I’m sure you have heard it said that there are three great enemies of the Christian: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The devil is a personal being who controls the world system, and he desires for us to be sinners. Therefore, he draws us toward the things of the world and the things of the flesh. Last time we looked at the word world, or the Greek word cosmos, which often means the world system in opposition to the system of God and the life He has for us.
This time, we are going to look at the word flesh. Flesh really overlaps with the others. We really do have three great enemies. The devil is our enemy. He seeks to destroy us. The world draws us to its ways, thinking and values. The primary enemy found in the New Testament, the one that is repeated as our enemy far more than the other two, is the word flesh. So, what does the word mean to us? Like the word world, it is used in more than one way in the New Testament . . .
