📖 However, brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual [men], but as to nonspiritual [men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates], as to mere infants [in the new life] in Christ [unable to talk yet!]
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough [to be ready for it]; but even yet you are not strong enough [to be ready for it],
For you are still [unspiritual, having the nature] of the flesh [under the control of ordinary impulses]. For as long as [there are] envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?
—I Corinthians 3:1-3 AMPC
Are you carnal or are you spiritual? As we continue our walk with God, we should be maturing in the things of God. We should be growing in our faith and our love walk. As we mature, our flesh is not dominating us like it once did. Our spirit man (which is one with God) should be dominating and controlling us. The key phrase is that it “should be”. That is why there must be spiritual growth and development. People need to see us getting better. They need to see us being more patient and understanding. We are spiritual men and women. When we make important decisions, we depend on the Holy Spirit. We trust in the Lord with all our hearts, and we don’t lean to our own understanding. There should be fruit in our lives. There must be evidence that change is taking place. We are no longer carnal, but spiritual. We are no longer babes in Christ. We feed on the meat of the Word, no longer milk. We no longer behave after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men. We are growing in the things of God.
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