Spirit willing - flesh sick · The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak 5. God manifested “God manifestation, not human salvation, was the great purpose of the eternal spirit.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

5. God manifested

“God manifestation, not human salvation, was the great purpose of the eternal spirit.”

the eternal spirit

Isaiah 55:8 Zechariah 4:10

Isaiah 53:1

divine names

God = the deity (power) LORD (yahweh) = perpetual being

Lord = master

deity is …

Acts 17:24–25, 29 John 4:24

1 John 1:5, 4:8,16

deity manifest in Jesus

John 14:8-10 Colossians 2:9

deity manifest in us

2 Peter 1:3–4 2 Corinthians 4:6

deity manifest in us

Galatians 5:22–23 Ephesians 2:22

John 17:3

the spirit is ready, but the flesh is sick

Here I am. Today. Probably tomorrow too.

But already I feel death in my body, and one day I will be gone.

Brief. Mortal. Irrelevant. I have no power to change this.

How other is eternal love! Everlasting in being.

Force and direction of the universe.

My father.

I know him through the one who calls me brother.

He shows me my father.

Because of my brother I reject fear, whether hate, or anger, or loneliness.

I choose the binding power of love instead.

Love for my father. Love for my brother. … and love for you too.

My brother is helping my self to die, so that the life of my father

can be unrestrained within me.

He is very patient.