,   and when we sin we miss the high calling of God in for our life's. The cross allows God our father to manifest that cross by walking in its purpose to burn up the cause of sin the nature of sin in us . As we grow in Christ and the knowledge of him the blood of the cross and the remission of sins . Remission  Greek: aphesis  Deliver, Deliverance, Deliverer:
denotes "a release, from bondage, imprisonment  "liberation" from captivity .
God our father comes to a place in every mans life when we do sin he pulls back that blood of protection and shines his light onto the root of that sin and exposes it to us he not only forgives sin in our flesh he destroys the very root of it burns it up on our cross .   We need our fathers Godly sorrow to work in us daily to bring about that heart of repentance ,

  Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.



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