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The flesh

How to Overcome the Lust of the Flesh

by Patrick Oben
overcoming lust showing a woman eating a banana

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live (Romans 8:13 KJV)  Lust is …

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What is Carnality?

by Patrick Oben
what is carnality showing a man on the floor with a bottle of alcohol

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (1 Corinthians 3:3 KJV) What comes …

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What is the flesh?

by Patrick Oben
what is the flesh showing two women painting

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us… (John 1:14 KJV) The flesh is a crucial truth found in the Bible from the Old to the New Testament. …

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Living according to the flesh

by Patrick Oben
living according to the flesh showing a man enjoying himself with some songs

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the …

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For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate

by Patrick Oben

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  (Romans 7:15 ESV) Romans chapter 7 …

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What are the works of the flesh

by Patrick Oben
what are the works of the flesh showing a woman taking a phot

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions (Galatians 5:19–20 ESV) Paul gives us an …

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Sensuality vs the Spirit

by Patrick Oben
sensuality vs spirit showing an angry woman

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit (Jude 19 KJV) One word characterizes the Christian life and that word is “Spirit”. Christianity is a Spirit-life. It …

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Who is a carnal Christian?

by Patrick Oben
who is a carnal christian showing a woman looking at the camera

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (1 Corinthians 3:3 KJV) What comes …

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