GOD'S SAVES THE SOUL, BUT HIS PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHOOSING TO DENY THEIR OWN FLESH
“...I want to do what is right, but I can’t…” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
“...I want to do what is good, but I don’t …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
“…The sinful nature is always hostile to God . …” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT).
“..[The sinful nature]... never did obey God’s laws…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT).
“..[The sinful nature]... never will (obey god’s holy laws)…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT).
“…There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not…” (Ecclesiastes 7:20 KJV).
“…Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT). “…The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord…” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
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The world tries to SAY mankind is basically GOOD, but the bible SAYS, there is NONE good, but God. If anything, upon earth is GOOD, it is because his Holy Spirit is UPON it or a PART of it! “…[god, the holy spirit]... is GOOD…” (Psalm 107:1 KJV). “...there is “NONE” good but one, that is, God...” (Nahum 1:7 & Mark 10:18 KJV). “…There is none righteous, no, not one:” (Romans 3:10 KJV). “…There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not…” (Ecclesiastes 7:20 KJV). “…ALL HAVE SINNED and fallen short of the glory of God…” (Romans 3:23).
“…All he DOES (God, the Holy Spirit DOES) is just and GOOD...” (PSALMS 111:7 NLT). “…The fruit of the Spirit is ... GOODness …” (Galatians 5:22-23 KJV). "....The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives …” (Galatians 5 NLT). “…Apart from [the Holy Spirit]… [mankind cannot]... do nothing [they cannot be GOOD]…” (John 15:5 NIV). “… [ALL have become]…..unclean and [their so-called] righteousnesses (efforts to do good is) as filthy rags….” (Isaiah 64:6 KJV).
“...the flesh (sinful nature) profits nothing…” (John 6:63 NASB). “…The sinful nature is always hostile to God …” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT). “...[The SINFUL NATURE]... never did obey God’s (HOLY) laws…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT). “...[The SINFUL NATURE]... never will…[OBEY GOD’S HOLY LAW]...” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT). “…The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants ...so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. … …” (Galatians 5 NLT).
THE SINFUL NATURE CAN’T AND WON’T HELP YOU DO RIGHT. “….“…I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t…” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
THE SINFUL NATURE CAN’T HELP YOU “BECOME” RIGHT OR RIGHTEOUS. “… [ALL have become]…..unclean and [their so-called] righteousnesses (efforts to do good is) as filthy rags….” (Isaiah 64:6 KJV). “... APART FROM [Christ]... you can do nothing …” (John 15:1-11 NASB).
Mankind, whether you agree or disagree, is NOT basically GOOD, but they are basically SINFUL by NATURE!!! “...The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin (through the sin nature). I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. …I [am] …a slave to the sin that is … within me (within my sin nature) …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
“…The sinful nature is always hostile to God …” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT). “...[The SINFUL NATURE]... never did obey God’s (HOLY) laws, and it never will…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT). “…The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants ...so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. … …” (Galatians 5 NLT).
The BIBLE clearly explains the TROUBLE with the SINFUL NATURE and it DOES NOT say it is basically GOOD. In fact, the bible SAYS the SINFUL NATURE wants to DO EVIL!!!! “…The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants ...so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. … …” (Galatians 5 NLT).
Therefore, the SINFUL NATURE is basically EVIL!!!! “…The sinful nature wants to do evil … …” (Galatians 5 NLT). “…The sinful nature wants to do ... the opposite of what the Spirit wants …” (Galatians 5 NLT). “…[god, the holy spirit]... is GOOD…” (Psalm 107:1 KJV). “...The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin...[because of the sinful nature] ...I want to do what is good, but I don’t...” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT). “…you are not free to carry out your good intentions. … …” (Galatians 5 NLT). “…There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not…” (Ecclesiastes 7:20 KJV). “...there is “NONE” good but one, that is, God...” (Nahum 1:7 & Mark 10:18 KJV). “… [ALL (every human being) have become]…..unclean and [their so-called] righteousnesses (efforts to do good is) as filthy rags….” (Isaiah 64:6 KJV). “... APART FROM [the Holy Spirit]... [mankind]... can do nothing [good] …” (John 15:1-11 NASB). “… [they]... are not free to carry out...[their]... good intentions. … ” (Galatians 5 NLT).
Mankind is BASICALLY evil, sorry, but it’s true. The SINFUL NATURE has SIN embedded within its very fiber and it only has an inclination for evil; not righteousness. “…The sinful nature wants to do ... the opposite of what the Spirit wants …” (Galatians 5 NLT). “…The sinful nature wants to do evil … ” (Galatians 5 NLT). “….When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life WILL NOT inherit the Kingdom of God. …” (Galatians 5:22-23 NLT).
The Holy Spirit PRODUCES spiritual fruit and the sinful nature PRODUCES evil fruit. “…The sinful nature wants to do evil … …” (Galatians 5 NLT). “...The trouble is with ...[mankind, they are]... all too human, a slave to sin...[because of the sinful nature] ...[they]...want to do what is good, but [they]...don’t...” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT). “… [they were]... born ...[sinners]... (because they were born without the indwelling holy spirit)….” (Psalms 51:5 NLT).
The SINFUL NATURE is PROOF that mankind is NOT basically GOOD. Every human being is BORN with a SINFUL NATURE and has EVIL proclivities. “….I was born a sinner ….” (Psalms 51:5 NLT). “...These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way...” (Psalm 58:3 NLT). “... The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies...” (Psalms 58:3 KJV).
Adam and Eve PASSED this SINFUL NATURE on to their children and all of mankind. “…SIN IS the transgression of ... [God’s holy]...law….” (1 John 3:4 KJV). “...sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death passed to all men, for that all sinned—“(Romans 5:12 KJV). What kind of DEATH? Spiritual death (existence without the indwelling Holy Spirit, who is spiritual life). “...all have sinned (all have a sin nature)…” (Romans 3:23 KJV). “…all have ... come short of the glory of God (all are born WITHOUT the indwelling Holy Spirit)…” (Romans 3:23 KJV).
Adam and Eve and ALL of their descendants were BORN without the Holy SPIRIT. "…That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit…” (John 3:6 KJV).
“...I was born a sinner ….” (Psalms 51:5 NLT). “...I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. …I [am] …a slave to the sin (nature) …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT). “…the wages of sin (the end result) is [spiritual] death…” (Romans 6:23 KJV). “…[Now]... all have sinned (all have been born with a sin nature)…” (Romans 3:23 KJV). “…all have ... come short of the glory of God (all are born WITHOUT the indwelling Holy Spirit)…” (Romans 3:23 KJV).
“...so ...[spiritual]... death passed to all men(women)...“(Romans 5:12 KJV). “...all have sinned (all have been born with a sin nature)…” (Romans 3:23 KJV). From generation to generation, descendant to descendant, and year after year the sin nature has been passed down to all of mankind. “…the wages of sin (the end result) is [spiritual] death…” (Romans 6:23 KJV).
Adam and Eve ate the apple, the relationship between them and God changed, and immediately their “eyes were opened,” to a life without GOD, the Holy Spirit.
God said they would surely die. “... THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST thereof THOU SHALT SURELY DIE…” (Genesis 2:16-17 KJV). “.... At that moment (when they disobeyed) their eyes were opened…” (Genesis 3:1-7 NLT). “…[Their] ...INIQUITIES … separated … [them from] ... God [the Holy Spirit or the BREATHE of LIFE]…” (Isaiah 59:2 KJV). They became “…DEAD in trespasses and sin (lost within a dead body of flesh without God, the Holy Spirit)…” (Ephesians 2:1 KJV).
This death was not a physical death where the soul is separated from the body, but it was the spiritual death where the soul is separated from the “Holy Spirit” within the body.
God said, “….let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26 KJV). “…..God created man (woman) in his own image…..male and female created he them…” (Genesis 1:27 KJV). “….God formed man(woman) of the dust of the ground (body), and breathed into his(her) nostrils the breath of life (HIS Spirit, his likeness); and man(woman) became a LIVING soul (soul)…” (Genesis 2:7 KJV). When “…God saw everything he had made……and, [said] … it was VERY GOOD…” (Genesis 1:31 KJV).
The SPIRIT enables us to have communication and covenant connection with God AND HE WITH US. The indwelling Holy Spirit ALSO ENABLES US TO engage, interact, and have a real experience with HIS PRESENCE, his GOODNESS, and his working POWER. God’s Holy Spirit also allows us to be uniquely intimate with him through a holy, unique, “oneness” relationship. “…He (she) that is JOINED unto the Lord (Jesus) is ONE Spirit…” (1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV). “… [God’s] Love … is the perfect BOND of unity...” (Colossians 3:14 NASB). “…that they may all be one (bonded by love); even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us…” (John 17:21-23 NASB).
The BODY of flesh is given to us by God to communicate with the natural world. Through the body the soul can EXPERIENCE, ENGAGE, AND INTERACT WITH everything in the natural world. The body enables the soul to experience, engage and interact with the natural world through the SENSES (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch).
When the body is ENGAGED through the SENSES it ENABLES the SOUL to learn and experience THINGS in the natural world. The SENSES enables the SOUL to learn and experience THINGS in the natural world by sending INFORMATION to the heart (brain), which informs the thoughts. The heart (brain), the information center of the soul helps the soul perceive or observe the world.
The SENSES enable the SOUL to learn and experience THINGS in the world, which will influence HOW they MAKE decisions and choices. The body of flesh is ACTIVATED by the SENSES. The SENSES will DICTATE how the body of flesh engages, interacts, and experiences the natural world, which will influence how the SOUL also engages, interacts, and experiences the world.
The body of flesh was not CREATED to obey God, but to be a vessel and servant for the soul and Spirit to interact in the world. “…The [flesh]...nature ... never did obey God’s laws, and it never will…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT).
THE BODY OF FLESH CAN’T OBEY GOD, BECAUSE IT WASN’T CREATED TO OBEY, BUT IT WAS CREATED TO BE A VESSEL AND SERVANT.
A FORK, BOWL, PLATE, COUCH, COAT, TELEVISION WAS CREATED TO SERVE ITS PURPOSE “ONLY.” THESE THINGS WILL DO “ONLY” WHAT THEY WERE CREATED TO DO AND WILL NOT OBEY ANY OTHER COMMAND OR SERVE ANY OTHER PURPOSE.
Therefore, the body of flesh cannot and will NOT obey God, but it will OBEY the SENSES by engaging, interacting, and experiencing the natural world as it was CREATED to do.
The problem COMES because the natural WORLD is FILLED with LUST and PRIDE, which doesn’t come from God. “.. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” (1 John 2:16-17 NLT).
The body of flesh engages, interacts, and experiences the natural world through the senses and the natural world is under the power and influence of the evil one. “...the whole (natural) world lies under the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19 RSV).
The soul, therefore, is engaging, interacting, and experiencing with natural life, in a world, which leads them – through the body of flesh - inadvertently toward obedience to the evil one whose goal is to enslave their senses. “...the whole world lies under the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19 RSV).
The body of flesh enables the soul to engage, interact, and experience the world, which heavily influences them to learn and make decisions based on the information sent to the heart (brain) from “that” world. “...the whole world lies under the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19 RSV).
The soul becomes inadvertently obedient to the evil one, through the senses and thus become HIS willing servants THROUGH the body of flesh (sinful nature). “…Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16 KJV).
“…The [flesh]...nature ... never did obey God’s laws, and it never will…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT).
The body of flesh has been controlled, by the evil one, through the senses, for a long time and the body of flesh develops strongholds, such as habits, obsessions, addictions, and memories, to ensure the evil one’s continual dictatorship over men and women’s SOULS. “...the whole world lies under the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19 RSV).
These formations of behavior - influenced by the EVIL ONE who used the body of flesh, through the senses - become automatic behaviors over long periods of time and practice. “...the whole world lies under the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19 RSV).
These automatic behaviors are often done by the body of flesh, without total awareness one is doing them or without permission from the SOUL. The SOUL may WANT to do right, but it CAN’T. “…The ...[flesh]... nature ...never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.…” (Romans 8:1-14 NLT). “...I am all too human, a slave to sin (the body of flesh through the senses) ...I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. …I [am] …a slave to the sin (nature or body of flesh through the senses) that is … within me (from information within my heart (brain) etc.) …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT). “…Who will free me from this life that is dominated by SIN? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord…” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
The evil one uses and puts into your intimate and immediate environments, all kinds of triggers that continually condition sinful behavior through the senses. These triggers work by dictating how the body of flesh engages the soul with the things of the world. “...I am all too human, a slave to sin (the body of flesh through the senses) ...I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
These triggers also aid in the evil one’s ability to dictate destructive behavior, through the senses, using the body of flesh while imprisoning the soul at the same time (classical conditioning). “...I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. …I [am, the soul is] …a slave to the sin (nature or body of flesh through the senses) that is … within me (within my heart, mind, etc.) …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
The evil one uses and puts into place pleasurable reward systems, which involve the pleasure center of the brain (heart) and specific, sinful behavior, through the senses.
When the pleasure center of the brain (heart) and a specific sinful behavior, through the senses, are LINKED together they will continually encourage the practice of “that” behavior, through the senses, using the body of flesh while imprisoning the soul at the same time (operant conditioning). “......I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
The evil one uses and puts into place role models and idols that will entice the soul through the “lust of the eyes” or “lust of the flesh” to duplicate the same sinful behaviors. The EVIL ONE will use one or more of the senses, through the body of flesh. For example, he may use SIGHT to influence perception, learning, or to observe what others are doing to entice the soul (observational conditioning). “BUT“…The woman ...saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it...” (Genesis 3:1-7 NLT).
All conditioning of the body of flesh, done through the SENSES enables the SOUL to learn and experience the THINGS of the natural world, while sending information to the brain(heart), which informs the thoughts and in turn, directs behavior.
All conditioning influences how the SOUL makes decisions and choices using the information learned through the body of flesh and dictated by the SENSES. Thus, all conditioning IMPACT the information sent to the heart (brain), which inform thoughts that ultimately influence BEHAVIOR
“… Be transformed by the renewing of your mind (heart)….” (Romans 12:2 KJV).
Sinful behaviors learned and practiced through the body of flesh and dictated by the senses become formations of behavior, especially over a long period of time. Some of these formations of behavior, particularly the ones that include the pleasure center of the brain (heart), HARDEN or CEMENT, because of a lifetime of practice, making them extremely DIFFICULT to break or stop. “…Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil…” (Jeremiah 13:23 NIV). “...I want to do what is right, but I can’t…” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
“…Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT). “…The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord…” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
Godspeed,
Dr. Pensacola
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