Many
believers are living below what God expects of them by reason of their fleshly
nature.
If
you are a believer and you still allow yourself to be led by your senses and
your body
the
word of God says you are a carnal Christian.
Many in the body of Christ are like the
church in Corinth that were so carnal that all manners of
the works of the flesh were mentioned
among them. It was in their midst a son was having
an affair with his father’s wife, a very
grievous kind of fornication ever known in the church.
It was also in the same church people
desecrate the communion table and turned it to a time
of drunkenness and over feeding. It was
also in that church that believers were taking themselves
to law courts to be judged by the
unbelievers.
If
you are a believer and your life is still subjected to the dictates of your
flesh, you are a carnal Christian.
Rom 8:6-8 For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God.
As
long as you are a carnal Christian, God cannot be pleased with you.
The
biblical established truth is that God hates carnality with passion.
It
was carnality that destroyed great men of the scriptures like Solomon,
Jeroboam, Amnon, Reuben and Absalom
just
to mention a few.
How
do we recognize a carnal christian?
Carnality
is recognized in a believer by the works of the flesh.
Gal 5:19-23 Now the works of the
flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, 21 envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also
told you in time past, that they which do
such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, 23 meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.
When you have the works of the flesh
constantly manifesting in your life, even after
you
have surrendered your life to Jesus, it just means that you are a carnal Christian.
Many are fond of blaming the devil for
such things as the works of the flesh manifesting in them.
but the truth is that most works of the
flesh are not the fault of the devil. They are simply
what the scripture says they are: the
works of the flesh.
What is the way out of the works of the
flesh and how do you overcome this dangerous law in the
members
of every human being?
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