Jude 1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Jude 1:22  And of some have compassion, making a difference:

Jude 1:23  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (KJV)

His servants, his ministers a flame of fire?

Ephesians 5:9  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10  Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.  11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (KJV)

Galatians 6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  8  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.  9  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (KJV)

Galatians 6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. (KJV)

We are not living under the law as we were when we were without Jesus and His Spirit in our life. We are set free, but the world is yet in sin under the law.  There is freedom from sin and the law only in Christ.  Until then men are sinners needing to be saved, and given the power over sin.  

Galatians 5:1  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (KJV)

Galatians 6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. (KJV)

Because we are sinners in the flesh, we need Christ, for He alone will deliver us from our sin. 

Galatians 3:3  Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (KJV)

This next verse almost seems contradictory, so we cannot miss the point.  

2 Corinthians 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (KJV)

So what is that point.  We cannot defeat sin in our lives, we can only confess it and turn it over to God. 

We then become walking epistles of the gospel. Our testimony speaks of the power of the gospel. 

2 Corinthians 3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. (KJV)

Therefore we know of what we speak: Christ delivers us from our sin. Which He paid for on the Cross.  

1 Corinthians 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (KJV)

1 Corinthians 6:9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Corinthians 6:10  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (KJV)

1 Corinthians 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. (KJV)

It is difficult without God’s Holy Spirit; for us  to understand how we can judge all things, when we have been told to judge not lest we be judged.  Jesus tells us of our need to remove the log from our own eye, but He knows that we cannot do such a work without Him in our life.  The Spiritual man has this defilement from sin overcome in his own life in order that he may help others understand their own need of the log’s removal, so as to find The Messiah and become as others, who themselves have turned to Him.  

To become an overcomer is only accomplished by the Spiritual man.  It is not accomplished under the law where the world still resides.  Paul says to the Galatians (and I’m paraphrasing): you can’t once you are become men of faith; then return to the law.    You can’t do this without returning to the world and being once again blinded by the log of sin.  

To the world Jesus calls come to me and I will give you life and freedom from the bondage of sin.  And to the Spiritual man; who has walked with Him, He says remain in (abide in) Me for you can do nothing apart from Me.  

Are you the Spiritual man able to judge all things, or are you the worldly man who is to judge not lest you be judged?  Christ in you is the hope of glory.  No man cometh to the Father but through Me. He is the perfect Sacrifice who cleanses us from all sin.  

Can you hear His voice?  What is He saying to you through His Spirit?