Romans 8:5 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.
Later in the eighth chapter of Romans God will tell us who, what, when, where, and why every human being ever born “shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God”. I guess I already told you why. It is God’s will.
English “flesh” in Romans 8:5 “carnally” in Romans 8:6 and “carnal” in Romans 8:7 were all translated from Greek noun 4561 sarx meaning flesh.
Romans 8:6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
English “minded” in Romans 8:6 “mind” in Romans 8:7 and Romans 8:27 were all translated from Greek neuter noun 5427 phronema which explains an integral part of God’s process pursuant to God’s will. I am going to paste Romans 8:27 so we can define them all together “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God”. Simply stated God removes all human beings who are flesh minded from God’s process pursuant to God’s will. Grammatical objects of flesh grammatical subjects, including those who stand behind a pulpit, are removed from God’s process pursuant to God’s will. They are not removed from God forever, just during this earth age. Remember Jesus said: “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division”. God defines the “division” right here. God not only removes flesh grammatical objects of flesh grammatical subjects from God’s process; God simultaneously removes His spirit from them to protect them from Matthew 12:32 “And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come”.
English “peace” in Romans 8:6 and in Luke 12:51 above were both translated from Greek noun 1515 eirene denoting union in the sense of being joined together in thought and mind, best defined by “peace” in “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace” “Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” “Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you” “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”. God’s “election” receive God’s Spirit which renders God’s “peace” “the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded” to protect “the rest” from Matthew 12:32.
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