Satan, Sin, And Death
SATAN, SIN, AND DEATH
The three main enemies of man—sin, death, and Satan—are centered in man's flesh. Sin, death, and Satan meet together in the "meeting place" of our flesh. Sin, death, and Satan are always together. There is a place in our constitu tion where these three enemies can meet, and that place is the flesh. From the time of man's fall, they have been holding a continuous meet ing in the flesh of man.
Throughout my Christian life, nothing has troubled me more than the flesh. We should not condemn sin, death, and Satan without realizing that the very center of our problem is the flesh. We simply cannot get away from the flesh; we are unable to walk away from it in the way we can walk out of a building. The reason we cannot get away from the flesh is that it has become part of our being. A number of times I have said to the Lord, "Lord, You are wonderful, and You have done so much for us. Lord, why don't You take the flesh away from us?" According to my econ omy, it would be much better for the flesh to be gone.
Perhaps you are bothered by your temper. But the source of temper is the flesh. All our