I don’t have much time to post anything this morning, but I
have been studying the Gospel of John, chapter 8, especially the exchange
between Jesus, the Pharisees, and some of His followers. This is just shotgunning something to ponder.
The natural life is sustained by lies and limits. You judge
according to the flesh; I judge no one (John 8:15), Jesus said to those who
attacked Him.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.” – John 8:31-35
That got everybody stirred up.
The slave, or the “servant” in the King James, is the
natural man -- the mind, soul, and body that interacts with and operates in the
physical world (see Romans 6 for both sides of the coin). The son is not referring solely to Jesus the Son, but the
spirit of man -- that which is born of God.
The body does not abide forever; the spirit is eternal. The body is passing away; the spirit endures.
We can look at this as an exchange that takes place between our own mind, soul, and body and our spirit. Even the aspects of the natural man that believe can become contentious when the spirit begins to rise up and threatens to take its rightful position of authority.
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