Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 87. The proverb today is the
'Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. " Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.
This proper basically means that one would like to do a particular good or
beneficial thing, but one does not have the strength. You know, maybe you don't
really have the physical ability to do this. Motivation, you know, enough
desire or enough push to do it, or the ability to resist temptation. All right.
Let's continue. The proverb actually comes from the Bible. It comes directly from
the Bible. The New Testament Matthew 26:41. All right. The New Testament that was
always the part of the Bible that supposedly talked about Jesus's life and
remember there was a lot of apostles but there was four apostles that wrote about
his life. And Matthew is one of them. So that's why that's why if you ever hear
like a quote like Matthew and some number next to it. It means like that's you
know, the line and the verse or something like that. Matthew 26:41. Just before his
arrest, Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples.
Remember he had twelve disciples. The twelve main followers that followed him
around. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Ye is like Old English
for you. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.
Yeah. This was just before they were coming you know they were they were
looking for Jesus they were going to arrest him before he got crucified. His
disciples were with him and they wanted to protect him. And they were in it and
they were resting I think in this garden and he asked the disciples to pray with
him and of course they were there for a while Jesus was praying and I think they
ended up falling asleep on him.They couldn't, they couldn't physically stay
awake and of course the soldiers you know, found them. Snuck up on them.
Which was probably what was meant to be anyway. Let's, let's continue here.
Let's look at a couple of examples. This is a common proverb, and you know most of
the time we use it it doesn't necessarily have anything directly to do
with religion. So let's look at example number one. I would like to climb Mount
Everest with you but I'm not as young as I used to be. The Spirit is willing, but
the flesh is weak. So let's become a proverb like that. Meaning yeah. I really
want to go. I would desire to do this with you but my body I don't think my
body is strong enough anymore. So that's what we're saying. You know, sometimes you
just mean that you you don't physically have enough strength to do it. So that's
one way that this might be used. All right. Let's look at the second one here. Maybe it's
better I never became a famous rock star. Maybe this was a guy that got a band
together maybe he did try to do this . If I had many beautiful women throwing
themselves at me. Well we all do know we hear that you know when these rock stars
get bands unfortunately they have a lot of fans that follow them around and you
know there are a lot of women that sometimes will do this for male rock
stars. I'm not sure I could resist. That's what he's saying. It would probably have
ruined my marriage. So maybe he's thinking back years later. The Spirit is
willing but the flesh is weak. Maybe he knows himself, but he might not have been
able to resist that temptation. So maybe he's reasoning it. Maybe it was better
and never happened maybe it was better maybe was meant to be then I never
became this rock star because if I did it might have ruined something more
important. It t might have ruined his marriage. So maybe he's thinking back this way, but
you know, he you might be using this. So if you say the flesh is weak
meaning the body or your, your mind or your behavior maybe you you would not
have been able to resist this. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank
you for your time. Bye-bye.