You all know the law that a
thing is named according to what is its most prominent characteristic. Now,
in these carnal Corinthians there was a little of God's Spirit, but the
flesh predominated; the Spirit had not the rule of their whole life. And
the spiritual men are not called so because there is no flesh in them, but
because the Spirit in them has obtained dominance, and when you meet
them and have intercourse with them, you feel that the Spirit of God has
sanctified them. Ah, let us beware lest the blessing God gives us in our
work deceive us and lead us to think that because he has blessed us, we
must be spiritual men. God may give us gifts that we use, and yet our lives
may not be wholly in the power of the Holy Ghost.
My last mark of the carnal state is that it makes a man unfit for receiving
spiritual truths. That is what the apostle writes to the Corinthians: "I
could not preach to you as unto spiritual; you are not fit for spiritual
truth after being Christians so long; you can not yet bear it; I have to
feed you with milk.
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