“Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21)
Temptations are very real and sometimes intense. Many succumb to them and fall into various sins. Therefore, we have to recognize them and deal with them, not in our own strength, but by the power of the Holy Spirit and by His word. How? By offering our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, and by not being conformed to this world, but being transformed by the renewing of our minds with the word of God. When we do that, God helps us not only to overcome every temptation and but enables us to bear much fruit for Him.
