Interesting. I thought it was the heart that was tempted. The body obeys the heart. At least that's what I think the Bible reports. Do you think that is wrong?
i don’t really have an opinion if your wrong brother that’s not at all even on my radar of thought .
Regarding man’s heart it’s always been deceived and utterly wicked through the knowledge of evil . temptation however is
of the flesh I’m just saying this …..look at what the issue is
“And the LORD said,
My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
Genesis 6:3 KJV
“Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into
temptation.
The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 14:38 KJV
“For what the law could not do, in that it
was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh:”
Romans 8:3 KJV
“For
they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;
but
they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be
carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then
they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But
ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”
Romans 8:5-9 KJV
“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye
shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 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.
Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:16-17, 19-21
“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
“And they that are Christ's have crucified
the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
Galatians 5:24 KJV
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1 KJV
“to
deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that
the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
1 Corinthians 5:5 KJV
Do you see on the terminology how the flesh and spirit are contrary ? One is always good and right the other is always corrupt and to be destroyed ? How the “lusts of the flesh “ are man’s weakness ? And how a man has a spirit and he has flesh and one has to die for the other to live ?
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
John 3:6 KJV
“It is
the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63 KJV
“For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but
he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
Galatians 6:8 KJV
Do you see why I was saying the flesh is the issue and how we are tempted is through the flesh ? And wasn’t talking about this because it is the vehicle for temptation and not the object of it
“The heart is
deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
The source of the temptation not it’s target the flesh is our issue and Weakness and also what gets led astray through temptation ( this however brother is only my own thinkin ) and yours also is completely respected
i think there’s a reason for this
“Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”
1 Corinthians 15:50 KJV
