The Triumphant Church

The Triumphant Church

reprobate mind.
Then in verse 27 it says they "burned in their lust"
toward one another. That's man's unregenerated nature
apart from God. The Bible doesn't call that a devil; it
calls it the "lusts of their own hearts."
The flesh—the unredeemed nature of man—has its
own lusts because it is degenerate; it's never been born
again. The lusts of the flesh have nothing to do with a
"spirit" of lust. The flesh has its own appetites or
"fleshly cravings."

1 PETER 2:11
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as
strangers and pilgrims, abstain from
FLESHLY LUSTS, which WAR AGAINST
THE SOUL.
As long as you allow your fleshly lusts to dominate
you, you will always have trouble in your soul—your
mind, will, and emotions. And that will give Satan an
open door.

JAMES 1:13-15
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of
God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither
tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of
HIS OWN LUST, and ENTICED.
15 Then when LUST hath conceived, it
bringeth forth SIN: and sin, when it is
finished, bringeth forth DEATH.
According to this Scripture, it's the lust of a person's
own unredeemed nature that draws him into error.
Some people mistake the corruption that lust, sin, and
death produce, and think it's demonic activity at work.