What do people who are after the flesh understand or care about?
Those who are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh. They remain in the realm of old Adam, know nothing of God's saving grace, and have no concept of eternity or spiritual things. Their concern is solely to gratify the flesh, even when done with pomp or in high society.
Les explains, while in Romans chapter 8, that this fits Galatians perfectly. In Galatians 5:5, those who are after the flesh are still living in the realm of old Adam and know nothing of God's saving grace; they mind the things of the flesh. Les points out that this is the grand majority of the world's population. All they are out for today is to gratify the flesh. They have no concept of eternity and no concept of spiritual things, and all they are concerned about is gratifying the flesh. They may do it with pomp and circumstance, or in high echelons of society, but it is still nothing but the gratification of the flesh.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
More Questions
What is the spiritual condition of those who are after the flesh?
Those who are after the flesh are still living in the realm of old Adam and know nothing of God's saving grace.
Why do unsaved people only care about worldly, fleshly things?
The reason a person still out in the world minds only the things of this world and the flesh is that he is in spiritual darkness, blinded by the God of this world so that he cannot believe, leaving him with fleshly appetites, fleshly vision, materialism, and no concept of the Spirit.