Tuesday, July 24, 2012

To be carnally minded is death

Rom 8:6-8. "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." Why miss out on the greatest life? Why walk away from your eternal blessing that comes from God, for some carnal thing? Catering to the appetites and impulse of our carnal nature will only take us further from Christ. The carnal (flesh) cannot please or satisfy God, and He won't accept it at all. All the flesh and carnal mind brings is death and misery, but to be Spiritual minded is to have freedom in life and to walk in peace with Christ. Don't give into the ways of the flesh, but give into the ways of the Holy Spirit. "For they who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit." Those who are controlled by the flesh will do as the flesh wants, and those controlled by the Spirit will do as the Spirit. Those of the Spirit set their minds to gratify the things that gratify the Spirit. So seek the Lord in Spirit and in truth. John 4:24: "God is Spirit: they who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth." Worship Him today and don't give ground to the flesh.

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