Tuesday 27/11/12

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

This is a long list of the works of the flesh. It gratifies the flesh's desires in a cheap,  immoral, and harmful manner:

_ sexual immorality, impurity and sensuality: wrong gratification of sexual desires

_ idolatry and sorcery: wrong worship, worshipping wrong gods, wrong mysticism.

_ enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy: not loving our neighbors and not contented with what we have

_ drunkenness and orgies: wrong gratification of eat & drink & socializing needs.

Those are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the vanities of life. They are the wrong & cheap ways to gratify the needs & enjoyments God has placed in our bodies. We must gratify them in a right, safe, loving and peaceful ways of God.