BELONGING to CHRIST

 

Galatians 5:24

King James Version

24 And they that are Christ's 

have crucified the flesh 

with the affections and lusts.

The verse above makes a declaration of who belongs to CHRIST.

But what does "crucified the flesh" mean?

Let's get to know the symbolism of such.

What are "affections and lusts"?

SPIRIT and SCRIPTURE make things clear:

Galatians 5:24

American Standard Version

24 And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Galatians 5:24

Amplified Bible

24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the [a]sinful nature together with its passions and appetites.

Galatians 5:24

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.

Galatians 5:24

Christian Standard Bible

24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:24

Common English Bible

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the self with its passions and its desires.

Galatians 5:24

Complete Jewish Bible

24 Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:24

Contemporary English Version

24 And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we have killed our selfish feelings and desires.

Galatians 5:24

Darby Translation

24 But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

Galatians 5:24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

24 And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

Galatians 5:24

Easy-to-Read Version

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their sinful self. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Galatians 5:24

Evangelical Heritage Version

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:24

Expanded Bible

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified ·their own sinful selves [the sinful nature; the flesh]. They have given up ·their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do [L its passions and desires].

Galatians 5:24

GOD’S WORD Translation

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their corrupt nature along with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:24

Good News Translation

24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:24

International Children’s Bible

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Galatians 5:24

J.B. Phillips New Testament

Those who belong to Christ have crucified their old nature with all that it loved and lusted for.

Galatians 5:24

Lexham English Bible

24 Now those who belong to Christ[a][b] have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

Galatians 5:24

Living Bible

24 Those who belong to Christ have nailed their natural evil desires to his cross and crucified them there.

Galatians 5:24

The Message

Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.

Galatians 5:24

Modern English Version

24 Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 5:24

Names of God Bible

24 Those who belong to Christ Yeshua have crucified their corrupt nature along with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:24

New Century Version

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Galatians 5:24

New International Reader's Version

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed their sinful desires to his cross. They don’t want these things anymore.

Galatians 5:24

New Life Version

24 Those of us who belong to Christ have nailed our sinful old selves on His cross. Our sinful desires are now dead.

Galatians 5:24

New Living Translation

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Galatians 5:24

New Matthew Bible

24 Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the appetites and lusts.

Kehillah in Galatia 5:24

Orthodox Jewish Bible

24 But the ones who are mekabel Moshiach Yehoshua have put to be talui al HaEtz (hanging on the Tree, DEVARIM 21:23) the basar with its teshukot (desires) and its ta’avot (lusts).

Galatians 5:24

The Voice

24 Those of us who belong to the Anointed One have crucified our old lives and put to death the flesh and all the lusts and desires that plague us.

Galatians 5:24

Wycliffe Bible

24 And they that be of Christ, have crucified their flesh with vices and covetings. [Forsooth they that be of Christ, have crucified their flesh with vices and concupiscenes, or covetings.]

In SUMMARY, "crucified the flesh" means:

crucified the [a]sinful nature

crucified the flesh (the godless human nature)

crucified the self

put their old nature to death on the stake

killed

crucified their flesh

crucified their sinful self

crucified the sinful flesh

crucified ·their own sinful selves [the sinful nature; the flesh]

crucified their corrupt nature

put to death their human nature

crucified their own sinful selves

crucified their old nature

nailed their natural evil desires to his cross and crucified them there

killed off for good—crucified

crucified their own sinful selves

nailed their sinful desires to his cross

nailed our sinful old selves on His cross

nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there

put to be talui al HaEtz (hanging on the Tree, DEVARIM 21:23) the basar

crucified our old lives and put to death the flesh

crucified their flesh with vices and covetings

In SUMMARY, "affections and lusts" mean:

passions and the lusts

passions and appetites

passions and appetites and desires

passions and desires

selfish feelings and desires

vices and concupiscences

evil things they wanted to do

old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do

with all that it loved and lusted for

feelings and its desires

natural evil desires

everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities

passions and lusts

sinful desires

passions and desires of their sinful nature

appetites and lusts

teshukot (desires) and its ta’avot (lusts)

all the lusts and desires that plague us

vices and concupiscenes, or covetings

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CONQUERING addictions

 

1 Corinthians 10:13

King James Version

13 There hath no temptation taken you 

but such as is common to man: 

but God is faithful, 

who will not suffer you to be tempted 

above that ye are able; 

but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, 

that ye may be able to bear it.

What are you addicted to?

Are you aware you are addicted?

What would you consider an addiction?

How does one conquer addiction?

"Addiction" is defined as:

"Addiction is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it is causing psychological and physical harm."

  -- Medical News Today

There are THREE main addictions SPIRIT led me to:

Fame.

Fortune.

Flesh.

All three are birthed by pride, greed, vanity, and lust.

The very sins of the father of lies.

The devil's devices.

Since we're all in the flesh, we are bound by the sins of the flesh.

The enemy makes sure we focus on the lusts of the flesh.

It is self-serving, self-absorbed, and not of GOD.

The world is being destroyed by sins of the flesh.

There's substance abuse.

Even addiction to food, or gluttony.

Observe the food shows everywhere.

It's all food, food, food.

Competing for who cooks better.

Who has the best dish.

Who can whip up the fastest dish.

Making us all overweight, overfed, overindulged, bringing on many other diseases.

Movies show violence, lots of skin, and foul language.

Every form of aberration, or deviation, abound.

Many are addicted to such shows.

Many are addicted to such printed material.

Because people in business, schools, government, and the entertainment industry have scrapped GOD out of their lives, you can imagine we are in the devil's cesspool.

Even churches have been corrupted.

They have defiled the very gospel they teach.

Where the devil finds a tiny opening, a window of opportunity, a weakness, or a desire, he will surely latch on to it.

Everything has become me, me, me.

How the enemy loves that we focus on self.

Or, at least, the self where he's in.

And where he's at.

Self gratification.

What is addiction, after all, but an absence of GOD?

It is the road to self-destruction.

If you have GOD, you have EVERYTHING.

You won't need to look outside of Him, for happiness.

You won't need to fill your days, or your life, with worthless pursuits.

Addiction invites decadence, depravity, and destruction.

It's a form of escape, from the stresses of the world.

We are all being drawn down into the pits of hell.

How the enemy delights in mocking God.

We are fighting powers beyond our human powers.

This is truly a spiritual battle.

Ephesians 6:12

King James Version

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 

but against principalities, 

against powers, 

against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 

against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Satan is constantly on the prowl.

1 Peter 5:8

King James Version

8 Be sober, 

be vigilant; 

because your adversary the devil, 

as a roaring lion, 

walketh about, 

seeking whom he may devour:

In these end times, he's upped his game.

Revelation 12:12

King James Version

12 Therefore rejoice, 

ye heavens, 

and ye that dwell in them. 

Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! 

for the devil is come down unto you, 

having great wrath, 

because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Evil makes itself complex, to confuse us.

We are bombarded on ALL fronts.

Only THROUGH JESUS, can we conquer sin, self, and addictions.

JESUS knows what we're going through.

In fact, He already KNEW what we would go through, thus, the CROSS.

Hebrews 2:14

King James Version

14 Forasmuch then as the children 

are partakers of flesh and blood, 

he also himself likewise took part of the same; 

that through death he might destroy him 

that had the power of death, 

that is, the devil;

In this battle for the soul -- FROM addiction -- we can only succeed in quitting cold turkey, if we:

ARE born again.

WALK in the SPIRIT.

PUT ON the FULL ARMOR of GOD.

STAY STRONG in JESUS.

The LORD assured us:

John 16:33

King James Version

33 These things I have spoken unto you, 

that in me ye might have peace. 

In the world ye shall have tribulation: 

but be of good cheer; 

I have overcome the world.

THROUGH JESUS, we shall overcome sin.

We shall conquer addictions.

Anything which destroys us.

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