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Volume 8 ... #4
In Heaven We Will Not Have These Fleshly Emotions
For We Will Not Have This Flesh In Heaven
Paul said:
I Cor. 15 ... 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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God will give us a new body as it pleases HIM but we will not have these fleshly bodies that we have now. I Cor. 15
There will be no pain in heaven ... no sorrow ... Revelation 21
The physical pain we know now will be nonexistent in heaven for we will not have bodies subject to pain.
The tears and sorrow we know now will not be in heaven for these are caused by our flesh and we will not have this flesh in heaven nor will we have these fleshly emotions we now have.
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We keep our flesh under control by Jesus, the Word, as we live on this earth but we still have the flesh to contend with on this present earth, and the works of our flesh are just waiting to rise up in us and take over as they once did ... but we also have the Spirit now and the Spirit is greater than all other spirits that want to take over and cause us to do fleshly things. We now have a power through the Spirit that is in us.
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Thus the apostle John says:
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:because greater is HE that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world:therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God:he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. I Jn. 4
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Gal. 5 ...
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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In the meantime, we choose to do the works of the Spirit and choose not to do the works of the flesh. When tempted to the work of the flesh, we can always pray, asking God not to let us do that or say that.
Now we are born again and have another spirit, the Spirit of God, in us. It is greater than the spirit of the flesh.
And none of us want to do bad things because now we have another spirit, being born again of HIS Spirit. Now we have the Spirit of God and Christ in us.
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