Friday, July 6th, 2018
The Apostle Paul must have been quite fond of the word flesh because he used it 40 times in his epistles, 12 times in Romans alone, with 9 of them being in the 8th Chapter.
For Paul, the definition of flesh was quite simple – the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit, the natural man so to speak. The contrast to the natural man, of course, is the spiritual man. The flesh as opposed to the Spirit of God. So every man, woman, boy, and girl has two choices in everything he or she does – my way or God’s way. Frank Sinatra’s signature song was I Did It My Way, which is not a very good way to go if you want to follow Jesus Christ and spend eternity with God.