Dependence Upon Christ

2 Cor. 10:1-6.

In all of Paul's battles his weapons, his equipment for the campaigns that he was involved with were never OF fleshly bodies. No, they were mighty, powerful (dunata, dunamis) THROUGH GOD.

“For while walking in what is (weak, bodily) flesh we are not campaigning after the manner of what is (weak, bodily) flesh, for the equipment for our campaign (is) not fleshly (weak, bodily, sinful) but powerful for God, (fit, PROS) for wrecking of fortifications--(we) continuing to wreck (foolish, Pro.18:2, Amp. human) reasonings and every height raised up against the (real, thus reality) knowledge of God, and capturing every device (see 2 Cor. 2:11, of human thought) for the obedience to Christ, and continuing in readiness to bring to justice every disobedience as soon as your obedience will be completed."

This is the object and effect of dependence, something done only by God the Holy Spirit, with an individual's will submitted to Christ. Oh, and what is it like to have a mind, the very mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:9-16), free from every disturbance and every distraction.

For there is nothing harder to man than contentedness with being nothing; nor does anything hinder the obedience of and for Christ than foolish, prideful, subtle self-seeking. Paul walked in a weak body just like any other man, BUT he maintained no fleshly conflict. The weapons of his warfare were not fleshly, and yet mighty through God to the overthrowing of satan's power and the stronghold of human pride and reasoning, exalting itself (in himself and his opponents) against the knowledge of God.

His aim was not to establish a principle of obedience to himSELF, but to obedience to Christ, (Col. 1:27-28), and there he desired to lead captive every thought.

To continue tomorrow on the Greek word PROS and how it "fits" with 2 Cor. 10:1-6.