{"id":24920,"date":"2017-10-07T02:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=24920"},"modified":"2017-10-07T02:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:04:32","slug":"mind-set-on-the-flesh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/mind-set-on-the-flesh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind set on the flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:43.7.7\"><b>John 7:7<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:62.4.5\"><b>1 John 4:5<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:20.8.36\"><b>Proverbs 8:36<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:45.8.7\"><b>Romans 8:7<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God&#8217;s law; indeed, it cannot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:62.3.12\"><b>1 John 3:12-13<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother&#8217;s righteous.\u00a0\u00a0Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:39.3.5\"><b>Malachi 3:5<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThen I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:44.7.51\"><b>Acts 7:51<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.\u00a0\u00a0Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,\u00a0\u00a0you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:48.4.16\"><b>Galatians 4:16<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?<\/p>\n<p>There is a difference between those who choose to humbly serve, honor, follow and obey God, and of those who openly choose not to. \u00a0 It is very easy to see from the way they speak and act. \u00a0However I think there is a grey area that has a devastating affect on people. \u00a0This is where there is no clear distinction because the commitment of those claiming to be followers is complacent and those who do not claim to be followers have chosen a moral code (without God) to live by. \u00a0There is no difference between the lives of the two. \u00a0Neglect and complacency of God&#8217;s word will have an effect on the heart, mind, and soul. \u00a0To have a victorious life time has to be spent in His word with a heart and mind deep commitment to seek, know and follow God. \u00a0I wonder if we pick out the worst of humans and then look at ourselves in the mirror and say I am better than that &#8211; so I must be alright with God. \u00a0However we should be reading His word and seeking to understand what we are like in the mirror of what it is showing us. \u00a0If we don&#8217;t spend time in His word how will we reflect His joy, hope, strength, love, peace, kindness, generosity, power, faith&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.\u201d John 7:7\u00a0\u00a0The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 1 John 4:5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/mind-set-on-the-flesh-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind set on the flesh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4761,5200,475,4302,5091,4288,578,5193,5192,454,521,404,227,335,793,863,1596,164,5190,1258,304,134,2369,539,2905,5097,5191,91,3021,5189,796,56,196,5194,3112,5201,5198,3517,622,203,962,5187,5196,5188,621,2877,4682,5197,5195,4183,5199,147,4169,1259,150,322],"class_list":["post-24920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-adulterers","tag-and-do-not-fear-me","tag-angels","tag-announced","tag-beforehand","tag-betrayed","tag-brother","tag-cain","tag-cannot","tag-coming","tag-death","tag-deeds","tag-delivered","tag-draw-near","tag-ears","tag-enemy","tag-enraged","tag-evil","tag-fails","tag-fatherless","tag-flesh","tag-found","tag-hate","tag-heard","tag-hearts","tag-hostile","tag-injures-himself","tag-judgement","tag-killed","tag-listens","tag-lord","tag-love","tag-mind","tag-murdered","tag-people","tag-persecute","tag-press-hired-worker","tag-prophets","tag-resist-the-holy-spirit","tag-righteous","tag-sight-of-the-lord","tag-sold","tag-sorcerers","tag-speak-from-the-world","tag-stiff-necked","tag-submit","tag-surprised","tag-swear-falsely","tag-swift-witness","tag-testify","tag-thrust-aside-sojourner","tag-truth","tag-wages","tag-widow","tag-works","tag-world"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920","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=24920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25221,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions\/25221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}