I just think blaming our mistakes on malicious spirits is too easy. I'm not denying that there is spiritual involvement, but clearly the will to sin is in our sinful nature, and I'm honest enough to admit that it often only take a very little prodding from Satan - if any - to get me to sin. Romans 8 and Galatians 5 make it clear that the Spirit is at war with the sinful nature. Romans 7 explains that we do what we don't want to do not because of spirits, but because we are unspiritual, and slaves to our nature. Do we battle against spirits and principalities? Absolutely, especially when it comes to the spiritual wickedness in the high places of this world. But internally, our struggle seems far more directly with our own fallen, sinful nature. No one can claim "the devil made me do it" except in that he is responsible for sin entering the world. In my daily life though, it's "mia culpa, mia culpa, mia maxima culpa" all the way to the cross! And praise God, I wouldn't have it otherwise.
I want to be clear that this is not a reply to your comment on another post - it was sparked by that, but not a reply to it (which is why it is a separate post
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Yes, we roasted a couple for dinner and they were very good. The reason we slaughtered them is because when we ordered the ducks, we knew that we could not keep very many males, if there are as many males as females, they harass the girls and each other and they interfere with egg laying. So, we ordered day old, unsexed, ducklings and put the sex ratio into the hands of God. He sent us 9 males out of the 14 ducklings
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How would you do that? Our "flesh" is not just our physical body, it is the "old man" - the carnal mind, the fleshly emotions moved by every spirit that speaks to us. Only God can kill our flesh, our flesh cannot remove itself from standing between the new man and God.
It is our place to call out to Him to show us what needs to die, then to ask Him to take it, then to let Him do the work. It is all His, so that all glory in the new man is His as well.
Mt 9:25-26
When his disciples heard it , they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them , and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
How can I cut sin out of myself? Not possible. I entirely lack that power.
I can ask the Lord, in that I struggle until blood.
Heb 12:4-6
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Sin is that place where I go to join myself to the rebellion against God, it is separation from God through disobedience. Yes, I fight against the old man's desire to join to sin, but that fight is to hold the things the Lord speaks to me, His commandments for my life, written in my heart. They are entirely in His power though, not mine. I always fail... but He makes straight my path, He brings blood into my life, all I do is say, "Yes, Lord, you are right." To do otherwise is disobedience
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You shouldn't hate the world, God wants you to have mercy and faith, you should pray for the world. Hate is not Good, Hate is not God. You can not sit with God with hate. If you love Jesus Christ take his example, he forgave the people that crussified him and betrayed him.
Looking back to what I wrote, I see that I have not made it clear what I meant by "world". I am not speaking of this earth, I am speaking of the corporate mind of humankind, where it is joined to Lucifer in perfect harmony. I want to hate what God hates and love what God loves.
John 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Psa 139:17-24 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee
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It is our place to call out to Him to show us what needs to die, then to ask Him to take it, then to let Him do the work. It is all His, so that all glory in the new man is His as well.
Mt 9:25-26
When his disciples heard it , they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them , and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
~Carol
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Hebrews 12 4 "After all, you have never yet struggled against sin and temtation until you sweat great drops of blood."
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I can ask the Lord, in that I struggle until blood.
Heb 12:4-6
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Sin is that place where I go to join myself to the rebellion against God, it is separation from God through disobedience. Yes, I fight against the old man's desire to join to sin, but that fight is to hold the things the Lord speaks to me, His commandments for my life, written in my heart. They are entirely in His power though, not mine. I always fail... but He makes straight my path, He brings blood into my life, all I do is say, "Yes, Lord, you are right." To do otherwise is disobedience ( ... )
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John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Psa 139:17-24
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee ( ... )
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