"THE SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN" with the sub-titled Topic:.AND HIS/HER CHARACTERISTICS {Part 5} He/She must have mortified the deeds of the flesh as the Spiritual Christian willingly allows the taste, desires and glories of the flesh to die by saying 'yes' to the Spirit. The book of {Colossians 3 : 5-9} says: "
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God...Who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life...But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steady at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away.....How will the ministry of the Spirit not be glorious?....
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory." while the book of {Galatians 5 : 20} says further and listed some vices antagonizing and in parallel lines with the virtues of the characteristics of the Spiritual Christian thus: "Idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, out bursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies." Another good characteristic of a Spiritual Christian is that he/she lives as a son/daughter of Christ, implying that he/she has direct relationship with Christ as joint-heirs. The book of {Romans 8 : 14-16} bear witness thus: "
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God....For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you recieved the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba Father..The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.">
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