Can someone be spiritual yet living in the flesh? Yes, Jesus was. Can someone rebuke the church and yet he lives in the flesh? If Jesus is the head of the Church, we have no business rebuking it. Is he not sinning when he uses scripture for rebuking and yet he knows for himself that he is also struggling in the flesh? I think Christians should rebuke Satan, evil, and unrighteousness, but the scriptures are used for correcting, learning, and toward the edification of others, not to rebuke them. (2 Timothy 3:16)