But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 1Co 3:1,3[ESV]
It is a scripturally proven fact that the believer has been set free from sin because He died and resurrected with Christ (Rom 6:1-4). Yet believers who still exhibit jealousy, strife, greed, lust, fits of anger, lies, etc. are not a rare sight at all. Let me tell you why – because many are still babies in Christ; refusing to grow.
Who is a Christian? Literally, the term was a nickname given to the early believers, a group of people who were observed to be living so much like Christ (Acts 4:13, 11:26). Yet in our churches today, there are many Christians who are definitely not like Christ and don’t even desire to be. When you ask them whether they are living exactly like Jesus, their answer is that nobody can be like Jesus because Jesus was God.
