Friday, August 18, 2023

THE MINDING OF THE FLESH, BRINGS FORTH DEATH, BUT THE MINDING OF THE SPIRIT, BRINGS LIFE(Sub-title; Life everlasting)

 Romans 8:1-9 states:

8 Therefore, those in union with Christ Jesus have no condemnation.+ For the law of the spirit that gives life in union with Christ Jesus has set you free+ from the law of sin and of death. What the Law was incapable of doing+ because it was weak+ through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son+ in the likeness of sinful flesh+ and concerning sin, condemning sin in the flesh, so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us+ who walk, not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.+ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,+ but those who live according to the spirit, on the things of the spirit.+ For setting the mind on the flesh means death,+ but setting the mind on the spirit means life and peace;+ because setting the mind on the flesh means enmity with God,+ for it is not in subjection to the law of God, nor, in fact, can it be. So those who are in harmony with the flesh cannot please God.

However, you are in harmony, not with the flesh, but with the spirit,+ if God’s spirit truly dwells in you. But if anyone does not have Christ’s spirit, this person does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in union with you,+ the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If, now, the spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead+ will also make your mortal bodies alive+ through his spirit that resides in you.


  In light of these verses,  one has to face a cold reality!  I started this blog, thinking it was not going to be too difficult to persuade one to break free from porn addiction.  However, I never considered the fact that some might have gone beyond viewing the images to living or participating in pornographic acts.  No doubt, that will make it more difficult to break free, but not impossible!  Sorry, I can't offer any advice in that matter, my addiction never advanced that far, before I found God's word, but with any addiction, one must be willing to try.  Recently, I had to live with a relative with such a lifestyle and he thinks something is wrong with me, for not wanting to take advantage of as many females and enjoy the pleasers of them, in every way.  However, he claims to be a God-fearing man.  In the promotion of true love over lust, I will respectfully wait until I get another wife.  Giving free rain to fleshly desires can lead only to destruction.

   More recently, because of exposing the devil's hand in corrupting people to indulging our selves in the sins of the flesh, Satan incited some of my own relatives to attack and destroy my own marriage, and nearly destroying my faith in God as well, because, in order to stop them from destroying my marriage, I was very tempted to commit murder.  However, through much soul-searching, and prayer, decided to just send emails to try to reason with them, to no avail.  It's a no-brainer that I'm better off alone than locked up in jail for murder, 3 counts thereof!

   One that is granted everlasting life, wakes up one day in a peaceful new world, where such injustices will never exist anymore.  True love will cover the earth.  No one will be using one's body in the wrong way.  God's command to be fruitful and become many, and fill the earth will be on its way to its proper fulfillment, but only with righteous humans.  In conclusion:  Genesis 1:27, 28 states:


 27 And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.+ 28 Further, God blessed them, and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth+ and subdue it,+ and have in subjection+ the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth.”

Word!
VON BRO'