Sometimes, while we reason things out, we deliberate on certain things in order to make the right decision. When it comes to reasoning on the Word of God, we're to reason together with Him according to Isaiah 1:18 (Amplified). When we begin to reason with ourselves or with one another, then we usually rationalize the truth out of God's Word.
James 1:5-8 (King James Version) says, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him. But let him ask in faith, nothings wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the and tossed. Verses 7-8 say, "For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
We learned from the above scripture that if any man lacks wisdom, then he needs to ask God and He will give it liberally. If a man asks God for wisdom, God gives the wisdom and the man didn't receive what was given, then it was because the man lacked faith in what he heard. Wisdom came. God said He'd give wisdom to those who ask and God doesn't lie. The man didn't receive the wisdom because he didn't receive it in faith. When wisdom came, the man began reasoning with the wisdom and to debate it with himself as to whether what he heard was really from God.
Too often we reason away the wisdom of God when it comes to debating or reasoning about what God said. We wonder, "Was that really God?" Or, we say, "That can't be God because it doesn't make sense to me." Or, we say, "God if that's really You, then give me a sign." Our reasoning can't always sort out God's Word so we must simply obey it by faith.
Faith doesn't always need reasoning, it just needs faith. Jesus told Peter to, "Throw your net out on the right side of the boat and you'll have a great catch." Peter had been fishing all night and had caught nothing. Reason would have said, "What's the use," but faith threw out the net. Reasoning would have left Lazarus in the grave because, "By now, he stinketh." Reasoning said that because he stinks, he cannot be raised. Faith said, "Move the stone."
Reason would have taken God's instructions to Joshua at Jericho and would have probably lost the battle and probably destroyed half of Joshua's army. In Joshua 6:1-5 (Amplified), God tells Joshua to walk around the city seven times, have the Priests blow their trumpets, and tell all the people to shout. Does that make any sense at all to the natural man's reasoning? Of course not. This is why we "Come reason together with the Lord." In the kingdom of God, things work differently than in the reasonings of man.
When we are called to lay hands on the sick, it defies reasonings. When Jesus and Peter walked on water, reasoning would say, "I've seen too many people drown to believe you can walk on water." The Word is Spirit and must be received in your spirit because your carnal mind (unrenewed thinking) will reason away the truth of the Word.
I don't know whether or not I've found much of anything in God's Word that make sense to my carnal mind. The death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus makes no sense through the eyes of reason. We arrive at many different opinions about God's Word based on the degree of spiritual growth in God's people. Even God Himself makes no sense to the natural man's way of thinking.
1Corinthians 14 (King James Version) says, "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." Natural man will always "reason" with God's Word because without hearing from the Holy Spirit, you will not understand. The more we reason with God's Word, the more we misunderstand it and neuter it with reasoning. We leave it with no power to produce in our lives, with our reasoning.
Your head (the natural man) cannot understand the speaking of unknown tongues. Reason will tell you, that if it's unknown, then you can't speak it. That sounds reasonable, doesn't it? How can I speak in a language that I don't even know?
Compromise of God's Word always comes by "reasonable men," who try understanding the things of God, without God. He will speak this Spirit Word into our spirit man and faith will override the natural man and bring about the miracle of truth. Our reasoning and our unrenewed minds keep us from receiving our healing, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, miracles and everything that grace has provided, because it makes no sense to the reasonable man.
As we move through this day of grace and the time of His coming, we find more and more that some have reasoned the power of the Spirit out of our congregations all over this nation. Anything that is supernatural is beyond the reasonable man and is dismissed. We have replaced the supernatural power of God with creeds and doctrines that make the reasonable man can understand and make sense of. We are striving to put ourselves under the Law, because natural man can understand this kind of thinking.
This makes sense to the reasonable man. He thinks that, "If I do this, then God will do this and if I do something else, then God will do something else." God's Word is a spiritual Word given to natural people who aren't born again. It made sense to the natural man to walk this way.
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