Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Colossians 3:5, “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
The world is filled with all the things that stimulate the flesh–the television, the radio, the music, the lyrics.
Even the atmosphere in many worldly places is designed by the devil to ruin humanity for God’s purpose.
It causes humanity to become lower and lower in uncleanness, looseness, fornication, in all the moral filth that is filling the earth today.
So I say strongly that we need to exercise our spirit to be strict with everything immoral; otherwise there is no way to grow in our Christian life.
Some may think that this kind of fellowship is only for the unmarried.
But this is as much for the married as for the unmarried.
The flesh does not cease at marriage.
Lust does not stop, evil passion does not stop.
It may continue in married life.
This is why Paul said, 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5, “That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”
Possessing your own vessel can refer to possessing your own body, or it can also be understood as possessing your spouse.
Even in a legitimate marriage relationship, Paul exhorted that the believers were to be sanctified.
We were not called to uncleanness, but we were called in holiness and honor (v. 7).
This means we need to be specific to apply the cross to our members.
Our members here are not spoken of as being our eyes, ears, or mind.
Paul actually refers to our members as fornication and uncleanness.
That is how constituted the flesh is with sin.
So we must put to death.
We must kill.
Do not entertain.
Do not think.
Do not let anything start.
Immediately interrupt it with your spirit.
Allow your spirit to come out and put it to death.
Lord, I am in Your economy.
I am not here being wasted in filth, wasted with my eyes, wasted with my mind, wasted in my flesh, giving my body to uncleanness.
I am not here for that.
My body is to be sanctified.
It is to be holy.
It is Yours, and one day it is to be conformed to Your glorious body.
In this way, we inwardly apply the cross to our members.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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