Mortify, KILL the body of sin.
Ok! So with ALL the scriptures and the ONLY True doctrine I have peppered you with through these years. The doctrine that teaches that the Holy Spirit of God LEADS before He FILLS, and only once He fills you are saved and PERFECT. There are few BETTER verses to show that this is the ONLY TRUE DOCTRINE than Romans 8. So let us read gether and LEARN...
Ok, some people say I am not an apt teacher, because the Holy Spirit is not IN me.... But can I learn (nd teach wht I learn) from God without the Holy Spirit in me? Of coarse I can! There was NO Holy Spirit in the disciples when Jesus started teaching them. And they learned MANY things from Jesus or if you like...the Holy Spirit in Jesus. It is the same with us... The Spirit does not have to be IN me to teach me, He only has to be WITH ME and also teach me. And we all know He is with me as he is with you!
Let me just spell out the doctrine I teach as I learn it from the Holy Spirit. The ONLY doctrine you also will find in God’s Word... The ONLY True doctrine... You are NOT saved before the Holy Spirit RESIDES or LIVES or STAY, or REMAIN in you! Get this good... Let us call it PART ONE....You are NOT saved if the Holy Spirit does not DWELL IN YOU! And PART TWO.... Once the Holy Spirit DWELLS in you, HE is the ONLY SPIRIT that dwells in you....THERE IS NO MORE YOU!!!! And then your flesh CANNOT SIN! Only THEN YOU ARE SAVED FROM THE FLESH AND SIN!
Let me put it in the simplest way I can so that you do not misunderstand what I believe to be God’s salvation.... ALL saved people is IN GOD (and in Him is no sin) All saved flesh has ONLY THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN THEM that is why that flesh CANNOT SIN.... The old human spirit (the life that person lived in flesh) has DIED for that flesh! That person (the sinner's deeds of the body) is DEAD DEAD DEAD... Mortified God says in Romans 8. And the LIFE after the “make alive by the Spirit of God” is a HOLY LIFE without sin! Evident throughout the Bible! There are MANY places where God says this, MANY!
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: (as long as you sin you shall die) but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. But if you DIED OFF SIN you shall live. Live because God would make you ALIVE IN HIM. That is when God implants HIS HOLY SPIRIT into your flesh. Look we will only live after we killed our old sinning selves.... That is when HE ALSO GIVES YOU ETERNAL LIFE BY THAT HOLY SPIRIT THAT QUICKEN THIS MORTAL BODY. God cannot quicken of MAKE ALIVE something that is not DEAD! It has to die before God can make alive, and we see here that it is the Holy Spirit that would make this flesh alive again...
When we sin we will die. As long as the flesh and sin in the flesh lives, we will die! This death is the second death, the EVERLASTING pool of fire DEATH.(Read about it in the book of Revelations) But as Romans 8:13 says, if WE MORTIFY these sinful deeds of the flesh... THROUGH the Spirit of God ... LOOK! WE have to kill the deeds THROUGH the Holy Spirit, THEN WE SHALL LIVE. God says this SECOND DEATH has NO power over the holy ones (the ones that God made holy by implanting His Holy Spirit (IN FULL) in them AFTER THEY DIED OFF THE OLD MAN!!!!
It is not the SPIRIT that kills the deeds of the body; it is US that kill those deeds, through the LEAD of the Spirit..... God says CLEARLY that the ones that FOLLOW the Holy Spirit are the SONS OF GOD. We can only FOLLOW if HE LEADS... So many people say it is LAW... But the GRACE of God is the Holy Spirit LEADING US... AND HE LEADS TO NOT SIN.... KEEP THE LAW! Sin is NOT KEEPING the LAW! So if God LEADS TO KEEP THE LAW... is that Law, OR GRACE? God does not give letters, HE GIVES A SPIRIT THAT LEADS HOW TO KEEP THE LAW....The Spirit does not lead INTO SIN, HE LEADS OUT OF SIN! HE LEADS TO Mortify SIN! Kill, Die off, and CRUSIFY SIN.. the old man is the SINNING DEEDS of the flesh.... The Spirit leads THAT SINNER to MORTIFY the deeds.
God said that the HOLY SPIRIT will quicken this mortal body.... QUICKEN IS TO MAKE ALIVE!!!! How can God make a body alive, that still lives in sin? He CANNOT. That is WHY HE LEADS that man. But if we MORTIFY the sin in that body, that body is DEAD to sin, and the Spirit of God can give it LIFE: ETERNAL HOLY LIFE AFTER SPIRITUAL DEATH.....
Did God not give us the parable of the seed that needs to die before it can bear fruit? Our body of sin has to DIE, BEFORE God can give it the holy life. ALL sin in us has to die before God can make HIS HOLY LIFE alive in us....
This mortal (fleshly) body is the body God QUICKEN (make alive, give life too) when HE PUTS HIS SPIRIT IN IT, AFTER it died to sin. This same body we sinned with, God can put His Spirit into, to live a perfect holy life here on earth... This is called REGENENRATION. MAKE ALIVE FOR GOD, BY GOD. Saul became Paul. Saul sinner, Paul Godly man... And physically they looked very much the same, but the EYES.... OH THE EYES....another study. Yet ALL was made NEW.... Saul was the old, Paul was the ALL NEW... Same with us.... And god gives it clearly,... The old has PASSED (DIED) behold EVERYTHING is made NEW! Everything, and God cannot lie.... Even the last cell in your flesh is MADE NEW by GOD HIMSLEF...
Let us just get this VERY clear.... God gave life to this body the moment we left our mother’s womb. And he does so by giving a spirit (your spirit) to that little infant body. But that is not the only time gives that flesh (mortal body) LIFE! God gives it YET another life (called Rebirth, or Born of God) when he AGAIN put a Spirit in us. Not a spirit that can do sin like the one we received at birth... Nope this time god GIVES HIS HOLY SPIRIT to give this flesh a HOLY LIFE! God calls it quicken the mortal body here in Romans 8.
Now let us look at the TWO LIVES God puts in us.... The first life God gives us as infants is the life we live and we turn it WROTTEN and FITLHY by sinning..... The second life God gives is life with His Spirit, and it is HIS LIFE with NO SIN that He lives in us, right here on earth! That life is just as perfect as Jesus lived. Just as holy, because it is the EXACT SAME SPIRIT THAT LIVED IN JESUS that now lives in us.
What is the deference between the two lives? Jesus Christ is the difference.... The one life had NO Jesus, and the other has ONLY JESUS! The one life was lead by YOUR spirit, and the other is lead by GOD’S SPIRIT. The first one cannot live holy, the other CANNOT sin. The first life ENDED and is dead the other LIFE was made alive BY GOD for GOD. To live as God wants it to live... PERFECT!
The first life was lived by you; the second is lived by Christ IN YOU! You died IN CHRIST, so HE CAN LIVE IN YOU! You are as dead to this life and sin, as God is alive for HIS LIFE IN YOU. Please understand this.... When you die (mortify) the works of the flesh (sin) you are not made alive again in this body to sin, Christ is made alive in you to live a HOLY AND PERFECT LIFE IN this body. When we kill sin, we cleanse our spirits, by the LEAD of the Holy Spirit. We cannot be made alive, BEFORE WE DIED off those deeds!
If you sin..... Your spirit is still IN YOU, in the your flesh. And that spirit is DIRTY WITH SIN! But if we DIE off sin, ONE BY ONE they are LAID DOWN TO DIE! Then we are being LEAD to be cleansed... Once we laid down ALL sin, Father God KNOWS this, He then takes our cleansed spirit, and He receives that SNOW WHITE, PURE SPIRIT, and makes it one WITH HIM. He GLORIFIES that cleansed spirit to be HOLY SPIRIT.
Jesus presents us to Himself and Father CLEANSED (without spot or wrinkle) completely sanctified, and HE GLORIFIES US WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. And the flesh we once occupied is now PERMANANTLY occupied by HIS HOLY SPIRIT.
Where is our spirit that God gave us when we were born? WE ARE ALREADY IN GOD. HID in God, the Word says! We are HID from the world IN GOD! We are where Christ is, and He is where we are... HIDDEN IN GOD! For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
We are dead to sin and sin is dead to us, but we are ALIVE IN GOD and God lives in us! BORN OF GOD as the Lord teaches. And HIS SEED remaineth (look....REMAINS) in us. And we in Him just for the clearification.
That my friend is the ONLY way God saves souls. Do you know when will all the saints be REVEALED and HOW? For those that DIED IN CHRIST, shall RISE FIRST! What an AWESOME God He is!
Even though His Spirit confess with our spirit that we are the sons of God, WE ARE HIDDEN IN GOD WITH CHRIST..... The world knoweth HIM NOT! But this is another study...
I hope this was not too difficult to understand. I know it is DEEP. But God said... He gave us a Spirit that will seek the depths of God. And He teaches ALL THE WAY. Maybe we should start at the beginning of how God saves...with God’s CALLING. And the Cross. And then WALK through the Word and learn how SALVATION is done by God.
God’s salvation starts on ALL of us as sinners by HIM CALLING.... God starts salvation, and HE ends salvation.... but in between is a LOT to know!
Father, give wisdom and EYES to see and EARS to hear.... Lord reveal Your scripture to people that read this. AMEN!