IX. DEAD WITH CHRIST

X. JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST

XI. TRIUMPH OF FAITH

XII. THE SOURCE OF POWER IN PRAYER

XIII. THAT GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL




CARNAL CHRISTIANS.

I.

_1 Corinthians 3: 1_.--_And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual, but as unto carnal_.


The apostle here speaks of two stages of the Christian life, two types of
Christians: "I could not speak unto you as unto _spiritual_, but as unto
_carnal_, even as unto babes in Christ." They were Christians, in Christ,
but instead of being spiritual Christians, they were carnal. "I have fed
you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it,
neither yet are ye able, for ye are yet carnal." Here is that word a second
time. "For whereas"--this is the proof--"there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one