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Part One: Restraining Your Flesh

Part One: Restraining Your Flesh. Ephesians 4:21-22. Session 2. Recognizing the Evil Within. Knowledge Objectives. Explain how the wrong view of man leads to a wrong diagnosis of man’s problems. Explain what is wrong with man and why trusting the heart of man is so treacherous.

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Part One: Restraining Your Flesh

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  1. Part One:Restraining Your Flesh Ephesians 4:21-22

  2. Session 2 Recognizing the Evil Within

  3. Knowledge Objectives • Explain how the wrong view of man leads to a wrong diagnosis of man’s problems. • Explain what is wrong with man and why trusting the heart of man is so treacherous. • Understand why submission to the authority God has placed in your life is so crucial to your spiritual success.

  4. Application Objectives • Respond by recognizing areas of your life where sin’s destruction is already making headway. • Respond by repenting of any self-confidence and self-reliance you tend to have. • Respond by turning to God in dependence to keep you from trusting in your own heart.

  5. Session 2 Recognizing the Evil Within

  6. The Evil Within • Even after salvation an indwelling principle of sin corrupts every part of us. • Something is desperately wrong with man. • The Bible offers man his only hope—redemption.

  7. Getting the View of Man Right We are all pretty bad people who do right only by the grace of God.

  8. If the View of Man Isn’t Right... • Misdiagnosis in parenting • Misdiagnosis in counseling • Misdiagnosis in the local church • Misdiagnosis in Christian education

  9. More Misdiagnoses • “I can’t believe I did that!” • “I can’t believe anyone would do that!” • “I trust my kids. They would never do anything like that!” • “I can’t believe God would damn anyone to hell!” • “The Devil must really be fighting me!”

  10. The Nature of Our Nature • “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Judg. 17:6). • “So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels” (Ps. 81:12). • “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding” (Prov. 3:5).

  11. The Nature of Our Nature • “Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil” (Prov. 3:7). • “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes” (Prov. 12:15). • “Cease from thine own wisdom” (Prov. 23:4). • “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool” (Prov. 28:26).

  12. The Nature of Our Nature • “Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight” (Isa. 5:21). • “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way” (Isa. 53:6). • “Be not wise in your own conceits” (Rom. 12:16).

  13. The Nature of Our Nature • “[Love] doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own” (I Cor. 13:5). • “For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s” (Phil. 2:21). • “For men shall be lovers of their own selves” (II Tim. 3:2). • “These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts” (Jude 16).

  14. The Nature of Our Nature • The flesh defies God. • The flesh defiles man. • The flesh deceives man. • The flesh destroys man. • The toxicity of this heart is so potent that when God wants to judge a man, all He has to do is turn that man over to his own heart (Romans 1).

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