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BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT!

DO!!! OBEY!!!   DECIDE!!! CHOOSE!!!

FLESH, SOUL, and SPIRIT

A fleshly person is a person who does what their body wants them to do.

A soulish person does what their emotions and feeling want them to do.   This kind of person becomes a slave to one’s own feelings and emotions.

A spiritual person does what God tells them to do!!!
 

A fleshly, carnal person , a person who walks in the flesh, allows one's self to become a slave to what his or her body tells them to do.   If the body does not feel like getting out of bed, the person meekly submits to the Body’s demand.   If their body does not feel like exercising, the person does not exercise.   If their body wants to eat certain foods, like sugar, candy, chocolate, ice cream, pop, alcohol, drugs, carbohydrates, cakes, starches, etc., and that person KNOWS that what their body is telling them to do or be is unhealthy, and unwise, and is poor body stewardship, then a fleshly or carnal person does what their body wants them to do.   This kind of person easily becomes an addict.   This situation exists with food addiction, sexual addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, crime addiction, gambling addiction, spending addiction, laziness addiction, sloppiness addiction, television addiction, etc.

Let’s understand the Bible use of the word “ flesh ”.   Of the 149 times the word flesh is used in the King James New Testament, 95 of the mentions, have to do with the human body, and are not used in a negative context.   In fact, there are only a few times with the rest of the selections that are used to depict negativity.

A soulish person does what emotions and feelings tell him or her to do.   If one’s emotions or feelings tells them to be discouraged, depressed, resentful, bitter, angry, unforgiving, sad, morose, negative, complaining, victim-like, unbelieving, etc., then, that’s what they allow themselves to do and to be and to become!

Every command of God, every leading of the Holy Spirit, speaks to the choice of our will.   A spiritual person will do the will of God, no matter what the circumstances, conditions, feelings, or emotions say to the contrary.   A spiritual person will forgive, even when he or she does not feel like forgiving.   The same is true of anger, discouragement, laziness, temptations, or resentment, etc.   A spiritual person will rejoice and give thanks, at any time, or under any circumstance, simply because, that is what God commands and expects.   Phil 4:4   "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, 'Rejoice!'."   A spiritual person will obey this command, in spite of feelings and emotions and conditions to the contrary, simply because it is the right and proper thing to do, simply because it is the will of God, simply because the New Testament commands it.   The same thing is true for the Scriptural commands to "love each other fervently from a pure heart", to "Give thanks, at all times, in (and for) everything!!!"    1 Peter 1:22, 1, Thessalonians. 5:16 -18, and Eph.5:20