 and then we will get started. Could I request somebody to pray with a glass please? You can go ahead. Please go ahead Ganesha. Grecious and loving father we thank you for another wonderful morning. We thank you Lord as we come and avail ourselves to learn and to be used by you learn about your holiness because you said be holy because I'm holy. You are God and you're suffering and we come Lord at your feet this morning download from heaven in us father as we ascribe to you this morning to learn more of your fullness and also in part in our lives make it a part of our daily lifestyle and Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay good morning everyone. We're continuing in our study on holiness specifically talking about overcoming the flesh the world and the devil the practical side of it and if I'm not mistaken I think end of last class Abraham had a question and we said you can ask it next class. So Abraham is that right? Did you want to ask a question before you go forward? You were asking a lot towards the end of the class last time and like just what I was telling was that I normally share on Sundays in my group but anytime I see the move of God because all meetings are not the same. Some of the meetings you just know that God wants to do something and as a result of that you ask for prayer or we go in I mean we demand for the supernatural and after those meetings when I come back home that is where I begin to have this much more challenges my personal challenges that is why are you in ministry why can't you settle down why are you wasting your time you know all those kind of thoughts but it doesn't happen every time it only happens after a strong move of the holy spirit. So I just wanted to know because I've heard that if you engage the supernatural and you are not at that level there can be a back class so I just wanted to be sure that I should remain in my lane or I should be very built up before I do anything when I go to share or preach. Okay I think I understand your question. I hope I understood it correctly. Okay just okay two things two things see one is and if you take the example the old testament example of Elisha you know he he and I'm just using this as an example right so he had this wonderful ministry on Mount Karm where he you know he was a that the fire came down burned the sacrifice he and the prophets of Baal were exposed and he killed the prophets of Baal and the people said you know we will serve the Lord our God so it was a very powerful time but then right after that he went into a time of great discouragement simply because he got afraid and you know Jezebel said you know I'm going to kill Elijah the prophet I'm going to you know before the end of the day I'm going to take him out and so Elijah ran for his life and all of that so so I'm just using that as example where and I'm not saying it has to happen all the time but there are times when you know we have wonderful time of ministry and of course the devil doesn't like it and so there are going to be those thoughts of intimidation and all those kinds of things you know coming against our mind trying to discourage us so on so forth so that's one side of it so you know these are battles we have to fight we all have to fight in an exempt we're not exempt from the enemy trying to do things against us or trying to discourage us or keep us down yeah we all fight those battles you know and but that's why we have to be strong and we say no I reject these thoughts I know what God is calling me to do and I'm staying focused on it I'm going to press forward okay so that's one thing which is I'm saying yeah there is an enemy that's going to try to discourage all of us as we pursue the things God wants us to do of course the enemy doesn't want us to build the will of God for our lives that's one side of it the other side of it is we don't have to be afraid of backlash say what do you mean you know I'm trying to see how best to say this but you know in the early days of when when I was starting out I always used to hear I mean I used to hear people say this oh you go on a ministry time when you come back you're going to face a backlash but then I chose that that's not what I'm going to have I said the Bible tells me that nothing will by any means hurt me the Bible tells me yeah and first on fire 1819 that whoever is born of God keeps himself and that wicked one does not touch him so that is what I want to experience that I'm going to go minister go on missions do the things but I'm not going to suffer a backlash I mean I don't care if the enemy doesn't like what I'm doing he tries to you know retaliate or whatever I'm still covered I'm covered before I do the mission strip I'm covered during the mission strip and I'm covered after the mission strip the same way nothing has changed so if the enemy cannot touch me before if he cannot touch me during he's not going to touch me after right so that was my position and and honestly you know we've traveled so many trips and so many different things and then I don't if you ask me I have not necessarily felt oh this is a backlash and I have cannot do anything or I'm struggling or because I went on a mission strip I've not had any of those kinds of experiences because I just chose to say what does the word of God say I'll stay with the word of God you know so that's the other part so one part yeah we recognize the enemy is always you know is going to try to discourage all of us and you know try to keep us from moving forward in the will of God but on the other hand we also have been given weapons we've also been given the word to stand strong and if the enemy is trying something we are always stronger we're going to live victorious and overcome so that's how I would encourage you to approach that and don't expect the enemy to do it you know Job said the thing that I've greatly feared has come upon me so that's the thing you know if we fear or if fear is wrong expectation expectation on the bad thing faith is expectation towards God so when we fear then that's what you're going to get but then you choose to stand with the word and overcome it okay hope it helps okay thank you all right so today we're going to just try and finish up that first section on overcoming the flesh right we've been talking about this and you know so how do we practically overcome the flesh we said first is we must know that we are free from the power of sin okay know that truth you know knowing the truth is what's going to help us walk in the truth and experience that freedom so know the truth of what God has done for us in Christ secondly we said to overcome the flesh we must use the word of God in relation to that area of weakness or the area of temptation I'd use the word of God the word of God has been given to cleanse us to renew our minds it's given to us to as a weapon against the enemy so the word of God is very powerful and use the word in relation to the area of temptation the area of weakness you know so we were just talking about some examples you know if lying speaking on truth is an area of weakness then take the scriptures in relation to that and we've just mentioned a few and begin to use them if sexual immorality is an area of weakness where you know we feel that our sexual appetites are controlling us wrong sexual desires and so then that's where you take the scriptures and cleanse your mind with the word of God and when temptation comes that is when your own desires are trying to pull you that's when we speak we remind ourselves by speaking the word or putting our mind or our thoughts on those particular scripture passages and I've just listed some here a few of them not all of them but a few of them so for example I was going through 6 13 to 20 uh Paul writes and he teaches us they you know for this food is for the stomach stomach for the food so this is a legitimate legitimate thing yeah food is for the stomach stomach is for the food God created it but uh God will destroy both it and then that means one day all this will pass away the food and the stomach will no longer matter the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body so he's saying look there is sexuality but then there is sexual immorality and the body is not meant for immorality but the body is for the Lord and the Lord is for the body so this is so important your body is for the Lord and the Lord is for your body so when you feel the pull or the temptation of immoral sexual desires what must we do we need to tell ourselves the body is for the Lord the Lord is for the body so one of the things that I do is I say God I thank you I consecrate all my appetites all my sexual desires I consecrated to you and I just declare in the name of Jesus all my sexual desires all my sexual appetites are consecrated they are sanctified they are set apart and they are set holy for God and because the body with all of its sexual desires the body is the container of appetites and one of them is sexual appetite it's for the Lord and the Lord is for the body and he says you know God will raise up the God who raised up the Lord he's going to raise raise us up by his power that means our bodies are going to be resurrected to that end to that extent the Lord has committed himself to our bodies right to raising it up by his power and then he says in verse 15 and this is something to think about don't you know that your bodies he's talking about our physical bodies don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ and this is such a powerful thing it's a big thing he's saying he says your bodies he's talking about these physical bodies they are members or part of Christ you know now many times when we talk about being in Christ and being part of Christ we only think in terms of spiritual yeah spiritually I'm a part of that spiritual body of Christ spiritually I am one with Christ and I am in him and he is in me spiritually which is already true but Paul is going a step further and he's saying your physical body is part of Christ so how should I perceive my physical body I should not separate out my spirit and my physical body they're okay spiritually I'm one with Christ and physically I'm not no what is Paul saying he's saying your physical body is a part of Christ that means your physical body is belongs to Christ just as much as your spirit body your spiritual person belongs to Christ it means your whole being that's how he sums it up sums up verse 20 your whole being spirits whole and body belongs to Christ so your physical body it's also part of Christ so obvious question can I take what is part of Christ and put it you know into morality which is in making part of a prostitute no I can't do that certainly not I can't take what belongs to Christ that is you know my physical body and put it into a place of sin like this now it cannot it cannot be certainly not so how should we view the body with its appetites first it's for the Lord so you consecrate all your appetites all your desires all your affections all your passions so Lord my body is for you you are for my body and God is so committed to your body he's going to raise it up with this power secondly your body is a part of Christ so you look at your body it's a body you belong to Jesus you you're part of Christ so we don't disconnect our body from our spiritual identity yes spiritually we're connected with Christ but that includes our physical body so he says you know don't you know when you are joined to a harlot you become one body with the two he says become one flesh but he was joined to the Lord as one spirit so he's saying look we have been joined to the Lord we believers have been joined to the Lord spiritually but that spiritual union extends all the way to our physical bodies so I am in Christ but my being in Christ also means that my body becomes a part of Christ that's what he wants us to see and therefore I cannot give my body to do something wrong now think about some of the ideas that are floating floating around in the name of grace and some of the ideas that well I've heard people mention these where they say you see when you sin your body sins your spirit doesn't wait a minute they say you know in this part of this grace teaching and this is I'm not against grace we are all saved by grace but I'm just against misusing grace right saying things that are not true in the name of grace and one of the notions is that for a believer his body sins but it's not it's not a spiritual sin God doesn't see it because spiritually you're in Christ listen to what Paul is saying Paul is saying you're spiritually one with Christ and because you're spiritually one with Christ your body becomes part of Christ that means God has taken your whole spirit soul and body and made you part of Christ your whole being now belongs to Jesus you can't exclude your physical body from your relationship with Jesus now of course our relationship for Jesus is one spirit with him that means we are spiritually one with him of course but being spiritually one with them means it includes my body being a part of Christ that's what he's saying and so because your body is also part of Christ you can't just give your body over to sexual sin so he says flee sexual immorality flee get away run away from this see so there are some sins you stand and resist some sins you run away and resist some sins you resist by standing and saying no some sins you resist by running away and saying no and sexual sins you resist by running away you stand and resist the devil you run away to resist sexual sin why because you cannot trust your own flesh so it will bring us to another very important point in the next I will mention I'll mention it here I'll repeat it again don't when it comes to sexual sin don't trust yourself when it comes to sexual things don't put yourself in a place where you're going to be vulnerable don't even do it don't say oh no I'm very strong I will resist it there no when it comes to sexual sin you have to flee you're to run not stand and resist you to run and resist and run away from it remove your plate remove yourself from that place that's what flee means run away from it so example don't put yourself in a place where you have to be alone with somebody in the opposite sex don't put yourself in a place like that you know just some practical examples I mean if you come to our church office everything is made with glass and we purposely set it up that way because we want people to see you know I remember a long time ago I went to meet a pastor and he invited me to his office room and I was shocked because he's the entrance to his office room was a wooden door that means nobody can see who is inside the office was completely closed I mean it was air conditioned of course but nobody knows who's sitting inside and what's happening inside so I was I was like hmm I would never sit in an office like this because if a woman walks in and I shut the door nobody will know what's going on behind the door so that's you know that's one reason you know the Nebel tower office we purposely put everything glass everybody can see so you know if a lady comes to talk to me she comes in everybody knows they can see they have I'm sitting and having a conversation there is no you know no possible things okay see and go so that's just one example then sometimes if you know somebody says I want to talk to you personally I would say you can talk to me in public you talk to me when everybody's there where everybody's there yes I would never meet with a woman alone don't do that you see why because you can't trust yourself you can't trust your bless and what the bible tells us is to flee immorality in this in this is this is one area where you don't stand there to resist sexual sin you run away from sexual sin you don't even don't even give that an opportunity right so every sin a man does he comes outside the body but if you commit sexual sin you're sitting against your own body so that means you know example if you lie okay you know that you're lying might affect something else outside you know it may affect some relationship or effect it may affect your money or your whatever something external to you but sexual sin you're affecting your own self your own body so he says be careful further he says your body is the temple of the holy spirit in this explaining to us how holy we got to treat our body because your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and then he says your body is also purchased by God your body is God's now you were bought and when you bought your whole body spiritual and body was bought so in the context of sexual appetites this is a powerful passage to study and and let me just summarize what Paul is teaching us he's saying understand that your body is for the Lord that means everything in your body all your sexual appetites passions they are for God and God is for your body if God is for your body he is the Lord who sanctifies that means your body is sanctified then your body is a part of Christ because your spiritual union with him makes every every part of you one with him including your body therefore flee sexual sin run away don't stand there to resist run away from it because sexual sin affects your body it enslaves your body other things may affect things outside but this is a sin that affects your body you know there there are repercussions on your own body some other things to understand remember is your body is a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit your body has been purchased by God and therefore belongs to God so very powerful passage to you know to use when you're battling sexual sin or sexual temptations another parallel passage is 1st Thessalonians 4 he says you don't know that this is God's will for you that you should abstain and you should stay away don't even play with that abstain from sexual immorality immorality and you should know how to possess your own vessel and sanctification and honor that means your own vessel is your own body that you should know how to have charge have control over your own body keeping it in holiness that sanctification and in honor so hold your body in holiness and honor so you possess your own vessel nobody else can do this for you so says you abstain from sexual immorality and you hold your own body in holiness and honor so this you is your spirit your your inner person you hold your vessel and he says don't follow you know the Gentiles they are they are fulfilling the passions of their evil desires that is last but we are not like that and we don't go and defraud even our own brother in this matter and don't cheat your own brother so don't do that God did not call us to unclean us but in holiness how did God call us he's calling over us his holiness but if you reject this commandment we're actually rejecting what God desires for us and he's the one who's given us his holy spirit so this is again another passage you remind yourself these are two passes we can use and so there are many more but you can use you know just to remind yourself you constantly you meditate in it until you know it becomes of a desire to walk in holiness in this area so like this you know we must learn to use the scriptures in all many other areas where we will face temptation okay and you can put the scriptures together on these different areas number three is we walk in the spirit and crucify the flesh so while we are using the word of God to deal with the wrong desires of the flesh we also yield ourselves to the holy spirit it's a holy spirit i ask you to help me holy spirit i'm facing this please help me holy spirit i i can feel the pull of this evil desire please help me right so say i submit myself to the holy spirit holy spirit you're filming and you help me overcome the flesh overcome the desires i mean i'm drawing strength from the holy spirit by praying so we've talked about this earlier you know he says if by the spirit we put to death the deeds of the body right so the holy spirit will help us to put to death the deeds of the body and so we pray holy spirit help me holy spirit fill me and holy spirit help me put to death the deeds of the body and we have discussed from in 826 you know the spirit helps us in our weaknesses so he's willing to help us in our weaknesses and how will he how will he how will he do it it's going to be through intercession the prayer that he prays together with us so when it says prayer for us doesn't mean he's going to do it independently of us but he's doing it together with us because he's helping us in our weaknesses right so he takes us in this place of intercession in a place of prayer to help us overcome our weaknesses so we must learn to pray in the spirit and draw strength from the holy spirit you know whether you know sometimes the pull of the temptation the struggle may be uh so strong you may need to just get away and pray for several hours but if that's what it's going to take do it right we take some time to go out today and keeping the stay aside to battle against um the pull of this weakness in my flesh uh I want the holy spirit to help me and just go on and pray for one hour two hours three hours whatever you know just pray until you are strengthened with the help of the holy spirit to deal with that weakness of your flesh okay but the thing the beautiful thing is this when the holy spirit helps us put to death the deeds of the body yeah we can walk in victory and that that's that's a beautiful place to be right but it does require us engaging with the holy spirit in prayer to overcome the weakness of our flesh okay and then this is true this becomes true in our lives that be who our Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires lord I thank you that I who am Christ I crucify the flesh I put to death the flesh with its passions and desires right so understand this that sometimes crucifixion is not not sometimes but you know most of most of the time crucifying the flesh is not an easy thing it's a painful thing right but with the help of the holy spirit we can do it and Jesus said you know it's it's like this that um um it's like plucking out that part of you which is causing you to sin you said if your eye is causing this and pluck it out your hand is causing you to cut it off so that's how painful it may be in dealing with something that's causing you to sin but Jesus said that's what we need to do obviously it's not talking about you know physically plucking your eye or cutting your hand he's using it as a as an expression to tell us that look you have to deal with it with such severity cut it off pluck it out cast it away from you right so it requires that painful process but the holy spirit will give us the strength to do it and lastly well actually two two points here is make no provision for the flesh so I had mentioned this earlier you know it's the bible says put on the Lord Jesus Christ that means you walk as Christ walk that's what it means to put on be like Jesus imitate Him put Him on you know so when people see you they see Jesus so put on the Lord Jesus make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lets make no provision for the flesh don't give your flesh any opportunity so this is so important and I was speaking of this a little earlier make no provision for the flesh don't trust your own flesh don't say well I will be in that place I know I'm going to get tempted but I think I can handle it never do it that's foolish it's better to stay away from the place of temptation especially in these matters so better to stay away from that don't even get into that place make no provision for your flesh and so you have to think of ways by which you make no provision for the flesh for example when I'm traveling alone now you know when I travel for ministry there are times we travel as a team and then there are times when you know if it's only a one day trip or two day trip then I don't need to take a team I could just go and come back now even when we travel as a team I I like to have my own room my room by myself simply because you know I like to rest when I want to rest and I like to pray when I want to pray and whatever I'm meditating I don't like to have conversation keep talking to people and I need to be quiet so I like to have my own space now that also means I have to be more careful so some of the things for instance when I'm traveling on ministry and I'm having my own room I don't turn on the television you know that there may be a television in the hotel room or whatever I don't even turn it on I don't need to and if I want if I want to keep up with the news I can read you know I can read BBC news on my phone I don't need to turn on the television because the moment you turn on television you can flip channels and you can end up in a channel you're not supposed to be watching all the things that you're not supposed to be seeing so I just don't even turn on the television I don't need to so you know or if anybody wants to meet me I would usually tell them you know to meet me in the lobby or somebody I don't don't let them unless it's somebody I really trust or one of you know a male member of our team okay yeah if we need to discuss yeah you can come to my room otherwise everybody else we'll meet outside nobody meets alone in my room unless I said like I said it's a male person of our team whom I trust and whom you know I need to meet personally otherwise it's everything in public you know so no opportunity nothing you know that everything is you're basically you're protecting yourself right so if I have to travel I'll never travel with a female member alone no it's going to be a team people all all around so we're all traveling together and these are things that you just do why it's it's because you are protecting yourself and you're protecting other people so you don't give any opportunity for the flesh and make no provision for the flesh so those are just some simple things you know and so depending on whatever you know areas where you you seem to be falling you need to make sure that there's no reason that you don't even give it an opportunity to fall make no provision for the flesh you need to be careful right and yeah so some thoughts on that here you know be careful the kind of company you keep and lastly one small point is get another believer to walk with you in this area depending on the help you need so if you seriously have a problem be accountable at least for a period of time with another believer who can hold you accountable so that you are following you know these instructions so to overcome the flesh just to sum up know the truth that you're free from the power of sin number two is to use the word of God in relation to area weakness or temptation about three depend on the Holy Spirit ask him for his strength be walk in the spirit and and pray the prayer is so important here in order to crucify the flesh number four always choose to be like Jesus and don't give any opportunity don't give any opportunity no room no space for the flesh and if needed get another believer to walk with you right we are here to help each other right here to support each other so you can get somebody's help for a season for a period of time until you're strong enough and you know you've gained mastery over that area of your life okay so any questions before we get into the next part which is overcoming the world let me pause here and see the any questions any questions everyone's with me so far okay yeah okay um debia you have a question go ahead yes pastor thank you uh i i was just thinking about the worst in james where it says friendship with the world as enmity to god in what context actually because as people we are in the world and it is not like we have to hate uh people around us or so what is the context of saying that friendship with the world is enmity towards god thank you yeah so you know like you said we are of course in the world we have to engage with the world practically uh we interact with every you know with people in the world all of that but what is he saying is this you know in james four he's saying he's contrasting friendship with god versus friendship with the world don't you know that if you're a friend of the world you're an enemy with god so he actually uses very strong words he says you're adulterous and adulterous is so what if you think about an adulterer and adulterous what has happened they have left their first love and become affectionate towards someone else that's an adulterer so james is telling us believers don't be adulterous don't be adulterous that means don't leave your first love and become in love with the world so so you know if you want to summarize what he's saying we keep our love for god supreme we keep our love for god untouched that's that's an area and a space nothing else interferes with while we meaningfully engage with the world you know we all have responsibilities we we have things to do and there are things in the world we can enjoy you know because first Timothy 6 and verse 17 it says god gives us richly all things to enjoy so god has given us good things in the in this world that we can enjoy right so you can enjoy good food you can enjoy beautiful places to see you can enjoy people you can enjoy good friendships with people you can enjoy good community so many good things out there in this world that we can enjoy but our enjoyment or enjoying the good things god has given to us will never take us away from our first love so we always there fix one of first love while we meaningfully engage with the world all to you know do what god wants us to do and glorify god sure thank you thank you buster okay thank you um elijah has a question what are the implications to sin against your own body so we we see this so we saw in first Corinthians uh chapter 6 right when Paul says he who commits sin sexual immorality he sins against his own body right this is in first Corinthians 6 and verse 18 and then we also seen first beta chapter 2 and i think it's verse 11 he says fleshly lust war against soul fleshly lust or against soul so we are looking at these descriptors first Corinthians 6 18 first speed uh to 11 let me just put this okay uh we also see another scripture for example in Proverbs 6 i think it's verse 20 let me just verify it Proverbs chapter 6 and verse 20 not verse 20 sorry Proverbs 6 32 Proverbs 6 verse 32 and i would you know we could also read the preceding verses so when we when when we're committing sexual immorality the bible is telling us we are sinning against our own body first Peter 2 11 says you know when we give into these fleshly lusts we are warring against our own soul Proverbs 6 30 actually the preceding verses says it's like taking fire into your own bosom it's like you are self-destructing or self-destroying you're destroying your own self so what can we say when a person is engaging in fleshly lusts specifically with sexual immorality it is self-destructive in many ways one is the body is becoming more and more enslaved the person may not understand it or realize it but he is becoming more and more a slave second his emotions the soul you know and you see this in first Peter 2 11 and Proverbs 6 32 his own emotions are being destroyed they're warring it's like a war being set up in his emotional world and it's becoming very destructive emotionally so he's becoming a slave body so there's a war being set on and his Proverbs 6 30 says he destroys his own soul his mind will emotions so both his body and his soul are being affected and that's like he's sinning against himself he's hurting himself doing wrong to himself is that okay let's go okay first off thank you very much okay so we have um christopher we'll take your question then yes question um i'm just trying to i'm just referring to the notes actually i mentioned about the illustration is arm wrestling i'm just going to explain that a bit um i mean just seem to me that you know i don't know how extreme it is but maybe you can explain that uh you know the what what you what do you mean by arm wrestling okay i guess a related question go ahead christ just a related question is about uh you know crucifer in the flesh and um uh uh you know i guess coming from uh from our more denominational church earlier you know what comes to mind is this you know sometimes extremes you know that people go to and they are even practiced by the by you know by those denominational churches where you know people are maybe in the form of repentance you know they have they are you know literally between themselves you know with the with whips to you know in repentance as well as you know sort of a punishment and kind of a deterrent to you know committing the same sin again so oh okay all right so this arm wrestling uh i usually use that illustration when i'm speaking to a live audience but i couldn't do that i mean it's difficult to do it here but okay just imagine in us so i needed another person to help me so imagine you know two people are doing arm wrestling right and imagine this is the sin that i'm overcome trying to fight against and this is me my inner person trying to fight against the sin and you know if there's armless you know we're trying to do an arm wrestling now imagine another arm comes over mine that's the arm of the holy spirit and so you know in my own self i might be losing you know sin maybe this designers might be overpowering me but when the holy spirit puts his hand around me i can overcome the sin that weakness i just use that illustration when i'm speaking to a live audience but it's difficult to do it while i'm alone so that was that was the point that basically when the holy spirit empowers us we can overcome whatever you're fighting against now about you know about that you know that self-flagellation type of self-discipline i think it's it's a misunderstanding of what the scriptures are teaching us right so when the scripture is talking about the flesh it's talking about the desires of the flesh and crucifying the flesh is crucifying the desire of the flesh and it doesn't mean that we punish the physical body in like manner you know where some of the some of they whip themselves or nail themselves or all do these strange things that is not what god is intending this is a spiritual struggle right with the help of the holy spirit and and the intent is not to do the physical things but to to deal with it by the holy spirit let me just mention a few scriptures in collusion chapter two paul addresses this in collusion chapter two verse 16 to 23 and it's a long passage but he collusions to 16 to 23 he talks about people who uh uh they you know they they they subject people to regulations don't touch don't taste don't handle and also he talks about verse 23 he talks about neglect of the body in other words you know there's this form of uh uh uh punishing the physical body but he says uh you know this is really of no value against the indulgence of the flesh meaning they are doing the self-imposed religion they're doing the neglect of the body they're punishing the physical body but that in itself is no of no value against the real battle we are trying to fight so uh so you know we must understand we're not talking about some kind of a physical punishment of the body we're talking about being empowered by the holy spirit to deal with the ungodly desires of the flesh okay one last question um from elijah and then we close up but today we'll continue this on venice day uh it uh elijah makes a comment it seems to me sin is too strong a spiritual force over the flesh even believer even in believers why it's so i think it's all because of the emphasis the emphasis that we are laying and perhaps or even in the church um we emphasize a lot on you know things of the natural instead of emphasizing things of the spirit and so you know we kind of tend to feed the natural instead of feeding the spirit um so whatever you feed becomes strong so if you're feeding the natural instead of feeding the spirit then the emphasis on this on the natural and the spirit actually is weak so um spiritually believers are weak uh and therefore the flesh seems to dominate but if you strengthen believers spiritually with the word of god but the things of holy spirit then believers will be strong to overcome the flesh right so if we can emphasize more and more on on the things of god the things of the spirit we will have believers who are strong spiritually and they will live victorious very well pastor thank you okay we'll close for today we'll pick this up on venice day i will talk about overcoming the world and how how you know how we can do that practically okay somebody please pray and dismiss us can i pray okay go ahead there we are thank you thank you father thank you for for this wonderful opportunity father lord that you have given us lot to learn what we face father lord we may not see it in the natural father but there are so many things father that we need to be aware of we need to be intentionally fighting father with the help of the holy spirit thank you father for all the um faculties of the human spirit that you've given us thank you lord for your holy spirit that empowers us and strengthens us thank you for your word we thank you for all the spiritual weapons that you've given us lord you help us you train our spirits minds our bodies lord to further stand formed to fight against the schemes of the evil one fight against the weaknesses in our flesh lord your word says lord your grace is sufficient for us lord we completely depend upon you father lord that in the coming days lord we will father be able to overcome father lord by by the holy spirit by your word father by the power of your word we thank you lord we come at past rashish and each and every student assembled here father we pray that you continue to strengthen us empower us and help us to inspire many others as well unto you lord all these we pray in the name of our lord and savior jesus christ amen amen amen thank you thank you everyone uh see you all tomorrow god bless you enjoy your afternoon god bless thank you pastor thank you everyone god bless thank you god bless you bye now goodbye bye god bless you all tomorrow enjoy your afternoon god bless