Crucified the flesh

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. – Galatians 5.22-25

All those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its lusts and passions and desires. Paul says the same kind of thing to the Romans in Romans 6. In Christ we are dead to the old world. Our flesh has not power. Our lusts have no power. Our passions have no power. When they win out it is because we chose to let them win. It is because we choose that over holiness and righteousness living.

Why does the flesh give us so much trouble when we have already crucified it and put it to death and mortified it and it has not power and no dominion over us?

There is only one answer when we do that – we prefer the rotten old flesh to the blessings of the Spirit.

Only when we truly realise that we are truly dead to the flesh can we begin to have any know of victory of it. It can only win when we choose to let it win.