The Flesh Part 4

Intro: This is the last of several messages on the ‘flesh'. I have defined the flesh as that which we call the ‘sin nature' or the ‘self life'. In the last message we saw the birth of the flesh in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve sinned. We saw it worked out in Cain, a worldly man. We saw godly Abraham give in to the flesh. Last we looked at Jacob, the heal catcher, the supplanter. We saw him become a man of faith as he agonized with the angel of the Lord.

The life of the flesh and the life of faith are incompatible. So the Scriptures says that those who are in the flesh cannot please God. And it is an unsettling discovery when, with the apostle Paul, I come to the place as a Christian where I learn that ‘in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells