1 John 5:4," For whatsoever is born of
God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." Be of good cheer for He has overcome the world.
The world is system that opposes the faith and to following it requires no attachment. However, this is the victory with which we overcome the world-OUR FAITH. Though Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10:23 to the believer that "Everything is permissible", he goes on to say that "not everything is beneficial." He further goes on to say that "everything is permissible but not everything is constructive"
This is because the things that are not beneficial edify the flesh, yet we are NOT flesh. WE ARE SPIRIT!!!!Before a man is born-again, his spirit is dead, but in Christ, his spirit is made to live and now there are three fronts with which the man maketh his decisions,and these are; "The spirit, The soul and The body." Before, choices are made basing on two fronts, being "The flesh and The soul."
Now that the third front is added, choices are now made based on a different foundation, one that reapeth the fruit of the Spirit. However, the order of the entities in the believer also ought to be rearranged, bearing in mind the elevation and status that the believer has been given in Christ and the worth of the election to which he has been called. This is where the susceptibility of the mind/ soul to either the flesh or the Spirit is adjusted in the believer. By the time he is born again, his soul/ mind is bent towards the flesh/sin. And in such a state he is more likely if NOT DISCIPLED to remain under a SHADOW of Bondage that was actually lifted by
Christ who "blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
So these redeemed are then held by GIVING THEMSELVES OVER INTO SIN because their thinking is not renewed on the Word. It also requires our co- operation with the Spirit of God. So in yielding to the Spirit and His word our faith is built.Romans 10:17) and our obedience is made complete (2Corinthians 10:6) in having our souls fully given in to the spirit. At such a point it is weird for such a Spirit led Son of God to fornicate or indulge in sin. And he is consciously able to overcome the world, not out of fear of it, but by FAITH.
Jonathan Bakebwa Rivers
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