beloved57
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Jn 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
This is being declared in reference to Salvation, when it comes to that, being saved, or made alive to God, the flesh or man by nature, profits nothing.
The word profiteth here means:
to assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profit, to prevail
Yet how many today believe they assist God in becoming saved ? Its nothing but a deception. Paul writes concerning man by nature in the flesh, when it comes to salvaic matters Rom 3:11-12
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
This word unprofitable means:
, I am good for nothing, render useless; met: I become corrupt.
And that which is flesh is flesh Jesus says as denoting mans first natural birth Jn 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
And as long as we are in the flesh, by first birth, theres absolutely nothing we can do to please God in a salvaic, spiritual matter Rom 8:8
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Thats anyone without the Spirit of God dwelling in them by New Birth.
But herein lies the sin that deceives all men by nature, we naturally contend and isist that we play a role or part in Salvation, this is the curse, in that an unregenerate man will always think this way, Gal 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
The curse is that thinking that a man must do to live ! Rom 10:5
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Its a law keeping mentality in order to secure the favor and blessing of God. Remember the young rich ruler ? Matt 19: 16-25, and in the final say, the final indictment against conditional salvation and gaining eternal life by doing, was this :
25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Salvation by means of the flesh, in any regard, is impossible, no profit at all ! Its all of God !
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
This is being declared in reference to Salvation, when it comes to that, being saved, or made alive to God, the flesh or man by nature, profits nothing.
The word profiteth here means:
to assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profit, to prevail
Yet how many today believe they assist God in becoming saved ? Its nothing but a deception. Paul writes concerning man by nature in the flesh, when it comes to salvaic matters Rom 3:11-12
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
This word unprofitable means:
, I am good for nothing, render useless; met: I become corrupt.
And that which is flesh is flesh Jesus says as denoting mans first natural birth Jn 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
And as long as we are in the flesh, by first birth, theres absolutely nothing we can do to please God in a salvaic, spiritual matter Rom 8:8
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Thats anyone without the Spirit of God dwelling in them by New Birth.
But herein lies the sin that deceives all men by nature, we naturally contend and isist that we play a role or part in Salvation, this is the curse, in that an unregenerate man will always think this way, Gal 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
The curse is that thinking that a man must do to live ! Rom 10:5
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Its a law keeping mentality in order to secure the favor and blessing of God. Remember the young rich ruler ? Matt 19: 16-25, and in the final say, the final indictment against conditional salvation and gaining eternal life by doing, was this :
25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Salvation by means of the flesh, in any regard, is impossible, no profit at all ! Its all of God !