Pastor Cheri
Turn your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 3 from verse 1 to 3
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?"
A carnal man is one who relates with issues from his senses. He is sensuous, earthly and worldly.
Like we saw in the Scripture we just read, he is a babe.
He is not mature. He needs to be fed with the Word so that he can grow. When this happens, he begins to mature he begins to grow, then the way he behaves, talks and does things begin to change. Hallelujah!
He used to respond like those in the world, but now he sees things from God's perspective. He begins to respond to issues from the perspective of Word because he has been built up by the Word.
When you were a child, you did things childishly
1 Corinthians 13 verse 11 says,
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The Word of God can make you a man. It is what makes you a man. Hallelujah!
A man in the Word. A matured Christian. Praise God!
You think like a man and put away childish things. You put away carnal things, immaturity. Hallelujah!
Don't live a carnal life or be carnal. A carnal man is a natural man. He is unspiritual.
You should live with and in the supernatural daily. This is kind of life we have been called to live. You didn’t get born again to be stagnant. No. You got born again to enhance the Kingdom of God and you need to be mature to do this.
Don't live an ordinary life. Life is spiritual, so you ought to control it from the spirit realm.
Don't live a life of envy and strife. Only carnal people live that way. You are jealous of everything and everyone! Don't live that way. Be content with what God has given you and who you are. Most times, these kind of things come as a result of lack of contentment. You want to have what she has or he has the way he or she has it.
Lean to live free. Don’t envy others. If it's not meant for you, live it alone. You will have yours someday.
Don't be bitter. Jealousy leads you into bitterness. You don't have, then you are bitter. You are a child of God. God can give you anything. So there is no need for all that.
Don't find yourself stuggling. Live free. Just make up your mind to enjoy the limitless wealth God has and can make available to you at any time. Praise God! Live like the king that you are. Hallelujah!
Don't be sense ruled.
Romans 8, let's read from verse 1
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Living from the sense realm leads you to death. Living from the spirit realm gives you life and peace.
When you live from the senses, your mind is on everything around you. Who will pay the fees, who will pay the rent, who will fund my account, I have alot of bills to pay..., you are minded on everything. These things lead to death. These things don't please God.
Let's continue. Verse 7
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.
When you are in the flesh, you don’t walk by faith, and without faith it is impossible to please God. So they that walk in the flesh do not have faith.
But thank God for verse 9, which says,
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, He is none of his.
This verse is referring to you. You are not in the flesh. You are not carnal. Just the way they tell you you are a boy or you are a girl, the same way, it says, you are not In the flesh. So be who the Scripture has called you. Don't change it.
When you live this way, there is a free flow of God’s power and anointing in your life. It’s called "anointing unhindered", you just flow in it. Praise God.
Let the Word of God dominate you and dominate your thinking, you'll find yourself living the Word naturally. Hallelujah! You'll find yourself living from the spirit realm.
Let the spirit gain the ascendancy!
Glory to God!
Lift up your hands and worship God.
Say I'not a man of the senses, I'm not a man of the flesh, I am a spirit man and I live from the spirit realm.
Praise God!
