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ROMANS 8; 12 - So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live accoring to the flesh.
When I read this, i instantly felt its freedom. When opportunities to sin, or when strong temptations come, i felt the strong urging of the Holy Spirit coming from this scripture, but the wording was slightly different. He said to me - you are under no obligation of the flesh. It hit me, hard! That I don't owe the flesh a darn thing. The mind of the flehs seeks that whitch satisfies the flesh, but the mind after the Spirit will seek that which pleases the Holy Spirit.
Its like the flesh needs to be satisfied, but you are not obligated to give it any such thing. The word tells us that we have the power to escape temptation, because God does not give us what we can't handle.
In this lesson i learn't to stand up against the flesh and cast my burdens onto Jesus alone. I am responsible for my temple to be pure before the LORD, and my goodness, it is liberating to know and to stand against sin, in victory, and say i am not obligated to the flesh, but to the pleasing of the Holy Spirit!!

Moses

I was thinking about Moses today, especially about his anger issue, which he never fully delt with. Its not a matter of being king and ruler over these charcter flaws, but its about God's ability to help you resist the temptation of "going there".

1 Corinthians 10;13 - No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

Moses had an issue with shooting off, wich has it happens was the very thing that kept him from experiencing the fullness of God's promise to his people.
So don't allow yourself to let reacurring sins go under the rug, just as Moses did when he killed the Egyptian -

Exodus 3; 12 - So he (Moses) looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no-one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hit him in the sand.

Those flaws will find a way of coming back and back again and again. And if not delt with, it may come to you at the most inopportune time.

Book recomendations

Here are two books, allthough one is a translation of the new testement.



1 - Through new eyes - by James B. Jordan

2 - The New Testement in Modern English - by J.B Phillips