Fighting Against Our Flesh

Perhaps you never thought of your flesh as a kind of spiritual monkey full of deadly viruses—but it is… The spiritual monkey—is our old nature… Our old nature (“the flesh”) can sometimes be very pious and religious—but it hates God and the things of God…

If you're a Christian – you have the Holy Spirit in you… and the Spirit of God working with your spirit—is restraining and restricting the “spiritual monkey" of your flesh, so that it can't do all that it wants to do… and it can't get all that it wants to get… But—our flesh can still cause us a lot of trouble…