MY FRIENDS, WHAT LIES EMBEDED WITHIN US?

March 1, 2016

MY FRIENDS, WHAT LIES EMBEDED WITHIN US?

My friends I would imagine a radical change has taken place in most of our lives since we have acknowledge through our faith that we are a Child of God and it is by His grace, and love that we have become a new creature. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

And with most of us having no physical signs that we had been in a war zone in spite of the battles we had encountered, while traveling, not knowing we were on a train to perdition. But now my friends, the real war begins and the controversy within us rages on. It may not be adultery, but it’s lust, it may not be stealing, but the idea of paying tithe becomes problematic at bill time.

So now we are in a danger zone which is an area of our life that becomes “high risk for harm, especially where the risk has been officially identified as an area where self and our flesh still lies embedded within us. But my friends remember, we belong to God now. We must never fill we have reached the final frontier and begin to feel fatigue and battle driven “for the battle is not ours, but God’s.”

The flesh will always have a natural inclination towards evil because we were “shapen in iniquity; and in sin did our mother conceive us.” Ps 51:5 (KJV) So Satan waits to attack when we are at our weakest. So now its personal and our heartfelt prayers each day must be, “I have been crucified with Christ” who now abides from within, through my faith and endurance.”

In addition, we can never feel God’s armor is an optional attire, otherwise we will find ourselves completely vulnerable to Satan. In Romans 7 Paul presents his personal struggles with the flesh of the body, and how hard it is to control the rage of sin from within. For we all recognize that the law is holy and good but we are carnal from within, bound under the sin of the flesh.

And only satisfied when it is controlled by the forces of evil. So as God’s chosen, the battle rages daily so the flesh must die daily along with self as we remember our mind and body will always be weaken by outside factors if we allow them too. And in today’s society it’s usually what we watch on TV and the Internet, what we read, and listen too, where we go and who we allow into our lives.

Paul’s discovery as should be ours is that “every time we try to do good, evil is always present.” No matter what we want to do for the Lord especially in spreading the good news of the gospel, Satan will always present an alternative plan. But thank God for the victory over the flesh, for Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:56–58 (KJV) The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord our labor is not in vain.” Again, the road to the Kingdom is narrow and very few will succeed in enduring to the end if Christ is not the foundation and focal point of their lives. So let’s stay focus, as we endure through our faith in God’s word and Spirit, for Christ is coming soon, and bringing His reward, which is life eternal.

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.