The phrase I’m referring to is “inherit the kingdom of God” or “will not inherit the kingdom of God”.
Those Christians who have the ability to walk according to the Spirit, because they are born again and have the Holy Spirit, but instead, they practice the works of the flesh, and walk according to the sinful desires of the flesh, will not inherit the kingdom of God.
I say then:
Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that
those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:16-21
- those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
JPT