The Spirtual "I.Q." Test
(The Holy Spirit has been dealing with our hearts regarding having a "spiritual" mind vs. a "carnal" heart. In order for a child of God to reach the "spiritual" maturity He desires, one must confront the "carnality" of the heart. Of course, the Word of God is the "measuring rod" we are to govern our lives by. The Holy Spirit simplified this test by instructing us to "search the scriptures" regarding carnality and replace the word "carnal" with "selfish". Below are the scriptures He used to convict us, reprove us, and challenge us to be honest and admit how "carnal"(selfish) we really are. Meditate on the scriptures below and discover what level your spiritual I.Q. truly is...)
- King James Version -
Romans 7:14 -
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am selfish, sold under sin.
Romans 8:6 -
For to be selfishly minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Romans 8:7 -
Because the selfish mind is enmity against(an enemy of) God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
1 Corinthians 3:1 -
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto selfish, even as unto babes in Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:3 -
For ye are yet selfish: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not selfish, and walk as men?
1 Corinthians 3:4 -
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not selfish?
2 Corinthians 10:4 -
(For the weapons of our warfare are not selfish, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Hebrews 7:16 -
Who is made, not after the law of a selfish commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
- Amplified & Expounded -
Acts 24:16 -
Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my selfish affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men.
Romans 7:14 -
We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a creature of the flesh [selfish, unspiritual], having been sold into slavery under [the control of] sin.
Romans 8:7 -
[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its selfish thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.
Romans 8:8 -
So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their selfish nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.
Romans 8:12 -
So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our selfish nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 3:1 -
However, brethern, I could not talk to you as to spiritual [men], but as to nonspiritual [men of the flesh, in whom the selfish nature predominates], as to mere infants [in the new life] in Christ [ unable to talk yet!]
1 Corinthians 5:5 -
You are to deliver this man over to Satan for physical discipline [to destroy selfish lusts which prompted him to incest], that [his] spirit may [yet] be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 10:6 -
Now these things are examples (warnings and admonitions) for us not to desire or crave or covet or lust after evil and selfish things as they did.
Colossians 2:11 -
In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, selfish nature with its passions and lusts).
Colossians 2:13 -
And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful selfish nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions,
Jude 1:19 -
It is these who are [agitators] setting up distinctions and causing divisions--merely sensual [creatures, selfish, worldly-minded people], devoid of the [Holy] Spirit and destitute of any higher spiritual life.
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