CORRUPTION OF THE Flesh as a Bible assistant Teaching aide.

* "... since mankind is fallen and human nature is depraved, the term “flesh” becomes the expression of that fact;

and every time it is used in Scripture in a moral sense it refers to the corruption of our entire beings, without any distinction between our visible and invisible parts—body and mind.

"This is evident from those passages where “the flesh” is contrasted with “the spirit” or the new nature ( Romans 8:5-6; 1 Corinthians 2:11; Galatians 5:17).

When the apostle declared,

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no good thing”
( Romans 7:18),

"... he had reference to far more than his body with its appetites, namely, his entire natural man, with all its faculties, powers and propensities.

"The whole was polluted, and therefore nothing good could issue from him until divine grace was imparted.

"Again, when we find

“hatred, emulations, wrath, and envyings”

"... Included in that incomplete list of the horrible “works of the flesh” supplied by Galatians 5, it is quite plain that the word takes in far more than the corporeal parts of our persons;

"... even more so when we find that these works are set over against

“the fruit of the spirit,”

"... each of which consists of the exercise of some inward quality or grace."*

*CHAPTER - NATURE