What Kind Of Christian Are You? Dws#1 Series

understanding.

Before they had been babies in Christ like

some of us today,

But now they were fleshly Christians.

They are now sarkikos,

They were doing what the flesh would do.

There was envying, strife, and divisions

arising in the Church.

And I truly believe that it’s because they

had delayed their growing up process.

They delayed the sanctification process

and therefore they never received the Spirit.

And how many know without the spirit to

lead you and guide you,

You’re cruising for a bruising.

You can’t fight off the devil because you’re

unable to engage in spiritual combat. Amen?

We can’t just sweep the house clean. Amen?

We have to fill it with the Holy Ghost or

else that unclean spirit will come back

with seven others worst than him,

and the last state of that man is worse

than the first. Amen?

I said last week that the Holy Ghost is

God’s housekeeper.

He cleans us up so we that we can be used,

But if we don’t have the spirit we can’t

conquer the flesh or sarx.

And if we let the flesh take control we can

go from fleshy, to fleshly, and ultimately to backslidden.

How many know that Paul was correcting these Christians,

so that they might straighten up their act

before things got worse?

He was saying get a hold of yourself

before things get worse.

And how many know that things could

have gotten worse?

As we look at verse 4 we see that the devil

wasn’t even the one causing division in the church. Amen?

It was the Church members.

It was the Christians!

A lot of times we want to go blaming

everything on the devil,

Every time something goes wrong we start

point the finger at the devil.

But how many know that sometimes it’s

not his fault.

Sometimes it’s you.

It’s your flesh or your sarx rearing it’s

ugly head. Amen?

1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

See, the church at Corinth were caught up

in the flesh to the Point that they were

arguing over who was a better Christian.

The divisions and strifes weren’t coming

from the devil they were caused by the flesh.

It was the flesh that made them say that

one was better than the other because they

had been baptized by Paul.

Or one was a better Christian because they

had been baptized by Apollos.

See Paul said are you not carnal?

Looking at the Greek we see that that word

is anthropos in the Textus Criticus or

sarkikos in the Textus Receptus.

Either way it’s right.

One means man and one means to have

the characteristics of a man.

See their fleshliness, Their manliness

caused envy and strife.

And there was division in the Church

because in their carnality they

had put there allegiance to Paul or

Appolos before their allegiance to God.

They were just like men taking off after

what they could see Having no desire for

spiritual or unseen things.

In the same way today too many

Christians put their trust in

men or denominations,

They would rather be disobedient to God

than go against their Denomination or

their Pastors teaching.

Well, let me ask you something.

Who died for you Jesus or your Pastor?

It’s good to be comitted to something or someone,