The Flesh is Weak & Our Heart is Defiled BUT We are “alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
Maybe these are the questions that attack you whenever the devil entices you to let down your guard, to sin, and even to remain in your sin.
- How many times must we be reminded?
- How often must we be taught?
- What will it really take for us to completely understand?
- What do we fail to really see?
- Who can we blame but ourselves?
- Who is ever at fault but our own sinful nature?
Quite possibly, Satan, who has been called the ‘father of lies’ has gained the upper-hand over you in the past.
More than likely, as a believer, as a follower of Jesus, you have sinned (as I have) & you have found yourself experiencing such guilt.
May we lay aside the sin—
- that besets us,
- that trips us,
- that causes us to fall, and
- that only ever leads to death.
May we lay aside the sin—
- and turn to our Savior in confession of our sin,
- and receive His perfect cleansing,
- and experience His forgiveness,
- and be restored,
- and even relish in His full forgetfulness of our sin.
May we lay aside our slavery to our sinful nature &
May we take up our slavery to righteousness we have received from God through salvation in Christ Jesus.
“Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience,
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 6: 16-19a NAS)
you are slaves of the one whom you obey,
either of sin resulting in death,
or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
But thanks be to God
that though you were slaves of sin,
you became obedient from the heart
to that form of teaching
to which you were committed,
and having been freed from sin,
you became slaves of righteousness.
I am speaking in human terms
because of the weakness of your flesh. . . .”
When we asked Jesus to come into our heart, to take up residence, to be our Savior, then we gave God the right to Lord over us, to eliminate the sinful nature of our heart, and to teach us to lay aside our sinfulness day-by-day, even moment-by-moment.
However, The Flesh we walk within is Weak & Our Human Heart has remained Defiled from the moment of our conception. Thus, we are instructed in the truth of God’s Word what we are to do & why we must remain diligent until the moment of our final earthly breath.
“Watch over your heart with all diligence,
(The Proverbs 4: 23 NAS)
For from it flow the springs of life.”
When the Savior Jesus was teaching the crowd, some religious leaders came and accused His disciples of breaking the law. The Master taught the truth to the listening crowd through a parable, but His followers struggled to comprehend what He was instructing.
“Peter said to Him, “Explain the parable to us.”
Jesus said,
“Are you still lacking in understanding also?
Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth
passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?
But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart,
and those defile the man.
For out of the heart come
- evil thoughts,
- murders,
- adulteries,
- fornications,
- thefts,
- false witness,
- slanders.
These are the things which defile the man;
but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
(The Gospel According to Matthew 15: 15-16 NAS)
TAYA sings a melody “A Child of God,” a faithful reminder of Who is our Father and How we are to remember:
- We are protected through the Holy Spirit of God from the temptations of Satan.
- How we are directed by God’s Holy Spirit as we walk throughout every single day.
&
- Why we must always remember: The Lord Himself will resurrect us from the dead when He returns.
“For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death,
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 6: 5-11 NASB)
certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
knowing this,
that our old self was crucified with Him,
in order that our body of sin might be done away with,
so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
for he who has died is freed from sin.
Now if we have died with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with Him,
knowing that Christ,
having been raised from the dead,
is never to die again;
death no longer is master over Him.
For the death that He died,
He died to sin once for all;
but the life that He lives,
He lives to God.
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin,
but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”