# The Spirit: the Antidote to the Flesh

**The Spirit  - **

**the Antidote to the Flesh**

> This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — Galatians 5:16

1. **You must walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh**

    1. The Christian Life is often related or represented as a walk or journey
    2. We will stumble and be destroyed if we walk in the flesh
    3. We must walk / live our lives in and by the Spirit
        1. All manner of our lives directed by the Spirit
        2. Led by the Spirit
        3. Worship by the Spirit
        
2. **Flesh cannot be conquered by flesh**
    4. The problems of the flesh cannot be conquered by man’s programs, resolutions or by “turning over a new-leaf”
    5. The means of flesh cannot break spiritual bondages – spiritual bondages can only be broken by the Spirit
    
3. **Be under the Divine Influence of the Spirit**

If we are lives are under the influence of the Spirit then the flesh will not have control of our lives.