God created all things for His family's enjoyment from the beginning. Genesis 1:31 (Amplified) says, "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (suitable, pleasant), and He approved it completed; And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day." Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being."
When God created man in His Own Image and Likeness, He created him a spirit being. Then, God later gave him a physical or natural body to live in. We were restored back to God's Original spirit being, in our new birth or our new creation man/woman. When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, his sin caused his spirit to die or became separated from God, Who is Life. We were restored back to God's Original spirit being, when we were born-again and became new creations in Christ Jesus. Adam's sin brought death that was transferred to every natural man, born from Adam's seed. Romans 3:23 (Amplified) says, "All have sinned and come of the Glory of God."
Romans 5:12 (Amplified), "Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, no one being to escape it's power, because all men sinned." Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "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)." The Life Jesus spoke of here, is the new creation man we read about in 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether). The old (previous) moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold! the fresh and new has come."
When we were born-again, our old dead sinful spirit was cleansed and made alive again on God. We were restored back to God's Original Intent for His children. John 4:24 (Amplified) says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)." The only way to contact or learn about God's Spirit, is by our spirit man, who has been made alive to Him again, in Christ Jesus. We have mostly depended on our flesh and soul, in order to contact and worship Him. Jesus said that we "must worship Him in Spirit and Truth." We've limited much of our walk with God to our soul and emotions. We've used our emotions for worship and Truth, so that when emotions run high, what we've perceived as "truth," isn't always Truth.
When man was first created, he was a spirit being, just like his Father. He walked, talked, learned and was raised by the Spirit of God. It was only after Adam and Eve were given a natural body, that the enemy had the ability to deceive them. Until that time, there was no soulish pull against their spirit. Adam's fall caused mankind to be separated from the Holy Spirit, so man could only walk by and was ruled by, his natural, soulish, emotion self. We've been born-again and made new, but we've mostly walked in our soulish realm, instead of our spirit man.
Having the Living Spirit of God living and infused into our new creation spirit, is the greatest things we could hope for. Now, we have the ability and privilege of hearing, walking and being led by God's Holy Spirit, like He intended for us at the beginning. There is no fear, no retreat or surrender, in our new creation person, but our soul isn't in agreement with our new creation person. Paul explains the difference between the soul or carnal man and the new creation man in 1Corinthians 14:2, 13-14 (Amplified) which says, "For one who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the Holy Spirit he utters secret Truths and hidden things, not obvious to the understanding." Paul continues in Verses 13-14 saying, "Therefore, the person who speaks in an unknown tongue should pray for the power to interpret and explain what he says. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit, by the Holy Spirit within me prays, but my mind is unproductive, it bears no fruit and helps nobody."
We've been restored back to God's Original Intent and can now, through the Holy Spirit, contact, hear from, learn about and worship in Spirit and Truth. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it)! The Words that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
If the Holy Spirit isn't living in us and the new creation man isn't in fellowship with the Father, then the "secret Truths and hidden things" from God's Word aren't obvious to our understanding. The flesh or soulish part of man, cannot and doesn't understand God, Who is a Spirit. God's original man, Adam spoke with the Father, using a language that brought both Revelation and understanding. Adam and the Father communicated by the Father's speaking directly into the very heart of Adam. Today, we find it difficult to comprehend The Bible, even though it's written in the language we use, by our spirit. We can read the words, without discerning their Truth.
If we can only pray and worship in our own intellect, then we are limited in our ability to know the secret counsels and hidden things of God, because they are higher than our intellect. But, if I can pray and worship in the spirit, then I can reach into the realm of God's Wisdom and receive Revelation from Him, that my mind or intellect can't reach. Our carnal minds are so far below God's Wisdom, that without praying in the spirit, we are vastly limited in our walk where we're to be led by the Holy Spirit. God says in Isaiah 55:8-9 (Amplified), "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, My ways; says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."
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