God's people haven't dared to believe what His Word says about us, allowing our carnal minds and reasoning to determine who we are in Christ Jesus. The carnal mind cannot understand how the new creation people can be righteous, justified and acquitted of sin, while still living in our flesh and blood bodies. We will must renew our minds with God's Word, so we can see ourselves after the Truth of our salvation, instead of seeing ourselves after the flesh and the senses.
Paul speaks about the weakness of his flesh, which is in direct opposition to his born-again spirit in Romans 7:23-25,28 (Amplified). Paul says that his flesh, carnal mind and his soulish parts want to continue observing the external rituals of the Law, which he had grown up under. He tells us that the Law of Liberty of the Spirit expels the external rituals and things of his flesh, saying, "For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my innermost self. But I discern in my bodily members, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh, a different Law, rule of action at war against the Law of my mind; my reasons and making me a prisoner to the Law of Sin that dwells in my bodily organs in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh. O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from the shackles of this body of death? O thank God! He will through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but in the flesh the Law of Sin." Paul goes on in Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified), "Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging of guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
Many go onto to read Verse 28, which says, "All things work together for the Good to those in Christ Jesus." Those who read it with a carnal mind will get this out of it, "Whatever comes must be God's will" or "God is doing all these things (no matter what they are) for my good." The Holy Spirit is actually telling God's children, "The body is wanting to go one way and the Spirit the opposite way, but God has given us deliverance from this body of death and has raised us up to His Own standards of righteousness, by conferring son-ship rights on us, while we're still struggling with this body."
Paul tells us in Romans 8:4-5,15,17 26,29-30 (Amplified), "So that the righteousness and just requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit, our lives not governed by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit. For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by it's unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the spirit."
Paul speaks about the things we've gained by the Spirit, saying in Verse 15, "The Spirit producing son-ship in the bliss of which we cry, Abba, Father" and in Verse 17 saying, "We are now His children and heirs and fellow heirs with Jesus." In Verse 26, he says, "We have also the Holy Spirit Who bears us up in our weaknesses and prays for and through us even when we don't know how to pray for ourselves." Verses 28-30 tell us, "We know that even in our weakness we have all these things working together in us for our good, for those who love Him and are called to His Purpose are molded into the Image of His Son and share inwardly His Likeness. And those whom He has ordained, He also called, and those whom He called, He also justified, acquitted, made righteous and put in right standing with Himself, and those whom He justified, He also glorified, raising them into a Heavenly dignity and condition or state of being."
We will have victory in the Spirit, when we're struggling in our flesh, because God will overturn the bad things, so that all things work together for our good, when we love Him and are called to His Purpose. Romans 8:37 (Amplified) says, "Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who Loved us."
The harder satan pushes, the more determined we are to stand on God's Word and His Spirit. The more we stand on God's Word and His Spirit, the stronger we will become and the more trust we will put in Him. If we've stood, then we will receive the Promises by faith and gain the victory, in Jesus. The things satan meant to destroy us, become an exercise that built up our faith and trust, so we inherit God's Promises. All things have now worked together for our good. God didn't send the problem, but through the Holy Spirit, He sent the Answer for our good.
Satan will test, try and push us, so long as we're on this planet, trying to steal God's Word, like Jesus taught in Mark 4, "The Parable of the Sower." When we depend on God's Word and His Holy Spirit, we will bring forth 30,60 and 100 fold, despite the world and the enemy. God doesn't have to test our faith, because it's His faith we're using and His faith created the heavens and the earth. God knows what our faith can do. Satan knows what faith in God can do. He saw it operating through Jesus, Paul, Peter, James and other followers of Christ. Satan saw it operate when Jesus rose from the dead. This is why satan "Comes immediately to take away the Word from us, by force," like Jesus said in Mark 4.
The Holy Spirit, the Power of God's Word, the force of Righteousness, the power of Redemption, the legal force of Justification, the perfect acquittal, the son-ship rights with God's inheritance, the sanctification, the reconciliation of us back to God, and the Power of Attorney to use the Name of Jesus Christ will all work together for the good of those who are in Christ Jesus and are called according to His Purpose!
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