The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace, because the sinful mind is hostile to God.
It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Romans 8: 6,7
“Walking with God implies that the prevailing power of the enmity of a person’s heart be taken away by the blessed Spirit of God.
Perhaps it may seem a hard saying to some, but our own experience daily proves, what the Scriptures in many places assert, that the carnal mind,
the mind of the unconverted natural man,
and even the mind of the regenerate, so far as any part of him remains unrenewed, is enmity,…
Our first parents contracted it when they fell from God by eating the forbidden fruit…and the same enmity rules and prevails in every man that is naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam…”
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Excerpt from George Whitefield Daily Readings
Edited by Randall J. Pederson P.1
Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.” Exodus 5:2
