These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit (Jude 19 KJV) One word characterizes the Christian life and that word is “Spirit”. Christianity is a Spirit-life. It starts with the Spirit coming into our hearts and continues with the Spirit leading, controlling, and expressing Himself in and through us. Jude makes a Read More
Carnality
The Natural Man
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:14 KJV) The natural man is the ordinary human being that has not received the Spirit of God(the unsaved). It takes the Spirit of Read More
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matt. 26:41 KJV). Many of us will easily identify with the reality of the scripture above. For example, there are times when I am fully awake, and my mind is sharp and active, until it is Read More
Who Is A Babe In Christ?
For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. (Heb. 5:13 NKJ) When we were born again, we were born into God’s family as newborns or babes in Christ. We were infants that needed to be cared for. The Lord then instructed us to drink Read More
The Natural Mind
“But He answered and said to them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ And they said to Him, ‘Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?’” (Mk. 6:37 NKJ) Jesus told his disciples to give the thousands of people who followed them food to eat. They Read More
The flesh is weak so guide it always
“Keep watching and praying, that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matt. 26:41 NAS) When you got born again, your spirit got recreated by the Spirit of God. Your soul and body were exactly the same from the “old fallen man”. God instructs us to renew Read More
What does “carnal” mean to you?
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (1 Cor. 3:3). What does “carnal” mean to you, when you read the verse above? The carnal nature, as used in the text above, is simply the aspect of man that Read More