DEEPER FELLOWSHIP (PART 3)

TEXT: Romans 8:5-8 King James Version (KJV)

⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

⁸ So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Before anyone becomes born again, that life was spiritually dead to the leading of God’s Spirit. When you got born again, the part of you that has been dead suddenly came to life. Before you met the Lord, your spirit man was dead. Eph. 2:1-2 reveals to us that only the soul that has been quickened by the Spirit of God has the capacity to fellowship with God. Before that quickening it was normal to walk habitually in sin which leads to death.

If we know just how much sin affects us, we won’t have any reason to toy with it. The sin nature in man takes him away from God. But there is a nature that draws him to and makes him stay with God, this is the redeemed nature. You cannot get close to God by following a pattern.

Jesus said to Nicodemus that no man can see or enter into the kingdom of God except he is born again and born of the Spirit. Except there is a deep communion with God that transforms your being, you cannot access the realm, you will be locked out. So, what should you then do? You have to get away from being religious and have just one pursuit; go after God for a love relationship. Whatever you do that is devoid of a personal and intimate love for God according to the scripture is religion. It takes a man who is truly hungry for the new birth experience to experience it. If you want to walk in the spirit you can. I encourage you to go after God with everything that you have, stop trying to be religious. Too many of us have left the reason why we came seeking for God and we are now settling down for mundane things. Get back to your first love for Jesus.