The Voice of the Flesh

The Voice of the Flesh
Series: The Voice

What do we need to know about “The Voice of the Flesh”? How do we deal with it as Christians?

1) BATTLE

Galatians 5: 16-17
 “I say then, walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things you wish.”

Matthew 26: 41 
“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak”

2) PATTERN
.        A) Enticement
James 1:14
“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed”

         B) Conformity
Romans 12: 2
“And do not be conformed to this world…”

         C) Mindset
Romans 8:5
“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.”

3) DEFENSE

Romans 13:14
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts”