Topics today are “law”, “flesh”, “spirit” and other language from the Bible along with more on those who hear GOD. A “Yahoo! Answers Singapore” writer using the ID “Aleksander” (Level 1 with 113 points, a member since 10 January 2014) posted the following first asked at Yahoo Answers United Kingdom:
What does Jesus mean by 'flesh'? John 3:5-6?
John 3:5-6 'Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.'
THE BATTLE AXE: Those Who Hear GOD (01/21/2014)—(6.) While all are welcome to experience divine love and new life as believers within the body of Christ (we say, the church), many reject the Gospel, and so remain outside the “ark of safety.” Spirit matter is presented through utterance that must be ingested as the food for a person’s inner spirit. Included are various admonitions, doctrines, parables, praises, prayers, precepts, proclamations, promises, prophesies and teachings. As aspects of full sacred truth, these together build up and nourish divinity that resides within the believer. Using discernment (i.e., ones ability to recognize, acknowledge, and compare spiritual things) believers “hear” GOD in the statements from others and from Scripture, or are able to realize the status of those they are dealing with to be that of adversaries, antichrists, and disbelievers. See Jeremiah 9: 23-24, Malachi 3: 16-18, 1st John 2: 21-24, 2nd John 1: 6-8 and Hebrews 4: 12, King James Version.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6: 6-9, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: GOD Does The Divine Part (01/05/2014); Sin in Mind not Deed? (01/06/2014); Heart, Brain or Spirit? (10/09/2013); The Image of GOD? (10/10/2013); Circumcision and Promise? (07/16/2013); The Bible and Stupid People (07/17/2013); Illusion? (04/25/2013); Not of Legal Age? (04/26/2013); Why Blood? (04/13/2013); Time Before the Sun? (04/14/2013); Spirit Matter (10/21/2012); Caesarea Philippi (10/22/2012)
“Aleksander”, here are a few points we may agree upon as Christian believers:
(1.) The ancient documents and holy writings often record language in ways that are very different from present standards for editing and usage. Readers today are correct to approach study of the Bible and other material with caution, gratitude, humility, longsuffering (we say, willingness to endure disappointments, hardship, and uncertainty), praise, and prayer.
(2.) Often the same word or phrase is repeated in Scripture, and there is a shift in definition or meaning from use to use. This may occur within the same verse, the same passage, or the same paragraph. One example would be “law” that is often the covenant of Moses, at other times ordinances and statutes, at other times habits, impulses and forces that operate upon ones awareness such as sin.
(3.) The flesh appears as carnal, material, physical and social. Flesh responds to and generates appetite (e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings) and sense (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching) along with emotional and mental functions (e.g., anger, desire, fantasy, fear, imagination, recall, sorrow, thought). While sin is neither flesh nor spirit, sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, of the Law Giver, and of all Creation. Sin has no influence upon GOD, however, by operating upon and through the flesh, sin may dominate awareness and self-will in created beings and living creatures.
(4.) The makeup of divinity appears as inseparable spirit matter that includes faith, holiness, joy, love, truth, wisdom, and wrath against sin (where you find one you also find all the others). As spirit substance, faith consists only of faith, holiness only of holiness, love only of love; and the only source of divinity is the GODhead.
There is far more to be said, properly shared, and spiritually understood. (For example, (5.) GOD is an eternal spirit, who contains and emanates such aspects as awareness, authority, being, dimension, form, majesty, oneness, perfection, person, purpose, sanctity, self-will, and sovereignty. All created beings and living creatures as well as objects in nature (e.g., flames, glaciers, mountains, oceans, stars, trees, volcanoes) made in his image display these same features.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. (Job 32: 7-10, KJV)
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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