The Quickening and the mortifying of the flesh: wecrymercy

The QUICKENING and the MORTIFYING of the FLESH

From DEATH to LIFE, through the HOLY SPIRIT:

Romans 8: 10 And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.

Romans 8: 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8: 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8: 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Romans 8: 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God

Romans 8: 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Romans 8: 11 TO QUICKEN

1) to produce alive, begat or bear living young

2) to cause to live, make alive, give life

a) by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate

b) to restore to life

c) to give increase of life: thus of physical life

d) of the spirit, quickening as respects the spirit, endued with new and greater powers of life

3) metaph., of seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing up, growing

To Mortify

1) to put to death

2) metaph.

a) to make to die i.e. destroy, render extinct

b) by death to be liberated from the bond of anything, literally to be made dead in relation to (something)

COLOSIANS 3: 1

3: 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

3: 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

·        The Greek word AFFECTION literally say “SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE” We are not to occupy ourselves with things on the earth, things of the enemy.

·        Where one FEEDS their mind, is how one lives. 

·        Are you feeding your mind, body and soul with the concerns of this world, or are you allowing the LORD to fill your hunger and thirst by HIS WORD, HIS SPIRIT?

3: 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

3: 4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

3: 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

vs 3 inasmuch as they “are dead’ to sin, we are to make this death to the OLD LIFE a reality in DAILY LIVING. (wisdom—literally means: ”wise behavior”  “wise dealing” “good sense” )

Some of these words I didn’t actually know what they meant, so I have taken the time to look them up:

PUT to DEATH, by the HOLY SPIRIT:

IF we recognize any of these within us we must SEEK the LORD for the MORTIFYING of the DEEDS OF OUR BODY.  The word of GOD is a seed planted within us, given increase by GOD, as WE surrender to his HOLINESS.

Fornication -- 

Uncleanness  ---

 1) uncleanness

a) physical

b) in a moral sense: the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living

1) of impure motives 

Inordinate affection

1) whatever befalls one, whether it be sad or joyous

a) spec. a calamity, mishap, evil, affliction

2) a feeling which the mind suffers

a) an affliction of the mind, emotion, passion

b) passionate deed

c) used by the Greeks in either a good or bad sense

d) in the NT in a bad sense, depraved passion, vile passions

Evil concupiscence

1) desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust

NOTE: do you have desires, cravings, lust that are forbidden?

Covetousness

WHICH IS IDOLATRY

We will stop here for today:

Conclusion:

As a CHILD of GOD we are no LONGER under the SPIRIT OF BONDAGE, “OLD LIFE” inherited from our BIRTH in ADAM. And we are NO LONGER to LIVE in that OLD LIFE OF BONDAGE.

We are given the SPIRIT OF LIFE, which is the HOLY SPIRIT, dwelling within us,  as a member of the BODY OF CHRIST. HE quickens and mortifies to restore what is OF GOD.

Any member of the BODY OF CHRIST should be able to “RECOGNIZE/give WITNESS” to that NEW BIRTH that is WITHIN THEM. THE presence of the HOLY SPIRIT within us will ALWAYS give witness to: GOD’S WAYS, GOD’S CHARACTER, GOD’S precepts,  etc. 

The HOLY SPIRIT working power within us will MORTIFY (put to death) the DEEDS of the FLESH as these DEEDS are EXPOSED, REVEALED to us, by our commune with JESUS CHRIST the mediator. ABIDING DAILY with the ONE WHO saved us.

1 Cor 15: 31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

The JOURNEY of the BELIEVER is a life of DIEING to self and putting on the RIGHTEOUSNESS of CHIRST. 

We are only able to consume so much at one time. We must DIE DAILY for just as the FATHER warned  MOSE’S, we could not SEE GOD IN ALL OF  HIS HOLINESS at one time.. 

Matt 13: 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Matt 13: 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth [it]; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Will we produce fruit from the WORD of GOD? 

Do We desire what is OF GOD, HIS WAYS, HIS CHARACTER, HIS DESIRES?

Let us lay aside all things of the OLD MAN and PUT on the NEW LIFE, to be transformed, regenerated, and renewed by the HOLY SPIRIT to the KINGDOM of GOD and the IMAGE OF HIS SON.

Pray today that the LORD will give INCREASE to HIS WORD, That we would be able to SURRENDER that the HOLY SPIRIT can MORTIFY the DEEDS of this LIFE, that we can be BROUGHT to the NEW LIFE in HIM.

AMEN.