Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
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… love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh, the self, with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, Let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. It's a picture that we're all going to be a sponge. No one gets out of being a sponge. We're created to serve God. If we don't serve God, we're going to serve something else. We're created to be filled by the Holy Spirit. If we're not filled by the Holy Spirit, we're gonna be filled by a different spirit. We're created for the fullness and the freedom that comes in totaling, surrendering to God. But if we don't totally and fully and completely surrender to God, we're gonna totally and fully and completely surrender to something less than God. We do not have a choice of neutrality. There is no Switzerland in the Christian faith. …
… here's the encouragement this morning though you don't have to live with these things mocking you we go back to galatians 5 24 paul told us now those who belong to christ i want to ask another question do we have any people in the room that belong to christ i said no online and in this room Do we have any people that belong to Jesus Christ? And Paul goes on to tell us that if you are in Christ, which we are, we have crucified the flesh with his passions and his desires. Free chapel, the things of the flesh must be crucified. They have to go. If you want to protect your joy, the Ishmaels must be crucified, the Hagar's must be crucified, and they must go. The things mocking your joy, they have to leave. That relationship must go. Those negative thoughts must go. Those old habits must go. Those things that you have been watching and consuming that's bringing you this heaviness, they must go. …
… Against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, so if we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. We now have life in the Spirit. We live by the presence of the Spirit in our lives. He is that eternal life. But the only way that we will be able to overcome the remaining flesh is to walk by the Spirit, to walk by the Spirit. Again I say it's basic to all understanding of Christian living, but the only way you You can live the Christian life is in the power of the Holy Spirit. Now let's go back to Ephesians chapter 5 for a moment and look more closely at this command. Be filled with the Spirit, verse 18. Literally be being kept filled with the Spirit. Be being kept continuously filled with the Spirit. It's a way of life. It is the only way that you can possibly obey. …