Our Carnal Mind Simplified

The carnal mind is enmity against God. Romans 8:7

 

"Observe how strongly the Apostle expresses it. "The carnal mind," he says, "is ENMITY against God." He uses a noun, and not an adjective. He does not say it is opposed to God merely, but it is positive enmity. 

 

--It is not black, but blackness; 

--it is not at enmity, but enmity itself; 

--it is not corrupt, but corruption; 

--it is not rebellious, it is rebellion; 

--it is not wicked, it is wickedness itself.

 

The holiest men, the most free from impurity, have always felt it most. 

 

Hear David: He says, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." (Ps.51:5). 

 

Hear all those holy men who have written in the inspired volume, and ye shall find them all confessing that they were not clean, no not one; yea, one of them exclaimed, "O wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Rom.7:24)."  

Charles Spurgeon