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Building Up The Spirit or The Flesh?

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Is God's written word used to build up the flesh so one can live a good life in their flesh, or is it rather to build up the spirit while killing our fleshly desires? At what point does a person become a spiritual person, is it when they have obtained a good life in the flesh, that is, looking good, as balance Christian's in their flesh to their neighbors, and to their religion?

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

One should ask this question because the two are opposite as darkness is to light, the worlds religions have been building up the flesh since the apostles died off the earth, they have built massive institutions that focus their entire resources upon make people into better people in their flesh, while at the same time ignoring the spirit person.

2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Today we have the fulfillment of Christ Jesus words that the field of wheat those walking by spirit and truth are striving to become a spirit person, at the rejection of the world, which is unseen by proud weeds planted by God's enemy into His field of wheat.

Yes, the weeds have taken the soil of spiritual nourishment using it to grow into people of fleshly thinking creating a good life for themselves upon earth, and what does this mean? It means most people go to some organized religion to have a better life in their flesh upon this earth, not to be hated, and look bad to the world, but rather to look good to those of the world.

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24}

Religion has become a program to stop bad habits in the flesh so one can become normal looking to the world, than it members boast upon helping the flesh, but not upon helping a person become a spiritual person, causing their rejection by the world!

1 Corinthians 1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.

The Confusion of Babel

Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

What is the confusion of babel? Well, if a person takes meat and puts it into a meat grinder what comes out, is it something other than meat like a vegetable? No it is not, it is meat in another form, but its is still meat. What those existing in babel cannot understand is the flesh, and its nature, because they are not spiritual person, that is, born from Spirit. So when a person puts into a fleshly grinder of religion - legislating laws, and rules of the bible what comes out? Flesh in another form, but its is still flesh.
Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

When a person is a weed Christian's they may think they are spiritual person because they have made changes in their flesh, that is, controlling some work of their flesh, but it does not make them a spiritual person born of God's Holy Spirit. The flesh may feel more spiritual, and even closer to God by stopping the bad habit, but it is still flesh, but without the habit.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

This is the test stone for fleshly religion, and its works. The flesh is find provided it does not come in contact with a spirit person created by God by His own Holy Spirit. When contact is made the flesh hates the spirit person, and will do all in its anger to get read of the spirit person, why? Because this is the nature of the flesh, its like a dog that attacks the Spirit of God. Moreover, it is blinded by it hate, and will lying deny it hates as God's righteousness through some law found in the bible.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Babel is the nature of the flesh when it comes in contact with God's Holy Spirit making it drunk with a polluted form of Spirit, and flesh creating a real hodgepodge ever changing standards.

Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

In other words, using God's word, grinding it up into a different form calling it religion - still is fleshly thinking, causing ones to drink this magic potion drudging them into blindness to the truth of God's word, which must be known by Spirit and truth.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

No Truth In The Flesh

The fleshly minded person does not know that there is no truth in them that matters, why? Because truth from a fleshly grinding machine is not the truth of God's word that has no lust or sin of the flesh in it. It is the same substance, but in another form to fool the flesh into believing the lie.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Believing the lie is listening to our flesh justification, which is opposed to the Spirit of God, in Christ Jesus. We are the lie, we cannot justify ourselves by some good work done out of the bible. The flesh wants us to believe the lie, and it will stop at nothing into forcing us to believe the lie; so the flesh mixes truth with a lie and calls it sweet waters of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

But there is no truth in the lie of the flesh, the flesh is a lie, all flesh are liars, they practice it from birth until death, but there is no lie in Christ Jesus whom is the truth. The flesh believes it has the truth by repeating words from the bible, but it does not have the truth, it only saying words of truth mixing it into the fleshly mind that comes out babel and more lies.

Yeast of the flesh produces more yeast of the flesh, believing the lie is but putting its into another form of wording - calling it righteous without yeast, but its still polluted waters of our own hearts of flesh.

Jmaes 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

Truth and Spirit

the wind blows where it wants, it posses nothing, but posses all things. When the flesh experiences the wind it is either joyful or freighting experience, but the flesh is not the wind.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3:8 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

The flesh tries too posses all things it comes into contact with, but it cannot posses the wind, it can define the actions of the wind, but it cannot own the wind.

So it stands in awe of the wind, or takes it for granted, but the wind is not under the control of the flesh. The truth is not the words the flesh used to describes the wind from the bible, it is only words of the flesh, the truth is the wind, all the flesh can do is see its affects upon the life of the flesh. The flesh cannot know where the wind comes from or where its goes, it is at a lost, and out of its control of the wind.

So the flesh uses the one power its has words to make laws to understand the wind, but it is not the truth, which is the wind. Here then we can understand the flesh coming in contact with the truth of the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is not the words of the bible, those words simply describes the actions of Holy Spirit, but the words are not the Holy Spirit, so they cannot be the truth, why?

Well, when you put words of Holy Spirit into the yeast of the fleshly minds and hearts you still have yeast and corruption of teachings of the Holy Spirit. You have not made it into a pure truth, it cannot come from flesh, it must come from something that is pure, which produces pure waters of truth.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

The Gift the Flesh Cannot Accept

The flesh cannot accept a pure gift, the flesh must attach a condition with the gift. In other words, the flesh must make something evil out of something good for that is its nature. When the flesh gives a gift there are strings attached too the gift, so how can the flesh understand a gift given without strings, its cannot!

What the flesh does is put it into a grinding machine of religion creating another form of giving with religious condition attached to it for the receiver.

The flesh cannot know the perfect gift of God, because its is imperfect with sins, creating evil motives to anyone that gives it as gift. Moreover, the flesh must earn, and posses all things in its yard, like a dog.
If you give a dog a gift, what will he do? He will posses it as his own, he does not continue to thank you for the gift. He will posses it, and attack anyone trying to take it away.

Matt.7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Subsequently, the flesh does the same with the undeserved kindness of God, in the free gift of Christ Jesus. The flesh steals the gift in claiming as its own, and has done something to deserve it. The flesh than becomes evil by attacking others that want the gift.

Religion grinds up the gift undeserved kindness into another form of works for gifts, laying ownership to the free gift making other pay for its in material things, or devoting their life into growing a religious business. Furthermore, unrighteous flesh creates position of power from a free gift of God's love calling it righteousness.

John 10:1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

Unleavened Bread

What is unleavened bread? Well, it is not of the flesh, or its thoughts, which are weeds-yeast, and corruption. Unleavened bread is free from sin, and corruption, it does not put strings upon a gift given by YWHW the Father of love. It honors the Father by loving His perfect gift of life without corruption of sin.

The Father glorifies the Son, and Son glorifies the Father because they have no lust of the flesh, which creating lies. There is no lie in the truth, because there is no flesh in God or Christ Jesus making them the everlasting truth of life.

1 John 2:21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Eating unleavened bread is the source of all life, why? Because it comes down from above into the hearts and souls of men that do not love the unrighteous flesh, which condemns, and is being condemned, through unrighteous self-righteous fleshly judgments.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

What exist without the corruption of the flesh? Spirit and truth, giving eternal life to all those drinking of them. The unleavened bread is the truth, and it does not exist upon earth through men of the flesh. It is a free gift of God's love written into each person heart that walk by faith and not sight, that is, by seeing what other flesh is doing, including itself.

John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

This gift cannot be contain like the wind, but is has been unrighteously put into words of flesh by religions person. It has been sealed up in fleshly hearts full of evil stealing the kindness of God from little ones seeking truth of life. It has been used for every evil under the sun, all with the idea of helping others. It has been used to promote more flesh, and a prosperous life now, it has been used to create governments over mankind, but is it still fleshly-yeast-weed Christians using words to described what cannot be contain by them, the wind of Holy Spirit.

Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Pure Truth Restored

The lie of the flesh; it can never have pure truth, nor will it ever have pure truth, it is a misnomer on the grandest scale to think so. On the other hand, the truth does not need restoring, it is Christ Jesus, and he lives, and has lived, in incorruptible life since God raised Him.

Restoring of truth is also a misnomer used by unrighteous religion to control people lives by more flesh, but why? Because the wind is here, it is always the truth, the flesh may not have time for the wind in its fleshly pursuits, but it exist, and without it, there would be no life on earth. But like giving a bone too a dog, who takes possession; the flesh believes there is no wind, without it rules defining the wind, until the flesh meets a tornado!

Here is the truth which is always here for those worshiping in Spirit and truth. It is not concealed in their hearts of fleshly religion claiming ownership of it, it cannot be, if the truth is hid, than there is no truth, or God, but if the truth is veil, it is veil by the flesh that is perishing in it own unrighteous thoughts.

Rom. 1:19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse. 1:21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

The thoughts of flesh which cannot know the truth, but grinds words of truth into a false religion hiding its fleshly lust by words judging other fleshly thoughts. Death promoting death, flesh promoting flesh, pollution creating more pollution, yeast fermenting the whole lump of false teachings.

2Cor. 4:3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; 4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

God is not far from us, but our flesh is closer through false teachings of the flesh, and its religions, so its like going to an eyed doctor to be healed from spiritual blindness, and he gives you a pair of glasses so you can see the flesh better! Where does a blind man lead another blind man, into a pit.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Once the fleshly mind is set upon unlocking what is freely given by no good works of our own, but rather through religions teachings, it has stumble into a pit of darkness with no way out. It cannot stop searching for truths that are right in front of its, like blind men looking for a wall, what wall, the wall of law for its security.

Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

Yes, the flesh loves laws, it builds everything by laws of do's and don't, until it a masses a huge wall, but its cannot find the door of Christ Jesus leading into life. Why?
Matt.7:7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 7:8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 7:9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Because God is not far off He is not hidden in laws, He is the wind requiring resting in faith that He is good, and does not trick us by feeding us a serpent when asking for the bread of life. It is the flesh that lies, it is the flesh that cannot know truths, it is the flesh that serves God's by laws and commandment, and not the Spirit.

The Spirit is always the truth, and it is always there for us everlastingly, it is our flesh that lies saying: “Who will go into heaven and bring down, who will go into the sea bring up?” the flesh lies, and says religion can, men of flesh can, good works can, bible teaching can, all is a lie, ground in another form of self-righteous, which is a lie. There in no self-rightness in our flesh.

Rom.10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5}
10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'{Deuteronomy 30:12} (that is, to bring Christ down); 10:7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'{Deuteronomy 30:13} (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;"{Deuteronomy 30:14} that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Accepting The Free Gift of Life
Does your flesh lie, if you say no, you are a liar! Cannot you earn a free gift from God, if you start coming up with some religious legal teaching you are in fear of darkness, and judgment, and your own flesh is lying too you!

1John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

The gift of life is yours by faith, not by works you have done, or will do, anything outside of that is your own flesh believing evil of God. Either you are building up truth by Spirit, or building up flesh by lies of truth(s) found in the bible.

The gift is given without the partiality of fleshly lies of religion in another form of the fleshly thinking. We cannot justify ourselves with words of the bible, because the flesh is condemned by the bible as evil, and not part of Christ Jesus. We cannot stop sinning without the gift of God's love found in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

We can believe the truth in faith, resting from our evil thoughts of the flesh, having the mind of Christ Jesus, which is love; love for His Father, believing as Christ mind, all things when it come to Father YHWH is goodness. We can rest from trying to be good enough by building up the flesh into a good life being accepted by religious folk, instead seeking the highest righteousness, hated by religious folk, Christ Jesus.

We can humbly thank God for His goodness towards us, by substituting the life of His Son for us. We can stop judging by unrighteous means of laws of the flesh, and accept with love unity of Spirit, and truth without the polluting mixture of justification by fleshly thinking.

In this this way the truth is restored one person at a time with pure hearts of love for the giver of life.

Romans 3:28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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