In Genesis 3 we find the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. At some point they find themselves at the centre of the garden where there was a special tree called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God commanded Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:16-17 not to eat...

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:8-9 It doesn't take much reading in the Bible...

The flesh truly is my own worst enemy and I promise you friend, it is yours as well. Every human being that has ever lived has inherited a corrupt nature from our first Father, Adam. We can’t help ourselves from rebelling against God because we are naturally rebellious. Left to ourselves, we will always choose to be selfish. This is hard for us as humans to understand. We give ourselves all kinds of credit for heroic, selfless acts. The bible is clear though, even our seemingly best, most noble act falls short of God’s standards of goodness, righteousness. “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” – Romans 8:8.

The book of Romans spends the first three chapters establishing that all of humanity, both Jews (God's original people) and Gentiles are all evil. Romans 3:23 sums it up well, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." A few verses earlier Paul even...

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in...