In our societies today, especially in the realm of politics, people debate ways to make the world a safe place, free from conflict and its consequences. Spirits of violence and death have erupted and left devastation in their wake. The legacy of strife and conflict has haunted humans for generations dating back to Cain and Abel. As believers, the question that we need to ask is, “What does the Bible say about strife?” In this article, Scott Iwahashi, an elder at Hope of the Generations Church, identifies the root of the problem and explains what each of us can do as individuals to be part of the solution and not the pollution. However, God has clearly defined in His Word how He wants His people to address it. They may engage with it, or they may withdraw from it. Everyone seems to have a different way of dealing with it. In fact, it is causing great division and disturbance in our world today. Got Questions about Carnality? Go to calvaryco.church for more info.What does the Bible say about strife, and where should it be addressed first? For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.” You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”Ģ Peter 2:20–21 (NKJV) “For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. James 4:1–3 (NKJV) “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.”ġ Thessalonians 5:23 (NKJV) “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.”ġ Thessalonians 4:3–7 (NKJV) “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”Ĭolossians 3:5–8 (NKJV) “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Galatians 6:7–8 (NKJV) “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Galatians 5:16 (NKJV) “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” I fed you with milk and not with solid food for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able for you are still carnal. Romans 8:13 (NKJV) “For if you live according to the flesh you will die but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”ġ Corinthians 3:1–3 (NKJV) “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. Romans 7:14 (NKJV) “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.”
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