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Operating ABOVE the CARNAL mind!

“The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,”
1 Corinthians 2:15 NIV
http://bible.com/111/1co.2.15.niv

Many of us are not operating at the level God expects us to be at. We still live in the flesh, and act on what we see, hear, smell, taste, and what we can touch. We need to begin to live above the level of ‘normality’. In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul was explaining to the Corinthians how he couldn’t feed them with the spiritual meat because they still operated at the carnal level. As much as he wanted to feed them the spiritual meat, Paul couldn’t because they were putting their mental ability into their Christianity, which, as we know, can not work. Let’s read it: “Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?”
1 Corinthians 3:1-4 NIV
http://bible.com/111/1co.3.1-4.niv
I’ll leave the rest for you to read, but this clearly expresses the point I’m trying to make. God wants to give us amazing blessings and wants to do many things through us, but unless we get above the carnal line, we are going to be forever subdued to our five senses and our human minds. We need to get above to the spirit, where God reigns. How? Let us not abandon the Word. And let us not do the opposite of what Christ did, as described in Isaiah 11: “The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD — and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;”
Isaiah 11:2-3 NIV
http://bible.com/111/isa.11.2-3.niv
May God bless His Word in our hearts. 

In Jesus’ name, amen.

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