No Confidence in the Flesh — David Wilkerson

No Confidence in the Flesh

Third chapter, please. Philippians, the third chapter. My message this afternoon, no confidence in the flesh. No confidence in the flesh. If you've got any confidence in the flesh left in you, we're going to kill it this afternoon.

By the power of his word and spirit. Philippians, the third chapter, verses 1 through 4. Finally, my brethren, Rejoice in the Lord, write the same things to you. To me indeed is not grievous, but few it is saved.

Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers. Beware of the concision. Now, the dogs mentioned here were those of the circumcision that we're trying to say that you have to be circumcised before you can be saved.

You have faith, but you have to be circumcised as well. Verse 3, for we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have what? No confidence in the flesh. We're different kind of people, he said.

We're not like the circumcision of the flesh. We have no confidence in the flesh whatsoever. Heavenly Father, we suffer and hurt because of our ignorance of your ways and your word, and we pray that you turn the light on this afternoon.

Some things that we go through that we don't understand that if we could simply understand, if you just give us the understanding, we were able to lay hold of it through the spirit of the living God. We could live in peace.

We could live with joy. Lord, we would have to, we would not bear so many birds of guilt and fear and condemnation that we place on ourselves that God never intended us to bear. And so we live in misery and many times we're tormented by these things that we don't understand.

So I pray, Holy Ghost, that you teach us, teach me in the process of sharing what you put on my heart. Lord, we don't know it all, but we're learning. We're learning how to walk in the light, and when the light comes, the joy follows, and the peace of God that passes all understanding, so that we will not live in torment, for fear has torment.

You'd never meant to torment us. You meant, O God, that we would walk through life with peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and the righteousness of Christ. So help me, Lord, to convey this word that brings peace and rest to our souls.

In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Paul, the apostle, said he had no flesh, no confidence flesh. He said, I don't trust it. I've got nothing to do with my flesh. He didn't trust his flesh because he knew God didn't trust it.

That God doesn't deal with flesh anymore. You see, flesh is not this human body in itself. It's the nature that's in this body. I inherited a nature, and you inherited a nature, from Adam that's prone to sin, full of every evil possible possibility, conniving and striving and lying and stealing.

All of these things. You bring a baby into the world, you bring a child into the world, and it won't take you more than a year or two to get to the terrible twos, and you'll see how much, you'll see what flesh is.

I've gone through four kids and 11 grandkids, and I know what flesh is. In fact, let's go to Galatians and see what it really is. Galatians, the fifth chapter. Turn left to Galatians, the fifth chapter.

And starting at verse 19. Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, are revealed, which are these adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, various emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envies, murders, drunkenness, adultery, violence, and such things, such like, of which I tell you, as I've also told you in a time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Now, folks, that's quite a list. And do you know that every bit of that is in you and me, in our flesh? You say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't murder. Oh, yeah, but you hate, and the Bible calls that murder.

You say, I don't commit adultery. Did you ever look the second time? Oh, you don't tell me. You say, well, I've conquered my flesh. Oh, we'll see that you haven't even started. You see, the law in the Old Testament was given to expose the weakness of our flesh.

God gave a revelation of his high holiness, his utter holiness. He made demands on the flesh that he knew the flesh could not fulfill. Because the flesh and the pride would try to get to heaven on its own merits, and then Christ would have died in vain.

What's the use of Christ going to the cross if we can figure this out ourselves and do it on our own power and strength? And so he had to show us what he knew, that there had to be an old covenant that demanded absolute, total, perfect holiness.

And God said, if you fail at one point of this, the flesh point is the flesh fails at one point to fulfill all this law of mine. You fail the whole thing. In other words, you failed the test and your flesh has not achieved what you thought it could achieve.

It's an impossible task because the flesh failed at every point of the law. It failed in all how it tried to be accepted by God. It wanted to be that vehicle of righteousness that could be accepted before God to bring us.

And so it dressed itself up in spirituality. Well, there's nothing that stinks more in the sight of God than flesh dressed up the spirituality, dressed up in spiritual drag. That's all it is. God knew all along that the flesh was weak and powerless.

He never trusted the flesh to keep his law. They had to prove to us how to us how hopeless it was and that flesh will always be flesh. Flesh is never going to change. Flesh has a character of its own.

That character has been described in Galatians 5 and it will not change as long as you're in the body. As long as you live on this earth, your flesh is not going to change its character. We'll show you something.

You said, boy, I can't buy that. Well, you'll see it from the scripture here as we go by. At the cross, God, once and for all, did away with all dealings of the flesh. This is where the new covenant, the new arrangement came in, where God says, I am not going to deal with your flesh.

Your flesh was given the opportunity and it failed. You cannot buy your own willpower, your own strength. You cannot do it by your own strivings. That has been tried and it's been a failure. And at the cross, God says, I recognize only one man now.

Not the flesh man, the old man, but the new man, which is Christ Jesus. I'm only going to recognize one man. And the only way I'll ever recognize you, you can't come to me by trying to make me promises.

You can't come to me and say, try me one more time, because I've tried you hundreds of times and you failed already. This one time more thing doesn't work. He said, there's only one man who is perfect and who has fulfilled the law.

And that's my son. He said, I'm not going to deal with you anymore. I'm not going to deal with your flesh. As far as I'm concerned, your flesh is dead. It's dead. The flesh, the Bible said, was crucified with Christ.

Crucified. Now, listen closely, because if you get this and ask the Holy Spirit to help you, you're going to discover that most of the misery you and I go through, our guilts and our fear and our condemnation, is a result of misunderstanding flesh versus the new man.

The old man versus the new man. The Lord says, I'm going to gather up in Christ everyone who believes. I'm going to gather up and that will be one man. That's his body. I'm going to recognize only one man.

I see you now only as in Christ. I recognize. I deal only with one man. I don't deal with the ups and downs and the fluctuations of the flesh anymore. I don't do that. I've never done that. He said, I won't deal with you that way, because you'll never be satisfied.

You'll never be secure. Every time you feel good or think you've achieved something, you'll feel that you're in relationship with me. But every time your flesh fails you, you'll be condemned. You'll hide from me.

And you'll feel filthy and dirty. And just like Adam and Eve, you'll run and hide from me. And you'll not understand my nature. So Jesus took this self man, this flesh man, to the cross and crucified him.

Knowing this, that our old man of the flesh is crucified with him. He's saying, you labor and strive as you want. You make promises in the flesh. You try to do better. You try to keep my love commandments in yourself, man.

It's all going to be in vain. Because even if your flesh succeeds in improving your nature, even if you can come to a high moral condition through the efforts of the flesh, I will not receive it, because in my eyes it's dead.

It's over. Deal with you with your flesh. By the deeds or the works of the law or the flesh, there shall no man be justified. Through the flesh, from the cross on, no man can be made right before God through efforts of his human flesh.

Paul's Failed Righteousness Through the Flesh

Now, Paul spoke about his own useless struggle against, by the flesh to please God. Oh, how this Pharisee called Saul wanted to please God. He was jealous for the law, circumcised under the law. He was given to zeal.

He was given to the righteousness, which is by the flesh, by the keeping of the law. He said, I've tried all of that. I expended all my strength. I abused myself. I did everything to try to please God in my own strength.

And God would have nothing with it. He'd have nothing to do with it. He said, I was blameless according to the law, and God wouldn't have anything to do with it. He turned it down. It was all in vain.

All of that work, all those promises I made and all of that striving and all of the keeping of those various 635 rules and regulations of the Pharisees, I've failed. Now, the very fact that he said he was perfect in keeping the law, just in that very statement, he missed the law.

Missed the point because the Bible said no man has completely fulfilled the law. But he mentioned the moral commandments, the Ten Commandments, which we should all be able to fulfill through the grace of God.

But in Galatians, Paul says in 524,. And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. All that you read in Galatians 5, all of those, that whole list of things that describe our human flesh.

And folks, everything that I read is potentially in you and me. Everything, including murder, adultery, fornication. Potentially, it's there in our flesh. The seeds of it are there. And now Paul comes along and says, All they that are in Christ have crucified the flesh with all that list, all the affections and all the lusts.

Folks, let me tell you something. We cannot crucify our own flesh. That would mean that that was within our power to accomplish. That we could set out to do something about flesh. That we could kill this habit and with a little willpower kill this habit and just keep at it until we worked them one by one.

And came to, you know, we just, I don't know how you do it. You lay down and you get a hammer over here and you nail this hand down. How do you nail the other hand down? You only have one left. You can't crucify yourself.

And yet it says, They that are in Christ have crucified the flesh. The Bible said, Our old man, or the flesh, is crucified with Christ. We enter into his victory. We claim his victory as ours. Christ crucified the flesh so I can say that I am in Christ and I have crucified the flesh because I am in Christ.

My flesh is crucified because I am in Him. I didn't do it myself, any good works of my own. He made the sacrifice. And when I enter into my, with faith in His finished work at the cross then I can say all those lusts have been crucified.

The Conflict Between Flesh and Spirit

Now you, here's the problem. You say, well, that doesn't square with my experience, Pastor Dave. I read, yes, that my flesh and its lusts have been crucified with Christ. Now I hear you say my flesh is dead in the eyes of God.

Then why is my flesh still acting up? Why do I still battle with lusts and evil deeds and thoughts? Why depression? Why such temper tantrums? Where do I get that? If that's not flesh, what is it? If my flesh is dead, why does the Bible say the flesh is lusting against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these two are contrary, the one to the other, so that we can't do the things that we'd like to do.

Now that sounds like a war, doesn't it? You say that lust in me is fighting and the word here used in the Greek is to seek control and superimpose will upon another. So the flesh is trying to conquer the spirit of God in us which is the spirit of Christ and the spirit of Christ in us is endeavoring to superimpose the will of God upon the flesh.

There's a war. You say, well that's some paradox you just brought us to. You say it's crucified, it's dead and yet I don't feel like it's dead and if the Bible says that I'm to make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust that means that the flesh is still there and if I make provision for it, it's going to overpower me.

Are you getting it? Do you live it? Do you understand it? You quoted those scriptures, you said I am absolutely dead in Christ, the flesh is dead, it's gone and you go home and lose your temper with your wife before you get home.

You come to Times Square Church and you hear these wonderful promises the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and I'm in the spirit tonight and the spirit of God has conquered that flesh because on my job there's a guy that's just come on the job and he's down four desks from me and Sunday night I got the victory over looking at that man because I know he's not a Christian and I've got victory over that man.

Now that's not some woman I know, that's a made up woman in my mind. Trying to illustrate something and there's something in the heart rejoices you up in the morning and says I have victory in Jesus how am I singing it all the way and today God helping me I won't even look that way.

I will never have a vain imagination about having a date with him because I know he's not saved and you go there saying I'm going home tonight with victory because the flesh is dead crucified and you last 15 minutes sister because suddenly you are looking there and you're trying to figure out how you can you're figuring out how you can accidentally meet him by accident and something inside begins to stir some sensuality and thoughts of passion and other things that suddenly and by noon you're condemned.

You go home that night. You say God what was that all about. Where is the victory. What happened. I thought it was beyond that. I thought I had more grace than that. I thought I had more power over sin than that.

Where did those terrible thoughts come from. Where did that vain imagination come from. Let me give you the key to understanding this seeming paradox. God declares flesh dead in his own eyes dead as far as his new covenant dealings with his people.

He reckons it dead. Now there's still indwelling sin in us. Sin still indwells this physical body. But you see it's not dead in our eyes yet it's getting crucified in God's eyes. And God's problem is he has got to have us see through his eyes not what we see through our eyes not what we live by feelings alone but what God has declared until you see what God sees until you see it from God's eyes until you reckon it dead.

The Bible said your flesh dead until you reckon it as he reckons it dead. And he gave us an allegory which means an illustrated sermon he gives in Galatians the fourth chapter. Don't turn there. But he gave the allegory of Abraham and his two sons.

Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael as an Allegory of the Covenants

Now God said I'm going to give you a son. But it's going to be a son by faith. You're going to believe me for this. And he said it's going to be on my time and my agenda. And it's going to come by faith.

Abraham you believe me for this child. And you're going to have a child that's the faith child. This was going to be Isaac. God had Isaac planned from the foundation of the world. Isaac represents walking with God by faith alone pleasing God by faith alone.

Being in the presence of God and pleasing God and doing everything according to the mind of God represents the new covenant everything by faith in Christ Jesus and his finished work. But you see Abraham got impatient and at the urging of his wife Sarah.

He goes into his maid Agar and has a child by the name of Ishmael. And the Bible calls Ishmael the child of the flesh. The scripture says he that was born of the bond woman or the slave woman. Agar was born after the flesh.

It was born after the scheming and conniving and planning of human flesh. In other words not going to wait God's way. I can do this myself. I can achieve this God. I want you to accept my plan. God comes along and he said cast out the bond woman and her son or the son of the slave woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

And at that point he declares Ishmael as far as any covenant dealings with Abraham from now on he says I'm telling you cast Ishmael out. That's of the flesh. That's of human achievement. I'm not going to deal with you that way anymore.

And he was pointing to the new covenant. He was pointing to the time that Christ would come and that's what the inheritance was all about. This was the lineage of Christ the son of the living God. This happens to represent every child that would believe in Christ from the cross on God says in my eyes he's dead.

Cast him out.

And cast the womb of that whole system out everything born of it out. The moment it's dead it's legally dead. From that time on Ishmael cannot rob Isaac of his inheritance. He cannot interfere with his father legally.

He can't do anything about it. But the Bible says that he's still persecuted. He was still alive. But in the eyes of God he's dead. He's legally dead. In other words he can't do anything about anything.

He can persecute. He can lie. He can come to Isaac and say this is not right. He can accuse him. He can persecute him. But in the eyes of God Ishmael the flesh is what. If he's going to enjoy his inheritance accept that.

He's going to come out of his tent in the morning. And there's Ishmael. Ishmael says you're a liar. You're a cheat. You're no good. That inheritance belongs to me. And one of these days your father doesn't love you anyhow.

This should be a double deal. I should get half of it. And if he listens to those lies he's going to have doubts and fears and unbelief because he's not accepted the legal view. He's not accepted God's view of the death of Ishmael.

Ishmael is still there. But in the eyes of God he's cast out. He's dead. It's a legal issue. And if Isaac wants peace of mind he's going to come out and say I don't care what you say flesh. I don't care how you accuse me.

I don't care how many thoughts you try to inject into my mind. I don't care how you try to interfere with my father Abraham and my relationship. You're dead. Get out. I have nothing to do with you. Nothing anybody getting the picture.

When your flesh comes to you with lies and evil thoughts. You say I am a covenant child. I am under the blood. I've come by faith. I wasn't born a flesh child. I am born a spirit child. I'm in the spirit.

I don't live in the flesh flesh. You have no rights here anymore. You have no rights with me. You can interfere with my relationship to my heavenly father. And the only way you can do that if you don't believe what God said I told you I learned some things.

I was sitting in my office this week. I was just on this place about the flesh trying to please God because Abraham said oh God that you would accept Ishmael. God if you just accept my labors God if you just accept my promises God if you just give me one more chance.

Have you ever said that you thought you could make it and you fell. Oh did you fall now. God needs nobody to sin. But God sometimes allows his people to fall to see how weak their flesh is. He allows it.

Yes he does. He'll allow. He'll just step aside and let your flesh take over and bang down. You go. And I was just thinking about that and Lord said turn left look over there. What is the Holy Spirit whisper in my heart.

The Window-Climbing Bug and the Futility of Self-Effort

And there was a little insect. I've got a big bow window there. What do you call it. Well at least there are four big panes there and a bow window. And there was an insect. It wasn't a fly but it was like a centipede with wings on it.

And that thing was crawling right up the glass and it would fall down. And I kept writing and it didn't pay much attention. I just kept looking that thing kept crawling about the tenth time that thing started crawling up again.

I said I'm going to watch this. And I watched it. It got up to the top of the windowsill and there was no other place to go. So it would take off the wings. But it was so weak from climbing so often. It would fall right back down.

I kept going with my message and God was speaking to me and I got so intrigued. I said I'm going to watch this thing and it must have been 50 times. I blew on it. It would go down and come back up. I'd put my hand there.

It would crawl around my hand and that thing would go up and you see even if you reach the top there's nothing there to feed your soul. There's nothing there because you achieved it yourself and you think you've arrived and you haven't arrived and you fail so miserably.

And when you reach what you thought was the top down you go again. And each time you lose more and more strength and you become more and more emaciated spiritually and physically and mentally. I said I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I'm going to get some food. And I got some crackers and sprayed the whole thing full of crackers. I said I know what I'm going to do. It's looking for food. I'm going to feed it. You know that's like the Heavenly Father.

You know you try and the Lord says no just come and eat of me. Come and take of my covenant promises. I give it to you here come by faith. And that bug crawled right over every crumb. Never tasted a crumb first.

It was a cracker I thought was too big and I broke it up in little pieces. And that's what the Lord does. First He gives you the whole book and then He gives you the crumbs. And you still don't want the crumbs.

And so back and forth when I left four hours later that bug's still crying. It goes up, hits the top tries to fly, wings fail down it goes, back up again. Try me one more time Lord try me one more time.

I'm going to find that bug tonight when I go home it's going to lay in there dead. It's going to be dead of exhaustion. That's where God wants you. And me dead with exhaustion on the flesh. You say a bug can't teach him.

God said Jake if you're warm I'm going to teach you. He called him a worm. He said I'm going to make you a sharp threshing instrument having sharp teeth cast out. The born woman hallelujah. He that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit.

Reckoning the Flesh Dead by Faith

This is the problem. Just as God reckons our flesh dead in His eyes we too must take up His position and reckon ourselves dead in the flesh. Ready to go a little deeper. This lady I was talking about that comes this fictitious woman that comes home that night and falls on her knees said God what happened.

And she's condemned. She feels unclean. She feels guilty because thoughts of lust have been in her heart. There's been some conniving going on because she's conniving how to bump into Him accidentally just a whole lot of things going on.

What would be like to be married to a man like that. What would be maybe I could get him saved. And all of these conniving thoughts all of these things. She's going home now saying that wasn't God. That wasn't the spirit.

That was flesh. And I'm supposed to have victory over the flesh. And she's condemned by it. You know what I'm saying. You know what the Holy Spirit says. Well what did you expect from your flesh. That was flesh.

Being flesh. What did you expect. Some good to come out of it folks. I've never shocked at my flesh never. Some of you say oh no I can't go that far with you pastor. You left me just now. Haven't you been shocked sometimes when you felt the holiest and thought you were the holiest at temper tantrums at thoughts that you thought you have marriage problems.

What would it be like to be out of this mess. And you're thinking thoughts of escape. Folks do I have to name it before you claim it. I had one of those experiences in a situation a business dealing and it has to do with the men who are trying to build a 50 story tower above us here.

I was in a in the office in our conference room and I prayed you know before and all that my intentions were good. And I'm sitting there and suddenly talking to these men. And suddenly the Holy Spirit saying there's a little bit of conniving going on here David you're not.

You're not being straight. I didn't want to be straight with these guys. The Lord said this is not straight. It wasn't that I was lying it wasn't telling the whole truth. And I'm going on and on and on and I'm trying in the flesh to get these men out of here.

I threatened to bring 5000 of you and picket the place. I said I'm going to call a press conference and I'm going to make this a racial issue if I have to. Can you imagine that after preaching no race problems in our church.

And finally I got so angry. I jumped up and said I don't want to talk to him. Meetings over everybody go they look around. And our attorneys went in the office and said what was that. I said I lost it.

You know when I'm in a situation like that I go home and I sit down on the floor and I say God I must have the blackest heart in New York. Really I've said that I must have the blackest heart in New York capable of those kind of thoughts and speaking those kind of words out of lips that preach a righteous message.

How can that be. Because Lord I didn't want that to come out of my heart. Where did that come from. I remember one time I was so absolutely discouraged because of this this impassionate thing and I got to thinking God you must be very disappointed in me.

And I am so discouraged. But I'm not going to get up off my I'm not leaving. I was sitting right. I'm not getting up until you tell me what happened. Because I know you've got to be absolutely disappointed with me and grieve with me.

And it just I feel so black inside and defeated. And here's what I heard lovingly from the Lord just as clear as I've ever heard. David your problem is that you accepted something spiritual from your flesh.

Flesh is always going to be flesh. Why are you shocked when I have so described the works of the flesh. He said I'm not angry with you. I'm not judging you for what the flesh did. Your flesh was doing what it always does.

It's trying to usurp the authority of the Holy Spirit in you. He said you're repenting for the wrong reason. You're repenting over a dead issue. In my eyes this is a dead issue. The flesh. You should be repenting for trusting in your flesh that anything good can come out of it.

So you could come back into the spirit realm where I want you. Then I'll show you something. He said. Was I not there. Did I not convict you did I not speak to you. During that time did I forsake you.

And here's what the Lord said. He he wants you to feel dirty. He wants you to feel filthy. The flesh wants you to bring that. Because the devil doesn't have to do it himself. He's in cahoots with the flesh.

He works through flesh. God said I've allowed this to happen to you David. I'll never cause you to sin but allowed you to see how helpless you are in your flesh. But I'm telling you there's no guilt there's no condemnation.

I didn't make you feel unclean and unholy. That's your flesh persecuting you. I'm dealing with you by an eternal covenant. Not by your feelings but by an eternal covenant. Not by feeding accusations. Because dead flesh has no voice in my court.

As long as you're in your human body your flesh is going to persecute you attempt to make life miserable and make you run with fear and guilt and bondage. Because when you're in the flesh the motions and passions of sins do work in your members to bring forth the fruit unto death.

As long as we are giving in to the flesh the fear of flesh we are not to trust the flesh. But we're not to fear the flesh. Now if you get that established in your mind then then we'll go on to understanding the victory of the cross.

Walking in the Spirit Rather Than Trusting the Flesh

You can't understand the new covenant and the victory of the cross until you slowly in your mind come to the position and the viewpoint of God. My flesh is dead. My flesh is always going to be something of that is of this world.

It is of filth. It has nothing to do with with the eternal purposes of God. God in his eyes it's dead. God doesn't have anything to do with our flesh anymore. But at the cross he crucified all the power of the ability of that to rob us of our eternal standing with the father to rob us of eternal salvation our covenant eternal life with Jesus Christ.

The flesh in me serves the law of sin. Paul says there's still flesh very much alive. But so with the mind I serve the law of God. I walk in the spirit. So they'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh. I walk in the spirit now folks living and walking in the spirit sounds so complicated.

Let's move on to this now. But I'm saying you can't see this until you are ready to say I am finished with my flesh. I'm not going to be afraid of it not going to be surprised not going to be shocked.

My flesh will always be flesh. Don't try to sanctify your flesh. It's dead. And I have acknowledged my flesh is dead before God. It can act up it can lie all at once. But in in the eyes of God as far as bringing flesh here are interfering with my relationship with the Lord.

I refuse to accept Ishmael's lies. Ishmael is legally dead now to make him practically dead is coming now to this issue. And listen very closely. It's called living and walking in the spirit. The Bible said walk in the spirit.

You shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh that those thoughts evil thoughts those things put in your mind cannot conceive because lust when it can seize brings forth sin. It won't move from this realm of temptation.

These injections of these thoughts will not move to a realm of being able to be conceived and bring forth sin which is unto death. And he said if you're under the law he said you've got all the motions of sin.

There's going to be an eruption of sin everywhere you look. If you're in the flesh sin is going to erupt because you're going to keep trying and it's going to keep erupting on you. And he said there's only one way you're going to walk in the spirit now.

That sounds so complicated folks with there's so many books written on it so many people misunderstand what it means to live and walk in the spirit. And I want to show you how simply I see it. Here's how I see it.

Here's the point we've reached now. We have renounced all confidence in the flesh. We expect no good thing from it. We no longer fear it. We're not trying to suppress it. We're not shocked by how evil minded it is.

We have reckoned ourselves dead to its power or effect in our relationship to the Heavenly Father. And then we learn that the victory over all the flesh and its works is to live and walk in the spirit.

That is by the spirit the deeds of the flesh are mortified and crucified. And here's how I see it happen. We've come to that point.

Just as God sees.

My flesh dead by proclamation he sees me in Christ. The moment I repent by proclamation he speaks it into being as sure as he spoke the world into being his everlasting word. He says if any man be in Christ Jesus he's a new creature.

All things pass. Where all things become new that has to be with the workings of the flesh. There's a whole new process at work now. Let me try to make it as simple as I can. Now follow me before I close this message.

Because I want no confusion in your mind. But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit. Romans 8 9. You are not in the flesh you. You have reckoned it dead. You've seen it as God sees it. You reckoned it dead.