The inability of individuals at times to understand their own actions is often exhibited in court trials. When a defendant is asked the reason for his misdemeanor, the answer frequently is, "I don't know." This is proof that there is in human experience an evil motivating influence to which mankind should be alert.
Christ Jesus recognized this when, in the Garden of Gethsemane, he urged his disciples to stay awake and pray with him in his crucial hour. Instead they slept. His subsequent words ring out significantly to all mankind. He said, "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matt. 26:41;
The Apostle Paul was also aware of a subversive influence when he said, "I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."Rom. 7:22, 23;
