Monthly Archives: May 2017

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,  2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  

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9 Futhermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?  Hebrews 12:9 KJV

In this verse, Paul is stating the fact that we as a people have given “reverence” or “or in a bad sense…regard” (1) to our fathers (with a small “f”) of “our flesh.”  We have given reverence to our carnal minds [from “flesh”

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