And your soul, which is what the Bible calls the mental-emotional part of you, didn’t automatically change either. If you were a man before you accepted Christ, you were still a man afterwards. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away behold, all things are become new. But when we came to Christ and received salvation, we became a new person in the spirit. 51:5) and had the nature of the devil working in us (Eph. It’s true that we were all born sinners (Ps. In fact, they have been taught by religion that they are sinners by nature-just the opposite of what the Bible teaches. Very few Christians know who they are in the spirit.
Yet sadly, even many Christians have lost this spiritual point of view. The ultimate way to control bad behavior isn’t by more laws, metal detectors, or social engineering it’s changing the hearts of people, one at a time. We aren’t evolved animals we were created in God’s image and likeness (Gen. And I’m not just talking about the spiritual realm outside of us but also the spiritual being inside of every person. There is a whole universe that man in all his wisdom is ignorant of.
But there can be no peace without if there isn’t peace within. In man’s arrogance, he blindly believes all of life’s problems can be solved by himself. As our knowledge of our natural world has increased, our knowledge of spiritual things has decreased. While our ancestors didn’t have all the modern conveniences, they had a peace and strength that eludes most today. Man is just discovering the laws God created.Īlthough mankind has made huge discoveries that have totally changed the way we live, it seems like we know less about ourselves than previous generations. The same is true with communications, electricity, computing, and a host of other modern breakthroughs. “Bird brains” have been flying from the start. Man hasn’t created anything new he’s just discovered the laws that the Lord established from the beginning. My flight from London to Denver took nine hours, and I had luxuries he couldn’t have imagined.Īll of this is possible because of knowledge. It took him a couple of months one way, and the conditions were terrible.
As I was drifting off to sleep, I thought about John Wesley who traversed the Atlantic in the hold of a ship. I just returned from an overseas flight where Jamie and I were upgraded to business class.
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