• Being perfected - II Timothy 3:16: Ephesians 4:12
• Abound yet more - II Timothy 1:9,10
• Grow in knowledge and judgment - Philippians 1:9,10
• Grow up from being a child ...  -  Ephesians 4:14; I Corinthians 13:11
• Grow tighter with the body of Christ - Ephesians 4:14-16; Romans 12:5
• Worketh effectually in you that believe... - I Thessalonians 2:13
• Christ becomes magnified in our body - Philippians 1:20 - According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

Christ fought and won over the flesh
Ephesians 2:15

I.  Yes, there is a lot of stuff to learn these days... but...

• 1)  Daniel 12:4
• 2)  II Timothy 3:6,7
• 3)  Colossians 2:8
• 4)  II Thessalonians 2:9,12
• 5)  II Timothy 3:13
• 6)  II Timothy 4:4
• 7)  Ephesians 4:19
• 8)  Learning from those who have cast off...
• I Timothy 5:12,15

• Their personality development, old man development, sin will eventually revive and they will die...
• Or create little Gospel Jesus haters by pushing the Jewish teachings from Jesus in the Gospels!
• Train - not 'allow' or even 'guide'
• Proverbs 22:6 (or even 22:10)
• The way is Paul's teachings of the way of the Risen Christ!
• I Corinthians 4:17 - For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
• I Corinthians 12:31 - ...yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
• Acts 18:26 - ...expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

• Entertain it...
• Fellowship with it...
• Flatter it...
• Pamper it...
• Feed it...
• Encourage it...
• Tempt it...
• Try to control it...
• Compromise to please both flesh and vanity of one's mind
• Guide it...

• Galatians 5:24 -  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• (TV testimony at Costco - music, clothes, mouth, etc.)

• Ephesians 2:10 - For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• He took care of sin by taking care of the law!
• Sin still exists in us, but... Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
• He did the sacrifice!
• Christ for us - Ephesians 5:2 - And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Lost folks - I Corinthians 10:20 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
• Romans 12:1 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.