This is the internal battle you fight every day: your flesh ( Sarx ) wants freedom and autonomy - the

As Jesus said in John 10:28, no one - not even Sarx, your nagging sinful nature, can snatch you out of

That's why, in fact, Paul ordered the man's expulsion, so that Satan could destroy the man's Sarx (flesh

detached from Christ: they're captives of hollow and deceptive philosophy; they're ruled by the flesh (Sarx

The problem is that Sarx (your old sinful nature that's waging war against you) continually tricks you

clothed in His Name, protected not only from the evils of this world, but from the temptations of Sarx

Whereas prior to receiving grace you were enslaved to sin and sarx , now your ability to resist sin has

"All of us," writes Paul, lived with the primary goal of "gratifying the cravings of our flesh [sarx]

to discipline  this immoral brother by handing him over "to Satan for the destruction of the flesh ( sarx

Our sinful nature ( sarx ) has an insatiable appetite for more money and power, but so often as these