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these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control".
In Romans 8:14: "For all who are being led by the Spirit, these are the Sons of God" or put in another way all those whose spirit is dominating their soul and body have the ability to hear God and walk in His ways.

By our minds we cannot know God the Spirit. "For the mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace" and get this "because the mind set on the flesh is HOSTILE to God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even ABLE to do so" (Romans 8:6-7).

Now all this is not entirely our fault. Beginning with the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden, creation has been in a cursed, futile state, separated from God (Genesis 3:17-19). Paul notes this by saying: "For the creation was subjected to futility not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it". Futility in the Greek means vanity, nothingness, worthlessness, emptiness, objectless, useless, perverse, foolish, idle, vain and false; how many of us look around the world, and in ourselves, and see that we are actually living in is in that state?

However, the creation was subjected to its futile state "in hope that the creation itself will be set free from it's slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (Romans 8:20-21). And who are these children (sons) of God? Those who are led by the Spirit. Those whose souls and bodies do not dictate the course of our lives but whose spirits dominate, subjecting soul and body to do the will of God. The seed of life is sown as a corruptible soul and is raised only by an incorruptible spirit. This is exceedingly important to us because the state we attain on earth will be the state into which we will be resurrected. When we come into the resurrection of Christ we will have a body that directly responds to the spirit, just as the body now responds to the soul. There is a body of the soul and there is also a body of the spirit. (See 1 Corinthians 15:42-45).

THE BODY

Like our souls, our bodies must also be subjected to and led by the Spirit. It is the body that ultimately expresses what is in our soul or spirit. Even in resurrection we shall have a body. "It is sown in a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is

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