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Persecution of the Spirit

Galatians 4:29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Why does those born according to the flesh persecute those born of the Spirit? Can we honestly explain why that is as a Christian's? Not many religions today teach that truth found from the start of our bibles into the very last pages of the bible, but why?

It is a subject not uttered, yet, God by Holy Spirit that message had in all of his prophets. Why is it not a popular messages often repeated from the mouth of Christian's today? Why has it been given no concern in a world the bible calls flesh?

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

The Deception

Flesh started on earth, as defined by God's word by deception, before the first lie, God did not make the statement flesh is against the Spirit, do you know why?
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What is sin? We used the word daily as Christian's, but have you ever given it any thought accept that its bad, and God does not want us to sin? Sin started at the first lie. Satan had already sinned against God, and he wanted power, recognition from the first human couple that would bring forth an earth filled with righteous children for God's glory.

John 7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

The fruits of righteousness of Adam and Eve would be their children, that would be their work, God's works approved, and blessed of God, by his Spirit. Those works would be God's righteousness on earth, expressed in the hearts and minds of godly children filling the earth having no sin.

1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

For God's righteousness to be maintained, it had to be found in love, without love, there is not God's righteousness. The deception was that human could serve God without loving him, they could judge as God judges good and evil without staying in God's love and continue to live eternally as creation.

1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

It is then the lack of love that is sin! In other words, to be right with God, one must stay in God's love. God is love that is who God is! He is incorruptible so he cannot show a lack of love, for something that is incorruptible it impossible to corrupted it. Incorruptibility can't even entertain the thought of a lack of love without it corrupting the whole mass of unleavened bread!
1 John 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.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

The Power of Sin

When putting sin in the terms of love, and God's incorruptible love, changes our entire thinking about this subject of sin, does it not? It also explains the power of corruption that even a thought of lacking love is impossible for God. But it also tells us the dire consequence we are found in as the human race.

Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

How can one never have a thought of lack of love? In other words, we were to be a family of mankind on earth without sin, without a lack of love, for God, angels, or our brothers and sisters, not even the planet earth, and all things God created on earth for mankind's enjoyment out of God's love!

But ask yourselves this question? Once something is corrupted, how does one remove the corruption? It is impossible as it is impossible for God to lie, and to lack love when he is love! Corruption cannot be removed once its in something, even if the mind is renewed, it will always have a lack of love, a thought of sin, which is lacking love, now get this, it is corruption, to us, or the God of incorruption?

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Adam could not uncorrupt himself, or Eve, in fact, not even the Devil. The deception is; that we can by our thinking remove sin, do we think we can take sin out of us so by our hard works; perfecting love in our flesh by removing sin?

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

Thus, imputing sin to God is evil, but we all do that. In doing so we are saying in essences that God is not incorruptible at all, he is not love, let alone incorruptible love. Now we might say: “but I don't want to do that, I don't allow myself to do that, I catch my thoughts, but my thoughts just happen that way”.

Rom.7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

It is a fight, but the fight proves we are not love, God does not fight with thoughts of evil, a lack of love, he is love, we know love, because God is love, and created us with the desire to love as human from his love.

Now we can understand the power of sin, why the bible tells us that we all fail short of God's glory. To lack love is sin, to have no sin is to be God's glory. Adam and Eve were created in God's love. Thus, they were God's glory, until sinning.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

The Power of Incorruptibility

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Romans 9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Romans 8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Would we imagine that we could have a lack of love, and stand before God? Would we imagine that in sin that God would allow us into his incorruptible mind? The power of incorruptibility would consume us, it not even imaginable the righteous power found in God's incorruptibility.

The very thought of lack love is hostile to God, it can't know God, or be in subjection to God. God is not in war against our flesh, but the flesh lust against God's incorruptibility love, it can't stop, it cannot know God or be in subjection to God's righteousness.

Caveat

Remembering fleshly Israel only warred when the enemy that came into their God given land of Israel, remembering Christ only wars with the flesh and its thoughts when it comes into the body of Christ the temple of God, God given territory.

The permeation of sin cannot be taken out of us, the flesh is corrupted with sin, a lack of love. We cannot take yeast out of leavened bread. By our nature we are against God, in a war within ourselves, trying to please God, but the thoughts we are born into darkness of sin, a lack of love we lust against the perfect present of the God of love. That is the truth of our bibles!

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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.

Furthermore, now we can understand when God gives us his love it is unmerited kindness. If we had enough merit in our thoughts to love God without sinning then unmerited kindness would be meaningless.

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Undeserved kindness/unmerited kindness is of no point, mankind could be left in sin, and they would over time gain enough merit within sin in themselves to gain eternal life Adam lost by their own works.

Death to Sin

How does on take sin out of yeast bread? Is there a process that will take corruption, that is, yeast from bread making it a new lump of unleavened bread? Well, the God of love says no there is not! The human mind is permeated with corruption of sin, a lack of love says, yes it can take sin out by good works!

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Thus, the two minds are opposed to each other, i.e., against each other as light is to darkness. There can be no crossing over, one into the other without corruption of both. One must die!

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

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.

That is God's answer to sin, it must die. Sadly, all that sin must die that is what sin pays us. The desire and love to serve God, and come to know him as Adam, and Christ did, by love, lives on, it is present with us, but we don't have the will over our flesh to take sin out of and its corruption, a lack of love that makes us unrighteous before God.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

If judging the flesh took sin out of us then with all the judgment of the flesh since sin entered into our world would have long ago been removed. Judging does not remove sin that is a deception of the sinful flesh that lacks love. Sin's wages were pronounced by God, is death, nothing more. It done, it was finished at the Garden of Eden; we are all dying every since.

Romans 5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Where do we go from there? Really think about that? Most go into a permeated religion, or philosophy from the same mind that lacks glory of God that says we can be made righteous in our flesh, we can obtain to earning everlasting life by works from our flesh upon this earth. Which become a ritualistic practice done by a trained fleshly mind to sound godly, to look godly, to speak godly, to deceive others that sin has been removed from us, a lack of love.
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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.

Unmerited Kindness Life

The flesh is dead to God, its of no value at all, because it can't be changed into a better less yeast piece of bread. God must be kind towards us, understanding the greater more illustrious picture, which is spirit, not flesh.

1 John 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Can the spirit of mankind be perfected? Yes, it can, but the flesh must be separated from the spirit, it must be put to death. In other words, if God did not block out our flesh, removing its judgment he could never teach us what? The love of God that excels all thoughts of sin, which a lack of love found in our flesh.

Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

To do just that God sent us a new life, our new life in Jesus Christ. A Son that never fail short of God's glory, he did not lack love for his Father and fall into sin, as did Adam.

That merit of Christ life purchased us from sin, and death. The gift of God is unmerited kindness, it cannot be gotten in any other way but as God's love too us.

Ephesians 2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

The Perfecting of Faith
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Love for God is perfected by trials in our flesh, the flesh is not being perfected, it is dead to God's incorruptible mind, so the mind of Christ can teach us the love of God. We do have the mind of Christ because he is our new life.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

It is our faith under trials of our flesh that tells us God is love that he will never let us go, no matter how relentless evil found in our flesh that screams out God is not love.

Rom.8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22} 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

The power of our new life, that has perfect faith (Christ), that is, love found in our body Christ Jesus will overcome all evil on this earth introduced by the first lie.

1Cor.13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails

If, however, we think that flesh can be perfected, by climbing a ladder of righteousness an inch at a time, that is, to build up the -

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-flesh from each trial, we have missed the unmerited kindness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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

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.

In the flesh we are found wanting, with no merit given us freely in Christ, we have missed the message of our bibles. Moreover, we will be found in a constant state of failures of our flesh that cannot know God, or be in subjection to 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.

The only thing that deliver us from the flesh that is of no value at all in Christ is our faith, our love in the power of Christ life. Our disappointments in our flesh, are not in Christ, our disappointments of our flesh does not bother God or Christ one bit! God or Christ are not deceived about the real condition of our flesh. It is us that is deceived about the condition of our flesh, we have not separated the two, the flesh from the spirit, we are like the world trying to prove ourselves right in our fleshes actions, in speech, feelings, works, and whatever else we think pleases God we are not listening to the truth of the Spirit which tells us we cannot please God in our flesh.

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Disappointments/failures in our flesh depressing as they; making us a fool in Christ speaks in one loud timeless messages, we are exactly where God told us we would be if we put faith in the Son of God, where is that? No part of this world!

1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

To feel, see the corruption of our flesh daily bring about the very thing Christ knew, in putting no confidence in our flesh. If it were not for God's love that he loved us first, how would we know the love of God?

Let us be found in God's love, for then we know the life of Christ in Spirit and truth.

1 Corinthians 2:8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

2 Corinthians 12:9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Ephesians 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts{TR reads "understanding" instead of "hearts"} enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

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Ephesians 3:13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Completed: February 24, 2018

by Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus

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