To Teach Them War (15): Knowing Our Enemies: Our Sinful Flesh
This article examines spiritual warfare against the sinful flesh, understood not as the physical body but as the corrupted nature inherited from Adam that wars against the Holy Spirit within believers. Huizinga emphasizes that regenerated Christians must actively resist the flesh's impulses toward sin through the power of the Holy Spirit, recognizing this internal enemy as the fiercest battle in the Christian life. The piece draws on Galatians 5 to explain how believers must "walk in the Spirit" to overcome the works of the flesh and grow in holiness.
Previous article in this series: February 15, 2017, p. 232. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21 The Flesh as our Enemy...
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