BEING TRIUMPHANT OVER THE FIVE SENSES: THE EFFECT OF THE FLESH – The LUST Of The FLESH, The LUST Of The EYES And The PRIDE Of LIFE!
Firstly, know that YOU ARE A TRIUMPHANT CHURCH. I meant you and not the architectural building where WORSHIPPERS gather. However, knowingly or unknowingly, TRIUMPH is a default DONE DEED for every believing child of God in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 2:14; Colossians 2:15). And the Scripture wants every Believer in Christ Jesus to LIVE and WALK in the CONSCIOUSNESS of the SPIRIT of TRIUMPH, so that they can mortify (crucify) – put to death – the LUSTS and AFFECTIONS of the FLESH which are of the – FIVE SENSES (Galatians 5:16, 24-25); it thus means living in the sphere of the Holy Spirit leads, by the WORD of God, through your human spirit by the auction within you (Proverbs 20:27; Job 32:8; Job 33:4; Genesis 2:7; 1 John 2:20, 27). This is what makes you a spirit or spiritual being. A sphere to make you live TRIUMPHANTLY far above just being a human being by the law of the Spirit of life within you – Romans 8:1-17. For you are created as a BEING not to BEEN. Indicating there’s no place of vacuum to God or with God in the Kingdom to exercise your place as a BEING of God.
And FAITH in God is the mystery of COMMUNICATION to God as a BEING, in order to enhance one to exercise the sphere of a BEING (1 Timothy 3:9; Romans 12:4), and FAITH is the resultant and consequence of the HEARING, the HEARING of the WORD of God (Romans 10:17).
So to FELLOWSHIP in order to enhance the RELATIONSHIP with God (1 Corinthians 1:9), there’s no sphere place for a VACUUM. Thus indicates that one can’t commune with God outside His WORD for any reason, otherwise there will be satanic interference (Matthew 12:43-45). And to commune with God is about LIVING and WALKING in the Spirit – which is by your spirit and in the truth – the WORD of God (John 4:19-24).
The consequential of living outside the
sphere of the Spirit led, is LIVING and WALKING in the FLESH – that is, in the
sphere of FIVE SENSES which are these:
** HEAR/Hearing
** SEE/Seeing
** TASTE/Tasting
** SMELL/Smelling
** FEEL/Touch FEELING/Touching
Sadly enough – there is EFFECT and there are EFFECTS – of living in the SPHERE of the FLESH – FIVE SENSE.
These FIVE SENSES EFFECTS are these (Genesis 3:1-6; Luke 4:1-13; 1 John 2:15-17):
*** The LUST of the EYES
*** The LUST of the FLESH
*** The PRIDE of LIFE
These EFFECT was shown at the beginning by Eve and Adam at EDEN for which they fell out in FAITH and FELLOWSHIP with God (Genesis 3). These EFFECTS shows up again before Jesus during His Holy Spirit led fasting at the TEMPTATION mountain (Luke 4:1-13; Matthew 4:1-11). Sadly today, these EFFECTS are still at work and hooves around looking for who will fall to it’s sword (1 John 2:15-17). Will you let it take root in you as many have falling victims over and over again? I hope not.
Unlike Eve and Adam, Jesus TRIUMPH over these five senses EFFECTS by the simple affirmative statements to His firm FAITH in the WORD – IT IS WRITTEN – Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13 (1 John 5:4-5; Colossians 2:15; Philemon 1:6). Thus meaning No WORD, No FAITH and No TRIUMPH – 2 Corinthians 2:14. Otherwise it will be Magic, Sorcerer, Traditional dogmas, Man-made believes, creeds and such likes.
Therefore, as the TRIUMPH CHURCH in Christ Jesus stead, let us us ARISE and be TRIUMPHANT for we are – by LIVING and WALKING in the Spirit that we might not fulfill the DEEDS – desired EFFECTS – of the FLESH.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!
BE BLESSED.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING:
“Now thanks be unto God, WHICH ALWAYS CAUSETH US TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, and maketh manifest the SAVOUR of his knowledge by us in EVERY PLACE” 2 Corinthians 2:24.
“But thanks be to God, who ALWAYS leads us in TRIUMPH in Christ, and through us SPREADS and MAKES evident EVERYWHERE the SWEET FRAGRANCE of the knowledge of Him” 2 Corinthians 2 14 (Amplified).
“And having SPOILED principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, TRIUMPHING over them in it” Colossians 2:15.
“When He had DISARMED the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He MADE a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having TRIUMPHED over them through the cross” Colossians 2:15 (Amplified)
“HOLDING the MYSTERY of the FAITH in a PURE CONSCIENCE” 1 Timothy 3:9.
“This I say then, WALK in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh . . . 24 And they that are Christ’s have CRUCIFIED the flesh with the AFFECTIONS and LUSTS. 25 If we LIVE in the Spirit, let us also WALK in the Spirit” Galatians 5:16, 24-25.
“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. 16 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. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” 1 John 2:15-17.
“The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” John 4:19-24
Further Scriptural Reading: Genesis 3:1-7; Mathew 4:1-11; Luke 4 :1-13; James 4:1-3; Romans 10:6-10; Habakkuk 2:4; Hebrews 10: 23, 35-39; Galatians 3:11; Mark 11:20-24; Proverbs 20:27; Job 32:8; Job 33:4; Genesis 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12-13.
Rev Chukie MORSI