The Flesh and the Spirit

By: Marvin McKenzie

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 1 hr and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Right around that time, the news agencies began reporting about the Chinese coronavirus. I did not give it much more than a passing thought. I was aware of it but that was about it. February, we had a very difficult experience in our church, one of just two like it in the years of my ministry. A man in the church rose up against my family. We’ve had people grow upset and leave. It has only been twice that someone has chosen to stay and fight us. I accepted that as an answer to my prayer for breaking.March began our Faith Promise missions emphasis. I remember the second week. I picked up our guest preacher at the airport. He’s up there in years and I was a bit concerned that the cough I had might be the virus we were hearing more and more about. The following Sunday we took our guest preacher to a restaurant for lunch. By that evening restaurants were closed. By the next Sunday we were not allowed to open our church’s doors to any more than a three-man team. I have fully embraced what has transpired as an answer to my midnight prayers. My only fear has been, and continues to be, that we will waste the opportunity for God to work a revival in us.April arrived and so did the occasion to begin my study of Romans eight and the subject of the flesh and the Spirit. I could not have known at the time that the Chinese coronavirus, and then the riots surrounding the death of George Floyd, would provide a laboratory to test whether we walk after the flesh or the Spirit.