Spiritually Understood
Fetch error
Hmmm there seems to be a problem fetching this series right now. Last successful fetch was on May 17, 2024 10:08 ()
What now? This series will be checked again in the next day. If you believe it should be working, please verify the publisher's feed link below is valid and includes actual episode links. You can contact support to request the feed be immediately fetched.
Manage episode 404805894 series 3500313
The things of God are spiritually understood and without the Holy Ghost, no one
can understand the mysteries of the Kingdom. It’s totally impossible without the
Holy Spirit. When God says something, you humble yourself to what He has said.
To take any other position is pride. Sometimes, there are Christians who act
proudly without even knowing. Pride is of the heart. As a Christian, you ought to
understand how to walk with God. The things that God sends us to preach may
not make sense to the natural or carnal mind but it doesn’t mean they are not true.
Man came to meet a fallen world so all his wisdom is based on experiences and
observations of his world. This is why truth, which is the Wisdom of God, doesn’t
make sense to him.
For instance, when you preach to him that Christians ought not be sick, it doesn’t
make sense to him because he can attest to many men and Christians alike getting
sick and even dying. So that statement becomes unreasonable to him. This is why
Paul said,
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.”
It sounds foolish to him because he or she reasons from the sensual standpoint.
That word “natural man” means one driven by the senses, emotions and passions.
Its means someone who is very sensitive. Such people are even offended when truth
is spoken to them.
When a Christian is like that, the Bible refers to him as the carnal man. These are
those Paul described as carnal minded Christians in his epistle to the Christians at
Rome. He is a Christian yet carnal. They reason out truth from the senses,
emotions, passions and experiences. Such a mind the Bible says is an enemy of God
. “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the
law of God, nor indeed can be.....Romans 8:7 KJV”
God doesn’t hate that individual but He hates that mind hence it will be difficult
for such a person to experience the things of the Spirit. It will be difficult for the
Holy Ghost to pull through to him.
God says that, the reason why the natural man cannot receive the things of God,
the reason why they are foolishness to him is that the things of God are spiritual
discerned. They are understood through the eyes of the Spirit but natural men
reason from their senses, experiences and observations.
As a Christian, Let truth be based on the Word of God and the Word of God only.
Measure and filter experiences, emotions, observations and everything by the Word
of God. This is how to be in the same way as God. The Master said,
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.... John 17:7 KJV”
Only what He God says concerning any issue is what is truth. To disregard His
Word concerning you in any situation because of emotions, observations, people’s
report and experiences is an insult to the only true God. He is the only true God
and what He says is final. This is all what faith is about. Sometimes, some
Christians think they live in faith when really they are not. Anytime you put
experiences, emotions, passions and observations above God’s Word, you are not
in faith but
“For we live by faith, not by sight....2 Corinthians 5:7KJV”.
God bless you!
29 episoder