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1 CORINTHIANS 2:14-15
THE ROADMAP TO MATURITY
Dr. Robert G. Lee, the great of man of God, but he was never known to flinch, never known to back up or water down the Word of God.
On a particular occasion he preached an excoriating message against sin.
There was a lady in the church who was well, her fur was rubbed the wrong way.
Ha, she did not like the message.
As a matter of fact, she was angry at Dr. Lee when he finished preaching.
And Dr. Lee was at the door, and she came out, and she said to him, she said, Dr.
Lee, I didn’t like that sermon one little bit.
He said without a pause, Madam, neither did the devil.
So classify yourself.
Now, that’s what I want to help you to do today, is to classify yourself.
I want you, I want to help you to find out what class you’re in, what category that you’re in.
This passage of Scripture mentions three categories of persons.
The title of our message is this, A Roadmap to Maturity.
Now in order for you to get to where you need to be, you need to know where you are.
No map on earth will do you any good when you read it if you don’t know where you are.
You’ll not be able to get to where you need to be.
If you’re in a big building a complex of some kind, they’ll have a little map on the wall of that particular building.
And generally it will have a red dot when you’re looking at the map, and it’ll say, you are here.
And then you’ll say, Well, if I’m here, then I can get over there.
But if don’t know where you are, that doesn’t do you any good at all.
Now what I want you to do today is to find out where you are.
Ant you to do what Dr. Lee told that woman to do I want you to classify yourself.
Now, there are three classes or three categories of human beings in all of the world.
Of all of the 5 billion people on earth, they all fall into one of three categories.
Let’s see what they are.
Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14.
But the natural man.
Do you see that?
Underscore that phrase, the natural man.
That’s one category of people.
The natural people, the natural man.
Okay?
And then, in chapter 2 verse 15, But he that is spiritual.
Underscore that.
That’s the second category of people.
There are natural people, and then are spiritual people.
Now, skip on down to chapter 3 and verse 1. but I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal.
Underscore that.
That’s the third category of persons.
There’s the carnal person.
Three kinds of people in the world today.
And I’ll promise you on the authority of the Word of God, you’re one of those three.
Either you’re a natural person, you’re a spiritual person, or you are a carnal person.
Now I pray God the Holy Spirit will give me the ability o to help you to categorize yourself to find out, to classify yourself, to see where you are, so you can see where you need to be.
And to help you to get there, to be what I would call a mature Christian.
Chapter 2 verse 6. Howbeit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect.
You see that?
And the word perfect here means mature.
So, what the apostle Paul is trying to do here is to help these people to become mature grown up Christians, not to be little baby Christians.
let’s look at what we call *the natural man*.
Verse 14 speaks of the natural man.
Now why is he a natural man?
Well, first of all, because he is born into the natural world.
he just comes out of the hospital.
He’s just a little natural baby, a little natural boy, a little natural girl.
They’re just natural.
That’s the way they are born.
And because they’re natural, they just do what comes naturally.
They’re not born again.
They’re just born one time.
They don’t have the new birth, they just have the first birth.
Now, remember there’s a first birth and a second birth, and the Lord Jesus Christ told Nicodemus, A natural man, that he had to be born again.
7 Now, Governor Nelson Rockefeller was asked when Jimmy Carter said at he was born again.
Somebody asked Nelson Rockefeller Have you been born again?
Do you know what he said?
I heard him say with my own ears.
sent a chill over me when he said it.
He said, I certainly can’t say that I’ve been born twice.
He said, I was lucky to have been born the first time.
I thought to myself, What ignorance, what ignorance.
Now, you know, the apostle Paul speaks of the princes, of this world.
Notice what he says here in chapter 2 verse 6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that will come to naught.
Here’s’ one of the princes of this world who says, I can’t say I was born twice.
I was lucky to have been born once.
Do you know what Jesus said to man who was only once born?
He said, It’d been better for that man that he had not been born.
Listen, if you’re born but once, you die twice.
The first death is only the natural death.
But the second death is eternal death in the lake of fire.
If you’re born once, you die twice.
If you’re born twice, you can only die once.
your body can die, but that’s all.
Your spirit goes to be with the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven.
And so, a natural man is born into the natural world.
He’s just, he’s just born into the natural world.
He’s a natural man.
And because he is born into the natural world, he is blind to the spiritual world.
He doesn’t understand spiritual things.
Notice in verse 14.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they’re foolishness unto him.
Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.
He’s just blind to the spiritual world.
There’s a spiritual world all around him, but he doesn’t understand it.
Do you see in verse 14 where it says, But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God? Look at the word receiveth.
And the word receiveth there is a very interesting word.
It literally means to welcome, to welcome the things of God.
A natural man has* no appreciation for spiritual things*.
Now, that doesn’t mean he can’t appreciate church.
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