What keeps us from doing as we ought?
Peer pressure, sloth, fear, honor, desire to be liked, our own wants, wealth, selfishness.
Paul’s word for this is “flesh.” “Flesh” is not a bad person living inside me. “Flesh” names a social and political order, also, inevitably, an accompanying order of soul.
But Jesus killed flesh on the cross.
Jesus died to liberate us from this perverse and perverting order that keeps us from living not for ourselves but for Him.
And He rises to form a new order.
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