18/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Mortifying Self

18/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Mortifying Self.

Text:
```Colossians 3:3‭-‬6 KJV For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:```
 
COMMENTARY
The root of the verb mortify is from the Latin word mors, which means “death.” Mortificacioun, is a process of "mortifying  the flesh, act of subduing the passions and appetites, suppression of bodily desires," For our spiritual lives to attain its original status, mortification of the flesh is necessary. Flesh wars against the spirit and drives so crazily hard to cripple our spirit man. It takes men and women who goes out of their way to subdue their appetite and desires. Until we bring the flesh to total suppression our fellowship with God who Himself is a spirit will remain hindered.

It is very hard but it remain the truth. Flesh does not have fellowship with the Holy Spirit and any attempt to fulfill all the fleshly desires drive Holy Spirit farther than we could ever imagine. For everyone who desired to have fellowship with the Holy Spirit, the Colossians Church particularly were addressed to stay away from those things that ignite the wrath of God. If uncleanliness attracted God's wrath, Cleanliness remain next to godliness.

Self mortification, denial and intentional putting to death of our interest, our passion and appetite bring us closer to God. Desires to operate in the level of grace is present in every believer who read and hears the testimonies of the Saints past. However strong desires for physical things that satisfy flesh dominates Christendom and make church ineffective.

Food for thought:
Being alive to flesh deprive one fellowship with the Holy Spirit._

Prayer:
```Open my eyes Lord to know better how to subdue self and raise my affection to be on the things above in Jesus name.```

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