"FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD"
CARNALITY:
1. pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body,
its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
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2. not spiritual; merely human; temporal;
worldly: a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings.
"NOW WE KNOW THAT GOD HEARETH NOT SINNERS:
but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth"
"Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm,
and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh;
but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river,
and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit"
"Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils:
ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils"
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, EVEN AS UNTO BABES IN CHRIST"
"Certainly, even the best of Christians are often carnally-minded. It is inherent to our sinful nature. In 1st Corinthians 15:31, the Apostle Paul said, “I DIE DAILY!”
Every Christian struggles with the carnal nature and the Bible teaches that we must DAILY crucify the old man and “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5).
"If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues,
and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers,
WILL THEY NOT SAY THAT YE ARE MAD?"
1 Corinthians 14:23 Matthew Henry Commentary
The plain truth is that Jesus Christ never spoke in tongues even once, nor did He ever command it, nor approve of it. Dr. Pyle, in his excellent book exposing the heresy of tongues, goes on to state:
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“Tongues were not for everybody even back in the book of Acts. 'Do all speak with tongues?' Paul asked, and the answer is self-evident. Certainly not! ...
Jesus did not speak in tongues. Other Spirit-filled Christians did not—such saints as John the Baptist, Elisabeth, Zacharias, Stephen and Barnabas—though the Bible clearly reveals that they were filled with the Spirit.”
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Did the Charismatics ever stop to realize that God understands English? ...
“Why talk to God in an unknown or ecstatic tongue, when God understands English—or whatever language may be your own? Why use a supposed 'tongue' to communicate with others if they understand our own 'natural' tongue?”
The TRUTH about TONGUES and the CHARISMATIC movement, by Hugh F. Pyle
Dr. Tom Malone, Sr. (1915-2007)
(Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan)
"FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds"
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)
(Pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana for over 42 years)
"THERE IS A WAY WHICH SEEMETH RIGHT UNTO A MAN,
but the end thereof are the ways of death"
