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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The Acts of the Sinful Nature (Greek:SARX)

Sinful  Nature:Is a term for the human nature with it's  corrupt desires which is submit  to sins dominion.Then we as a human person must continue to resist and put to death this sinful nature of ours by the power of a spirit(called the Holy Ghost).It's so serious that if we are to yield to the desires of this sinful nature,we shut ourselves from all the blessing we could posses here on earth the most important one"the kingdom of GOD",and thus looses our salvation.

the inspiration is taken from the epistle of Apostle Paul  "Galatians"Gal 5:19:21

19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The Acts of the Sinful Nature (Gk Sarx) includes:
1) Sexual Immorality(GkPorneia) Ex20:14/Mt5:3132;19:9/Ac15:20,29;21:25/1Co5:1 .Sexual activity or intercourse outside the marriage union.The word pornography comes from the root pornia;this sexual immorality includes taking pleasure in pornography pictures,films or writings



2) Impurity (Gk akatharsia) Eph5:3/Col3:5.Sexual sins,evil deeds and vices,including thoughts and desires of the heart.



3) Debauchery (Gk aselgeia) 2Co12:21. Sensuality;following ones passion and desire to the point of  having no shame or public decency.





4) Idolatry  (Gk eidolatry) Col 3:5.Worship of spirits,persons or graven images;trust in any person,institution or thing as having equal or greater authority than GOD and his word.




5) Witchcraft (Gk pharmakeia) Ex7:11,22;8:18/Rev9:21;18:23.Sorcery,spiritism,black magic,worship of demons and use of drugs to produce spiritual experience.




6) Hatred (Gk echtra).Intense hostile and acts;extreme dislike or enmity.



7) Discord (Gk eris) Ro1:29;13:13/1co1:11;3:3.Quarreling,antagonism;
for superiority.



8) Jalousy (Gk zĂȘlos) Ro13:13/1Co3:3.Resentfulness,envy of another's success.



9) Fits of rage (Gk thumos) Col3:8.Explosive anger that flames into violent words or deeds.



10) Selfish Ambition (Gk eritheia) 2Co12:20/Php1:16-17.Unrighteously seeking power or position.



11) Dissensions (Gk dichostasia) Ro16:17.Introducing divisive teachings not supported by GOD's word.



12) Factions (Gk hairesis) 1Co11:19.Division within the congregation into exclusive groups or cliques that destroy the unity of the church.



13) Envy (Gk phthonos).Resentful dislike of another person who has something that ones desire.



14) Drunkenness (Gk methĂȘ).Impairing one's mental or physical control by Alcoholic drink.



15) Orgies (Gk komos).Excessive feasting and revelry,a party spirit involving,drugs,sex or the like



 These sinful nature is so attached to our human nature and they are controlled by opposite spirit called "demons".Which is killing us daily ;apostle Paul said that we must strive to resist this sinful nature by yielding to the fruits of the spirits(we'll discover in the next post).

Do you know any other acts of the sinful nature that's disturbing
mankind? 
Pls do share your spiritual knowledge with me.

Monday, February 2, 2015

A venture into the life of PAUL the Apostle

Who is PAUL  the Apostle?

Galatians,..... one of the books written by him .This particular book of Galatians  was written by apostle paul to the "church in Galatia";his aim  is to clarify that the  Moses's law under   the OT(old testament) has nothing to do with our salvation.Thus our  salvation is obtain by GOD's grace in christ under  the NT (new testament).

Let me venture a little  bit  into  the life  of paul.He was known as the former persecutor, murderer and antichrist of his time.He witness  to the murder  of a  certain  disciple called  stephen acts7:58,known then as  Saul he was the leader of the church's first intense  and severe persecution" men and women were draged out from their houses put in prison,beaten and put to death Acts8:1-3 "
Undoutedly this paul is of jewish youth,born and raise with the law of Moses;he has devotion, passion for the law  of his fathers.He couldn't accept any new teaching apart from that which was given to his forfathers in  the desert.He was later converted  to  to a christian  on his way to Damascus, on a mission to get a letter of permit  from the high priest that  would allow him to arrest any of the jew following the new way of christ.
But you know what  he was stop by a spirit  Acts9:1-5.GOD  use him mightly to write 13 of the new testament books,called  the Epistles of Apostle  Paul.
Apostle Paul in  his writting.

Apostle paul in prison, visited by an angel giving him words of knowledg and encoragement to move on with the Gospel.