Posted on 02/21/2024 1:55:48 PM PST by MurphsLaw
Very contemplative message to start off the Lenten journey with...
Picking up on Jesus' 40 days of Temptation,
the sermon analyzes body and soul, intertwined, and how they are in constant struggle.
And that one purpose of the Lenten season is to learn how to discipline
the right relationship between them.
That sin enters us to "disentregrate" that union of Body and Soul.
13 min. YouTube Video Link below:
Are Your Soul and Body At War?
In Jesus, he embodies BOTH, Heaven and Earth,
and getting the entangled relationship right,
and balanced, between Body and Soul
is to live the Christian life appropriately.
Ummmm...
40 days of temptation?
Need a citation for that.
Luke 4:1, 2
Then Jesus, full of holy spirit, turned away from the Jordan, and he was led about by the spirit in the wilderness for 40 days, being tempted by the Devil.
And he ate nothing in those days, so when they had ended, he felt hungry.
Matthew 4:1-3 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
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It doesn’t say that He was tempted for 40 days but it is clear that He fasted for forty days and when they were ended, He was tempted.
Actually, the war is between the spirit and the flesh. Romans 8 addresses that.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208&version=ESV
And though, that was the point of the video.
That this Lenten exercise of 40 days we go thru-
mimics Jesus' forty days in the desert
and that how temptation of sinfulness in our own lives...
highlights the struggle of body (flesh) and soul,
just the same as it was for Jesus.
P.S. - I have missed our disusions !!
:)
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