Lust of the Flesh, Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life
I John 2: 15-17: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in
the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him.
16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of
the world.
17. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
Human Flesh Wars Against the Spirit of God
"Romans 7: 9-14: "For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by
it slew me.
12. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But
sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
Romans 7: 24-25 "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death?
25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind
I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned." I Corinthians 2; 14
"For the flesh lusteth against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the
one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would."
Galatians 5:17
Galatians 5: 16-19: "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye
shall not fulful the lust of the flesh....................
18. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies,
21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit The Kingdom of God
I Corinthians 15: 49-52 "And as we have borne the image of the
earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed,
52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed."
