{"id":111476,"date":"2021-02-12T04:42:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=111476"},"modified":"2021-02-09T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:05:10","slug":"19-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/19-o\/","title":{"rendered":"19.o. “So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Romans 6:13\u00a0 <\/span>Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.<\/p>\n

Colossians 3:5<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.<\/p>\n

James 4:1<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?<\/p>\n

Romans 7:5 When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Isaiah 55:7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>2 Peter 2:13-15<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.\u00a0\u00a0They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!\u00a0\u00a0Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,<\/p>\n

2 Chronicles 30:8<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 6:20<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1 Peter 4:2<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A person can be \u201cofficially\u201d set free, yet still imprisoned. If a person lives in prison for years, and then is set free, they often still think and act like a prisoner. The habits of freedom aren\u2019t ingrained in their life yet.\u00a0 <\/span>In the fourteenth century two brothers fought for the right to rule over a dukedom in what is now Belgium. The elder brother\u2019s name was Raynald, but he was commonly called \u201cCrassus,\u201d a Latin nickname meaning \u201cfat,\u201d for he was horribly obese. After a heated battle, Raynald\u2019s younger brother Edward led a successful revolt against him and assumed the title of Duke over his lands. But instead of killing Raynald, Edward devised a curious imprisonment. He had a room in the castle built around \u201cCrassus,\u201d a room with only one door. The door was not locked, the windows were not barred, and Edward promised Raynald that he could regain his land and his title any time that he wanted to. All he would have to do is leave the room. The obstacle to freedom was not in the doors or the windows, but with Raynald himself. Being grossly overweight, he could not fit through the door, even though it was of near-normal size. All Raynald needed to do was diet down to a smaller size, then walk out a free man, with all he had before his fall. However, his younger brother kept sending him an assortment of tasty foods, and Raynald\u2019s desire to be free never won out over his desire to eat. Some would accuse Duke Edward of being cruel to his older brother, but he would simply reply, \u201cMy brother is not a prisoner. He may leave when he so wills.\u201d But Raynald stayed in that room for ten years. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This accurately illustrates the experience of many Christians. Jesus set them forever free legally, and they may walk in that freedom from sin whenever they choose. But since they keep yielding their bodily appetites to the service of sin, they live a life of defeat, discouragement, and imprisonment. This accurately illustrates the experience of many Christians. Jesus set them forever free legally, and they may walk in that freedom from sin whenever they choose. But since they keep yielding their bodily appetites to the service of sin, they live a life of defeat, discouragement, and imprisonment. Your\u00a0members<\/b>\u00a0are the parts of your body \u2013 your ears, lips, eyes, hands, mind, and so forth. The idea is very practical: \u201cYou have eyes. Do not put them in the service of sin. You have ears. Do not put them in the service of sin.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The parts of our body are weapons in the battle for right living. When the parts of our body are given over to righteousness, they are\u00a0weapons<\/i>\u00a0for good. When they are given over to sin, they are\u00a0weapons<\/i>\u00a0for evil. (Guzik)\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a\u00a0test<\/i>\u00a0of our claim to be Christians. Does anger have dominion over you? Does murmuring and complaining? Does covetousness have dominion over you? Does pride? Does laziness have dominion over you? If sin has dominion over us, we should seriously ask if we are really converted. It is a\u00a0promise<\/i>\u00a0of victory. It doesn\u2019t say that \u201csin will not be present in us,\u201d because that will only be fulfilled when we are resurrected in glory. But it does promise that sin will not have\u00a0dominion<\/i>\u00a0over us because of the great work Jesus did in us when we were born again. It is an\u00a0encouragement<\/i>\u00a0for hope and strength in the battle against sin. God has set you free in Jesus. This is encouragement for the Christian struggling against sin, for the new Christian, and for the backslider. (Spurgeon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romans 6:13\u00a0 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. Colossians 3:5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Put to … Continue reading “19.o. “So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5436,14836,3259,4748,466,9370,324,521,14837,404,314,164,10034,502,3389,4718,3960,304,2223,3241,27,530,76,14308,258,14840,3121,3119,14838,14832,1154,3273,796,14839,14833,14834,1420,9696,2542,5773,3959,774,9444,708,8,4123,120,4135,621,1419,14306,3532,14305,14835,270,202,5691],"class_list":["post-111476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-accursed","tag-blemishes","tag-body","tag-bought","tag-compassion","tag-covetousness","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-deceptions","tag-deeds","tag-earthly","tag-evil","tag-evil-desires","tag-eyes","tag-fathers","tag-fierce-anger","tag-fights","tag-flesh","tag-forever","tag-forsake","tag-glorify-god","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-gone-astray","tag-harvest","tag-human-passions","tag-idolatry","tag-impurity","tag-insatiable-for-sin","tag-instrument","tag-law","tag-live","tag-lord","tag-loved-gain","tag-new-life","tag-old-nature","tag-pardon","tag-passion","tag-pleasure","tag-price","tag-quarrels","tag-right","tag-right-way","tag-sanctuary","tag-serve","tag-sexual-immorality","tag-sin","tag-sinful-desires","tag-stiff-necked","tag-thoughts","tag-trained-in-greed","tag-unrighteous","tag-unsteady-souls","tag-wage","tag-wicked","tag-will-of-god","tag-wrongdoing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111558,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111476\/revisions\/111558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}