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MORTIFY YOUR MEMBERS

Text : Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

God's word says that if any man is in Christ, old things are passed away, and all things have become new.(2 Corinthians 5:17). 

These old things are the constituents of your old conversations (behaviour) and your members which are upon the earth. Hence, the scripture is asking you to put to death your members which are on the earth: these members are fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Having become a new creature in Christ Jesus, you now have the responsibility of mortifying, that is, putting to death all the fleshly works which you used to walk in. 

Romans chapter six verse six has made it very clear that your old man (old self) has been crucified with Christ.
 *knowing this, that our family old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.(Romans 6:6).* 

It is very clear that your old man has been crucified, you must therefore take up the responsibility of putting off the things of the old man. This is what the scripture calls the 'old things'. (Colossians 3:8-9).

Since the old man has been crucified, the resultant effect of this is that the body of sin *might* be done away with. This means that it is possible to do away with all the old things which are carnal expressions of the body of sin. 

While this cannot be achieved by your personal efforts, you need the help of the Holy Spirit to mortify the works of the flesh.
That's why Romans  8:13 says, "...If you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live." 

It is by following the leadings of the Spirit that you put off or mortify the deeds of the flesh and get rid of the old things.

 *Bible  Reading :* 

Galatians 5:18-25.

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1.) Father God, I receive grace to mortify the deeds of the flesh through the help of the holy Spirit in Jesus name.

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