SNT 1029 Athletes of the Body
Prayer Building a Bridge - The Victors Unclouded Day - The Victors God Makes a Way - Joyful Noise He's Comin' Back - Joyful Noise The Chosen of the Lord - Joyful Noise Luk 24:6, 27-51 Col 1:27; 1Co 13:12 Rom 6:6, 7, 11-14; 12:1 Rom 12:1, 2; Jam 3:8; 2Co 10:5; Rom 8:13; 6:16-19 Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus --------------------------------- “Athletes of the Body” Victor Paul Wierwille August 3, 1980 - Sunday Night Teaching (1029) Transcript - Corps Week Opening New Knoxville, Ohio I’d like for you to take your Bibles and turn to Luke 24. Athletes of the spirit are athletes of the Word . . . for the Word is our rulebook. The glorified body of Christ, people, is the highest perfection of matter for the enjoyment and services in the kingdom of God in the heavenly state. On this the last Sunday of our teaching year before we open next Sunday with the year of “Your Call to Service” I think it’s appropriate to consider once again the renewed mind, the key to power. I’ve been dwelling in my thoughts . . . [Dr. Wierwille taps podium several times.] . . . and in my continuing working of the Word on just how far could an individual believer go as an athlete of the spirit in keeping his body fit with the indwelling presence of Christ within. We know the experiences of two men on the road to Emmaus . . . and in Luke 24, verse 6 it was reported on what we refer as Easter Sunday morning, the first day of the week “He is not here but is risen” for God had raised him from the dead. The one and only individual who has ever been raised again from the dead. And on that same day in verse 27, he appeared to two of the men on the road to Emmaus. Luke 24:27ff: 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. 29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And h
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after the flesh, ye shall [What? (die)] die: but if ye through [by] the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall [What? (live)] live. I told you that spirit has no drive of its own in you. It is only dunamis power. Spirit does not possess and control you. That’s why spirit is controlled by the mind . . . the Christ in you is controlled by the mind like the body is controlled by the mind. If you live according to the five senses, the flesh, you’re just killing yourself. But if you live by the spirit . . . living that way you have put to death the deeds of the body and then you live abundantly. And Jesus Christ came that we might have life and that we might have it more than abundantly . . . that we might be more than conquerors, people. You see, in Romans 12, verse 2 it says: Romans 12:2: And be not conformed to this [What? (world)] world: but be ye transformed [transformed] by t