The Greatest Enemy as a Christian



The Greatest Enemy to you as a Christian is not satan but your Flesh. Your flesh is more close to you than the devil you never knew nor saw.

Satan who is a spirit can only operate through a medium. Without it, he can not function. The devil can never have access to your heart (spirit) which is your new self as a born again christian unless you willfully submit yourself under his control. Even during the days of Adam and Eve, the devil has to enter a medium (serpent) to tempt and deceive Eve (a living soul) to eat the forbidding fruit and as a result sin came to the world through the Flesh (a sinful nature).

Pastor Mark Bubek defines the flesh this way: “The flesh is a built-in law of failure, making it impossible for natural man to please or serve God. It is a compulsive inner force inherited from man’s fall, which expresses itself in general and specific rebellion against God and His righteousness. The flesh can never be reformed or improved. The only hope for escape from the law of the flesh is its total execution and replacement by a new life in the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Galatians 5:16-18 (KJV) reads,

"16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law."

From verse 17 above, the Flesh is established to be the greatest enemy of a child of God. We must at all times walk in the Spirit by meditating on the Word of God, praying without ceasing and yielding to the Holy Spirit for His wisdom, self-control and power to overcome the flesh as well as satan and his agents.


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