The Flesh-Opposed to the Spirit

The flesh is neither justified nor is it any part of the spiritual life. If anything at all, the flesh and the Spirit are in total opposition and could never be found in agreement: "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot [should not] do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." Gal. 5:17, 18. "God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Gal. 6:7, 8.
A thing, therefore, that is to be done in the power of the Spirit-whether in service or in worship-can never be done in the flesh with God's approval: "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual [communicating spiritual things by spiritual means]. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. 2:13, 14. "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2 Cor. 10:3-5. The anointing oil was never to be poured upon the flesh of a man nor was there ever a counterfeit to be made of it: "Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you." Ex. 30:32.