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“Are You Driven by the Spirit of Christ?”
By Sheldon Smith
If we are driven by our desires for worldly gain, stature, and the pleasures of life, we cannot please God because our preoccupation is with pleasing ourselves. If we seek Him, learn about His will, and seek to please Him, only then can we inherit eternal life. What does the Bible say?
"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God."
Romans 8:1-8
What is your preoccupation?
