If you ask what foundation you have to build your expectations on, remember that you have no other options. To whom will you go? Christ alone has the words of life (John 6:68). Without him you can do nothing (John 15:5). Your only strength comes from Christ dwelling in your heart by faith (Ephesians 3:16-17). [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Flesh’
Remember, You Have No Other Option
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Christ, Ephesians 3, Faith, Flesh, Holy Spirit, John 15, John 6, Romans 8, Words of Life on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Snuffing out of the Wick of the First Love
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Atonement, Doctrine of Sin, Flesh, Grace, Peace of God, Sin, Word on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A person with a big head and a small heart can learn the doctrines of sin, yet never be convicted of sin. He can learn the teachings of grace and pardon and the great atonement for sin, yet never feel the peace of God that passes understanding. When the flesh gets a person to the [...]
What is the Main Ploy of the Flesh?
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Colossians 3, Flesh, I John 2, Mind, Sin, Worldliness on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Besides belittling sin, the flesh uses its wiles to drive every thought of God from our minds by filling the mind with thoughts of the world. The flesh knows a mind cannot be fixed on both God and earthly things (Colossians 3:2; I John 2:15). The main ploy of the flesh is to slip worldliness [...]
The Five Degrees of Temptation
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Affections Will, Death, Flesh, James 1, Mind, Sin, Temptation on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First, the goal the flesh aims at is death (James 1:15). Whatever sin pretends, it will end in death. The flesh wants us to believe that the consequences for dallying with sin will only be slight (not as much blessing from God, a cheaper seat in heaven). Knowing this is our first means of arming [...]
The Art of Deception and Sin
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Art of Deception, Flesh, Servant of Sin on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the art of deception: to make someone believe that things are other than they are, so that he will do something he would never otherwise do. This is the way your flesh makes you into the willing servant of sin.
- Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of [...]
The Flesh Gets Hostile When the Believer Approaches God
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Flesh, Glory of Christ on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can feel the hostility of the flesh whenever you approach God – it makes real love for him into work: Digging around the Bible to find juicy new insight to impress your small group is like sailing the Caribbean, but pouring over the Scriptures to find the Lover of your soul is like skiing [...]
Paul Says We are Captain Ahabs
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Captain Ahab, Christ's Crucifixion, Flesh, Romans 5, Romans 6, Sin on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Romans 5:10 Paul says we were God’s enemies – we were all of us Captain Ahabs. Christ is the peacemaker in the gospel, using his death to put to death the hostility between us and God. Our “old man” (the flesh) was crucified with Christ (Romans 6:6), rendering it powerless to rule over us [...]
And Your Ally Is?
Posted in Sproul, R.C., tagged Flesh, Holy Spirit, Satan on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The flesh is an ally with the world. It seeks its justification not from the righteousness of Christ but from the standards of this world. The flesh is allied with the world and the world is allied with Satan. Here the enemy seeks out destruction by calling us away from the Spirit to surrender to [...]
The Ongoing Warfare
Posted in Sproul, R.C., tagged Flesh, Galations 5, Holy Spirt, Spiritual Warfare on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paul expounds about an ongoing warfare between the flesh (sarx) and the Spirit (pneuma). The contrast in Galations 5:16-21 is not between man’s spirit and man’s flesh, but between the life led by the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and the life that serves the flesh, man’s fallen nature.
- R.C. Sproul, Knowing God, copyright 1988, page 75
