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Christians, are you living in the flesh or the Spirit?

Living in the flesh is living like the world and believing the world and trusting the world. Are you truly born again as Christ commands, and living in the Spirit, or are you still walking in the flesh, believing the world and trusting the world and loving the world and following the commands of the world?

Update:

Justin...Thanks for your reply. I just want to warn people that following the world is tantamount to following death. 

Update 2:

Pyrus...stop following the world.

Update 3:

Doug...I love you enough to tell you, cry out to Jesus and he will make you new. You need that personal connection with Jesus that you lack because you also embrace an intermediary that is less than true. Please put everything else away and you will have opportunity to truly glory in God, our very Jesus Christ.

Update 4:

Pyrus...By your own admission ..."Unfortunately, I live in both. I'm "lukewarm".".......You know what Jesus says about the lukewarm. What is the point of straddling the fence? "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth."  Instead of attaching yourself to modern interpretations of John 3:16, take Revelation 3:16 to heart. Do we please men or Jesus?  Are we of the world or of God? Jesus commands us..."be zealous and repent."

Update 5:

? You CAN be born again in Christ. You just have to want it.

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  • 4 weeks ago

    As a faithful Christian, solely by the grace of God, I do often manage to successfully rise above the forces of the world, the flesh and the devil. Just not often enough.

  • 4 weeks ago

    I always try to think, do and live in the Spirit. That is what overcoming this world is all about. We are directed to overcome the weakness of the flesh and live in the Spirit. The flesh is weak, think not of the things of the flesh but think, live and work toward righteousness by living in the Spirit.

    Romans 8:5 “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”

    Romans 8:6 “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

    Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

  • 4 weeks ago

    I am in the Spirit all the time.  If the Spirit of Christ lives in you, then you are in the Spirit and not in the flesh according to Romans 8:9 so because I have the Holy Spirit living in me, as I said before, I am not in the flesh but in the Spirit  -  Romans 8:9

  • Justin
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    We have a 'heart,' a 'soul' a 'mind' and a 'strength,' with which we are commanded to fully love GOD. Upon closer examination, the last two are one 'person' with a 'shallow' and 'deeper' self, (similar to the 'subconscious' and 'conscious' mind). The others are much deeper 'persons' operating on mostly unconscious levels of experience to that 'person.'

    The Holy Spirit first enters our deepest well of human experience in the 'heart,' (Romans 10:9). This moment is recognized by a spontaneous utterance coming all the way up to our physical mouth and confessing belief in Christ's resurrection, (Romans 10:10).

    No other 'person' within us believes this yet because it is impossible to imagine. We are 'fleshly' on every other level. Yet, the 'heart' begins to work on the 'soul' and also convinces it over time using inspired social dramas throughout life. This faith saves the soul too through a process of increasing godly fear and reverence, (Philippians 2:12).

    The more familiar 'person' is the shallowest. The soul works on him next. The 'mind' is described as the part of us that links itself to the greater ambitions, social movements and ideologies of the world, (i.e. the 'subconscious').

    'He' must be convinced to 'disconnect' and sacrifice those visions for the new ones from the Holy Spirit. That is when we begin to develop a 'reward' from GOD. Some of us never do this on this 'side' of life. That doesn't affect our 'salvation,' (1 Corinthians 3:15). but it does greatly impact our experience in eternity.

    For those of us honored enough to do this, we can actually experience a total end to the 'fleshly' man here on earth, which scripture describes as the 'baptism of blood,' (also known as Christ's 'cup of suffering').

    "Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God." (1 Peter 4:1-2). 

    These are our true examples and leaders who will 'reign with Christ,' (Romans 8:17, 2 Timothy 2:12). That is a high calling of GOD that few of us will experience, but that doesn't mean that we should invalidate the experience and sacred work happening on all other levels, especially inside our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

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  • Pyrus
    Lv 6
    4 weeks ago

    EDIT: And who said that I follow the world? There are things that I do that are of this world, but it's God that I wish to follow. In short, I sin but I don't want to sin. It's an endless cycle in short. 

    Unfortunately, I live in both. I'm "lukewarm". I do try to go towards the spirit, but sin keeps knocking me down. I keep getting back up, but I also keep getting knocked down. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    Both. Sometimes more on one side than the other. I'm still corrupted, but I'm desiring to live by the Spirit and succeed at times. That's the way it works for us humans. 

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