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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For to be carnally minded— To be fleshly minded Rom_8:6. is death; That is what it comes to, for the flesh comes to death at last; and, after death, it goes to corruption. If we live after that carnal fashion, this will be the end of our living: “death.” Rom_8:6. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. For the spirit will never die, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. It is so deeply vitiated, so thoroughly depraved, that so long as the fleshly mind exists, it will be in rebellion against God. “Ye must be born again,”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. As long as a man lives only for this present evil world, lives for self, lives under the domination of the flesh, he cannot really know God, or truly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For to be carnally minded To have the mind of the flesh. Rom_8:6. Is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Flesh must die. Its tendency is to corruption; but the spirit never dies. Its tendency, its instinct, is growth, advance, immortality.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God,.... These words contain a reason why the issue of carnal mindedness is death; because the carnal mind, the wisdom of the flesh, is not only an enemy, but enmity itself against God: against his being; it reasons against it; it wishes he was not; it forms unworthy notions of him; thinks him such an one...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The opponents of the free-grace gospel, which it is our delight to preach, assert that men can be saved, if they will, and that men most certainly can repent, and can believe, and can come to God of their own free will, and that it is not through any defect in any powers that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Those that have never been born again, so as to be “in the Spirit,” are still just as they were born “in the flesh,” so they cannot please God. Do what they may, there is an essential...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. We must be born again then. It is no use improving the flesh. The taking away of the filth of the flesh was the old law, but the burying of the flesh, that is the new. The plunging of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because the careful mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The old nature is hopelessly bad. There is no mending it. It is enmity, not merely at enmity; but it is absolutely enmity. It is not subject to God’s law, and you cannot make it so.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So then they that are in the flesh,.... They that are in the flesh are the same who are said to be after it, Romans 8:5, and are there described. Such cannot please God; men, whilst unregenerate, and as such, cannot please God; for though the persons of God's elect are wellpleasing to him always, as considered in Christ, in whom they are loved...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. No man “in the flesh” can please God. Oh, what a sword this is,-a sharp two-edged sword against many of you, my friends! Some of you who regularly attend this house of prayer, and others of you who stray in here in the evening, you “are in the flesh,” and you “cannot please God.” Perhaps you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh — Those who are still in the old nature, living for it, living to it, — Rom_8:8. Cannot please God. Men may wash this old nature, they may clothe it, they may decorate it, they may educate it, but there is no evolution which can produce grace out of nature. The child of nature may be finely dressed, but it is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Christ does not own any that are not indwelt by his Spirit. They may wear the Christian name; they may perform some acts which look like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh — That is, those who are under its condemnation and power —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. So that although Christ dwells in a man, he must not reckon that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. So long as we are under the dominion of the old nature, the depraved and-fallen nature, there is no pleasing God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,.... That is, ye are not carnal, but spiritual men; or ye are not in a state of unregeneracy, but in a state of grace: the reason proving this is, if so be, or "seeing" that the Spirit of God dwell in you; the inhabitation of the Spirit is a distinguishing character of a regenerate man; which is to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any may have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. O beloved, we have need each of us to put ourselves in this scale! Come, preacher, be not too sure of thine own salvation. Come, church-member, do not be too certain of thine own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Ye saints of Rome to whom Paul was writing, and ye who believe in Christ now: “Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.” Rom_8:9. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. If Christ’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. It does not matter what he calls himself; he may be a preacher, he may be a bishop; but if he has not the Spirit of Christ, “he is none of his;” and if he has the Spirit of Christ, though he...