License To Kill

LAMPLIGHT DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV).
“Living From the Eternal Perspective”

A Devotional From
PATHH Ministries
DATE:
Friday, January 14, 2011
HEADING
License to kill
By Teddy A Jones
TEXT (Col. 3: 5)

5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry [NIV]

5So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God). [AMP]

And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. [Msg]

COMMENTARY

License to kill, 1989, is the 16th official entry in the 007 series. James Bond leaves Her Majesty's Secret Service to stop an evil drug lord and avenge his best friend, Felix Leiter.

The movie title is aptly fitting to the course of action that leaps out at us from this verse. In view of the higher meditation, the safety and security of the eternal life given to us and the immense glory we look forward to when Christ returns we must operate in the spiritual ream exercising a license to kill all that is earthly!

Those who share in Christ’s viewpoint and understand their true spiritual identity are encouraged to not mince matters when it comes on to the desires of the flesh and the resultant attitudes and actions. The disciple is called upon to engage in mortal combat. This is a brutal fight for spiritual vitality, take no prisoners or war. It is kill or be killed. We fool ourselves into self deception if we find the language here too strong. We all have evil desires lurking inside of us. Like Cain we have evil crouching at our heart’s door ready to spring but we must master it.
The event promoters and entertainment moguls who are drunk on the wine of hedonism make it very clear that they want us to feed the carnivorous beast of the flesh in us with red meat. The posters and ads say, ‘wild side,’ ‘dare to indulge’... ‘if it feels good do it’... ‘tantric fantasies’... ‘don’t drink and drive, smoke weed and fly’... ‘bring out the beast in you.’
The Spirit says, ‘Come up here... think higher... act like you’ve been raised to new life...your life is guarded by ultimate security... you are an agent of the Kingdom with a license to kill the flesh.

Something to Meditate on:
Am I feeding the beast in me with poison or with steroids?

A decision I need to make
Will I take up my spiritual badge and start some killing of the flesh?

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