Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #773, Season 8.
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đź’Ą Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: Most professing Christians want the Kingdom of God, but don't want to crucify the "flesh" and thus are disqualified!! In other words, people want to share in the glory of Heaven, but don't want to crucify that flesh to be worthy of the Kingdom! They want, in some part, life to continue pretty much the same without the plucking out of eyes and cutting off of hands!
The concept of crucifying the "flesh" comes from the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 5:24: “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” In this verse, it’s clear that crucifying the "flesh" is not something done TO the believer, but BY the believer: “Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh.”
The “flesh” that must be crucified is the sin principle that exists in our fallen human nature. In this world we live in fleshly bodies, and the body, being weak (Mark 14:38), is the gateway to sin. Sin entrenches itself in the flesh, which becomes dominated by iniquity of all kinds. It is the sinful passions and wayward deeds of the "flesh" that Christians must crucify.
To crucify the "flesh" is to obey the call to Christian discipleship. It means losing our life to find it in Him (Matthew 10:39). As we daily put to death the sinful nature, we begin to walk in victory over the flesh. Conquering the flesh is what Paul describes as walking in the Spirit: “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16).
Amen!
🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
