Posts Tagged ‘ Mortify ’
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24, ESV
We give up our old life when we follow Christ, killing our old habits and desires for the sake of Christ.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14, ESV
We crucify our own desires for the sake of our Lord and to look to the needs of others in love.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20, ESV
We are no longer our own. We have been purchased, redeemed, and our old self – with all of it’s desires and selfishness – was killed off on the cross with Christ.
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:10-11, ESV
We can get in our own way too often. If we mortify the flesh (crucify our flesh, die to self, do away with our sinful desires) and seek to make Him known to this lost world, we shall join in Christ’s death and resurrection and inherit eternal glory.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24, ESV
We mortify out flesh, that is we willingly give up our sinful desires, putting them on the cross with Christ, finding our identity and desires in Hum alone.
a simple man of God 