Break #40
STUDY NOTES

Summary of "Our Flesh" topic so far...
(includes reviews of breaks # 34-39)

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• 'Our flesh' is a serious topic, one that needs to be KNOWN, UNDERSTOOD and TAUGHT; it is truly a topic of peace and understanding.
• Knowing the truth about our 'flesh' as a Christian helps explain Romans 2:4b -
• ...knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance...;
• The severity of God does NOT lead anyone to repentance, as is obvious these days!
• the difference in goodness and severity and to whom each is given is stated in Romans 11:22 - Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
• severity of course referring to the OT, the gospels and the apostles doctrine
• which are still considered OT in doctrine - see Hebrews 9:16,17
• and the goodness of God directed to the Gentiles through the teaching and preaching of Paul ONLY.
• not mixed in with OT, Gospels, Acts 1-8 and Hebrews to Jude.

• 1) Christians of hope from a peace and joy in believing (Romans 15:13) and a peace which passeth all understanding (Philippians 4:7);
• 2) Christians of the riches of the full assurance of understanding;
• 3) People of being a true Christian as they are taught all the false and wrongly divided word of truth - which is truly considered 'vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness And their word will eat as doth a canker... concerning the truth have erred... (II Timothy 2:15-18). and
• creates counterfeit Christians which in truth, will be part of Satan's army against the true Christ (Revelation 16:13,14).

• Job 5:7 - Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
• Romans 8:8 - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Galatians 1:10 - For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
• II Timothy 2:4 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
• I Thessalonians 4:1 - Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

• Romans 8:1-11
• Romans 8:9 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

• Same concept as being 'dead in sin' as a lost person (Ephesians 2:5) or 'dead to sin' as a saved person (Romans 6:2).
• Of course, I am not meaning ... now we can use our liberty for an occasion to the flesh.
• The word 'sin' in the above verses is used as a noun, not a verb!
• Bonus thought:
• Remember, WE are always alive but our flesh is 'dead' (even though it sure keeps active for a dead 'being,' eh!)  See Romans 8:10 - And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
• It is dead because it is full of sin just waiting for the final judgment fire of I Corinthians 3.
• It certainly doesn't mean that our flesh is 'inactively dead' - see what Paul says in Romans 7:15+.

Break #36 - "Operation of God"

• Colossians 2:11-14
• Romans 7:15-25
• Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

• It is
• The circumcision of Christ
• A circumcision made without hands
• The putting off the body of the sins of the flesh
• Being buried with him in baptism, risen with him.
• (not a water baptism, by the way)
• Having all of our trespasses being forgiven (not just gone into remission)
• Having all of the ordinances being blotted out - nailed to his cross!
• Christ triumphing over principalities and power!