Know Your Enemy: The Flesh Examined | 2 Corinthians 5:16-18

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> July 14, 2024&nbsp; <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/spiritual-warfare">Spiritual Warfare</a> </span><span class="sermon-scripture sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/2%20Cor%205.16%E2%80%9318;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="2 Cor 5.16&ndash;18" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">2 Corinthians 5:16&ndash;18</a></span></p> <p>Topics include biblical definitions of the flesh; John Owen's <em>Mortification of Sin</em>; senses, mind and body connection; sense-gates in John Bunyan's <em>Holy War</em>; biblically defining sensual and sensuality; errant views of the flesh which exclude the physical body; regeneration and the flesh of believers; the source and seat of corruption in man; errant views of regneration and sanctification.</p> <p>Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know <em>Him in this way</em> no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, <em>he is</em> a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. ¹⁸ Now all <em>these</em> things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation... 2 Corinthians 5:16&ndash;18</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB&reg;) Legacy Standard Bible&reg;, Copyright &copy; 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.&nbsp;<a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>