What Walking by the Flesh Looks Life (TMF:1686)

Monday, August 30, 2021
Peace to Live By: What Walking by the Flesh Looks Life (TMF:1686) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul’s point in both Romans chapter 7 and Galatians chapter 5 is that we are to choose not to walk by the flesh, to walk by our sin-natures, to live following a Christian life without God’s ‘real’ input, but instead we are to choose to be led by the Spirit. Walking by the flesh, as we’ve already stated, will manifest itself in sin, in doing the things that are against what God wants, and really against what we want in our new minds as Christians. For Paul says, continuing on in Galatians: “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these” (Galatians 5:19-21, ESV). Even if we try to create rules to prevent these things in our lives, as Christians, it won’t work. That is a common misunderstanding. Creating rules against these things only increases our desire to do them.