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- 10 Now I, Paul, urge you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ—I who am meek [so they say] when with you face to face, but bold [outspoken and fearless] toward you when absent! 2 I ask that when I do come I will not be driven to the boldness that I intend to show toward those few who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh [like men without the Spirit]. 3 For though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and...
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Oct 2, 2014 · Furthermore, Paul references the “inward man” (Romans 7:22) and his “mind” which is at war with his “flesh” (Romans 7:23, 25). Some argue that only a regenerate person has an inner man or a renewed mind which is able to war against the flesh.
3 We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4 [a]We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God.
Jun 27, 2024 · So strong is Paul’s desire to live godly and so frustrated is he that his flesh wars against his spirit that he finally cries out in desperation, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” Of course, the answer is Jesus Christ our Lord (verse 25).
Aug 1, 2010 · In 2 Corinthians 11-12, Paul describes one of the most difficult things for us to grasp and believe about the life of faith: God purposefully blesses us with weaknesses for the sake of our joy. So-called “super-apostles” had found their way to Corinth.
Nov 12, 2015 · Wesleyan and “Victorious Life” teachers say that it’s Paul describing himself as a Christian fighting the power of sin in his own strength, because that fits their template of an additional “higher life” step that chapter 8 allegedly goes on to describe.
Would not the name of the Apostle of the Gentiles have been found first on the roll of those who have devastated and devoured the Church of God? To him to live would have been not Christ, but anti-Christ. But now that his life had taken its rise in Christ it made for Him as its end.
