If you are always lured by the things that give your flesh pleasure, it means that your flesh is ruling over your spirit. (1 Timothy 5:6) This also implies spiritual death.
The key to remaining in control of your life is to be disciplined. The price of discipline far outweighs the cost of indiscipline.
Bible warns you not to associate with people who only seek the pleasure of life. (2 Timothy 3:1-5) Nobody ever achieves anything great by giving in to pleasures all the time.
When some people talk about self-love, they are actually talking about selfishness. Anyone who is only living for him/her-self is already dying.
“The best way to impact those around you is to bring them out of darkness into the light of Christ. This is the true essence of living as a Christian, as you were chosen to bear fruits (Joh 15:16).”
Memorise: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things. (Philippians 3:19) 
