It's a Battle, Not a Slaughter

~ Jesse Eyestone ~

11/7/2026

//  INTRO

James 1:2-4

  • 1:2   My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
  • 1:3   Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  • 1:4   But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

    • //   It's a Battle

    //   Not a Slaughter

    John 8:3-5

  • 8:3   And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
  • 8:4   They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
  • 8:5   Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

    • John 8:10b-11

  • 8:10   ... he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
  • 8:11   She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
  • 1st Peter 4:12   Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

    • Romans 7:15, 18-25 (AMP)

  • 7:15   I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].
  • 7:18   For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it.
  • 7:19   For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am constantly doing.
  • 7:20   Now if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no longer I doing it [it is not myself that acts], but the sin [principle] which dwells within me [ fixed and operating in my soul].
  • 7:21   So I find it to be a law (rule of action of my being) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I am subject to its insistent demands.
  • 7:22   For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self [with my new nature].
  • 7:23   But I discern in my bodily members [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].
  • 7:24   O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?
  • 7:25   O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

    • Romans 5:1-5

  • 5:1   Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 5:2   By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Well, I wasn't doing that, for those three days...
  • 5:3   And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: CERTAINLY wasn't doing that! knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
  • 5:4   And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
  • 5:5   And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

    • Hebrews 12:11-13

  • 12:11   Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
  • 12:12   Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
  • 12:13   And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

    • //   Closing