02/25/23 DELIVERANCE FROM CARNALITY ESSENTIAL FOR SERVANTS OF CHRIST

02/25/23 DELIVERANCE FROM CARNALITY ESSENTIAL FOR SERVANTS OF CHRIST

All sin is the enemy of man. Some sins seem to be more common or dominating than others. This includes Pride (inordinate self esteem), the Wrath of Man (anger, hatred), Self Orientation, Lust (exaggerated and unrestrained desires).

These are manifestations of the Carnal Mind. Though the Born Again person can resist the temptation to commit these sins, it takes the death of self and the fullness of the Holy Spirit to deliver from the inner tyranny of Pride, Wrath of Man, Self Orientation and Lust.
God promises to deliver from these slave masters, but Christians often choose to be dominated by these enemies of God rather than surrender fully to Christ and be ruled by God.

This is why Jesus sent His followers into all the world to preach the gospel, but He also told them to tarry in Jerusalem, so that they might be filled with God's Spirit and delivered from the corruption that too often robs believers of the victory in Jesus. 

James 4:1-10
1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 

1 John 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.