CARNALITY;
NEW BELIEVER

The true Christian is a child of two worlds. He lives among fallen men, receives all of his earlier concepts from them and develops a fallen view of life along with everyone from Adam on. When he is regenerated and inducted into the new creation he is called to live according to the laws and principles that underlie the new kingdom, but all his training and his thinking have been according to the old. So he may, unless he is very wise and prayerful, find himself trying to live a heavenly life after an earthly pattern. This is what Paul called “carnal” living. The issues of the new Christian life are influenced by the automatic responses of the old life and confusion results.

Romans 7:15–25; 1 Corinthians 3:1–3; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:14–16

Born After Midnight, 97, 98.