The Holy Spirit help and guide every true believers to live a Christ-like life.
But the Bible tells us that there are three kinds of
people...
1.Natural Man (one who has not received Christ)
“A natural man does not accept the things of the
Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually appraised” -1 Corinthians 2:14.
2. Spiritual
Man (One who is directed and empowered by the Holy Spirit)
“He who
is spiritual appraises all things...We have the mind of Christ” -1 Corinthians
2:15.
3. Carnal
Man (One who has received Christ, but who lives in defeat because is trying to
live the Christian life in his own strength)
“And I
brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to carnal men, as
to babes in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not
yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are
still carnal. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not
fleshy, and are you not walking like mere men?” 1 Corinthians 3:1-3.
God Has
Provided For Us an Abundant and Fruitful Christian Life
Jesus
said, “I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly” John
10:10. “I
am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears
much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing” John 15:5. “But the fruit
of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” Galatians 5:22,
23. “But
you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and shall be My
witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the
remotest part of the earth” -Acts 1:8.
