The Soul vs. The Spirit | Studies with Stearman
Prophecy Watchers
Gary Stearman and Mondo Gonzales
4.6 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this message on 1 Corinthians 3, Gary teaches on the difference between spiritual maturity and carnality. Envy, strife, pride, division, and worldly wisdom may look normal, but Scripture reveals they are signs of believers walking in the flesh instead of the Spirit. This study explores the battle between soul and spirit, the danger of factionalism in the church, and what it really means to have the mind of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Studies with Stearman. |
| 0:06.2 | Join us as we look deeper into the Bible. |
| 0:10.3 | Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching. |
| 0:15.5 | And now, here's Gary. |
| 0:17.3 | The first 11 chapters of 1st Corinthians are Paul's great discourse on unspiritual thought and |
| 0:26.8 | unspiritual activity. |
| 0:29.9 | And he begins by talking about those divisions. |
| 0:33.9 | We've mentioned those now for the last three weeks. |
| 0:37.2 | There were factions in the church at Corinth. Paul's on his third missionary journey as he writes this letter, AD 56. He hears about these divisions. Some people were followers of Paul, some of Apollo, some of Peter, and some were of the faction of Christ. And apparently they |
| 0:56.9 | followed the doctrines of Christ's words only and nothing else. Ordinarily, if we saw this kind |
| 1:03.8 | of factionalism, we would just say, well, that's natural human behavior. People are divided |
| 1:09.9 | on the way they believe believe and it's kind of |
| 1:12.2 | normal for this group over here to focus on one thing and this group over here to focus on another |
| 1:16.6 | thing. And so divisions developed in the church. Paul, on the other hand, took this very seriously |
| 1:22.4 | and called it foolishness as a matter of fact. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 24, but unto them, which are called both Jews and Greeks, |
| 1:33.7 | Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God, because the foolishness of God is wiser than man, |
| 1:39.6 | the weakness of God is stronger than man. |
| 1:41.8 | He began this discourse, which we went into in some detail, |
| 1:44.9 | on foolishness versus wisdom. And as it turns out, as we continue on with this study, |
| 1:53.2 | foolishness, by its very nature, is not a good thing. Neither is wisdom, though. You would think, |
| 1:58.3 | well, wisdom is okay. No. Foolishness in Paul's writing is moronic behavior. |
| 2:05.1 | The Greek word, moros is translated foolishness. |
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