Jun 26 - THE GREATEST FEAT

“What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (Rom 8:3).

The grand purpose of God in sending Jesus to this world to die on the cross was to condemn sin in the flesh. What the saints of the law period could not do, was to live a perfectly holy life – although they could do many other things like raising the dead, dividing the Red Sea, etc. This proves that living an overcoming life is better and greater than performing miracles, raising the dead, etc.

The greatest feat is overcoming the flesh; the greatest defeat is giving in to the flesh.
 

Jesus ‘condemned sin’ by His death on the cross. So we, in the New Testament Period, are free to live a holy life. “The law of the Spirit if life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Rom 8:2). Do we have any excuse then, if we DO NOT LIVE A HOLY LIFE?

God sent the judgment of flood to destroy ‘all flesh’ (Gen 6:13; 7:21). The same will be the purpose of the coming judgment -“Except those days should be shortened there should no FLESH be saved” (Matt 24:22).

Let us therefore “make no provision for the flesh,” but overcome the flesh by the Spirit of God. “For if ye lie after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom 8:13).

           “‘Holiness unto the Lord’

            is our watchword and song,

            ‘Holiness unto the Lord’

            as we’re marching along,

           Sing it, shout it, loud and long,

           ‘Holiness unto the Lord’ now and for ever.”
 

– Taken from Morning Manna – Thoughts for Daily Devotion