Let us consider first this verse:”For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart(v.2). Shooting privily is to indicate a hidden conflict zone that exists for every individual. The basic conflict between the heathen and the godly or upright exists in each heart. How each solves is not alike. “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.(Gal.5:17)” Here is another: “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;(1 Pe.2:11)
Above verses have thrown up three aspects of human condition. Flesh, spirit and soul explain his tripartite areas that bear upon responses to external events. Flesh speaks areas of interacting…
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