Jesus knew that sin had corrupted the nature of man and that the only way to live a victorious life in a fallen world, was to watch and pray continuously in utter dependence on the Father through the power of the indwelling Spirit. The desires of the flesh, the seductive lure that penetrates the eye-gate and the ear-gate, and the inner prideful nature of fallen man is incapable of resisting evil
, even when man's inner spirit and his God-given conscience screams the reverse.