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Rom.8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 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.

Here we find words offend offensive to Christian's, and certainly to the Jews, when its actually dawns upon them in context of what Paul was stating about the condition of our flesh? Now remember in chapter seven the charter before this one, Paul stated nothing good dwelt in his flesh!

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.

We must as Christian's divide between the truth of our fallen flesh, and the Spirit of God indwelling us. In other words, God kills the flesh, and deals with us in Spirit and truth, that is, our spirit freed from the judgment of our flesh. Which sinful flesh cannot meet God's righteousness under the law, or for that matter under the new covenant, the law of love.

Romans 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

1 Peter 2:24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Subsequently, if God kills our flesh, that is, its judgment it is dead, so any time we are of fleshly mind, we are dead to God. God cannot consort with evil, which is, the fleshly sin we are conceived in. This thought alone is offensive to many Christian's because they have good feelings and believe those good feelings are God's good feelings. Herein lays the problem when a person goes by their good feelings assuming they are God's, they make God into a man. thinking and feeling as they do. Moreover, they are easily deceived, why? Because if something is done that makes them feel good spiritually they believe their feelings are pure, and good from God.

James 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 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. 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Once that type of thinking starts (emotionally) a person cannot understand how God does not love the world (the flesh and its desires) or the things in the world. Furthermore, they make its man's effort to bring the light into the world, they build various projects that do good for other humans declaring those projects are directed by God, and approved of God. Hence, those believing this illusion, and lie when appointed to a position within an institution honestly believe their appointment came from God. Subsequently, making them obligated in justifying the evil done within the same institution from the flesh mind, which is not of God!

James4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs

God's standard of righteous is based upon truth it cannot be mixed into some good and some evil of human feelings. If mankind could bail themselves out of death from sin by good feelings/works. God would not of had to send his son to die an agonizing death for our sins. If the world was redeemable by good works, which mankind does towards each other, and want to do? God would not have to bring in an in coming Kingdom that destroys all mankind's Kingdom, and stand to time indefinite.

Daniel 2:44 In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 2:45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.

Lets us remember mankind is in death they have no hope unless God is good and not their goodness that has been long proven since Adam sinned. The entire bible is based upon blood atonement, not mankind atoning for sins by good works. Blood at the cost of precious life has been poured out for our sins, no matter where you go into God's written word, this is no accident. This is Paul's point here to these brothers and sister, do they want the truth of Christ life being destroyed for their redemption into a sinless spirit life with God, and Christ indwelling them? Or do they want the righteousness of the law which judged them as sinner in our flesh, leaving us hopeless, with no way out of a the mind of sin (fleshly) that cannot please God?

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

This is no small matter it is one that has deceived most of this world into false religion and caused the Jews to reject Christ. The redeemabliness of mankind is solely, and wholly in God's goodness and not mankind. God is at war with sin and death, he will without doubt annihilate it from the hearts, minds, and souls of the human race. Nothing of the corruption of sin will enter into a righteousness new heavens or earth, nothing! God is not building up kingdoms, or religions upon this earth that always corrupts; to hang a logo upon that reads: “Made by God!”

Exodus 34:14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Rom.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, 1:23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

These brothers and sisters were created for Christ Kingdom not earthly works done in institutions with signs stating built by God! They are to give a message that calls ones out of darkness into the wonderful light, they are not that light called into for private projects upon earth of doing good works through a human corporation or religion. Christ is that wonderful light (the temple of God where they are born into); being made a part of his wonderful precious sinless light sharing in his light and his works to this world by faith!

Isaiah 25:1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Titus 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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