Fire and Flesh

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Wow!,
What a wonderful revelation!
“I gave Egypt for your ransom” really is just Bible- speak for the destruction of the flesh for the sake of saving the spirit:

1Co 5:5  To deliver such an one unto Satan f or the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

… Which is just another way of saying this:

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: bu t he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire .

The destruction of the flesh is the salvation of the spirit, and it is all accomplished by “fire.”
I knew that verse in Hebrews was there, but I had never connected it with Isa 33:14-15 until you mentioned it right here. Look at these two verses together:

Isa 33:14  The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isa 33:15  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Heb 1:7  And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Answer: his ministers a flame of fire.”
I am the most blessed man in the world to be given the opportunity to share in these revelations of so many from all around the world. This is just another piece of the puzzle of “the Christ” who “fills Him who fills all in all” (Eph. 1:22-23).

1Co 3:12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him [ to be] the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Christ’s inheritance is in the church:

Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

And it is the church which is Christ’s fulness with which Christ, in turn fills His Father. Like you I want to “suffer loss… of the wood, hay and stubble” now, not later.

Your brother in the Christ.
Mike

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