Are We Still in the Flesh? Part 2 (TMF:1658)

Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Peace to Live By: Are We Still in the Flesh? Part 2 (TMF:1658) - Daniel Litton
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       If you compare those two phrases carefully you’ll notice a difference in a small word, and that is he says “I am of the flesh” now versus “while we were living in the flesh.” So, it’s ‘of the flesh’ versus ‘in the flesh.’ And that’s important. We, as believers in Jesus, are no longer in the flesh. I think the best way to understand this is to think of ownership. Our flesh no longer owns us. It no longer calls the shots for us. In our new state as Christians, then, we are owner over the flesh. We can call the shots. We can still let sin reign over us if we want to, but we are not a slave to sin any longer. We, as Christians, are still ‘of the flesh’ in that we still live, we still reside, in our fleshly bodies which still contains its sin-nature, it’s just that sin-nature is not in full control anymore unless we let it be.