Greater Christ Temple

Your flesh is dead so don't allow it to resurrect itself in your life.

• Once we are saved we must be proud of who we are.
• If we are proud of who we are we will be careful to maintain our walk.
• We must never allow our flesh to promote its desires because we are a new creature in Christ Jesus.
• Once we recognize what Jesus has done and allow Him to work it out we realize that we have freedom from the bondage of the law.
• But in the midst of this freedom our dependency must be upon the spirit of God that abides within us.
• There is something about the spirit of Christ that is able to direct our lives and promote the will of the Lord.
• This is why quoting a few words and confessing Jesus is not enough to be saved.
• All you have done is spoken with your lips and you have no power yet.
• Once the sprit becomes a part of you then you must understand that you are supposed to remain free.

Galatians 5:1

• You have been set free, liberated, and not bound any more.
• Now you must release yourself to the spirit of Christ and His will.
• Take a stand and not allow anything to move you away from that which God has placed within you.
• Once you recognize that the devil has one job (to take away your God given freedom) you must never be ignorant of satan's devices.
• God has given us freedom from sin and we are no longer bound.
• Now since we have this freedom it is our responsibility to remain free from sin.
• The Holy Ghost comes to help us but it will not force us to say no to the devil.
• It is not within our power but that power which is operating within us.
• We must allow the Holy Ghost to have total control of our lives.
• We must remember that our freedom came because we found favor with God.
• So now we must recognize that whom the son sets free is free indeed.
• Don't pick back up what God has taken out of your life.
• Be not entangled with that yoke of bondage again now that Christ has given you freedom.
• We must remember what our weakness was in our bondage and never allow it to return.
• If you play with fire you will be burned and even though you have the Holy Ghost it (the old man) is still in you dormant.
• But once you become weak in the spirit that weakness will display itself and come out again.
• That thing that kept you in bondage was the weakness in your flesh.
• In order for it to remain destroyed you must walk in the spirt so that you don't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Your flesh is still trying to get hold of its former lusts.
• You will yield to the devil whenever you cease to walk in the spirit.
• No matter what happens you will not be entangled again with this yoke if you walk in the spirit.
• Sometimes we like to brag about what we don't do any more but allow yourself to get weak and see what happens.
• The Saints cannot play games with the devil because satan's desire is to grab each one of us again.
• He desires to sift us as wheat but Jesus prayed that our faith fails not and we can strengthen our brother.
• This is the only way we can make it and stay saved.
• Many times even after we are saved we feel like we can take it easy but while we are still on earth we must be mindful.
• We do not have a glorified body yet so our old fleshly desires still try to control our appetite.
• No matter how saved we think we are if we don't walk in the spirit we will fall back into our old ways.
• If you don't fast, read the Word, and pray you are setting yourself up for your flesh to take over.
• You didn't even know the devil was living until you got saved because you were His running mate.
• But now that you know what he is trying to do to you it is crucial that you keep the mind of God.
• Don't play with your eternal soul because it is the only one that you have.
• All souls belong to God and the soul that sins will die.
• God will separate Himself from you (allow you to fulfill the desires of your flesh) if you fall back into your deep seeded sins.
• How can two walk together except they be agreed so why are you running with that old company?
• Your company does not have to make a stand but you do.

Ephesians 4:17

• We cannot walk like the unsaved do and you will never be any greater in Christ than the company you keep.
• If you want to be saved you should have an ear to hear and respond to Godly, spiritual advice for your own edification.
• We should all desire to go to the next level that we are not in right now.
• We cannot be carnal minded which is to be worldly minded not operating in the spirit of God.
• If we want the blessings of God we must understand what it takes to get them.
• So we must align ourselves with the Word of God.
• God saved us to come out and separate ourselves and to rely and depend upon Him.

Romans 8:5

• When you hear what comes out of folks mouth you can tell if they are carnal minded.
• When they are this way they will be mindful of the things of their flesh.
• They will do whatever they must to fulfill the desires of their flesh.
• Sometimes you wonder when these "saved folk" are going to talk about God at all.
• When carnality regulates your thinking you don't want to hear anything about the Word.
• Everything that operates within them represents their own selfish desires for their flesh.
• Whenever we allow the spirit of God to take charge we must surrender many of our thoughts and ideas.
• These things can no longer be a part of us because we are not our own and bought with a price.
• We don't have the authority to walk away from the spirit just to please our flesh.
• Either we are carnal minded or spiritual minded.
• If we are spiritual God will give us an answer to all things and our tongue is not our power.
• We are no longer human but a partaker of Christ and have taken on His divine nature.

Romans 8:6

• To be carnally minded is death because we have separated ourselves from the spirit of God.
• That old sinful nature is nothing but death.
• We were dead in our sins (Ephesians 2:1) but are now resurrected above our flesh and now walk according to the spirit.
• In order to have the more abundant life He gave us we must depend upon Him.
• We must allow God to be the motivator of our actions if we desire to remain spiritually minded.
• This means to stay in His Word and walk our daily lives in it.
• There is healing and deliverance in His Word and we will find ourselves continually relying on Him in all situations.

Romans 8:7

• If you are carnally minded you are not pleasing God at all.
• You have left God (when carnally minded) and even if you are still speaking in tongues and feel good from time to time you still are not pleasing to God.
• You no longer have that kinship of spirit with what God wants from you.
• You take things out of God's hands when you refuse to take His spiritual advice.
• Why ask for His advice then go ahead and do your own thing because you think you have a better answer?
• Once you separate yourself from Him then you loose His favor.
• The carnal mind cannot be subject to the mind of God because it will not be obedient to the will of God.
• We have to be responsible unto God and be obedient unto His Word.
• We need help and cannot help ourselves because we will teach ourselves what we want to do.
• When we get carnal minded we don't want to hear any preaching from anyone.
• We say I am just as saved as they are but we don't even know if they are saved.
• Christ must be our only example of righteousness.
• For us to know the expectations of God we must leave personalities out and read His Word.
• The job of the sheep is to strengthen one another but the pastor is to give instruction.
• If we operate carnally minded we can destroy a lot of people.
• Even if we operate in the spirit when we get mad we will still know how to conduct ourselves.
• The Holy Ghost never says shut up before I hit you.
• You didn't get that from the Word but it was your flesh.
• When we begin to deal with our own personalities we get defensive and carnally minded.

Romans 8:8

• Those who are in the flesh, which is to be carnally minded, can never please God.
• When we are carnally minded we find ourselves tearing down instead of building up.

Romans 8:9

• But we who are saved cannot react like the carnally minded ones.
• No matter where we are we must abide within the changes that the spirit of Christ has placed in our lives.
• If we no longer operate in the spirit of Christ we are none of His.
• Baptism washes away your sins but does not give you the spirit of God.
• But we must go beyond that and receive the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.