YOU NEED TO KNOW YOURSELF !!!

NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST ...

HOWEVER, THERE IS A CONSTANT CONFLICT BETWEEN THE MEAT AND THE SPIRIT!

1- HOW WE ARE BY NATURE:


                          Galatians 5: 13-26

13 Brothers, you have been called to freedom. But do not use liberty to give occasion to the will of the flesh; on the contrary, serve one another through love.
14 The whole law comes down to one commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
15 But if you bite and devour each other, be careful not to destroy each other.
16 Therefore I say, live by the Spirit, and they shall not in any way fulfill the desires of the flesh.
17 For the flesh desires that which is contrary to the Spirit. and the Spirit, which is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so you do not do what you want.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The works of the flesh are manifest: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
20 idolatry and witchcraft; hate, discord, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions
21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice these things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 meekness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
26 Let us not be presumptuous, provoking one another and envying one another.

Ephesians 2: 1-22

1 You were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 in which they used to live, when following the present order of this world and the prince of the power of air, the spirit that is now at work in those who live in disobedience.
3 Previously, we all lived among them, fulfilling the wills of our flesh, following their desires and thoughts. Like the others, we were by nature worthy of wrath.
4 But God who is rich in mercy for the great love with which he loved us,
5 gave us life together with Christ, when we were still dead in transgressions - by grace you are saved.
6 God raised us up with Christ, and made us to sit with us in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
7 to show, in the ages to come, the incomparable riches of his grace, shown in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and it is not your own, it is the gift of God;
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God's creation accomplished in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared beforehand that we might do them.
Remember, then, that you were formerly Gentiles by birth and called uncircumcision by those who are called circumcision, made in the body by human hands, and that
12 At that time you were without Christ, separated from the community of Israel, foreign to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who made one of them, and destroyed the barrier, the wall of enmity;
15 nullifying in his body the law of commandments expressed in ordinances. His goal was to create in himself, of the two, a new man, making peace,
16 and to reconcile with God the two in one body, by means of the cross, by which he destroyed the enmity.
17 He came and announced peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near,
18 For through him both we and you have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Therefore you are no longer strangers or strangers, but fellow citizens of the saints and members of God's family,
20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, having Jesus Christ as the cornerstone,
21 in which the whole building is adjusted and grows to become a holy sanctuary in the Lord.
22 In this you too are being built together, to become a habitation of God by his Spirit.

Ephesians 2: 1-22

1 You were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 in which they used to live, when following the present order of this world and the prince of the power of air, the spirit that is now at work in those who live in disobedience.
3 Previously, we all lived among them, fulfilling the wills of our flesh, following their desires and thoughts. Like the others, we were by nature worthy of wrath.
4 But God who is rich in mercy for the great love with which he loved us,
5 gave us life together with Christ, when we were still dead in transgressions - by grace you are saved.
6 God raised us up with Christ, and made us to sit with us in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
7 to show, in the ages to come, the incomparable riches of his grace, shown in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and it is not your own, it is the gift of God;
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God's creation accomplished in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared beforehand that we might do them.
Remember, then, that you were formerly Gentiles by birth and called uncircumcision by those who are called circumcision, made in the body by human hands, and that
12 At that time you were without Christ, separated from the community of Israel, foreign to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who made one of them, and destroyed the barrier, the wall of enmity;
15 nullifying in his body the law of commandments expressed in ordinances. His goal was to create in himself, of the two, a new man, making peace,
16 and to reconcile with God the two in one body, by means of the cross, by which he destroyed the enmity.
17 He came and announced peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near,
18 For through him both we and you have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Therefore you are no longer strangers or strangers, but fellow citizens of the saints and members of God's family,
20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, having Jesus Christ as the cornerstone,
21 in which the whole building is adjusted and grows to become a holy sanctuary in the Lord.
22 In this you too are being built together, to become a habitation of God by his Spirit.

2. HOW WE ARE WHEN TRANSFORMED BY CHRIST:

Romans 8: 1-39

1 Therefore now there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus,
2 For through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law was unable to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did, sending His own Son, like the sinful man, as a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous demands of the law might be fully satisfied in us, who live not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 He who lives according to the flesh has his mind turned to what the flesh desires; but who according to the Spirit has the mind turned to what the Spirit desires.
6 The mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace;
7 the mind of the flesh is an enemy of God because it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
8 He who is dominated by the flesh cannot please God.
9 However, you are not under the control of the flesh, but of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
10 But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to his mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are in debt, not to the flesh, to live subject to it.
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit the body's acts die, they will live,
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 For you have not received a spirit that enslaves you to fear again, but you have received the Spirit that adopts you as children, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father."
16 The Spirit Himself testifies to our spirit that we are children of God.
17 If we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings, that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present sufferings cannot be compared with the glory that will be revealed to us.
19 The created nature looks forward to the children of God being revealed.
20 For she was subjected to futility, not by her own choice, but because of the will of him who subjected her, in hope.
21 that the created nature itself will be set free from the bondage of decay to the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that all created nature groans hitherto, as in travail.
23 And not only that, but ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within, eagerly awaiting our adoption as children, the redemption of our body.
24 For in that hope we have been saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. Who waits for what they are seeing?
25 But if we expect what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with inexpressible moans.
27 And he who searches the heart knows the intention of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 We know that God works in all things for the good of those who love him, of those called according to his purpose.
29 For those whom he foreknew also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 And whom He predestined, He also called; whom he called, he also justified; whom he justified, he also glorified.
31 What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who will be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not give us with him all things freely?
33 Who will make any accusations against God's elect? It is God who justifies them.
34 Who will condemn them? It was Christ Jesus who died; moreover, who is risen and is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Is it tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 As it is written, "For your sake we face death every day; we are regarded as sheep destined for the slaughter."
37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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