Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak!

Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak!

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 26
39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

The challenges of purpose demand the full engagement of the spirit, the soul and the body. It demands that the body and the soul which equal the flesh under most circumstances be trained to be driven by the spirit. Bearing in mind that man is a spirit, he has a soul and lives in a body...and all of these would need to be sanctified and preserved to the coming of Christ...
[My Offline Bible] 1 Thessalonians 5
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If they aren't in agreement, pursuing the purpose of God would be difficult. The challenges of the cross, the implications of Christ's passion on His personality was immense and intense. That challenge revealed the humanity of Christ and separated His spirit and His flesh. The flesh became weak and it took the spirit to pull through.

It also revealed the personality of Jesus Christ as different from that of the Father. Each has a will which up till this time had had no reason not to be in agreement. But the challenge of the cross brought out the fact that Jesus Christ had the ability to choose differently apart from the will of the Father just as everyone of us...the unique thing is that He never for once did what He didn't see His Father did.

Another lesson of lent and Easter is this. We need to be strengthened with might by the Holy Spirit in our inner man. So that in facing the challenges of fulfilling the purposes of God for our lives, our inner man can pull our outer man through to the place of victory.
Our will must be totally submitted to the will of the Father, that is the time when we can expect the fullness of grace and the power of God intervening in whatever situation.

When we get to our Gethsemane, I pray we would choose His will, I pray the weak flesh wouldn't have the upper hand, I pray we wouldn't deny the reason why we were made...

The series...THE ESSENCE OF EASTER begins today as we start teaching about the prophecies of His passion!

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