.........Paul was fully aware of his sinful flesh and sinful side and its daily desires that warred against the holiness of the Spirit, and against the love of God, and against the will of God....When we PRETEND that this is not so with us, we then lie against the truth and cause confusion.
.........Brothers and sister we all must learn to more and more say no to the evil and to the sin that the flesh (by its sinful nature) daily wants to do and daily desires. (It's the fleshes present sinful nature to want to sin and to do wrong and even wickedly and that is PRESENTLY IT"S " CONSTANT NORMAL").....That's it's present BORN NATURE. that it was born with. As King David wrote. Lord, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. That is where our sinful nature of all our parts including the flesh came from. INSIDE THE WOMB AT CONCEPTION. That is why we have to be BORN AGAIN IN OUR SPIRIT PART and then at the resurrection our flesh has to be risen HOLY NEW as well. But right now in the now, only our spirit is a new creature. Only our spirit is made new and BORN AGAIN. The flesh is still by nature wicked and appalling in it's creepy compared to Gods Holy Sinless Pure Constant State awaiting the promise for it's own change in the resurrection as Jesus Promised. As it is written, And we shall be changed and this vile body shall be fashioned into the very likeness of Christ resurrected body. Amen......But in the mean time, Jesus said plainly, We Are Evil. He said we are evil creatures that somehow have managed to learn somewhat how to do good things...But we are STILL ( AS HE SAID ) WE ARE STILL EVIL( Matthew 7:11))..In our flesh as Paul preached in our text DWELLS NO GOOD THING....
.........And even after we have grown in grace and have maybe more mastered the flesh so to speak, we still must be on our guard and die daily to the flesh as Paul learned himself and taught. Sort of like what Paul preached in Ephesians 4:26-32) He said, When you get angry, SIN NOT. He did not try to cause confusion as to say Christians never get mad. That kind of speech is false doctrine and very misleading and confusing. Like some nut once said of himself. I'm just a beautiful butterfly flying around in the wind, rid of all pain having in me NO SIN. Then the next thing that was wrote about that butterfly is he became a mushy spot on a wind shield for LOOKING THE WRONG WAY.
.........That which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit. The flesh is still headed to the dust even after salvation has come to our spirit. Why? Because as Paul preached, SIN (THAT NO GOOD THING HE TALKED ABOUT in our text) STILL DWELLS IN IT.....
..........So when you feel in you, that is in your flesh, soul, mind, and being, that tug of war to do right or to do wrong, that tug of war we all, as born again in our spirit Christians, honestly experience often. It is when you do not have that tug of war in you going on that you need to start being VERY CONCERNED. I mean if all that is within you wants to sin, sin, and more sin and craves wrong and there is nothing inside you, inside your being being crying out DON'T DO THIS and nothing in you brings CONTRARY CONVICTION to the sin or the wrong your wanting to do, it is then the conscience has been either hardened like unto a rock or it means that the Spirit of eternal life and THE HOLY SPIRIT is not within....Like Paul preached, CHECK YOURSELF TO SEE IF YOUR IN THE FAITH...Have you been truly BORN AGAIN in your spirit?....share freely.....deno. (Galations 5:14-26).