Carnally Minded Or Spiritually Minded
\nTom Harding<\/p>\n
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. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Rom. 8:5-6<\/a>).<\/p>\n Paul in these God-inspired words draws a sharp contrast between believers in Christ and no condemnation (Rom. 8:1<\/a>) and unbelievers condemned in their sins. These two distinctions divide the whole human race in two groups, those justified in Christ (Rom. 3:24<\/a>) and those condemned in Adam and spiritually dead in sin (Rom. 5:12<\/a>). The description of the, \u201ccarnally minded\u201d is death and eternal condemnation. They are described as those that have no faith in Christ, but rather trusting themselves that they are righteous (Luke 16:15<\/a>;\u00a018:9<\/a>). The carnal mind is described as those who are at, \u201cenmity against God\u201d (Rom. 8:7<\/a>), described as those who cannot satisfy the holy law of God (Rom. 3:19<\/a>), described as those that, \u201ccannot please God\u201d (Rom. 8:8<\/a>).<\/p>\n However, the description of the \u201cspiritually minded\u201d is much different, \u201cto be spiritually minded is life and peace\u201d in Christ Jesus (Col. 1:20-21<\/a>). Described as sinners, \u201cwho walk after the spirit\u201d are those quickened together with Christ (Eph. 2:1-6<\/a>;\u00a02Cor. 5:17<\/a>;\u00a02Pet. 1:4<\/a>). They are described as those that see all of their salvation accomplished by Christ (Rom. 5:8-9<\/a>;\u00a05:9-21<\/a>;8:3<\/a>), who have righteousness fulfilled in them by Christ, (Rom.4:6<\/a> 8:4<\/a>), who live by faith in Christ (Rom. 3:28<\/a>) and in Christ are well pleasing unto God (Eph. 1:6<\/a>;\u00a0Heb. 11:6<\/a>). Those who are reconciled to God in Christ are no longer at enmity, nor against God (2Cor. 5:17-21<\/a>), but have submitted themselves unto God (Rom. 10:3-4<\/a>) and who have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them (John 16:13-15<\/a>;\u00a0Rom. 8:9-10<\/a>;\u00a0Col. 1:27<\/a>).<\/p>\n Now you can plainly see the vast difference between those who, \u201cwalk after the flesh\u201d and those who, \u201cwalk after the spirit.\u201d Now the important question of the moment is this, which way are you walking? By faith or flesh, by grace or works, mercy or merit, propitiation or pride, Christ or ceremony, truth or tradition, redemption or ritual, righteousness established by Christ or religion established by man! To walk in the flesh is death (Proverbs 14:12<\/a>). To walk in the Spirit is life and peace in Christ (Rom. 1:16-17<\/a>). \u201cFor as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God\u201d (Rom. 8:14<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carnally Minded Or Spiritually Minded Tom Harding 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. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Rom. 8:5-6). Paul in these God-inspired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tom-harding","category-walking-in-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}