Being a reasonable man is a desirable quality in many areas of life. Being capable of coming to an understanding with others without being stubborn and bullheaded is good. Many wars and disagreements have been and could be avoided if man could learn to be reasonable. When it applies to the Word of God, reasoning is how we excuse our behavior instead of applying it correctly.
There are many things in the Word we don't understand, but reasoning them away is not the answer. Many don't understand the supernatural things available to man through the new birth. Over the years, reasoning has simply declared them as being "passed away" or that they are "arbitrary." Some have reasoned these gifts and powers as being only for the apostles and the early Church.
I can't recall a time where we've needed the supernatural more than we need it now. We were born again of the very supernatural Spirit of the Living God. We have His attributes and His very nature living inside us, according to God's Word. Even when it concerns the new birth, we try to reason things away. Some have even come to the point of not actually believing we are considered sinless and blameless in the eyes of our Father.
Religious minds have reasoned that because we still may sin, we aren't truly righteous with God. Reasoning has come to the place where we're more aware of what we do rather than we are of what Jesus has done. It seems reasonable that if we're still weak and make mistakes, then we cannot be considered sinless in our Lord.
Perhaps I'm not a reasonable man when it applies to the things of God, but I will not dishonor the Blood of Jesus by believing it wasn't enough to set me free from sin. Reasoning has decided that because we aren't perfect, we must still be sinners and nothing is further from the truth than this. I am as my Lamb was and still is and that's perfect, clean and pure in the eyes of God. He only sees me through the Blood and sacrifice of the Lamb of God.
Reasoning with carnal minded men only leads to carnal thinking. Only those who are spiritually minded can understand the power of the sacrifice of Jesus. We see the Man on the cross, we see Him die and be buried, and yet we can 't seem to understand the truth beyond just the death of the Man. It wasn't just the death of Jesus' body, but the death of sin and death itself that took place. Jesus' Blood and His death were something that carnal thinking and reasoning can't explain.
Trying to understand the Word of God by reasoning and without God, will only come back to religious thinking and put man back under the same condemnation he was in before. If I died of some disease, then I would continue believing and confessing that "Healing is for us today." What I think about it, doesn't change the truth of God's Word. His Word is true, even if I don't receive it for myself.
We've never really accepted the truth of what His Word has declared to be true concerning us today. Through our reasoning away the truth of God's Word, we continue making ourselves feel unworthy, unclean and unable to approach such a Holy God. Reasoning has prevented the cleansing power of Jesus' Blood to be effective in our lives. The Blood hasn't lost its power, but reasoning has stopped us from believing in it. Therefore, we continue to live and walk like those who have never received cleansing.
By reasoning, we have placed more faith in what we do to become right with God rather than in what Jesus did to make us right. Who are we to say that we're still unrighteous, when it's God Who says we are righteous through Jesus? Who are we to accuse ourselves of still being sinners, when it's God Who says that He doesn't remember our sins and iniquities any longer? How can reasoning declare we're still unclean when God Himself has declared us to be clean? Isaiah 1:18 (Amplified) says, "Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool."
Do you know what crimson looks like when it's mixed with crimson blood? You can't see it. The crimson blood covers and mixes with the crimson sin and all you see is the blood. Isaiah 1:19 (Amplified) goes on to say, "If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land."
Many aren't eating the good of the land because of their reasoning. Reason has stopped them from accepting the truth that God has decreed and they won't enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 4:2 (Amplified) says, "For indeed we have had the glad tidings (Gospel of God) proclaimed to us just as truly as they (the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them) but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the entire leaning of their personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; neither were they united in faith with the ones (Joshua and Caleb) who heard (did believe)."
We have listened to the voice of reason and haven't allowed ourselves to believe what the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ has promised. Every time the Lord opens a new door to His revelation, we close it by reasoning.
If we are to reason about the Word of God, then at least we should reason with Him. Jesus didn't die, descend into the abyss and become sin in our place just to give us another religion, but to give us relationship. Only by the truth of God's Word can you ever have a relationship with the Father. If you still consider yourself a sinner, then you will never enter into the Presence of a Holy and Righteous God. Undeserved guilt and shame will always leave you in the outer courts and not in the Holy of Holies.
Put your faith in what Jesus has done and not in what you have done, both good and bad. No matter how good the works are, they aren't what gives you right standing with God. No matter how bad the bad might be, Jesus' Blood has already removed it from you. You have been made righteous with His Own righteousness according to 2Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified) which says, "For our sake He made Christ (virtually) to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become (endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of) the righteousness of God (what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness)."
You have been made righteous by His Own righteousness and that cannot be improved upon. All you can do (without reasoning it away), is accept it by faith and enjoy God as much as He wants to enjoy you.
Can you imagine how it must hurt the heart of God to know that even after all He has done gain us back, reasoning with His truth still separates us from Him? It doesn't seem reasonable to the carnal mind that all we're required to do to be righteous with Him, is to believe. We're to believe on and in Jesus, believe in and on the truth of His sacrifice and then we're made righteous, acceptable, approved and in right standing with Him.
Your mind would reason that there's got to be more to it than that. What must I do to be righteous and in right standing with God? Abraham believed God and it was accounted to unto him as righteousness. Romans 4:21-22 (Amplified) says, "Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His Word and do what He had promised, that is why [Abraham's] faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God)."
Don't be a reasonable man when it comes to God's Word. If you must reason, then "Come reason together with Me, says the Lord."
If you base your walk with God on reasonings and works, then you will always fall in your pursuit of Him. His Presence isn't determined by goosebumps or by denomination titles or on how much you read and pray. His Presence is determined by faith in His Word that, "I Am with you always." If the only way you determine His Presence is when you get goosebumps or are being really good, then most of your time is spent without His Presence.
God is there because He said He would be. Conduct your life on that basis and you will walk above the world. He isn't a "Man that He should lie." We know better than to say God would life to us about anything, so reasoning begins making excuses for Him because we don't see the supernatural. We must do the supernatural to see the supernatural. Mark 16:20 (Amplified) says, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied (it). Amen (so be it)."
What are we preaching that He can confirm today with signs and miracles? They didn't come to the people as reasonable men, but as men of faith in Christ Jesus. After all, it's not you, but "the Father in you" Who does the works.
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