How to keep meat in subjection

Do you know that your body has not yet been saved?

Je n’ai pas. I gave my heart to Jesus when I was thirteen years old. But I quickly noticed that while a part of me wanted God and the things of God, like reading my Bible and praying, another part of me still wanted the things of the world, the things of the flesh. I’m the only one?

This was what really confused me at the beginning of my walk with Christ. And for things I did not understand, when I gave my life to the Lord Jesus Christ, I doubted my salvation for more than a year. I’m not kidding.

This was because they taught me a little bit wrong. I used to sing in the youth choir at the church I attended and they would sing a song that said, “I look at my hands and they looked new, I looked at my feet and they were new.”

I thank God for that church, because by its influence in my life, through the preaching of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, I was saved. However, this song was wrong.

My hands were not new when I was saved. My feet were not reborn either. The only part of me that was saved was my spirit. My body did not change. And neither does yours.

This is why a person may feel like doing something bad, even after having given his life to Jesus. Although he underwent a change, a real, supernatural change, of the Holy Spirit within, nothing changed on the outside.

And if you gave in to your flesh and sinned, the mental torture and sadness really hurt, because inside you know that you only want to please God. I am right? Cheer up, my brothers and sisters. God has made a way for us to control the ungodly desires of the flesh.

The body will one day undergo change, and this mortal flesh, this body of humiliation destined for death, will one day be transformed and glorified to conform to the body of our Master, the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3: 20-21; 1). Corinthians 15: 50-58).

But until then, we must go to the Word of God and find out what we are supposed to do with our bodies so that they do not sway and distract us from the Will of God, and return to the old modes of operation, of our past. lives.

Have you had a problem with your meat? Does your body sometimes still want to do things that you know are not right, things that don’t line up with God’s Word? We can all relate to this, right?

Maybe you came out of a life of fornication, which is sex outside of marriage. Now you are saved. You have given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ and experience the power of His cleansing blood that washes away your sins and makes your spirit a new creation in Him. Oh, the wonder of it all. You are new, recreated and regenerated with the very life of God by the Spirit of the Living God. And for a time you reveled in His Presence. However, after a while, you started to feel a pull back to your old life.

The feelings of an ungodly guy start trying to tempt you to do things that you know God doesn’t like. You wonder what it is about. Try to find out. You are disturbed. What’s going on, you start to wonder? Am I really saved? I thought it was. People told me who I was. The person who prayed with me told me it was. And the enemy tells your mind, you may not be saved. If you were saved, you would not be having such thoughts and wanting to do such things. Maybe your sins will not be washed away.

Don’t listen to that liar. The devil is a liar and the father of lies. Jesus said so (John 8:44).

If you gave your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, on the authority of God’s Holy Written Word, you are saved (Rom. 10: 9-10).

The feelings you are experiencing are due to the fact that your body, although it was already paid for by the blood of Christ, has not yet experienced its redemption. God, knowing this, admonishes us to surrender our body to him and to surrender it to him, keeping it under control at all times.

Even the apostle Paul, who had several visits from the same Lord Jesus Christ, and was caught up to the third heaven and heard things that no man could pronounce, to whom the revelation of Jesus Christ came and who established churches for the Lord Jesus Christ, said that he had to keep his body under subjection in 1 Corinthians 9:27. “But I continue to hold my body, and I put it in bondage; ballast that somehow, having preached to others, I myself am a castaway.

Let me quote this scripture passage from the Amplified Bible once again.

“Target [like a boxer] I hit my body [handle it roughly, discipline it but hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming the gospel and things related to it to others, I myself will be incapacitated [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit]. “(9:27)

Why would the apostle Paul have to keep his body under subjection? He was saved, wasn’t he? If there was anyone who had an authentic and bona fide experience with God, it was Paul. However, he had to discipline his body through difficulties and handle it roughly. He had to make his body obey God. Why would Paul have to do this, you may ask again? The answer is because his body had not yet experienced redemption. It was not saved. Paul was saved, but his body was not. And neither does yours.

Until the Master comes and our bodies are transformed, you, like the Apostle Paul, will have to slap your body, treat it roughly, discipline it in hardships, and train it in obedience to God’s Word. Sometimes you want to go against the Will of God. But you must let your spirit, your true self, control that body and subdue it. Don’t let your flesh rule your life. Sure, what he’s trying to push you to do can look like fun and feel like fun. But your flesh, if allowed to be in control, will ultimately destroy you and prevent you from experiencing the best that God has for your life.

Let me prove this to you with the Word of God in Romans 8: 5-6, and 12-13: “For those who are according to the flesh, of the things of the flesh those who are according to the Spirit think; to the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit, because to care for the flesh is death, but to care for the spirit is life and peace.

What can we do with our meat, you ask? What is the answer to dealing with your ungodly passions and desires? How can we get victory over him? This I will cover in more detail in another article. But, for now, listen to how the Apostle Paul gives us the answer:

Romans 12: 1, “Therefore, brothers, I beseech you by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your rational worship.”

Here’s how the Amplified Bible translates that verse:

“Therefore, brothers, I appeal to you and beseech you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive surrender of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (dedicated, consecrated) and very pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) worship and spiritual worship. ” (12: 1, AMP)