" Alas! They are babes in Christ;
they are yet carnal.
The second mark of the carnal state is this: that there is sin and failure
continually. Paul says: "Whereas there is strife and division among you,
and envying, are ye not carnal?" A man gives way to temper. He may be a
minister, or a preacher of the Gospel, or a Sunday-school teacher, most
earnest at the prayer-meeting, but yet strife or bitterness or envying is
often shown by him. Alas! Alas! In Gal. 3:5 we are told that the works of
the flesh are specially hatred and envy. How often among Christians, who
have to work together, do we see divisions and bitterness! God have mercy
upon them, that the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, is so frequently
absent from His own people. You ask, "Why is it, that for twenty years I
have been fighting with my temper, and can not conquer it?" It is because
you have been fighting with the temper, and you have not been fighting with
the root of the temper. You have not seen that it is all because you are in
the carnal state, and not properly given up to the Spirit of God.
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