The sin committed by Adam and Eve in the garden was based entirely on their desire to please both the soul and the physical body in accordance with their own agenda influenced by the deception of Satan.

It wasn’t the desire of their spirit since that very part is always in perfect agreement with God.

They did that in a way that went against the Word of God.

The soul’s desire was about wisdom pertaining to their desire to become like God by knowing good and evil.

The physical body desire has to do with the curiosity of wanting to know what that fruit actually tasted like.

It was their desire to satisfy physical appetite with the forbidden fruit.

God’s given abilities become instruments of wickedness.

A corrupt soul being connected to a dead and useless spirit. The soul has become caught up in the physical reality that surrounds man’s life which can easily be manipulated by Satan.

A dead spirit, a corrupt soul which was built with the ability to regulate behavior, and a physical body which has become out of control due to the soul’s inability to control it; therefore, normal God’s given desires have become perverted.

The body is built with inherent desires towards air, water, food, sex, comfort, pleasure, and so on.

Some of these desires, the body is able to take care of them by itself; however, the desires that involve decisions to be made or actions to be taken, the soul is responsible to regulate them according to the will of the Creator. That’s where man has control over what his responses are over these desires.

Unfortunately, the soul tainted by sin has become powerless when it comes to regulating fleshly desires.

The flesh has become so out of control, it’s craving for things that were not even meant to satisfy it; consequently, leading to dependence on things that are outside of God’s will.

The soul also has its own inherent desires such as obeying God, love, compassion, greatness, approval, knowledge, understanding, and so on. These desires have also become perverted by sin.

Sinful, unnatural, or abnormal version of pure God-given desires have become deeply embedded within the flesh and the soul to the extent they literally hijack normal desires.

Sin hijacks the system, thus turning people’s natural desires into sinful desires.

Man foremost desire is to glorify God. That the desire of his spirit. That’s why he was given a spirit in the first place. His spirit is God’s dwelling place.

When it concerns man’s desires, God is totally fine with him to satisfy his desires only through the lens of what is permissible by God Himself. Anything that goes beyond the boundary set by Him is sin.

Man’s top priority in life must be centered on his desire to glorify God through a life characterized by holiness and righteousness. Because this is what will create an environment in his life in which true submission can take place.

But when he sets himself or his priority first, He runs into deep trouble. He becomes trapped in his own way of thinking. He becomes slave of his own mindset shaped by his sinful ways.

The spirit of man contains his spiritual capacity. His soul contains his mental, emotional, and voluntary capacity. That’s where his executive functions reside. His body contains his physical capacity.

The soul isn’t able to enable man to please God all by itself, although it is the very center of his personality. Therefore, the soul needs to be submitted to the spirit in which God operates.

His conscience is located in his soul; however, the vitality of his conscience is totally dependent on the soul being in submission to the spirit in which his spiritual capacity resides. The soul of man needs to be anchored through God.

Because the spirit is always in agreement with God, the spirit doesn’t waver when temptation comes. It doesn’t cave in to fleshly pressure.

The spirit will not provide man a logical reason for him to go against the will of God. It will always tell him to do the right thing no matter how challenging and how much doing the right thing doesn’t make any sense in that very situation.

The only issue is that they may choose not to agree with it because what they already wanted to do isn’t in agreement with the truth bursting forth in their spirit.

So when it comes to obeying God, He made man to operate according to what he knows is right from his spirit, not according to what makes sense to the mind, not what looks good to the eyes, not what sounds good to the ears, not what pleases the senses, or what he already thinks will make him feel good.

He has a God-given responsibility to filter what he’s doing through the lens of godly conviction, values, and morals he has in his spirit.