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Good morning, Beloved,

I am constantly reminded of the importance of word definitions in the Bible.  With that in mind, the word of the day is CONVERSATION.  It is important to read each verse reference, as it builds the complete thought of what this word represents in the Bible.

God Bless,

~Al


For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Php 3:20 
 
Fleshly depravity
 
Conversation does not mean talking. There is no instance where it has this signification in the English Bible. It means, as the Greek original does, deportment, conduct, character, as in the following passages: 2Co 1:12; Gal 1:13; Eph 2:3; Eph 4:22; 1Ti 4:12; Heb 13:5; Heb 13:7; Jas 3:13; 1Pe 1:15; 1Pe 1:18; 1Pe 2:12; 1Pe 3:1-2; 1Pe 3:16; 2Pe 2:7; 2Pe 3:11. In Php 1:27, conversation signifies citizenship; so that to have a good conversation is to act worthy of the New Jerusalem to which grace has called you. But this former conduct or conversation of theirs was "in the lusts of the flesh." This refers—
1. To carnal or sensual appetites, in which the heathen world was sunk, and Paul asserts in the text that the Jews were the same (Rom 6:12; Rom 7:8-9; 1Ti 6:9, and many others). This implies and includes luxuries, the pleasures of the table, drunkenness, and all such forbidden pleasures.
2. These fleshly desires are seen most perfectly in the systems of false worship adopted by the heathen world in general. Baalim was the embodiment of lewdness; Buddhism is the embodiment of the dogma of priestly rule; so is Hinduism and other forms of religion. The Greeks and the Romans deified nature and the dead. The flesh is the teeming fountain of vileness from which all these and similar systems flow:—the picture, the image, the idol, the oracle are the four head forms or developments of false worship, and they all come from the flesh.
3. Flesh is always contrasted with spirit, and in general denotes alienation from God. The law of the flesh is sin; the works of the flesh are evil; the carnal mind is enmity against God (Rom 8:6-7); to walk after the flesh is ungodliness; to be in the flesh is not to know or please God. Jesus Christ crucified it, and He gives us the principle and power of doing the same.
(W. Graham, D. D.)

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