<--back to Flesh v/s Spirit Main Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Today, we will study two more symptoms of a carnal fleshly lifestyle. As usual we will take a look at some of the original Greek text. Wrath - thumos (thoo-mos'): fierceness The dictionary meaning for fierceness is vehement hostility and unrestrained violence. A brutally harsh bully. It may seem that a nice Christian Mother couldn't possibly manifest these behaviors. That assumption would be wrong. Very wrong. Just because you are a Christian doesn't mean you don't have issues with sin. However, you … [Read more...]

<--back to Flesh v/s Spirit Main Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. WITCHCRAFT Our society takes witchcraft very lightly. I urge you to do a deeper study into this subject than what we will do today. Witchcraft is a serious thing. It has many layers. The most common are what you are probably thinking; spells, chants, sorcery, astrology, and other forms if divination. Our society, including many Christians, encourage our children to read "literature" and watch movies that have varying degrees of witchcraft in them. It is to be expected from the secular world. However, for the Church … [Read more...]

<--back to Flesh v/s Spirit Main Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Today, we will discuss the final two symptoms of a carnal fleshly lifestyle. I saved them for last because I think it is a huge problem in the Church. Seditions - dichostasia (dee-khos-tas-ee'-ah): disunion, dissension, division Heresies - hairesis (hah'-ee-res-is): disunion It is very sad to me that there is so much division in the Church today. I know that it is not pleasing to God. It does not give the Church any credibility to the world either. The dissension is widespread like a deadly disease. It … [Read more...]