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Dear friend, do not let your flesh dictate to you the way that you should live your life
and the actions that you must take, because if you do that you will allow the flesh to
take you off to the fires of hell. Because the flesh to only wants to fulfill its own
desires and is not interested in obeying and following Jesus. We are in a war against the
flesh, against the ways of the devil inside of us, and daily we must crucify the flesh
and put it out and reckoning it dead daily and instead follow Jesus Christ by the spirit.
Many they don't crucify the flesh they follow their desires. That is why they get themselves
into so many troubles and pierce themselves with so many griefs. It's because friends,
when we follow the flesh, it will lead us to the paths of destruction. You desires are
rotten and they are filled with worms. There is nothing righteous inside of you and so
you must turn away from the flesh and what it desires you to do, and what it tempts you
to do, because if we follow it friends we will not inherit the kingdom of God. Don't
listen to those false believers who will tell you that you can still enter the kingdom of
God even though you struggle with your flesh, because if you keep following the flesh it
is written so very clearly in the Bible that; if you follow the flesh you will reap destruction.
We must put out our evil desires daily. We must turn away from them and put Jesus in
our lives first and foremost, because if we do not dear friend, we will not inherit the
kingdom of God. When we follow Jesus he expects you to deny yourself and follow him. He doesn't
expect you to follow your flesh and follow him, because you cannot follow the flesh and
follow Jesus at the same time. And we know what the works of the flesh are, it is written
what the works of the flesh are; dissension, jealousy, righteousness, envy, malice, gossip,
all manner of things, hate, ***, the desires of the eyes, the pursuits of the flesh. If
you're a Christian and you do these things you will not inherit the kingdom of God, unless
you divorce those things and crucify them daily pick up your cross and follow Jesus
Christ. There is no other way to the kingdom of heaven but to deny yourself and follow
Jesus. You see when I first came to the Lord Jesus I had to repent of my flesh, I had to
repent of pursuing my own pursuits. I had to repent of my lusts. I had to stop the way
I was talking. I had to turn around and come a new way, I had to deny the flesh and I did
it willingly because I want to be found pleasing to the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you want to be
found pleasing to him dear friend? Or will you just go on, following your desires, living
your lusts, not watching your speech, falling daily to the flesh, because if you do that
one day you'll never get up again. There is only this life to work it out. We better be
working in out now, because one day it is going to be too late. Don't follow the flesh
any longer, deny it, pick up your cross, put on Christ, put on the armor of the spirit,
the helmet of salvation, hope, faith, the word, reading the Bible, having the truth
in your heart, having a relationship with Jesus listening to his voice. Arm yourself
with these things and you go and put your eyes on the Kingdom of God, you put your eyes
on the eternal life daily, and you will not fall to the flesh. You will not swap imperishable
with perishable any longer. But when you got your eyes on the flesh and you haven't got
your eyes on eternal life, your heart isn't on the prize, and where our hearts are that's
where we're going end up. If your heart is on the world, on your lusts in your sins following
the flesh, you'll end up destruction. But if you put your heart on the kingdom of God,
meditating on his word focusing on him daily, pursuing eternal life because you want it
in his name, then you would deny yourself, pick up your cross and you would follow Jesus,
because that's where your heart is. You cannot put out the flesh if your heart isn't on the
Kingdom of God. You cannot endure if you're not walking with Jesus and abiding in him.
Where is your heart today? Where do you choose to place it? On perishable things? Or on the
imperishable in heaven! People they want to put their heart on adultery and would rather
go and sleep with that man and woman over there, because it's so tempting to the flesh.
Or they would go rather go and commit this crime or whatever it is against God, because
it's so tempting and that's where their heart ultimately is set. But those who deny all
that, and say no I've got something better I got the kingdom of God, I am not going to
go and look in *** at that person, I am not going to go and commit adultery with that
person, I am not going to watch this ***, I am not going to do this, I am not going
to do that, why? Because my mind is not on the flesh no more but on the kingdom of God!
Where is your mind today? Is it with Jesus? Or is it on the world with your flesh and
you're being led to destruction by your flesh? Make a choice dear Christian, because by our
choices we will reap what we sow. Jesus bless you.