Flesh
They Began in the Spirit.
But, alas how they went off into the flesh!
They Began in the Spirit.
But, alas how they went off into the flesh!
God Has a Purpose which is to Obtain the man who can Exercise Dominion over the earth.
This alone can Satisfy His Heart.
And When he Possesses this man, to Him Everything will be Very Good.
Sometimes Satan attacks our body, even our thoughts, nerves, or other facets related to our body.
When we feel tired – and without strength – we do not like to Pray.
Let us Guard Against these and Overcome them.
To be scourged may be the Evidence of His Approval.
Love Measures and Love Plans.
God may not deal thus with everyone, but He Certainly Does So with those whom He Has Accepted as Sons.
God Has Arranged!
All kinds of environments, all sorts of happenings and many sufferings, all with a view to Creating in each of His Children a Certain Character which will Glorify Him.
Jesus does indeed save us from our sin – not by the removal of our sinful nature, but by Keeping us from yielding to it.
Intercession!
Only when we yield ourselves to the Work of Intercession can we expect the Power of Christ to be Manifested on our behalf.
My Grace is Sufficient for thee.
Everything is in Him.
More and More of the Grace in Christ.
GALATIANS 3.3
Are you so thoughtless? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now end in the flesh?
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GENESIS 1.27-28
And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them. And God blesses them, and God says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth.”
GENESIS 1.31 – 2.3
And God sees all that He has done, and behold, [it is] very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—the sixth day.
And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made. And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making.
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HEBREWS 12.4-7
You did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”; if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
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1 JOHN 3.5-6
and you have known that He appeared that He may take away our sins, and sin is not in Him; everyone who is remaining in Him does not sin; everyone who is sinning, has not seen Him, nor known Him.
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2 COR 12.9
and He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness”; most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: