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Bible Questions Answered:
“...I
keep trying and failing, trying and failing...”
Nate/
Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
The Christian has three enemies, The World, The
Flesh, and The Devil.
The
World:
I
John 2:15-17 KJV
15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world, the love of The Father is not in him.
16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of The Father, but is
of the world.
17
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth
the will of God abideth for ever.
I
Peter 5:8 NLT
Stay
alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls
around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
The
World:
Matthew
6:24 NLT
“No
one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other;
you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve
God and be enslaved to money.
John
15:18-21 KJV
18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you.
19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye
are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
20
Remember The Word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute
you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.
21
But all these things will they do unto you for My name's sake,
because they know not Him that sent Me.
Romans
8:12-14 NLT
12
Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do
what your sinful nature urges you to do.
13
For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the
power of The Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature,
you will live.
14
For all who are led by The Spirit Of God are children of God.
Romans 12:1,2 NLT (A Living Sacrifice to God)
1
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your
bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a
living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is
truly the way to worship Him.
2
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God
transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then
you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and
pleasing and perfect.
I
Thessalonians 5:22 KJV
Abstain
from all appearance of evil.
I
Timothy 6:10 KJV
For
the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows.
James
4:4 NLT
You
adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes
you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of
the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
The
Flesh:
Romans
7:5,6 NLT
5
When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at
work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced
a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.
6
But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are
no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old
way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in
The Spirit.
Romans
8:5-9 KJV
5
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;
but they that are after The Spirit the things of The Spirit.
6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace.
7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject
to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in The Spirit, if so be that The
Spirit Of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not The Spirit Of
Christ, he is none of His.
Romans
13:14 KJV
But
put ye on The Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the
flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Galatians
5:16,17,19-26 NLT
16
So I say, let The Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be
doing what your sinful nature craves.
17
The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of
what The Spirit wants. And The Spirit gives us desires that are the
opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are
constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your
good intentions.
19
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are
very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,
20
idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of
anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division,
21
envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me
tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of
life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22
But The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23
gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires
of their sinful nature to His cross and crucified them there.
25
Since we are living by The Spirit, let us follow The Spirit’s
leading in every part of our lives.
26
Let us not become conceited, or provoke one another, or be jealous of
one another.
Galatians
6:8 KJV
For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but
he that soweth to The Spirit shall of The Spirit reap life
everlasting.
Ephesians
2:3 KJV
Among
whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of
our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
The
Devil:
Genesis
3:1,4,5 KJV
1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which The
Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
4
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
I
Chronicles 21:1 NLT
Satan
rose up against Israel and caused David to take a census of the
people of Israel.
Job
1:9-11 KJV
9
Then Satan answered The Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about
all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his
hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to thy face.
Job
2:4-7 KJV
4
And Satan answered The Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a
man hath will he give for his life.
5
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and
he will curse thee to thy face.
6
And The Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save
his life.
7
So went Satan forth from the presence of The Lord, and smote Job with
sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Zechariah
3:1 NLT
Then
the angel showed me Jeshua the high priest standing before the angel
Of The Lord. The Accuser, Satan, was there at the angel’s right
hand, making accusations against Jeshua.
Matthew
4:1 NLT
Then
Jesus was led by The Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there
by the devil.
Matthew
13:19,37-39 NLT
19
The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear The
Message about the Kingdom and don’t understand it. Then the evil
one comes and snatches away the seed that was planted in their
hearts.
37
Jesus replied, “The Son Of Man is the farmer who plants the good
seed.
38
The field is the world, and the good seed represents the people of
the Kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one.
39
The enemy who planted the weeds among the wheat is the devil. The
harvest is the end of the world, and the harvesters are the angels.
Luke
13:16 KJV
And
ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath
bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the
sabbath day?
John
8:44 KJV
Ye
are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in The Truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John
13:2 NLT
It
was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of
Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
Acts
5:3-5 KJV
3
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to
The Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
4
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was
it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in
thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
5
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and
great fear came on all them that heard these things.
II
Corinthians 12:7 NLT
Even
though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to
keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a
messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.
Ephesians
2:1,2 KJV
1
And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now
worketh in the children of disobedience:
I
Thessalonians 2:18 KJV
Wherefore
we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan
hindered us.
I
John 3:8 KJV
He
that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose The Son Of God was manifested, that He
might destroy the works of the devil.
Revelation
2:10 KJV
Fear
none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall
cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have
tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give
thee a crown of life.
Prayer:
The Christian is never alone or helpless, for The Lord
is always with His people!
Proverbs
18:24 KJV
A
man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is A
Friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Hebrews
13:5 KJV
"...He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.
Deuteronomy
20:4 NLT
For
The Lord your God is going with you! He will fight for you against
your enemies, and He will give you victory!’
Psalm
3:8 NLT
Victory
comes from you, O Lord. May you bless your people.
John
10:10 KJV
The
thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am
come that they might have Life, and that they might have it more
abundantly.
John
16:33 KJV
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.
Romans 8:31,32 NLT (Nothing Can Separate Us from
God’s Love)
31
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for
us, who can ever be against us?
32
Since He did not spare even His Own Son but gave Him up for us all,
won’t He also give us everything else?
I
Corinthians 10:13 NLT
The
temptations in your life are no different from what others
experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to
be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a
way out so that you can endure.
I
Corinthians 15:57 NLT
"...thanks
be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:10-18 NLT (The Whole Armor of God)
10
A final word: Be strong in The Lord and in His mighty power. 11 Put
on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm
against all strategies of the devil.
12
For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against
evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty
powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly
places.
13
Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to
resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will
still be standing firm.
14
Stand your ground, putting on the belt of Truth and the body armor of
God’s righteousness.
15
For shoes, put on the peace that comes from The Good News so that you
will be fully prepared.
16
In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the
fiery arrows of the devil.
17
Put on salvation as your helmet, and take The Sword Of The Spirit,
which is The Word Of God.
18
Pray in The Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and
be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
I
John 1:9 KJV
If
we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I
John 4:4 KJV
Ye
are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater
is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
I
John 5:4 KJV
For
whatsoever is born of God over cometh the world: and this is the
victory that over cometh the world, even our faith.
