We are meant to walk after the
Spirit and not after the flesh.
Galatians 5:16-17
Complete Apostles' Bible (16) I say then: Walk in the
Spirit, and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.
(17) For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you do
not do the things that you wish.
The flesh produces things that are
called works of the flesh and are all the nasty things in our lives.
Galatians 5:19-23
Complete Apostles' Bible (19) Now the works of the flesh
are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality,
lewdness, (20) idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions,
factions, (21) envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries,
and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in
time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the
kingdom of God. (22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
(23) gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no
law.
And when Sarai offered Abram her
handmaid HAGAR, a servant, to mother her child from Abram, we see
trouble began.
Genesis 16:4-5
KJV And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she
saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her
eyes. (5) And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee:
I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and
thee.
Hagar begins causing tension and
suddenly bad feelings and moods enter the home that are not of God.