Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon

as a part of the Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil series.

Galatians chapter 6.

Please turn to Galatians chapter six please turn to Galatians chapter six as we continue our 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 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, and it's not a Christian idea,

but the way of Jesus has a unique contribution to make because its 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 a biblical theology of the flesh and the spirit.

We left off last time if you were here at the end of chapter 5

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