2Corinthians 5:17-18 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come. But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself) and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation (that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him)."
Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified) that, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
We've read the above scripture many times, and probably never gave a second thought to the importance of what Jesus said. Paul says in 1Corinthians 15:21-22 (Amplified), "For since (it was) through a man that death (came into the world, it is) also through a Man that the resurrection of the dead (has come). For just as (because of their union of nature) in Adam all people die, so also (by the virtue of their union of nature) shall all in Christ be made alive." The death Paul spoke about, is the spiritual death that separated mankind from the Life in God.
The problem with our Christian walk with God, doesn't come from our spirit, but from our soul (our senses) that were deadened to the union with God's Life. Since the fall of Adam, man was directed completely by his senses, instead of by his spirit. Our brain is the greatest computer ever created and was fed information from only our five senses. Our brain controls our physical being and was fed only with the knowledge and wisdom gained from our earthly existence, and not from the Spirit of Life, but of death. Your brain was your guidance center of our physical life and was constructed for only natural information, instead of spiritual information. We were guided only by the five senses, before being born-again.
When we were born-again, we became new creations, and created in union with the Spirit realm of God Himself. The spiritual knowledge had been deleted, because of Adam's transgression and it only had access to what it was programmed in, the natural man. Now, we receive knowledge into our soulish man from our spirit. This process is totally incompatible to the brain, which is programmed against this new information. 1Corinthians 2:14 (Amplified) says, "But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him, and he is incapable of knowing them (of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them) because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated)."
Your senses have been programming your natural brain, for all of your non-saved life. Your soul (senses) were meant to receive from your spirit, which was to be directed from God's Spirit. Your soul (senses) were then supposed to program your brain, to operate on the level of your spirit. After man was separated from the Spirit of God, the soul (senses) received only from the earthly realm and programmed the brain to reject anything the senses couldn't detect. If we couldn't feel, smell, touch, taste, or hear it, then it wasn't "real."
Now we are born-again and instructed to "walk by faith" in God's Word. The brain which was programmed by the five senses, cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste faith, because it is a spiritual force. The brain denies the existence of faith, in the earthly realm. We are now instructed to be "transformed by the renewing of our mind (senses)," in Romans 12:2 (Amplified) which says, "Do not be conformed to this age (this world) (fashioned after and adapted to its external superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (senses) (by its new ideals and its new attitude)." This is what God made the senses for, when He created man in the beginning.
There are certainly benefits of having our sense teach us how to function in this body, while we are in this world. Our bodies were made to function in this natural realm, but were to be led and instructed by our spirit. Our wisdom and knowledge was to have come from God's Life and His Spirit, which would be fed into our spirit, in order to instruct our soul (senses). Our brains would have been schooled by God's Wisdom and could teach our bodies, to live by the Spirit (even in this natural world).
We watched Jesus do exactly this, in His earthly ministry. He had a flesh and Blood Body that was not held back by His senses. His senses were controlled by His Spirit. Jesus knew and heard from God in His Spirit, and didn't allow His soul (senses) to dictate what was "impossible," according to what He saw around Him. This is how man was made to be from the beginning, just like our Last Adam (Jesus).
We are to see, hear, smell, touch and feel the things around us, without having them control us. We were put in dominion over them, not under them. God created the beauty of this planet for us to enjoy, but not to control us. What good would it have done for God to create the fragrance of the flowers, if we couldn't smell them? Or the beauty of them, if we couldn't see it? The senses were to deliver to the brain in our spiritual capacity, to understand and walk in. If the spirit wasn't in control, then the brain could only learn and catalog and walk in the natural things. Your brain is the highest form of computer, which creates super computers that exponentially double their knowledge.
The Word tells us to "be transformed," which is where we derive the word "metamorphosis." A caterpillar transforms or completely changes during its metamorphosis, becoming a beautiful butterfly. That's what God did for the new creation, by totally changing who we were and making us into something beautiful, a child of His. This is a process that requires time and study. The more time we spend in His Word, the sooner the transformation. Your senses, which are now being renewed by our "ingrafted" spirit with the Holy Spirit, now begin transmitting new information to the brain (the control center of the body) and its begins to renew itself with new data.
Romans 8:11-12,13 (Amplified) says, "And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, (then) He Who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you. So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh (senses) we are no obligated to our carnal nature (senses) to live (a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates) of the flesh (senses)." Paul goes on in Verse 13 saying, "For if you live according to the dictates of the flesh (senses) you will surely die, but if through the power of the Holy Spirit you are habitually putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the (evil) deeds prompted by the body (senses) you shall (really and genuinely) live forever."
When we set out to believe God's Word, which our senses cannot conceive of, then the senses immediately deny access to our reprogrammed brain, in order to reject it. The brain can't conceive "faith," because faith is a spiritual force. After undergoing all its pre-saved programming, the brain finds that faith isn't part of its programming, distrusts it, and rejects it. The brain has been so perfectly designed, that is not supposed to forget anything. God made it to be progressively gaining more information, but He designed it to get its information from the Spirit of God and not from the world.
It seems like, the more we learn in and from this world, the harder it is to believe the things from God. The greatest minds of men and women are trying to figure out where we came from, and what's in the Universe around us. The natural trained mind (senses) cannot contact the Truth of Creation and God, because this is outside the realm of our sense ruled brain. The brain is still doing what God intended it to do, which is receive information. That information though, comes from the world and not the Holy Spirit. When you are born-again, it seems like God and Creation are the simplest things to believe in. When you're not yet born-again, this seems impossible for the senses to grasp.
We still need the senses, because they are tools in this life. We must renew them though, so they are a successful tool and so they won't block our spirit man. As new creation people, we have once again been given authority and power through our new creation spirit, in order to bring the senses under dominion and control. We can now tell our senses "how to be," instead of our senses telling us "how to be." People asked Smith Wigglesworth how he felt and he answered them, saying, "I never ask Smith Wigglesworth how he feels, I tell him how to feel." This is the place our senses were created to be in, subordinated to our spirit.
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