Jesus tells Nicodemus he is of the flesh not the Spirit: An outward image of Godliness is of the flesh not the Spirit.

John 3:6

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“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” John 3:6 

Jesus spoke those words to Nicodemus, a very prestigious, pious, and self-righteous Pharisee. At one point, Jesus flat-out told him that he was an unbeliever and didn’t know the Spirit of God John 3:10-11. Now, Jesus is telling Nicodemus that he is living by the carnal flesh and not by the Spirit of God.

By Jesus telling a pious Pharisee he is living for the flesh, we know living for the flesh involves much more than sexual immorality, hate, argumentativeness, anger, murder, drunkenness, etc. Afterall, the Pharisees were very strict against engaging in those types of things. Outwardly and technically, they followed every letter of the Old Testament Law. They were so strict that they trampled all over the Spirit of God. They weren’t able to see the “scarlet cord” in the Old Testament pointing to Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and completely destroyed the belief of those who listened to their fleshly teachings.

There is nothing sufficient in the flesh that can make us right with God, but we are sufficient through the Spirit of Christ, as quoted below,

And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:4-6

Today, there is a thing in this world that is all about living by the carnal flesh, in the same way that the pious Pharisees lived by the carnal flesh. It gives a form of Godliness outwardly, but inwardly denies God, discards the need for Jesus Christ, and blasphemes the Holy Spirit. It has power over physiology, the human flesh, and is 100% for the flesh and 0% for the Spirit of Christ.

The thing which operates through the flesh of physiology is the same thing which gives people what to feel, think, do, and speak. It endows the flesh with every type of uncanny abilities. It endows with heightened intuition, uncanny knowledge, extraordinary skills, physical comforts, sensual pleasures, amazing physical abilities, authority, emotional responses, specific feelings, social approval etc. It leads people away from Jesus Christ as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people as it endows its followers with those fleshly benefits. As people live for the fleshly endowments, they are conformed to their place in life by what they say and do. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

In any way, shape, or form, whatever is born of the flesh is flesh and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. We must be born again by the water and Spirit to see the Kingdom of God. The Spirit in us is our downpayment of eternal life in the new heaven and new earth.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1