Galatians chapter six, please turn to Galatians chapter six as we continue our

fall practice on fighting the world, the flesh and the devil. Last time we kicked

off module two on the flesh. In case you missed it I don't have time to recap

all of that content. We have a lot of ground to cover, go back if you're up for it,

listen to the podcast, short version. We define the flesh as the base animalistic

primal drive in all of us for self gratification. Put another way it's the

part of our heart that is bent away from God and from his definition of good and

beautiful and true and is instead in the language of the fourth century

African theologian Augustine turned in on itself. And calling out this

corner of our heart is just naming an aspect of the human condition that we

all have to fight follower of Jesus or not. This inner tug of war between our

mixed desires, some of which are good, others and healthy, others of which are the

exact opposite. But the way of Jesus, this is not a new idea, it's not a

Christian idea, but the way of Jesus has a unique contribution to make because

it's solution to the problem of what we call the flesh is not willpower but is

the spirit's power, all of which leads us to Galatians chapter six. This week's

teaching is essentially part two of a very long teaching that we started last

time from Galatians five and six, which is one of the go to passages in the new

testament for biblical theology of the flesh and the spirit. We left off last time

if you were here at the end of chapter five with this idea that the West in

general and American particular has radically redefined the idea of freedom,

often what we call freedom we mean is the ability to do whatever the heck we

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