The flesh and the Spirit diametrically oppose one another. The flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit lusts against the flesh. The Bible says that the flesh and the Spirit don’t go together and will never go together. A person sows in the flesh or a person sows in the Spirit. What a person reaps is the result of what a person has sown in; the Spirit or the flesh. Because as is written in Galatians 6:7, what you sow you will reap. Let’s look at what the scriptures in the Bible say about sowing and reaping.
What is a carnal person?
A carnal person is carnally minded and walks after the flesh. A carnal person is led by the flesh (الحواس, المشاعر, العقل الجسدي, الخ.) and does the works of the flesh. These works of the flesh originate from the sinful nature of the flesh and oppose the will of God.
لأن الذين هم بعد الجسد يهتمون بأمور الجسد; ولكن الذين هم بعد الروح أمور الروح. لأن التفكير الجسدي هو الموت; لكن أن تكون ذا تفكير روحي هو الحياة والسلام. لأن العقل الجسدي هو عداوة ضد الله: لأنه لا يخضع لقانون الله, لا يمكن أن يكون بالفعل. إذن هم الذين هم في الجسد لا يمكنهم إرضاء الله (رومان 8:5-8)
The flesh won’t submit to God but rebel against God and disobey His commandments. لذلك, the people who are the الخلق القديم and are in the flesh can’t please God.
What are the works of the flesh according to the scriptures in the Bible?
The works of the flesh originate from the evil nature of the flesh. The works of the flesh are mentioned in several places in the Bible and are:
- الزنا (أsexual relationship between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse)
- الزنا (هارلوتري, sexual uncleanness including adultery, الطلاق, سفاح القربى, nonmarital sexual relations, الشذوذ الجنسي)
- Uncleanness (physically or morally: -النجاسة, ritually impure)
- Inordinate affection (properly suffering, (inordinate) affection, شهوة)
- Evil concupiscence (evil/wicked desire or lust)
- Covetousness (fraudulence, ابتزاز:-covetous practices, greediness, having a craving for possession)
- Anger (violent passion, غضب, indignation, vengeance)
- Wrath (fierceness, indignation)
- Malice (naughtiness, شر, الشر)
- Blasphemy (vilification (especially against God), railing, التحدث بالشر)
- Filthy communication (vile conversation, شتم)
- يكذب (utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood, falsely, كذب)
- Lasciviousness (filled with or showing sexual desire)
- الوثنية (worship of idols, immoderate attachment or devotion to something)
- Witchcraft (use of sorcery or magic, use of spells and the invocation of spirits, communication with the devil or with a familiar, an irresistible influence or fascination)
- Hatred (prejudiced hostility or animosity, a reason for opposition, عداوة)
- Variance (من تقارب غير مؤكد; a quarrel, contention, مناظرة, الفتنة)
- Emulations (حسد, fervent mind, indignation, الغيرة, zeal)
- Strife (an act of contention, exertion or contention for superiority)
- Seditions (division, incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority, rebel against the authority of a state)
- Heresies (sect, belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine (especially Christianity), a belief or opinion that does not agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion)
- الحسد (الغيرة, the feeling of wanting to have what someone else has, A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions)
- Murders (slaughter, لقتل, to spoil or ruin, to defeat an opponent very badly)
- Drunkenness(intoxication, the state of being drunk)
- Revellings (rioting, a carousel, enjoying oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing)
Shall the people who do the works of the flesh inherit the Kingdom of God?
لا, the people who do the works of the flesh shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. No matter what preachers say in the church, the Bible says that people who do the works of the flesh shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
والآن ظهرت أعمال الجسد, ما هي هذه; الزنا, الزنا, النجاسة, شهوة, شرك, السحر, الكراهية, التباين, مضاهاة, غضب, الفتنة, الفتن, البدع, الحسد, جرائم القتل, السكر, الاحتفالات, ومثل هذا: مما أخبرك به من قبل, كما قلت لك أيضًا في الماضي, أن الذين يفعلون مثل هذه لا يرثون ملكوت الله (غلاطية 5:19-21)
أما تعلمون أن الظالمين لا يرثون ملكوت الله? لا تخدع: ولا الزناة, ولا المشركين, ولا الزناة, ولا مخنث, ولا المسيئين لأنفسهم مع الناس, ولا لصوص, ولا طمعا, ولا السكارى, ولا الشتامون, ولا المبتزين, يرثون ملكوت الله (1 كورنثوس 6:9-10).
If the people of the church (بما في ذلك قادة الكنيسة) do these works it proves that the church (جمعية المؤمنين) is carnal.
It proves that the church doesn’t belong to God and His Kingdom and is not spiritual but belongs to the world (مملكة الظلام) and is carnal.
The church building and interior with the dynamic neon lighting effect may look beautiful and the music may sound wonderful and influence the visitors in such a manner that it creates a certain experience, and elevate the mood and evoke pleasant feelings and emotions, and cause goosebumps, but all these things don’t prove that the church is spiritual and that God’s Spirit is present.
على العكس تماما, it only proves that the church is carnal. Because the church relies upon natural resources (audiovisual technology) to create an atmosphere and to play on the senses, المشاعر, and emotions of the visitors. But God is Spirit and not a feeling and an experience.
If people go to a concert or a club, their mood shall also be elevated by the dynamic neon light effects and music. The people shall also experience goosebumps, مشاعر ممتعة, والعواطف. لكن, God and His Spirit are not present.
Do signs and wonders prove if someone is born again and spiritual?
لا, signs and wonders don’t prove if someone is born again and spiritual. Supernatural signs and wonders can take place in a church, but they don’t prove the spirituality of the church. Especially if people live in sin and the church tolerates sin.
Signs and wonders can originate from the Spirit. But signs and wonders can also originate from the soul, which is controlled by the kingdom of darkness.
هناك الكثير من الناس, who don’t know God and are not born again and therefore are unspiritual, but do (خارق) علامات وعجائب. They do these signs and wonders from the flesh through natural means; natural technics, طُرق, الطقوس, and natural elements and resources and through influence of evil spirits.
This means that you don’t have to be born again to walk in the supernatural.
Look at alternative healers, Eastern philosophers, علماء التنجيم, إلخ. And don’t forget the sorcerers in Egypt, who could do the same signs as God, إلى حد ما.
This proves that you don’t have to be born again to walk in the supernatural.
Many natural technics are adopted from witchcraft and other pagan religions and philosophies and applied in the church, whereby many churches created a mechanical faith and moved in the occult. They move into the occult thinking they are led by the Spirit of God.
The only difference between an occult church and a Spirit led church is their walk. In an occult church the works of the flesh are done and in a Spirit led church the works of righteousness are done.
The new creation walks after the Spirit and bears the fruit of the Spirit
The people who have become a new creation in Christ have the Spirit of God and are no longer servants of sin. This means that they shall no longer serve the sinful nature of the flesh and do the will, الشهوات, ورغبات الجسد. Their flesh died in Christ and their spirit is raised from the dead. Therefore they are dead unto sin, but alive unto God.
Born again Christians have received the Spirit of God and walk after the Spirit and bear the fruit of the Spirit.
لذلك لا دينونة الآن على الذين هم في المسيح يسوع, الذين لا يسيرون بعد الجسد, ولكن بعد الروح. لأن ناموس روح الحياة في المسيح يسوع قد حررني من ناموس الخطيئة والموت. لما لم يستطع القانون فعله, في أنه كان ضعيفا من خلال الجسد, الله يرسل ابنه في تشابه الجسد الخاطئ, وللخطيئة, الخطيئة المدانة في الجسد: لكي يتحقق بر الناموس فينا, الذين لا يسيرون بعد الجسد, ولكن بعد الروح (رومان 8:1-4)
لكنكم لستوا في الجسد, لكن بالروح, إذا كان الأمر كذلك ، فإن روح الله يسكن فيك. الآن إذا لم يكن لدى أي رجل روح المسيح, إنه ليس من. وإذا كان المسيح فيك, الجسد ميت بسبب الخطيئة; لكن الروح هي الحياة بسبب البر. ولكن إذا كانت روحه التي رفعت يسوع من الموتى يسكن فيك, من الذي رفع المسيح من بين الأموات ، سيؤدي أيضًا إلى تسريع أجسادك البشرية بروحه التي تسكن فيك (رومان 8:9-11)
What is the fruit of the Spirit?
The fruit of the Spirit is mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23, the fruits are:
- حب (Godly love and not worldly love)
- Joy
- سلام
- Longsuffering
- Gentleness
- Goodness
- إيمان (مخلص)
- الوداعة
- Temperance (ضبط النفس)
Ofcourse there are people, who are not born again and seem loving, لطيف, longsufferering, meek, مخلص, بهيجة, and peaceful. But the difference between the people who are carnal and the people who are spiritual is, أن الناس, who are carnal are led by the flesh and not by the Spirit.
هذا يعنى, that as long as the circumstances and situations go according to their will and as long as the people treat them according to their will, then everything is fine. But as soon as something changes and the circumstances and situations don’t go according to their will or as planned and other people don’t do what they want or don’t do what they expect them to do, or if they experience resistance and persecution, then their behavior changes and a whole bunch of other characteristics appear.
But the fruit of the Spirit, which originate from the Spirit and the Godly nature of the new man is permanent. ثمرة الروح is not dependent upon natural circumstances, المواقف, المناطق المحيطة, والناس. The new man bears the fruit of the Spirit at all times.
What does it mean what you sow you will reap?
What you sow you will reap means, what you plant in the soil you will reap. If you plant in the flesh, سوف تجني ثمار الجسد (أعمال الجسد) and if you plant in the Spirit you will reap the fruit of the Spirit. Let’s explain this a little more.
لذلك, الاخوة, نحن مدينون, ليس للجسد, ليعيش بعد الجسد. فإن كنتم تعيشون حسب الجسد, سوف تموت: ولكن إن كنتم بالروح تميتون أعمال الجسد, ستعيشون (رومان 8:12-13)
Christians who by faith and regeneration belong to Christ and have become a خلق جديد are not led by the evil sinful nature, الذي يوجد في الجسد. They don’t do those things that oppose the will of God.
Christians listen to Jesus and اتبعه and don’t listen to the flesh and the lusts and desires thereof. They don’t do the works of the flesh. That’s because they have crucified their flesh and its lusts and desires in Christ.
If you sow in the flesh you shall reap corruption
As long as you remain the old man and walk after the flesh, you’ll do the works of the flesh. You shall remain a slave of sin. You shall sow to your flesh and of the flesh reap corruption.
The old man walks after the flesh and shall not please God with his works, ولكن سيحزن الله.
إذا زرعت بالروح تحصد الحياة الأبدية
ولكن إذا كنت أحب الله وصرتم خليقة جديدة تحفظون وصاياه. عليك أن تسلك بالإيمان بحسب الروح في إرادته في طاعة الكلمة. تزرعون للروح وتأتون بثمر الروح وتحصدون الحياة الأبدية.
لأن جميع الذين ينقادون بروح الله, هم أبناء الله. فإنكم لم تأخذوا روح العبودية أيضًا للخوف; ولكنكم أخذتم روح التبني, حيث نبكي, أبا, أب. والروح نفسه يشهد لأرواحنا, بأننا أبناء الله: وإذا كان الأطفال, ثم الورثة; ورثة الله, ووارثون مع المسيح; إن كان الأمر كذلك فإننا نتألم معه, لكي نتمجد نحن أيضًا معًا (رومان 8:14-17)
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