Mortifying the Flesh Through the Spirit | Benny Hinn

all right so are you ready to receive the word yes lift Lift Your Hands to Heaven now Lord I Thank you for what you're going to say through this message and I pray you'll Quicken my mind to say it just right Quicken my heart also Lord and Quicken the people hearts and Minds to receive it to understand it for we need to understand it more than a year ago or two years ago we need it now this is a a now word for your people we give you all the praise and God's people said amen amen okay Romans 8: 12-4 therefore brethren we are debtors not not to the flesh to live after the flesh for if you live after the flesh he shall die but if ye through the spirit do mortify or put to death the Deeds of the body ye shall live for as many as are led by the spirit of God they are the sons of God all right I want to focus on verse 13 for a minute here for if ye live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye through the spirit to mortify the Deeds of the body you shall live this is a most important and searching verse and I want to show you five things that caught my attention when I read it the five things that will catch your attention when you read verse 13 is number one the person that that he's talking to who is he talking to number two the frightening warning number three the duty of The Listener number four the helper provided and number five the promise of keeping it so let's look at it one more time and see those five things for if Ye Ye who's the ye so who is he talking to no wait no wait wait you got to say more than that to to know who he's talking to you you've got to go back to verse one there's now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh after the spirit for the law of the the spirit of life in Christ Jesus ha made me free from the law of sin and death so it says clearly he's talking to a Believer and then in verse two a Believer how about verse four that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in US US believers who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit then you look at verse 5 and six it says for they that are after The Flesh do mind the things of the flesh they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritual minded is life and peace so he's still talking to the believer and then you go to verse 12 again the believer for he says therefore Brethren therefore brethren we are DET not to the flesh to live after the flesh so in verse 13 when he says for if ye he's talking to Us number two there's a frightening warning in verse 13 if ye live after the flesh ye shall die that's the warning now the duty of you that are listening but he says but if ye through the spirit do mortify if you through the spirit do mortify so it's your duty to mortify the Flesh and then number four he talks about the spirit so there you see the helper that God has provided and number five the promise given is you shall live so let's read the verse again if you believer live after the fles flesh you'll die so he's talking to believer giving you a warning you'll die but if you through the spirit will mortify it's your duty to mortify the Deeds of the body you live so what is so important is is the fact that he tells us it is it's possible to go back to death it's possible to lose the life we're living in so he says to you and me who have known life in Jesus you will die if you choose to live after the flesh now in verse 12 he makes a very powerful statement he says Brethren you don't owe the flesh a thing therefore bre we are debtors not to the flesh so we Believers are debtors to God we owe God everything we owe the flesh nothing why do we owe God everything because well he gave us life he gave us his spirit so Jesus is the one who is given us what we have today as Believers we owe him our being we owe him our existance we owe him our all and therefore he has absolute priority over our lives Jesus has absolute priority over our Lives why he bought us we are his he bought us let's go to 1 Corinthians 6 and see what it says about this purchase he made for it says know ye not verse 19 what know you not your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which you have of God you're not your own for you are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body in your spirit which belong to God you don't owe the flesh anything because God bought you with his own blood in Ephesians 2:1 it says we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them so we are his creation so having bought us from death having renewed Us in life and continues to renew us into His Image making us Sons and Daughters we owe him our life our strength and our service I'm going to show you something really quite powerful in Luke Luke 17 verse [Music] 10 so likewise ye when you shall have done all these things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we've done that which was our duty to do this tells me something powerful our obedience to God is a debt we owe him our obedience to God is a debt we owe him for it says likewise ye when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you you need to say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do so our obedience to God is a debt we owe him I love what it says in in 2 Corinthians 5 and I'm going to read verse 14 and 15 for the love of Christ constrains us because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again so he demands our life we owe him our life we owe him our strength we owe him our service we owe him our obedience because the love of Jesus constrains us because we thus judge if he died for us we died for him that and it says in verse 15 and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him who died for them and rose again we go back to Romans 8:12 that says Brethren you don't owe the flesh anything you should not give the flesh anything now I'm going to read that again because it's so important to see the scripture more than once and such a message needs to be repeated because people are not catching everything you're saying brethren we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh there's something very important I'm going to say here there's a big difference between being in the flesh and living after the flesh big difference between in the flesh after the Flesh in the flesh means you're not even saved after the flesh means you're saved and you go backwards because now you went back in that old life so it is possible to lose life and die again he says so clearly in Romans 8:13 if you live after the flesh you will die so what we need to do today is pay attention to Galatians 68 Galatians 68 is a big headline warning for every one of us sitting in this room you've read it I'm sure you heard it it says he that Seth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption people that swow to the flesh are people that watch too much television they are too involved in worldly matters I made a decision in about 2014 I think 2014 2015 well the Lord I'm sitting watching TV and the Lord said to me cancel this subscription I was watching Netflix he said cancel it so I called the fellow that worked in our ministry called Lance who knew this stuff I said you can cancel this thing I don't know how to do it then the Lord said cancel Direct TV I did cancel cable I did you can't watch Network TV in my place it doesn't even come through CU there's nothing and I decided that I would spend my evenings in the scriptures changeed my life no I'm not bored I love it those programs bore me yes not the Bible and I decided to to learn Hebrew so I registered to be a student of Hebrew University to learn the Bible and for three years that's all I did and I and my professor was a brilliant woman that from Hebrew University seal Zohar her name she is brilliant she's not a Believer but boy she knows Hebrew and I began reading reading my Hebrew Bible I grew up in Israel but I didn't know it that good but when I went to that threeyear course of that University which I finished by the way she told me I was the best student in the class we had a guy we had a guy come we had a guy come a few days ago named atan brilliant man from Israel and I when I read him the Bible in Hebrew he said I'm very impressed fact Chad was right there and heard him tell me he said you read real good I said yeah I I had to learn it the hard way but reading the Hebrew Bible has opened a new door for me to understand scripture and the depth of scripture and then I really got into church history when I had more time I have read Fox's book of Martyrs now four times it changes your life when you read about the martyrs that paid with their blood blood for the faith you and I love and and and live in it's wonderful reading about these men women who died for the faith praising the Lord burning in the fire you begin to ask yourself am I a Christian can I like John has saying praise burning can I suffer like William tind and praise the Lord for it they burnt him for translating the Bible in English can I really praise the Lord if they killed my baby for learning The Lord's Prayer in English that happened in England they killed a little girl for learning how to pray the Lord's Prayer in English that's hisory history and you just your whole look on life changes I don't even I don't even identify with benan pre 2014 I just don't identify with it I was somewhere else I guess suddenly the whole world has changed and I have made a decision I will finish better than when I began wait wait wait for one reason I know him better through his word his word his word his word the devil likes to bring the past up he's just a nothing but a liar we focus on tomorrow we focus on the future we focus on where we are in Jesus and get deeper simple and not allow the distractions of life to pull us back including family they're not going to stand next to you say well please be easy on Benny you pay the price we only have one Soul here one One Life to Live and nobody's going to be next to you defending you on that day and your tears on that day will mean nothing you start repenting now not then so it says don't swow to the FL flesh the more you swow the more you die stop watching that garbage amen stop listening to those things that are are destroying you on the from the inside out and I'm going to be really blunt here you won't like this but I don't care stop being so political stop being so political God never called you to be involved in politics Jesus is all you need he's the only one you need I know some of you don't like it yeah it's okay I'm not your pastor I don't have to see you next next week I'm is telling you stop being distracted by worldly matters focus on your soul and your real the real need in your life the presence of the Lord in your life look look when you start losing your hunger you're dying there's three things in Christianity that says you're alive number one hunger for the Lord number two faith in his promises number three love for the Lord the minute you lose your hunger you're sick in I mean in the flesh in the flesh what do people lose first when they get sick physically appetite what do you lose first as a Christian when you're sick spiritually hunger your appetite for the Lord for his word knowledge of the Lord you don't want to even bother with it what do you lose then okay let's talk about in the natural what are the three things that says a baby's alive number one he's hungry number two he knows this is Mommy this is Daddy this is Family Faith is born in that little baby by knowing this is my mother without even being able to talk and then next thing you see that baby starts to love you doesn't know you all the way but they begin to love you three things happen to us when we're saved first we become hungry for the Lord two we believe we're saved we believe his word we just know that he loves us and we know we are saved and we belong to him without even knowing what preachers are saying out there that's called Faith amen and the third thing we amazingly discover is we love somebody we've never seen well that's not natural that's Supernatural that you love someone you've never seen before 2,000 years ago they saw him and and did not love him today we have not seen him and love him am that's the work of the Holy Spirit not the work of the flesh so when you're hungry for Jesus that means you're alive when you believe what he says you're alive when you love him having not seen him you're alive but when you start dying you lose what your hunger what else do you lose your faith you begin to question what he says number three your heart gets cold then you're dying so what are what are you doing spending your time with things that are destroying you destroying you on the inside and then they're going to destroy you on the outside stop it stop watching those programs stop reading those magazines stop reading those books get to know your savior spend time with him in his word he'll reveal his scriptures he'll reveal his word that you'll be weeping just reading and your love will grow once your once your hunger is back you know alive your faith will live and your love will live and grow grow grow grow grow till his love will consume you it's precious and then his reality will take over your life but Paul is warning us he said don't so to the flesh don't ignore the Lord and his word and be watching all this worldly stuff what did Paul say to to Timothy he he said a soldier of Jesus will not entangle himself in the Affairs of this life did you hear that tell me what I just said a soldier of Jesus will not entangle himself in the Affairs of this life that's what Paul wrote that's for you too and me too are you listening good the Lord has warned us in Luke 11:35 and you see these warnings in the Bible it says this take heed therefore that the light which is in you does not become dark of Darkness that's a that's a that's a scary one be careful that the light in you does not become darkness in you so if you soow to the flesh you re corruption and the light goes and and and the old darkness comes back you don't want that it's not how you start that matter is it's how you finish and it's not how you fall that matters is how you get up did you hear that it doesn't matter how you fall how do you get up we all have had our slip here and slip there come on on WE me tooo everybody's had some turbulence in life you almost destroyed yourself then you wake up and become strong and go on go on so the word flesh by the way in scripture and there's other warnings like Luke 17:32 Jesus said remember Lot's wife how she looked back the when you read The Word Flesh in Scripture it speaks of that corrupt nature which is in each one of us when we were born as babies transmitted from one parent to a child and by the way it was not in Adam God did not create him with that corrupt nature he chose it because when God created Adam he said very good well you don't say very good to something corrupt so the the answer to what happened to Adam how come he messed up it's found in Eccles in ecclesi Ecclesiastes 7:29 it says God made man or created man upright but he sought in many inventions God created man upright when God created Adam he was holy clean and good but he sought him in Vengeance he looked for ah like that let's look at this one sadly Adam gave in to the flesh the enemy of Holiness the flesh is enmity against God the Bible says that's right Romans 8:7 enmity against God there's a big difference between an enemy and enmity you can reconcile with an enemy you cannot reconcile with an enmity Satan is enmity against God he's the very source of enmity Bible says the flesh is enmity against God it cannot reconcile with him the flesh that irreconcilable enemy of Holiness the devil the world enmity against God so the flesh please hear this the flesh is the womb where all sin is conceived and formed and I just told you earlier the difference between In the Flesh and after the the Flesh in the flesh is outside the kingdom Romans 7:5 talks about people in the flesh for in Romans 7:5 he says we were in the flesh we were back then when we were in the flesh we were not in the Kingdom we were in the flesh that's in Romans 7 verse 5 if you want to know just know the difference for when we were in the flesh he says the Motions of sin which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death and it says those that are in the flesh cannot please God Romans 88 so to live after the flesh means you are saved but you've gone backwards and now you conduct your life and begin to do the old things you did you become dominated by the Fallen nature to to to live after the flesh means you become governed Again by the evil nature you become governed Again by the evil nature are is this getting through to you and people that go after the flesh the the glory of God becomes nothing to them and the flesh becomes everything to them and so we're commanded in Romans 6:12 I'm almost done I got to get this through to you let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey it and the lust thereof can I have my phone back so I know what time it is don't let sin re in your mortal body so this is a matter of life and death because he says in verse 16 of Romans 6 don't you know know you not to whom you yield yourself servants to obey his servants you are to whom you obey whether of sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness so this is a matter of life and death and that's why he says if you live after the flesh you'll die you know the Bible in Revelation 21 verse 8 talks about the second death the fearful the unbelieving Abominable murderers hormonger sorceress idolatrous all LS shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death Paul cries cried that he would he would be raised from the dead in in the first resurrection that that the second death will will have no power power then so it's time for you and I to obey Colossians please some beautiful music behind me I'm almost done do you do you sweet people want to make heaven and see the smile of the Lord on his face I'm going to give you the answer mortify Colossians Colossians 3:5 and6 mortify Therefore your members which are upon the Earth fornication uncleanness inordinate or passions evil affections and evil desire and covetousness which is adultery mortify them put them to death how starve them for which things s the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience so how do I do that he says to us mortify Therefore your members mortify your members means make no provision cuz we have the power to say no in Romans 13:14 Paul tells us put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof so I cannot starve the flesh till I put on the Lord Jesus so put on the Lord Jesus and then don't make provision for the flesh say no to it m- I'm not going to look at that I'm not going to do this no no no no no that's not my life anymore we deny it completely yeah it's a it's it's a it's a it's a war if you want to walk in the spirit you have to starve the flesh quite simple and Paul in Galatians 5 says it's a war inside of you it's fine so have no Fellowship Ephesians 5:11 says have no Fellowship this is an important verse you all ought to underline and remember Ephesians 5 51 says and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness don't look at them but expose them so now do you remember what it says I gave you earlier Romans 8:13 right can we go back to it and read it together out loud I want I want to point some one thing out to you before I say I'm done okay I want to point one thing out to you with that about that verse so we we're going to read it together let's read it out loud all of us 1 2 3 let's go for if ye after the flesh ye shall die but if stop stop if ye through what it doesn't say the spirit through you it says you through [Music] him if you through the spirit meaning you start first you act first if you through the spirit not the spirit through you so we are the ones that act and he enables say I act I act he empowers he empowers say it again I one more time I so the second you act he gives you the power to do it cuz that's what it says if you through the spirit you act the spirit empowers do mortify the Deeds of the body you live so Lord I cannot do it but I decide today I will not look I will not entertain the world and Lord I make that decision now Empower me to live it and every day you ask the Holy Spirit to help you and finally one final scripture and I truly am done 2 Corinthians 7 verse one Paul says having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the Flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of god wow we decide it he empowers us to live it the Highway of Holiness is the only path to Heaven Lift Your Hands to Heaven now Lord I gave them your word as clearly as I could as well as I could and I'm trusting you to help them live it help me live it help all of us live it we've made the decision already all of us our decision is [Music] firm we have decided to follow you no turning back we know the dangers of the lust of the eye and the lust of the Flesh and the part of life we don't want to make that mistake again thank you for your love and mercy that we're still here that we can still go on and become stronger your word says when my foot slipped your mercy held me up thank you for that Mercy thank you for your love Hallelujah so I would like to kind of just spend a few moments with you just to kind of lift your faith Lord I Thank you just lift your hands with me Lord we thank you for your word and we thank you for your promises you are God Almighty able to do way more than we can believe for and to you be all the praise and God's people said amen amen when it comes comes to the subject of finances people get very uh nervous sometimes but there's no need to get nervous because it's really a very exciting uh word it's it's a very exciting thing you look at the promises of God when it comes to finances are quite powerful to be honest with you time after time in scripture I wish above all things you prosper be in health we got to believe it give it shall be given unto you good measure press down shake it out running over sh men we got to believe it so there's three keys that I have discovered in 48 years of ministry to to Prosperity three keys key number one is in Proverbs 8 I will cause them that love me to inherit substance I will cause them that love me to inherit substance this is in Proverbs chapter 8 so when you love the Lord he promises substance and you know that God's word is repeatedly telling us if you honor the Lord with your substance he'll bless you God is Big when it comes to honor in in in in our culture same thing honor is headline big headline you you honor your parents you honor your your your elders so forth to honor the Lord with your substance is highly important in his sight honor the Lord with thy substance and the first fruits of all your increase so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and your preses will burst out not just come out burst out with new one that is his word that's his law you can't change that law number two the second key is job 22 it says if you love it says get acquainted with God and be at peace with him it says receive the law from his mouth receive his word from his mouth and then it says you'll have gold and silver you'll have plenty of blessings meaning the word of God is the second key that's in job 22 you can look it up years ago a French man put the verses in the Bible and an English man before him divided the Bible into Chapters at least I'm giving you that chapter so just go look it up huh Proverbs 8 and job 2022 the third the third key is obedience job 36 it says if they obey if they obey and serve him they'll spend their days in prosperity and years in pleasure obedience is the tough one obedience is where people have a problem with they all say yes I love Jesus they all obey Proverbs 8 and they all obey job 22 but nobody wants to obey job 36 obey him so when God speaks do it don't negotiate don't negotiate and it's going to hurt it will hurt you I promise you you you're not going to feel good you're going to feel pain he that goeth forth spreading seed weeping it says that's pain so nobody SWS big seed laughing big seed means you're going to cry about it you're going to complain it's okay God understands but he'll prove it to you over and over and over in your life that that seed Works absolutely works so I'm going to have you do something tonight you've got an envelope somewhere you've got envelopes for for other people okay now you're going to take this envelope and on the back of it you're going to write Lord I praise you that my financial whatever be specific tonight don't don't just say Prosperity now what is it you really want financially you got to be very specific with God I've learned that about the Lord he answers only specific prayers be specific with God is it your house is it your car is it your bills next week is it a lawsuit you're fighting what is it financially and I want you to write that prayer or better than than that just say Lord I praise you that I'm going to receive it you may even want to write both prayer and praise at the same one David prayed for prosperity when he said Lord send Prosperity now we pray that God I did not know that till Oro Robert said why don't you ask God you asking for everything else and then you need to sew a seed that fits the need you seow a seed that fits the need if you need a big Harvest you SE a big seed if you want a small Harvest you give a small seed if we s sparingly we reap sparingly we s Bly we reap we also reap bountifully so a lady came up one day she said well how much should I give I said what do you need what do you need you need to just something small well then so small but if you need something big from God you have to sew a big seed that's quite simple really so Lord I Thank You for Your word Lord I pray you'll bless your people tonight financially and what you've done for me over and over do for them and Lord I Thank you for your promises I thank you for your promises you you said it shall be given unto you good measure press down shaking together and running over shall men give to your bosom and when we honor you Lord you said our barns will be filled with plenty we give you the praise Hallelujah do what God says and watch the results it will be amazing results and the Miracle happens always on time so once you've sewn that seed I want to agree with you can we come into agreement can we come into agreement okay can you stretch your hands towards me I'm stretching my hands towards you come on let's just come into agreement let's just say Lord father in jesus' name we agree according to your word for you said if two will agree it'll be done and we agree Lord the seed we sow today will bring the needed heart Harvest we expect it and we thank you for it and we praise you for your love for your care wonderful Jesus thank you for taking care of us and taking care of this need in my life today this financial need we agree is met in Jesus name

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Length: 46min 26sec (2786 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2024