Does wealth or social status change fleshly living?
No. Wealth or high social status does not alter fleshly living; those in high echelons may practice it with pomp and circumstance, but it remains nothing but gratification of the flesh. Those after the flesh mind fleshly things, while those after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit.
Les explains that the grand majority of the world's population is after the flesh, having no concept of eternity or spiritual things, and all they are concerned about is to gratify the flesh. He notes they may do it with pomp and circumstance or in high echelons of society, but it is still nothing but the gratification of the flesh. In contrast, those after the Spirit are concerned with the things of the Spirit. Les and Iris have observed across the economic spectrum that when they visit believers, conversation immediately turns to the book rather than weather, sports, or politics, which is as it should be. The natural person will talk about anything but the things of the Spirit.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
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What do people who live after the flesh understand about eternity and spiritual things?
Those after the flesh have no concept of eternity or spiritual things, and all they are concerned about is to gratify the flesh.