A New Master, Part 1 (Onward Christian Soldier #80)

Romans 8:7: "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

Lucifer was the wisest and most beautiful angel ever created, but sin changed him into Satan, the enemy of God and the enemy of man. Sin separated Adam and Eve from their loving Creator. And sin turned men who were created in the image of God into slaves of sin and Satan.

Because He hates sin so much, God wants us to be delivered from its power. In our last lesson we learned that, in Christ, we have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness. Sin has no right to reign over us, because we are no longer in the kingdom where sin reigns.

But sin has many ways of keeping us in its power and one of these is through "the flesh." The flesh is our sinful human nature. It is what we are apart from God. One form of the flesh is Self. What does it mean to have Self on the throne of our heart? It means that we are self-centered, and that we want to have our own way.