July 9, 2023 LIKE MERE MEN
1 Corinthians 3:1-3,14-16 “And I brethren, could not speak to you as spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ. I gave you milk to drink; not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealously and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?”
“If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
We must guard against taking our salvation in a casual way; to claim to be a believer, a follower of Christ, has huge implications and carries with it responsibilities. As someone has said, ‘we must walk the talk.’ The alarming reality that we see in the above scriptures is that it is possible for a believer to live and to walk contrary to the ways of the Lord and to continue to live in the flesh instead of living according to the Spirit. If one is living according to the flesh where there is strife, selfish desires, jealously, and the such, then they are living ‘like mere men.’ That is a sad commendation for any believer. The indisputable fact is that the gospel of God has been given to us, the foundation has been laid, and now we are to be growing and maturing in the faith. We must not remain as babes in Christ. We are no longer mere men and women; we have been bought with a price and we have been joined to God; we are sons and daughters of God; we have been made new creations; we have been set free from the power of sin; we have been given new natures and new minds. Paul asked the Corinthian believers a powerful question: “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” Most of us would say that we know we are the temple of God and that He lives in us—-but do we really KNOW that? This blog is not meat to condemn us but is meant to stir us up so that we walk in step with what God is doing in us and to encourage us to walk according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh.
Philippians 3:12-14 “Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do; forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward to goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Blessings, Buddy
1 Corinthians 3:1-3,14-16 “And I brethren, could not speak to you as spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ. I gave you milk to drink; not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealously and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?”
“If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
We must guard against taking our salvation in a casual way; to claim to be a believer, a follower of Christ, has huge implications and carries with it responsibilities. As someone has said, ‘we must walk the talk.’ The alarming reality that we see in the above scriptures is that it is possible for a believer to live and to walk contrary to the ways of the Lord and to continue to live in the flesh instead of living according to the Spirit. If one is living according to the flesh where there is strife, selfish desires, jealously, and the such, then they are living ‘like mere men.’ That is a sad commendation for any believer. The indisputable fact is that the gospel of God has been given to us, the foundation has been laid, and now we are to be growing and maturing in the faith. We must not remain as babes in Christ. We are no longer mere men and women; we have been bought with a price and we have been joined to God; we are sons and daughters of God; we have been made new creations; we have been set free from the power of sin; we have been given new natures and new minds. Paul asked the Corinthian believers a powerful question: “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” Most of us would say that we know we are the temple of God and that He lives in us—-but do we really KNOW that? This blog is not meat to condemn us but is meant to stir us up so that we walk in step with what God is doing in us and to encourage us to walk according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh.
Philippians 3:12-14 “Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do; forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward to goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Blessings, Buddy
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