Living By The Spirit Part IV
Beloved do not be caught in the web of procrastination, because it is one of the greatest hindrances in your quest to maximize the benefits that comes from obedience to God’s instructions. Our scriptural focus for today states – The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. {Gal 5:17 NLT}
The sinful nature craves for evil always and cannot achieve its aims without a human body. The sinful nature is an evil spirit that has the capacity to influence not just only an unbeliever who is already in perpetual slavery to it until the light of the glorious gospel liberates such a human from that slavery, but also a believer in Christ who lives a careless spiritual life through ignorance of the provisions of the work of grace.
Believers in Christ sometimes refer to the human body as the flesh as described in the scriptures. It will be important to state the the human body is not the biblical description of the flesh, rather the flesh as described by the bible is the same as the sinful nature. The sinful nature always wants to do evil because as air is to the human body, so is sin to the sinful nature. It will be equally important to state that no human can subdue the sinful nature through the human strength or abilities, because every human is by birth a slave to the sinful nature.
The sinful nature is the greatest manifestation of the devil in the human world and it is the root of all evil happening on the earth today. So it should be clear that living in sin is not based on a human desire but by an influence imposed on the human mind/spirit by the sinful nature that if allow to grow will give birth to all forms of sinful actions.
Sin is a byproduct of the sinful nature.
Have a grace filled day – Good News awaits you.
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Last modified: January 25, 2017
