Carnality on SermonAudio

This sermon addresses the practical challenge of maintaining Christian conduct during moments of intense frustration and irritation. It emphasizes that true Christianity requires relying on Christ's example of non-retaliation and recognizing God's ongoing work of sanctification within the believer. The speaker outlines three key strategies: remembering Jesus' patience under suffering, trusting in God's grace to transform reactions into actions, and protecting one's spiritual testimony from impulsive errors. This approach shifts the focus from emotional reactivity to deliberate, faith-based responses that reflect the character of Christ. Ultimately, the message encourages believers to depend on divine strength rather than their own fleshly impulses when facing adversity.

This study explores the lethal threat of carnal security and spiritual lethargy as depicted in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress on the Enchanted Ground, grounding its warning in the slumbering virgins of Matthew 25:1–13. To understand the internal decay behind this condition, the lesson draws upon John Owen's exposition of Hebrews 3:7–19, which details how the deceitfulness of sin gradually hardens the unwatchful heart, alongside Arthur W. Pink's analysis of Hebrews 6:4–6 regarding the danger of separating intellectual knowledge from a living communion with Christ. Furthermore, Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor exposes how Satan strategically targets teachers and leaders, exploiting intellectual pride and disguised ease to disarm their vigilance. Together with 19th-century observational insights from Joseph Huntington Jones and Grant Powers—who examined how bodily infirmity, heightened imagination, and physical excitement can simulate or obscure true spiritual life—these sources provide a comprehensive diagnosis of spiritual slumber, equipping believers and leaders alike to cultivate active watchfulness, genuine grace, and abiding fellowship with Christ.

You must not allow your flesh to control your actions!

This sermon explores four distinct spiritual conditions of the human mind as described in Scripture. The preacher identifies the condemned mind, which is blinded by sin and unable to perceive truth; the carnal mind, which prioritizes worldly concerns over God; and the corrupted mind, which drifts into false doctrine despite knowing the truth. In contrast, the converted mind is renewed daily through the Word of God and reliance on the Holy Spirit. The central message urges believers to actively guard their thoughts against worldly influence and continuously seek spiritual transformation.

PM sermons are preceded by a Confessional, Catechism, Historic Creed lesson, or a lesson from the NT (Usually 5 minutes or so) WCF 29:1. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in his Church, unto the end of the world; for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death, the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in and to all duties which they owe unto him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other, as members of his mystical body. 7. Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are, to their outward senses. 8. Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament, yet they receive not the thing signified thereby; but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, to their own damnation. Wherefore all ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with him, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot, without great sin against Christ, while they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries, or be admitted thereunto.

A Biblical message from Habakkuk 2:1-4, showing us five ways we can receive a clear vision from God for our lives, in whatever areas He has called us to.

This message is from the Sovereign Outreach 4 Grace / SO4G 2026 Saturday Sermon/Lesson Series - Sermon Audio Broadcast Series. This message was delivered by SO4G Director, Brother Douglas Salyer at the SO4G office in Paintsville, Kentucky. This series we will be looking at passages or even theological concepts within the Scriptures in which men have used such verses out of context, misinterpreted, over the years. The title of this sermon/lesson was 'Exegetical Fallacies / Part-12'. This lesson centers around the topic of the three types of People, the Natural Man, the Carnal Man and the Spiritual Man. The key text used was taken from 1 Corinthians 2:14 - 3:23, as well as various other texts.

The sermon explores the cultural misunderstanding of judgment, clarifying that it is a holy attribute of God rather than an inherently negative concept. It distinguishes between condemnation, which drives individuals away from God through shame, and conviction, which draws believers toward repentance and change. Centered on Romans chapter 8, the message emphasizes that those in Christ Jesus face no condemnation but are called to walk after the Spirit rather than the flesh. This spiritual alignment is presented as the only path to true peace and the ability to please God, contrasting with the futility of carnal living. The preacher urges listeners to surrender their self-centered desires to find rest and guidance in God's sovereign care.