In this first video Sir Lancelot ponders what a great and perfect guy he is. He goes so far as to say that Had I been made the partner of Eve wed be Eden still!
In this clip, the Knights (in the flesh) ridicule goodness and sing Fie On Goodness! It well illustrates the tendency of the flesh not only to indulge sin, but also to resist and ridicule what is good.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Another good word by a real man of God! I so appreciate him! God is good to give us a good word of instruction to keep us hungering after Him and humble in our daily walk.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
BTW in way before the haters.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink (John 6:53-55).
Got in a lot of trouble in Sunday school for that one.
It was fun.
My son played Lancelot in his HS production of Camelot. Wearing gold. At the end of his singing C’est Moi his godmother who was an appellate court judge stood up and started yelling his name. LOL. I could never have gotten away with that.
The flesh is intent on things of this world, upon gratifying its own passions and desires. On account of the flesh we are concerned primarily with ourselves and seek to be at the center.
No kidding.
Lexicon :: Strong's G4561 - sarx
Transliteration
sarx
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Pronunciation
sä'rks (Key)
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
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Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from the base of σαρόω (G4563)
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Dictionary Aids
Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry TDNT Reference: 7:98,1000 |
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Outline of Biblical Usage
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KJV Translation Count Total: 151x
The KJV translates Strongs G4561 in the following manner: flesh (147x), carnal (2x), carnally minded (with G5427) (1x), fleshly (1x).
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon Help
Unlike man Christ had a Divine nature, that man needs if he is ever to see the Father ... That is found only in Christ. Rom 8:7 Because the carnal G4561 mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Tools specific to Rom 8:8 Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. |
On another note, anybody notice the picture with the lady sitting looking in the mirror? It took me awhile- the skull popped out first...
God bless you!
Humans are made in God’s image. We are three parts, Body (flesh), soul (mind, will and emotions), and spirit (eternal core) and the spirit and the flesh war after the soul. When we accept Christ our spirit and soul are united in eternal Salvation. Simple.
I read through the post several times in order to clearly understand the author’s points. I have found that there is a greater understanding of this discussion.
Everything is consciousness or spirit, even our physical bodies are a creation of consciousness by our consciousness. It is what gives life to matter. The problem is that the physical body and the consciousness relating to it is the lowest frequency of consciousness within our soul or spirit. It is very difficult to raise our consciousness to a higher level while we are still attached to a physical body for all the reasons mentioned in the article.
Everything that Jesus taught us was about how to let go of the attachments of our lower physical consciousness that act as anchors or ballast and raise us up to a higher level. In order to do this, Our Father sent us the Helper Consciousness of the Holy Spirit to lift us up. This Holy Spirit is also referred to as the Light as any higher consciousness is always perceived by a lower consciousness as Light. (It’s the same reason that the Danish atomic physicist, Niels Bohr who discovered the orbitals of electrons around the nucleus of an atom showed that they give off a photon as they come to a lower orbital level.)
Whether you are speaking of the flesh or the nature of the spirit relating to the flesh does not matter as when a person is alive the two act as one.
What people do not realize is that with each level of consciousness associated with the various levels of the physical body, that consciousness can either be turned and focused upward to a higher level or it can be spilled outward causing addiction or dependency. To the extent consciousness is spilled outward it is used up and not available to raise to higher levels which are closer to perceiving and experiencing God.
Further, an individuals perception of reality changes as they raise their consciousness. Children have a pure consciousness but it is very low in frequency. Our mission is to raise our consciousness to higher levels and keep it pure. We truly are seeds planted here to grow. The parable of the tares in the wheat in Matthew 13 and the explanation of it told by Jesus to His disciples clearly explains this.