“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” -Isaiah 55:8-9
God does what is best. Therefore, we walk by faith and not by answers that give us understanding.
-Pastor Steve Wainright (excerpt from Sunday Morning Sermon “The Rest of Your Time in the Flesh” from 1 Peter 4:1-6)
“What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!” -Romans 6:15
“Grace does not grant permission to live in the flesh; it supplies power to live in the Spirit.” -John MacArthur
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” -Romans 6:14
“Grace does not grant permission to live in the flesh; it supplies power to live in the Spirit.” -John MacArthur
“Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.” -Philippians 3:21
Often when we are racked with pain and unable to think or worship, we feel that this indeed is “the body of our humiliation,” and when we are tempted by the passions which rise from the flesh we do not think the word vile at all too vigorous a translation. Our bodies humble us; and that is about the best thing they do for us. Oh, that we were duly lowly, because our bodies ally us with animals and even link us with the dust!
But our Savior, the Lord Jesus, shall change all this. We shall be fashioned like His own body of glory. This will take place in all who believe in Jesus. By faith their souls have been transformed, and their bodies will undergo such a renewal as shall fit them for their regenerated spirits. How soon this grand transformation will happen we cannot tell; but the thought of it should help us to bear the trials of today and all the woes of the flesh. In a little while we shall be as Jesus now is. No more aching brows, no more swollen limbs, no more dim eyes, no more fainting hearts. The old man shall be no more a bundle of infirmities, nor the sick man a mass of agony. “Like unto his glorious body.” What an expression! Even our flesh shall rest in hope of such a resurrection!
[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon]
Sunday Morning | Struggling but Victorious | Romans 7:24-8:1
“Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” -Romans 7:24-8:1
Sunday Morning | Pastor Steve Wainright | Walk By the Spirit | Galatians 5:16-18
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” -Galatians 5:16
You cannot live your life by faith without walking by the Spirit. Your biggest battle is not with Satan, but with yourself, and it’s a continual, moment-by-moment battle. How do you walk by the Spirit? Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
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Sunday Morning | Pastor Steve Wainright | Galatians 3:1-5
“Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” -Galatians 3:3
Do you really believe you began by the Spirit and then are perfected by your works? HE began it. HE’ll complete it. Philippians 1:6 – “And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”
“For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh…” -Romans 8:3
Born by our birth
Here on the earth
Our flesh to wear
Our death to bear
-Wendell Berry, via Twitter
“By this we know love, that he laid down His life for us…” -1 John 3:16
This is the Gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the Resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever. -David Platt in Radical
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