Church Meetings vs. Satan's Meeting Place

 

Church Meetings vs. Satan's Meeting Place

Romans 8:6 For the carnal mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace.

Romans 7:24 I am a wretched man! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 7:18 I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, nothing good dwells. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making praises to the Lord from your heart,

1 Corinthians 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one may have a hymn, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be for building up. 

Item	Church Meetings	Satan's Meeting Place (Flesh)
Meaning	An exhibition of Christian life where believers share the riches of Christ experienced in daily life	A compound of sin, death, and Satan, all three existing simultaneously in human flesh
Distinction	Walking according to the spirit, expressing Christ; manifesting the tree of life	Walking according to the flesh; manifesting the tree of knowledge
Examples	1. Calling on the Lord's name 2. Speaking about the Lord Jesus 3. Prophesying 4. Singing hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs 5. Praising	1. Living according to the flesh 2. Sin operating in the flesh 3. Death working in the flesh 4. Satan using the flesh as a dwelling place
Application	1. Exercising the spirit to be united with the Lord 2. Displaying Christ experienced in daily life 3. Speaking to one another, sharing 4. Supplying the riches of Christ to believers	1. Recognizing the corruption of the flesh 2. Not attempting to improve the flesh 3. Condemning the flesh 4. Not walking according to the flesh
Relationship	The expression of the mingling of the human spirit with the divine Spirit, showing how believers walk according to the Spirit	In opposition to church meetings, representing that if believers are not in the spirit, they fall into the flesh, becoming Satan's tools
Related Scriptures	1. Acts 9:14 - Believers identified by calling on the Lord's name 2. 1 Cor 6:17 - Joined to the Lord as one spirit 3. 1 Cor 14:32 - The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets 4. Eph 5:19 - Speaking to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs 5. Rom 8:4 - Walking according to the Spirit 6. Gal 5:16,25 - Walking by the Spirit	1. Rom 7:18 - In my flesh dwells no good thing 2. Rom 6:6 - Body of sin 3. Rom 7:24 - Body of this death 4. Rom 8:6 - The mind set on the flesh is death 5. Gen 3:6 - The fall of man 6. Rom 8:23 - Waiting for redemption, deliverance from the flesh

 

From the Bible, we can see that "Church Meetings" and "Satan's Meeting Place" represent two completely different paths. Church meetings are the expression and display of believers in the spirit, while the flesh becomes the "meeting place" for Satan, sin, and death. If believers want to have a proper church life, they must continually exercise their spirit in daily life, walking according to the mingled spirit, in order to have a genuine exhibition in the meetings. In contrast, the flesh is beyond remedy; believers should not try to improve the flesh but need to escape the bondage of the flesh by setting their mind on the spirit.

 

*Please refer to the 2025 International Chinese Conference Romans 5-8 - The Core of the Bible Chapter 1 The Line of Life and Death in Romans 5-8