Saturday, February 23, 2008

Fleshly vs. Spirit-filled Christians

In other words, Paul has behaved not in line with the “wisdom” that reflects the point of view of sinful human nature, but in line with God’s grace. Similarly, in 1Corinthians 3:3 Paul tells the Corinthians that they are acting in ways that are characteristic of people without the Spirit-of people who, precisely because they do not have the Spirit, have nothing to fall back on but their own sinful human nature, their “fleshly” nature. They are acting like pagans.

- D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, 73.

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