Man’s body, or the flesh, is a complex physical creation by which a person relates to this physical material world and to other people in the world. It is the part with which man communicates with the physical natural realm.
The body does not have the ability to know or relate with God, nor will it ever be. The flesh is God’s enemy because it always opposes God. Every person's body has a unique DNA code, which exists in every cell of the body to program that person’s unique growth,development and behavior.The flesh goes back to dust at death just like God said.In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.Genesis 3:19
Watchman Nee describes the flesh in his book-pg 78-79,The Spiritual Man-"Although the flesh is exceedingly strong in sinning and following
selfish desire it is extremely weak towards the will of God.
Unregenerated man is powerless to fulfill any of God’s will, being
“weakened by the flesh.” And the flesh is even “hostile to God; it
does not submit to God’s law, indeed it cannot” (Rom. 8.3, 7). This
however does not imply that the flesh totally disregards the things of
God. The fleshly sometimes do exert their utmost strength to observe
the law. The Bible moreover never treats the fleshly as synonymous
with the law-breakers. It merely concludes that “by works of the law
shall no flesh be justified” (Gal. 2.16 ASV). For the fleshly not to
keep the law is certainly nothing unusual. It simply proves they are
of the flesh. But now that God has ordained that man shall not be
justified by works of law but by faith in the Lord Jesus (Rom. 3.28),
those who attempt to follow the law only disclose their disobedience
to God, seeking to establish their own righteousness in lieu of God’s
righteousness (Rom. 10.3). It reveals further that they belong to the
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flesh. To sum up, “those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Rom. 8.8), and this “cannot” seals the fate of the fleshly.
"God looks upon the flesh as utterly corrupt. So closely is it linked
with lust that the Bible often refers to “the lusts of the flesh” (2 Peter
2.18 Darby). Great though His power, God nonetheless cannot
transform the nature of the flesh into something pleasing to Himself.
God Himself declares: “My spirit shall not always strive in man
forever, for he is flesh” (Gen. 6.3 Young’s). The corruption of the
flesh is such that even the Holy Spirit of God cannot by striving
against the flesh render it unfleshly. That which is born of the flesh is
flesh. Man unfortunately does not understand God’s Word and so he
tries continually to refine and reform his flesh. Yet the Word of God
stands forever. Due to its exceeding corruption, God warns His saints
to hate “even the garment spotted by the flesh” (Jude 23)."
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