Lesson 172: DEALING WITH SIN

Many Christians have big Problems with their bodies; what they do not want to do is what they keep doing and what they would have loved to do, they just fail to do them. This is not a new problem Rom 7; 19, How is this problem to be solved? How do we deal with the flesh? May the Lord grant us victory as we study today in Jesus, name Amen.

1. COOPERATING WITH THE FLESH WILL SPELL DISASTER
There is no good thing in the flesh, all it wants to do is sin. Yet the wages of sin is death and anyone who cooperates with the flesh will reap the fruits of corruption i.e. curses, sorrows, and problems.
That is why he who converts a sinner saves a soul from death and
serious troubles.

Rom 7:18, 25, Rom 8:8, 13, Rom. 6; 23, Rom 8:6,Gal. 6:8,
Jam. 1:15, 5:20, Rom. 13:4.

2. DON’T TAKE IT EASY WITH THE FLESH: IT IS YOUR ENEMY
There are several advices the Bible gives us on how to deal with the flesh. These include (i) saying “no” to the demands of the flesh (ii) mortifying it (iii) keeping it under (iv) abstaining from its lusts, (v) making no provision to satisfy its lusts (vi) flee from dangerous zones and (vii) amputating offending members of the body.

Gal. 5:16; Col. 3:5; I Cor. 9:27; I Pet. 2:11; Rom. 13:14; Rom. 6:6; Gal. 5:24; II Tim. 2:22; I Thess. 4:3-5; Matt. 5:28; 18:8-9; John 15:5.