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We Know No One After The Flesh

We Know No One After The Flesh

2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

This statement by the apostle Paul is very upsetting for many Christian's, it gives them pause; what indeed was Paul speaking about? First, one would need to look at the context of the verse, and consider who Paul was writing to? Moreover, for us to be fair and honest, speaking the truth, are his words in harmony with Christ and the other apostles?

The book of 1 Corinthians

Chapter 3

3:1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
3:2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
3:3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

Moreover, we also need to ask ourselves a very important question rather anyone but ourselves knows that truth, or not? Which is, do I believe God's words, the bible, as inspired of God? Not parts of it, that I understand, or the parts I like, or the writers I like, Do I believe none of it was written by men, but just as stated by God's power, the words originated with God's, and by God's will, that is, his power, and not from the power of man’s own will or thoughts?

2 Peter 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. 1:21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1:12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Or rather do we believe the word of God is a legal book, a contract with mankind, and attorneys wrote it? They wrote it with clauses, and small lettering to catch us, trap us to make us feel small, take something away from us? Do we believe unrighteous men wrote the bible to enslave us to things we don't like or want to accept or do?

Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Matthew 6:23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

The truth of God does not flatter men in their flesh, if you are looking for a pat on the back, like we'd get from mankind by our doing certain works of religion, thinking we are doing them for God, you might come up very disappointed when reading God's word honestly, that is, in Spirit and truth!

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness).

John 5:41 I don't receive glory from men.

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

God appreciates the works of his servants, he commends them for being faithful to him holding to his high principles, but he does not worship their works, promote their works, or flatter them to prod
them along so they will continue to serve him, all that is what mankind does so one will stay with their business, religion, and/or government. God is not a business, or a religion, nor a government, he is a king, and our heavenly Father.

Isa.40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

Isa. 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor? 40:14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Speaking Truth Each One With His Neighbor

Lets us speak truth; most of the time, the offense at Paul's words stems from things we find in our own flesh; we will explain that later on in this document? Some believe Paul really went out on a limb here when saying we know no one any longer by the flesh, not even Christ Jesus, although, we once knew him in the flesh.

In other words, the apostles, and some of Christ followers were still alive in the flesh, and knew Christ while in his flesh on earth they touched, seen, and heard him speaking while in his flesh, Paul said; we no longer see him, touch, or hear him in his flesh, thus, we no longer know him in his flesh anymore! A very truthful statement, is it not, but why?

1John. 1:1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

The apostles experienced Christ in his flesh

Simply put, Christ was put to death in the flesh, and made alive in what? The spirit, and he was, and is the truth, so we worship him in Spirit and truth, not the flesh and Spirit as he was once in, correct? Was Paul's word a legal discussion for a debate, or the truth, which can't be debated only by a foolish person?

2 Timothy 2:14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

The offense isn’t for many, is what the apostle John's wrote in his letter in first John. He states a truth, as an ear marking of true Christian's dividing them off from false Christian's in his time.

1 John 4:3 and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

Did Paul Deny Christ Came In The Flesh?

First, let us take a breathe and get things in context here? Why did Christ come in the flesh? That is the real question that must be answered for an honest bible student if they want to get at the core of Paul's teachings does it not?

1 Timothy 3:16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. (Paul's Words)

Was there any righteous flesh one earth after Adam sinned against God's own righteousness? A simple question? Could any person born of Adam say: I am not a sinner, nor have I sinned? Frankly, not one person, no not one person could uses his own righteous blood to redeem a brother from the pit of death.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

That is why Christ had to come in righteous flesh, which means, his flesh did not sin like Adam's, he had eternal life, because he was sinless. He alone had the power from a righteous life in his flesh to redeem the whole human race found in unrighteous flesh from sin. Can one deny that, and be a Christian's?

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

Colossians 1:22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me.

Hebrews 10:10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Do Christian's worship Christ flesh like they would some powerful minster of a mega church? No! Where is Christ flesh, isn't that a fair question? Do we understand the whole context of our bible? Do we understand, why God had the bodies of those animals laid upon his altar for sins offering consumed completely by fire?

Exodus 12:9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

Exodus 12:10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

Exodus 29:14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

Exodus 29:18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29:34 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

The entire sacrifice must be consumed given wholly and completely to God for its to be acceptable to God for unrighteous sins against his laws righteousness. (The entire flesh of the animal gone forever something that cannot be taken back a complete whole heart giving up a precious life for life.) Thousands of years God people witnesses the destruction of life to save them from their sins. The cost, the agony, and pain simple sin cost in pain agony and death, the very death and destruction sin brought to innocent victims.

Who are the victims of Adam and Eve's sin?

All mankind! Where is Christ body, why did God consume it, so it wasn't worshiped? No that is not it! Christ sinless body saves us completely from sin, it must be completely consumed to be acceptable sacrifice to God, for the sins of the world! The question begs, what was in Christ flesh? Moreover, was Paul denying Christ flesh when stating we know no one any longer in the flesh, not even Christ even if we knew his so once!

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. (Jesus words)

What Was In Christ Flesh?

Why would Christ like the apostle Paul state: That our flesh profits us nothing at all? Christ said we gain nothing from our flesh, the flesh does not give us anything of the Spirit of God. Didn't the flesh of Christ profit us?

John 6:55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6:56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

Mankind was not created to be worshiped, despite the false teachings of religion, government, and business. Adam was created to worship God, and do the will of God so he could do the works of God on earth, Adam was not created to be worship, making himself an idol.

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

John 5:41 I don't receive glory from men.

Was Adams flesh his life source, not a trick question? No it was not! God was Adam's life source, God's word spoken to Adam were truth, and Spirit, the source of his physical and life eternally, The same is true of all God's children rather spirit or spirit in the flesh (humans). When Adam lost his life source, God, God's Spirit, what happen to Adam's flesh? It started dying, it fell into sickness, aging, and finally death.

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.

In other words, Adam's flesh profit him nothing at all, did it? Adam did not believe the lie, that is, his flesh profited him it was his wife that believed the lie, and Adam loved her flesh more than Spirit of the living God.

Adam knew who was the source of his eternal existence, but his wife was not directly created by God, in this sense? She was created from Adam's life, his flesh, they were then in the truest sense one flesh, but would they be one spirit? Satan knew Eve must communicate with God through her source of life Adam, his headship to have the Spirit of God. If Adam's life was loyal to God, in Spirit and truth then Eve would be feed and cherish in Adam's life and have the same eternal life feeding and sustaining her eternal life as Adam's himself was by his bread of life YHWH.

Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

Satan knew the weak link, where doubt could be planted, was Adam speaking truth of God to Eve, or was he just her husband, and she did not need to listen to his headship? On all levels headship of Adam, and/or Eve was dependent upon one thing, love! Not evil thoughts, not a legal approach to what is fair and just, but love, imputing good to others, not judging them in their flesh, but in Spirit and truth, which is God, who is love! (We know no one in the flesh any longer.)

1Cor.13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 13:8 Love never fails.

What dwelt in Adam that was life eternal, was it his flesh or the Spirit of God that was of value? What life was Adam to pass on to his children in his flesh, or the Spirit of God's life as their eternal Father? The flesh was the vessel, God placed his Spirit in. That flesh must be righteous, and sinless for it to have God in it, as a temple of pure worship. Once defiled the vessel of flesh was unholy and rejected of God as permanently damaged, not fixable.

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

Adam had no power to fix his fleshly vessel, he had no power to recreate it, by the power of his own life. Moreover, God does not make new from corruption, God does not take yeast of sin and make a new pie. Adam was dead to God eternally in his flesh their was not a second chances to fix it; worship it back to sinlessness, or keep it under control by harsh commandments to bring it back to newest without sin.

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

No! Adam was dead in his sin, without the eternal life of God dwelling in him after his sinning. He found as so many are forced to admit that nothing good dwell in his flesh, certainly, not the Spirit of God, which Christ was to tells us clearly: Only one is good, God!

Adam could not clear his conscience from the filth of his own flesh, sin! Nothing on Earth could redeem Adam from sin. Adam had to pass death all of us, from a body under going death, and we pass on the same to our children. Do we do so by choice, no, we do so because we have no choice, it not a matter of love, but one of a permanent judgment upon sin.

John. 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

What gave Adam value upon earth that profit him was the Spirit of God indwelling him. Yes, Adam needed no mediator he was sinless, he could speak with God directly. That which dwelt in the only good in our universe should dwell in all God's moral creation making them the same good, God's life, the tree of life, we as the branches and fruit of that tree doing the works of the source of life found in the one tree of life.

James.1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Do We Know The Last Adam By His Flesh?

Why is the history of Christ in his flesh missing from our bibles, in fact, from the records of mankind, not unless someone makes up lies about Christ early life in the flesh before he was anointed as the last Adam to save us in Spirit and truth? Why did God put all the power on Spirit after Christ was anointed by God's Spirit? Why not give the power to the history of Christ before he was anointed according to his fleshly ties? You see, the power of Christ fleshly ties were great among the Jews, he could have been born into a kings house, a rich family, but why in such a humiliated station in life? Did Christ no anyone after his anointing by the flesh?

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

Luke 9:60 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."

Matt. 12:46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
12:47 One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you."
12:48 But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"
12:49 He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."

Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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.

Furthermore, why is the early history of the apostles in the flesh before they were anointed by the same Spirit missing from our bibles? Why? When we have so much history, the mainstay, of the Jewish faith, about where David came from in his flesh, Moses, and so on, are we dealing with a different God?

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.

John 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

How can an honest person read their bibles and not see that clear demarcation between flesh and the Spirit denoted loudly in a the difference of the Hebrew and Greek writings?

Should be surprised that those longing, lusting, for a legacy in their flesh would not try to know Christ in his flesh? When none is given before or after the apostles of Christ where made new, anointed into a new birth from God and not mans will; that old history of them is not found in our bibles?

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

No it shouldn't! Everything in this world is not of God or from him, this world was built from what? The power of sinful flesh, being helped by wicked spirit force in heavenly places. That is a basic teaching of our bibles.

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

The world must look to the history of the flesh, to build what? Government, religion, and commerce. Without the power of the history of the flesh in great men and woman, laws, from the rulers of this world from ancient times into our time the world could not be run and kept in order or improved upon, but this world is not of God, and we are told from our new birth, all of it passing away.

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

Where is the history of the Spirit can you see it, have God's angels given it to us to study, does the Spirit, that is, God need approval by mankind or spirit-kind? Does God need a legacy, a history to justifies that he is right, that is, righteous, and he is King?

Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Now stop and think, don't jump to fleshly conclusion here, we are not trying to trick anyone or set someone up to prove them wrong we are speaking truth with our neighbor because we are to fulfill the law of love, to own no one a single thing but to love them, not setting them up, tricking them, or make them feel bad so we can gain something over them but love!

Ephesians 4:15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Rom.13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

There need not be a written history of the Spirit, that is, God, because God is always new, why? Because he is love, he is nothing beyond that, that is, love! God does not need the past to justify his present like our flesh does. God is not building a resume' because he need not, he is in new. New has no regrets of sins or mistake, because God is love. He is present and living, he is life. He is not the God of the flesh, or the dead, he is the God of all those living.

John 6:57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

John 7:38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

Luke 20:38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

We cannot see the history of the Spirit from fleshly eyes, we must always believe just one thing which is enough, God is love, that is, faith, and nothing less pleases God.

Christ came to give us his flesh, he did that, the value in him was God Spirit and the will of the Spirit that his Son Christ Jesus never disobeyed it is that righteousness of Christ in his flesh tha make his sacrifice the only and last one mankind will ever need to redeem then from sin and death. Once that flesh was given God took it, consumed it as a complete offering to save us, and the world should they actually seek God.

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.

Luke 24:3 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.

Luke 24:23 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

Christ was then made alive in the spirit, the spirit of Christ profits us as the eternal father of our spiritual lives. We cannot know Christ anymore in his flesh because it was sacrifice wholly and righteously for our sins. We know the spirit of Christ God has given us freely, by our anointing, our flesh can't please God. But certainly, the life of Christ indwelling us in our flesh can, and does.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

We are not building up again what God has consumed and taken for our remediation are we? Are we stuck in the elementary things of the flesh like Israel was, in repentance each year from dead works; they did not get it by faith at all? If the flesh is dead because of God's judgment of sin upon it, from Adam forward how can it do the works of God at anytime?

Mark 14:38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Adam could not, now could he, or less God is a liar! Adam was put out of God's works, by being driven out of the Garden of Eden. Adam afterwards he did his own dead works, he certainly had reason to repent constantly over his sinful lack of love for 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.

But that repentance did not lead into life of the Spirit again now did it?

Those worshiping in Spirit and truth their flesh is dead, once for all time they are made alive in the Spirit, which means having Christ spirit indwelling them allowing them to do God's works.

They have been allowed into the spirit paradise of Christ and are feed by his headship the living Spirit of God as our bread of life. Christ became our curse, by taking our sins of our own flesh, killing them (the flesh) in his own life, so we might live “new” in a new creation, without flesh, the flesh or Adam.

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

We are not taught by flesh, it profits us nothing, we are taught by the Spirit by the life of Christ in truth. If we look at the flesh of our brothers and sisters as gaining them life, in Spirit and truth, we are denying the whole truth why Christ came in his flesh to save us from the judgment of our flesh.

Rom. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

If we look hard and long for flaws in the apostle Paul's flesh, we are judging a flesh that God Son Christ Jesus killed, and is not factually under God's judgment of Paul or us but gone!

1Cor.4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Subsequently, as was stated early in this document we would give the answer as to why our sins of our flesh is what we are actually judging Paul of?

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.

A sinful person with evil in their heart (less than love) eye, which is darkness of sin cannot judge something God has declared righteous. God has declared his Son's life righteous, the temple of the living God where his Spirit dwells. No one in their flesh, or its judgment, legal, or otherwise can call Christ evil without self-judgment being brought upon their own-selves.

James. 3:5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James. 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?

No matter what knowledge level or education we have can we call Christ wicked in thought or action, Christ is free of all judgment, even when he was in his flesh. Those calling a brother of Christ found in Christ wicked is fleshly (dead) when the Holy Spirit put the stamp of approval on Paul himself and his writings is judging what the Holy Spirit does not judge.

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.
3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

If one walked with the Paul in his flesh, and he was found to have a weakness in his flesh dead to God. It would require God's Holy Spirit through that brother to correct Paul, but it could not come from his own originality or his own will that of his own flesh because of some word he/she hated they thought Paul was saying.

Rom.8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 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.

Let us remember a couple more things, the flesh can't please God, nor can it be in subject to God. Subjection, is what Christ was perfectly in to God's headship, without sin. Our flesh does not even come close or is it allowed into the race to life. To speak out of our flesh which cannot be in subjection to God, or now Christ, is to foolish judge the sins of our own heart.

Matt. 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?
7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Lastly, in context Paul was speaking to a fleshly group of God's anointed who where doing exactly that putting faith in sinful flesh as the Christ. A congregation that could not understand the deep things of Christ who were immature that could not even hear the things of the Spirit. They were full of division, and competition in the flesh calling it Christ. Making judgment in the flesh, through the very law Christ put away for them so they could live in grace/undeserved kindness.

1 Corinthians 3:1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

Corinthians 1:12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

They thought they were wise boasting in their flesh, judging in their flesh Paul and those walking in the Spirit. Paul stripped the power of the evil flesh from them, just as Christ did those Jews who believed the flesh its history, which connection were everything on earth for that Jewish faith. Paul told them the truth of the flesh of Christ its purpose to save them, they had become a new creation, with no ties or history on this earth, they were alive in Christ life, and not the evils of the old dead flesh.

2 Peter 1:9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Colossians 3:9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings.

They could not be dead in their flesh in Christ and live to the flesh found in others and their brothers. Christ was not made alive in the flesh, but the Spirit and they were born again by the Spirit and taught by that Spirit not the world which is the flesh, their flesh included.

Ephesians 4:22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

They could not mix the yeast of the sins of the flesh and its dead works and being doing the works of God, in the Spirit, and truth.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

If we are in love with the flesh and its history on this earth, then we are not in subjection to the Spirit and the new creation. We are created new; God did not created Christ new by his Spirit to record the history of his flesh before he was anointed.

Matthew 19:17 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

Matthew 5:16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

John 8:54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

Moreover, those fashioned in Christ find their own fleshly history before their anointing not recorded either after the Spirit of God was poured out upon them.

No we don't know anyone according to the world, that is, the flesh, we do not love the desires of this world, we are no part of this world, that is, the flesh. There is no glory in the flesh since Adam sinned the glory Adam had was that he was created in God's image, that is, in God's righteousness without sin. Once Adam sinned he was no longer created in God's image.

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

God does not dwell in corruption, he is incorruptible. God loves the victims of sin, he has promised us that all things would be created new by him. Not only the things in the heavens, but the things on this earth.

Revelation 21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

Revelation 21:2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

2 Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

We are the first fruit of that new heavens where God's righteousness dwells, in Christ Jesus; provided we are born new, dead in our flesh, and walk in Spirit and truth, new each day.

Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

Christ set a wonderful example of walking in Spirit and truth, he did not sin in his flesh, he offered up that life up freely for us, provided we accept the Spirit of God.

John 4:23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Completed: November 14, 2017

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus