laman

Ang Laman

Just as the English word “flesh” means different things depending on the context, the Greek noun, wag mong gawin (G4561) has several meanings in scripture. Sometimes it means “flesh” as in our earthly bodies (Matt. 26:41, Acts 2:31, 2 Cor. 4:11, Col. 2:1,5, 1 Pet. 3:18, 4:1). But the word “flesh” can also imply people (Matt. 24:22), humanity (Luke 3:6, Acts 2:17), a marriage union (Mark 10:8), our forebears (Rom. 4:1), our kinsmen (Rom. 9:3), our earthly lives (Php. 1:22, 24, 1 Pet. 4:2), and whole species (1 Cor. 15:39). (Note: two other words are sometimes translated as “flesh”; soma (G4983, which commonly means “body”, e.g., Col. 1:22) and lumilikha (G2907, which means “meat”, e.g. 1 Cor. 8:13).)

But there is another meaning of the word flesh. In the Bible, the flesh refers to an earthly mindset (Rom. 8:6, 1 Cor. 3:1, 3), a worldly manner (2 Cor. 1:17), a worldly point of view (2 Cor. 5:16, 10:4), human standards (John 8:15, 1 Cor. 1:26, 2 Cor. 10:2), human effort (Gal. 3:3), human pedigree (Php. 3:4) and human accomplishments (Php. 3:4). In short, the flesh is an earthly mindset. It’s choosing to live from our natural senses as opposed to be led by our spirit.

If we are referring to our physical bodies, the flesh is not sinful. God made us and everything God made is good. (Some Bibles erroneously translate wag mong gawin bilang makasalanang kalikasan, na nagbibigay ng impresyon na ang laman ay may depekto. Karagdagang pagbabasa: "May makasalanang kalikasan ba ang mga mambabasa ng NIV?”) Ngunit kung tayo lumakad ayon sa laman o magpakasawa sa mga pita ng laman, the result is corruption and death (Rom. 8:13).

Ano ang ibig sabihin ng maging nasa laman?

Maging sa laman has two meanings. The first meaning is to be “in the body” (2 Cor. 10:3, Gal. 2:20, Php. 1:24, 1 Pet. 4:2). When Paul said “if I am to live on in the flesh,” he meant, “if I am to go on living in the body” (Php. 1:22). The Son of God came in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16, 1 John 4:2, 3, 2 John 1:7), suffered in the flesh (1 Pet. 4:1), and condemned sin in the flesh (Rom. 8:3).

Ang pangalawang kahulugan ng sa laman is to be an unbeliever. When Paul says, “while we were in the flesh” in Roman 7:5, he is referring to our unspiritual past when we were disconnected from the life of Christ. “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Rom. 8:8). The one who rejects the Spirit of grace brings no pleasure to God. “However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you” (Rom. 8:9).

Ano ang mga pagnanasa o pita ng laman?

Ang mga tukso ng mundo ay makikita sa tatlong pangunahing pagnanasa o pagnanasa ng laman: Ang pagnanais ng iyong sariling paraan, pagnanais ng lahat para sa iyong sarili, at pagnanais na magmukhang mahalaga (tingnan ang pagpasok for 1 John 2:16). In a word, the flesh craves control. Alone and disconnected from God, the flesh is governed by feelings. With its vision limited to only what it can see, the flesh is understandably insecure, anxious, and afraid. The fleshly life is thus a life of self-preservation.

Paano tayo lalakad ayon sa laman?

Although Christians are in the flesh (we have natural bodies), we are not to walk after or live according to the flesh (Rom. 8:4–5, 12–13). Nor are we to be mindful of the flesh (Rom. 8:6–7, Gal. 5:16), indulge the lusts of the flesh (Eph. 2:3, 2 Pet. 2:10, 1 John 2:16) or wage war according the flesh (2 Cor. 10:3).

Walking after the flesh is when you attempt to get your needs met independently of God. It’s trusting in yourself (your abilities, your understanding) and living solely from the basis of your earthly experience (your five senses – what you see, hear, touch, know, etc.).

We can walk after the flesh in the pursuit of both good things and bad things. A classic example would be trying to keep God’s law. On the face of it, this seems a good thing to do. Keeping the rules appeals to our sense of rightness. But to trust in our law–keeping is to distrust Jesus. “Jesus hasn’t saved or sanctified me, but I can finish what he started.” The law is good but it has no power to make you good. Imperfect flesh is incapable of walking in perfect righteousness (Rom. 8:3). Trying to keep the good law will do you no good. If you think you have succeeded it will foster pride, and if you fail you will reap condemnation. Worst of all, the law will enflame sin and minister death (Rom. 7:10).

Manmade religion appeals to the flesh by promoting self-denial and sin avoidance. But again this is the way of the flesh. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day said no to sin daily, yet they remained joyless and miserable. True happiness is not about saying no to sin, but saying yes to Jesus. When we live out of our union with the Author of Life, the result is life and joy (Rom. 8:6).

Karagdagang pagbabasa: "Paano lumakad pagkatapos ng laman sa 20 madaling mga aralin”

Ano ang mangyayari kapag tayo ay lumalakad ayon sa laman?

A mind set on the flesh is conscious of self. “What do I want, how will I get it, and how will it make me look?” This selfish life is a dead–end street because self–preservation leads to self–destruction (Rom. 8:6). “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Pro. 14:12).

Being obsessed with self is like building with sand. Any success will be fleeting and buried by the passage of time. Even if you make it to the top, you will find nothing there, because life is more than accomplishments and the accumulation of stuff (Luke 12:15). The pursuit of selfish goals will corrupt your soul and cause you to lose your humanity (Matt. 16:26, Gal. 6:8).

Ano ang mga gawa ng laman?

Ang mga pagnanasa ng laman manifest sa hindi mabilang gawa ng laman including immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these (see Gal. 5:19–21).

If we indulge the desires of the flesh, we will become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another (Gal. 5:26). The end result is self-destruction (Rom. 8:13, Gal. 5:15). For this reason we are encouraged to “put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts” (Rom. 13:14). Indeed, “those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires” (Gal. 5:24).

Ang mga bagay ng laman ay yaong mga temporal na bagay na pinahahalagahan sa mundo tulad ng pagsisikap ng tao, reputasyon at mga nagawa. Ang mga bagay ng laman ay maaaring ihambing sa mga bagay ng Espiritu o sa hindi nakikita at walang hanggang mga bagay ng Diyos. Tingnan mo pagpasok for Rom. 8:5.

Isang mind set sa laman ay nakatuon sa sarili at sa mga bagay ng laman (tingnan pagpasok for Rom. 8:6–7). An obsession with self leads inevitably to conflict, dissension and death (Rom. 8:6, Gal. 5:15, 26, Php. 3:18–19).

Ang katawan ng laman ay isa pang pangalan para sa iyong lumang sarili (tingnan pagpasok for Col. 2:11). It should not be confused with the body of sin and the body of death (see pagpasok for Rom. 6:6).

Ano ang dalawang operating system?

God offers us two ways to live: We can walk after the old way of the flesh or the new way of the spirit (Rom. 8:4–5, 7, 13, Gal. 3:3, 5:16, 6:8). We can walk by faith or by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). We can be worldly or spiritual (1 Cor. 3:1, 3, Jude 1:19). We can trust in ourselves or we can trust in the Lord.

This is a mutually exclusive choice; we can either follow the flesh or the spirit (Gal. 5:17). It’s one or the other not both. “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit” (Rom. 8:5). The way of the flesh leads us down a cursed path to destruction, but the way of the Spirit leads to a blessed and everlasting life (John 6:63, Rom. 8:13, Gal. 6:8).

Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord… Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose trust is the Lord. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought, nor cease to yield fruit. (Jer. 17:5, 7–8)

Ang makalaman o makalaman na buhay ay ang malayang buhay ni Adan. Ito ay pagtitiwala sa ating sariling lakas sa halip na umasa sa Panginoon. Sa kabaligtaran, ang espirituwal na buhay na huwaran ni Jesus ay isa sa pagtitiwala sa Ama. Ang paglakad sa mga lumang paraan ng laman ay hindi normal para sa isang mananampalataya. Para siyang paru-paro na kumikilos na para bang isa pa siyang higad.

How do we walk in the spirit?

“If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit” (Gal. 5:25). Walking in the spirit means being mindful of spiritual things – what God has said and is now saying, what God has done is now doing. We walk in the Spirit by fixing our eyes on what is unseen and eternal instead of what is seen and temporary (2 Cor. 4:18). We set our minds on things above instead of earthly things (Col. 3:2). We stay mindful of the things of God instead of the things of men (Matt. 16:23).

The person unacquainted with the Holy Spirit cannot walk in the spirit. The natural world is the only world he knows. But if you have been born of the Spirit you have a choice. You can interpret any situation with your natural senses or with faith (Rom. 8:5).

Karagdagang pagbabasa: "Life doesn’t have the last word (when you’re walking in the spirit)“

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  1. I am trying—But I guess I should just TRUST! Having a hard time understanding all this! Like one of my Long ago pasters told me “Love God, live good, say nothing and saw wood! (rest, sleep). Sounds good but— Thanks for the teaching.

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