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Rule Over Yourself


      Our flesh can be our spiritual weakness. Our flesh is the chink in our armor. It inhabits this characteristic because it wants to sin. The flesh is carnal. Left unmastered and ruled over it will be consumed with meeting those carnal things. To live this way is to pervert the blessing God has given us. Any sin we commit does this. We can see that the world is filled with this perversion in the past as well as in the present. I will be as bold to say we will see it in the future. However, as Christians, this is not our task in life. We are to master the carnal part of ourselves and beat it into subjection for the service of God and the hope of eternal life.  Rule over yourself well. Your soul depends on it.


“Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,  who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Romans 1:24-25 NKJV

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