Carnally Minded or Spirit Led

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 29.

Carnally Minded or Spirit Led

To BE “carnally minded” is to mind, to give heed, or to pay regard to the flesh or fleshly lusts. This is what the unregenerate man does. He may have wishes to do good, but the fleshly lusts override, sooner or later, his good desires and determinations. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit of God which strives with him, and does not yield, and, like Paul, he cannot do the things that he would. Gal. 5:17; Rom. 7:15, 19. But when a man has yielded all to Christ, and is born a child of God, he is led of the Spirit; he minds the things of the Spirit; he puts to death the uprisings of the flesh. Rom. 8:12–14; Gal. 5:16, 18. There will be temptations from the flesh but the Spirit conquers. The soul minds not the flesh, it is led of the Spirit.