Rightly Dividing Man: Spirit, Soul, and Bodybody and soul under the dominion of his spirit.
The Corinthians were like that. Those believers
were even filled with the Spirit, yet they were held in a
babyhood state of Christianity because they were carnal
or body-ruled and sense-ruled (1 Cor. 3:1,3). They
allowed their five senses to dominate them, rather than
the Holy Spirit.
Paul said to the Corinthians, “... ye are yet carnal:
for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and
divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as [mere natural]
men?" (1 Cor. 3:1-3). And the Bible say's "For where
envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil
work" (James 3:16).
If Christians don't develop their spirits but allow
their bodies, minds, and emotions to rule them, they
will remain in a carnal or babyhood state of spirituality.
Carnal Christians easily fall prey to the devil's wiles
through envy, strife, and division.
Then some Christians think they continually need
evil spirits cast out of them because they are so easily
tossed about by Satan. But, really, they just need to
grow and develop and learn how not to yield to envy,
strife, and division.
As you learn to yield to the Spirit of God and base
your life on the Word of God rather than on your
feelings or flesh, you grow out of the carnal state of
Christianity where Satan can dominate you.
Satan doesn't have access to you in the arena of
faith in God's Word, but he does in the realm of the
senses when you are sense-ruled and led by your body
and soul.
Man is always trying to come up with excuses rather
than relying on what God has already laid down in His