Title: Not As the World Gives

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The Lord wishes to give us the gift of our becoming generous--he wants to give us his own truth and love on a permanent basis.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
John 14:27; 17:13; 10:27-28, 30
Jeremiah 25:5
Ezekiel 11:14-20
Matthew 7:7-12
John 4:9
Acts of the Apostles 8:14-17
1 Corinthians 12:27; 13:11-12; 14:8
2 Timothy 1:6-7
James 1:5
2 Peter 1:1-4
Matthew 19:16-end
Matthew 25:46
Luke 10:25
John 5:39-40
Galatians 6:8-9
1 Timothy 6:19
1 John 3:15; 5:20
Psalms 103:1-5; 68:19

Flesh has several meanings just in its most obvious form. It can mean all living creatures as when the Lord talks about the flood "destroying all flesh"(Genesis 7:21), or it can mean all of mankind (Genesis 6:3), or it can mean something soft and yielding such as the heart of flesh to replace the stony heart (Ezekiel 11:19) But spiritually it means the loves that dwell in the will of a person, and seem to belong to that person, to be that person. This person may be one who has not started to regenerate (or never will), or one who is in the middle of the process, or one who is near the end. In the highest sense flesh means the loves that are in the Lord's will, which are divine. This meaning is clear in the Lord's words in the gospel of John (John 6:53-56).