[Manna - May 5]
If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Romans 8:13
THE conditions upon which we may continue our
relationship to the Lord, and our hope for a share in
the glories of the First Resurrection are thus definitely
stated to include mortification of the deeds of the body—restraining the fleshly inclinations, putting them to
death, crucifying them, using them up in the service of
the Lord and His cause.
Such mortification of the
deeds of the body, such a battle against the weaknesses
of the flesh, is what the apostle elsewhere speaks of as
the "warfare," when he tells us that the flesh warreth
against the spirit, and the spirit in turn warreth
against the flesh, for the two are contrary, and will be
opponents to the end of life; and if the spirit has been
willing, and has fought to the best of its ability against
the weaknesses of the flesh, the Lord will count the
victory complete, through the merit of the Redeemer. Z. '03-172 R3203:5