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)."
The great Apostle Paul, received this Truth and revelation directly from the Holy Spirit, according to 2Corinthians 12 and Galatians 1:11-12 (Amplified) which says, "For I want you to know brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not a man's gospel (a human invention, according to or patterned after any human standards) For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it; but (it came to me) through a direct revelation (given) by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)." Whether or not we agree with the above Gospel, it is a revelation given directly o Paul, from Jesus Himself.
There has been much debate in the Church, concerning the Great Gospel above, but the bottom line is this, Jesus in the One Who said it and it is True. Man's soul was to be the go between, for man's spirit and the brain, which is a storage and communication center for his physical body. The spirit was to transmit information (revelation) from the Spirit of God, to our spirit. The soul was to transmit this revelation (or information) to the brain and then mortal man could walk according to the Spirit of God.
Adam's transgression in the Garden of Eden, caused his spirit to be cut off from God, leaving man's soul to function on a different level of knowledge. The only other source of information came from man's fallen state and the world system fed man's soul, directing the brain and determining how to live.
The brain was educated by this world system and directed mankind for millennia. Our carnal teachings have omitted God, leaving mankind to drift further and further from the Truth of Him, in our lives. We fostered carnal understanding for spiritual things and have lost sight of God's original plan for both us and Himself.
Using human understanding, left us seeing God in a light, that He never intended for us. The Word tells us that, "The entrance of the Word, brings Light" in 2Corinthians 4:6 (Amplified) which says, "For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts (spirits) so as (to beam forth) the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God (as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed) in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah)." God didn't just "beam forth this Light," but He (Who is Light) has "shone in our hearts (spirits)."
When creating the new creation being, this Light Who is God Himself, has been joined in our spirit man once again. Our soul (which is the communicator to and director of our physical brain) must be trained to hear from our new source of direction for our physical man. Since all it has known is the world's information, we must renew it by revelation from God's Holy Spirit. Our soul isn't familiar to the Voice of God and has difficulty distinguishing between His Voice and the myriad of other voices that are trying to direct us.
After being born-again, we are still led by voices that are familiar to us and we end up in a man-made relationship with our Father. Even today, in some Christian circles, people will look at you very strangely, if you say, "God told me something." We've been taught that God "only talks to certain people." This is not true. God speaks to all of us, but our soul (which has been trained by our senses) discards His instructions and follows only what it's familiar with. Then our brain (which directs the human body) denies the revelation, because revelation only comes into our spirit and not the brain.
We've never seriously considered Paul's words, when he instructed us to "renew our minds by the Word of God and pull down the strongholds in our minds" about the Super-natural Word and Presence of God, in our spirits. Your brain is a flesh organ and has not part of God. It's an organ, like our liver is a physical organ. It can only function in and for the physical man. It only knows what you put into it, from your own search of knowledge. It is not spiritual or reconciled to God, but only in the natural world. The brain is the most important organ for the body and the body cannot function without it. It's there for a purpose, but that purpose isn't for walking with God. When a person is "brain dead," his body doesn't work. His live spirit leaves the body and goes onto God to live forever with Him. But, the body will not.
The soul's work is to take the Spiritual Wisdom from God, and transmit that to the brain, so that the body will learn to walk by its new instructions. Your body can only do what your brain tells it to do. It cannot rise out of bed by itself, without receiving instructions to do so from the brain When we renew our minds or our souls by the Word of God, the brain can learn a new way of operating in this physical realm. Jesus controlled His Body by His Spirit. He said, "I can only do and say what My Father says and does." He refused to allow His brain (or His Body) to do whatever it wished to do. Hebrews 4:15 tells us that Jesus' Body had to be disciplined by His Spirit, to prevent it from doing as it would.
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