Fresh Bread - 5/12

Daily Bread

Ephesians 2:3 - “In this we also all conducted ourselves in the desire of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of the imagination and were by nature children of wrath even as others.”

Flesh often is communicated in a positive sense as Jesus was manifested in the flesh and suffered for us in the flesh (John 1; 1 Peter 4:2). Flesh also describes the muscles of the body, meat used for sacrifice or food, human ability, and also the complete man (including the soul and spirit). However, in this case it is used in connection with the nature of sin and the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience. When flesh is used in contrast to the activity of the Holy Spirit it usually has a demonic connotation, such as in Romans 8:2-13 and 5:16-23. Now because of the grace of God that has brought salvation we are no longer in the flesh (Romans 8:9).

Blessings,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen