Word Information
Word: Sarx (Gk)
English: Flesh
σάρξ | sarx | flesh
Source: Thayer’s Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
Author: Joseph H. Thayer
"Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh (sarx) is weak." Matthew 26:41
Definition
- flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts
- the body; the sensuous nature of man, “the animal nature“ with cravings which incite to sin; the physical nature of man as subject to suffering
- a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh)
- The flesh denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God
The spirit is willing; it is born of God and can not sin. However, the sarx – the -sarkikos (fleshly/carnal) man – desires the lusts of the flesh. The state of our soul determines whether we walk according to the spirit or yield to the flesh.
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly (sarkikos) as to babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.
For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?
Romans 8:5-8
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Sizzling Sunday: 11th June 2023
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