Are you born of The Spirit or The Flesh?
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” ( John 3:6 ) Perhaps the greatest purpose of Christianity is to take that which is only flesh and see it reborn as Spirit—to see spiritual life born where before there was only death. But then, even in the most mature of believers, there remain aspects of the old nature mixed in with—even at war with—the new. In frustration Paul cried, “I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me” ( Romans 7:21 ). But each Christian should, through the power of God, be winning that war. Christ came to regenerate the spiritual side of man. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” ( Romans 8:1-2 ). Too many Christians still have their spirits buried deeply within the flesh, having “yielded [their] mem