@Pilgrimshope its the flesh that's the issue, yes I have been saying that all along!!! Hey I am at work getting buried under it.
Yes so have I sister just we’re coming at it from different points
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but
he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
“in whom also
ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,
in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, ( born again by faith through baptism Into his name ) who hath raised him from the dead.”
Colossians 2:11-12
“For
ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For
as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Galatians 3:26-29 KJV
One has to hear the gospel in order to make the decision to get baptized and be circumcised we aren’t “circumcised until we hear and believe and get baptized in his name
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”
Romans 6:3-4, 6-7, 11-12 KJV
Even then sister we still have combat with our flesh and spirit and have to choose to follow the spirit and not the flesh
If we really study Paul’s letters we see a n his teachings an ongoing conflict between the flesh and spirit of believers
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty;
only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
This I say then,
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
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.
But
if ye be led of the Spirit,
ye are not under the law.
Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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.
But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
And
they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Galatians 5:13, 16-26
Or another example
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”
Colossians 3:5-17 KJV
there are encouragements and warnings cinder ing our behavior . Teachings showing the results of each choice revealing that we are free to serve God through the spirit or the flesh through lust.
mankind wasn’t always like they were when Jesus came they became servants of sin because they committed sin and worshipped idols not only israel but all nations created thier own gods and worshipped and Israel joined them as well. In the beginning man onew zgod and then they rebelled and over time made themselves his enemy and provoked him to great wrath and anger in thier rebellion against his kindness and provisions and warnings of certain death if they didn’t repent
promises of life of they did in the middle part of scripture man became lost and needed the gospel
