"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you." --- Andrew Murray, HumilityHumility: The Beauty of Holiness A book on the all importance of humility, how Jesus was humble, and how we also can become humble. Murray wrote "Without humility, there can be no true abiding in God's presence or experience of His favor and the power of His spirit. Without it there can be no abiding faith or love or joy or strength."
"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you." --- Andrew Murray, HumilityHumility: The Beauty of Holiness
The apostle here speaks of two stages of the Christian life, two types of Christians: "I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." They were Christians, in Christ, but instead of being spiritual Christians, they were carnal. "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet are ye able, for ye are yet carnal." Here is that word a second time. "For whereas"-this is the proof-"there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am...
The apostle here speaks of two stages of the Christian life, two types of Christians: "I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carna...