FORASMUCH then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm
yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the
flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of
his life in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1
Peter 4:1, 2
"Many sincere souls, earnestly longing and praying for deliverance 
from
sins inherent in the flesh, are unconsciously working against their
prayers, and providing for the fulfilling of those lusts, by their habits
of life.
The man who drinks intoxicating liquor cannot help becoming intoxicated.
So the person who through improper diet generates poisons in his
system, cannot help being irritable or passionate.
Those things are as
really the manifestation of intoxication as is the staggering of the
drunken man. We know that God can rescue the drunkard from his bondage,
but He cannot keep him from becoming intoxicated if he drinks. So God
saves us from fleshly lusts, by instructing us concerning the things
that beget those lusts, and saving us from them.
Do not resolve what you will do, but keep your mind on what God has already done."
E.J. Waggoner
