Science & God's Word Series
Being born again and living as God intends starts off firstly as a spiritual experience.
THE SPIRITUAL
See John Chapter 3: 3 -6, 16 - 21 Romans 10:9 and 10. The person’s spirit is regenerated, that is, comes alive spiritually. Thereby, connection with God is restored.
THE SOUL
Secondly, in order to live the life that God originally intends on earth, the mind has to be continuously trained with the TRUTH of God’s word and this shapes the will and matures the emotions Romans 12:2 - "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]."
This takes time but each person can decide how fast or slowly they want to be in the renewal of their minds with the Truth of God’s word such that they would have the mind of Christ and not a fanatical, deceptive or pompous mind-set disguised as spiritual maturity. It would be good to read that Romans 12: 1 to the end. As a person's mind is truly trained in God's way, truth and life, the person would start detecting and rejecting deceptions.
Please note that the word Christian used to describe someone believed to practice the true Christian faith was given by humans who noticed that Christians in bible times were Christ-like in their conduct. That description is okay if truly a person is born again – has had the human spirit regenerated and thereby reconnected to God through believing that God came to earth as a human, taking the name Jesus and died for the sins of humans, shedding his blood, resurrected and ascended to heaven. By the way, that spiritual transport would have been a normal way humans would have journeyed on earth if not for the fall of the first humans and the loss of the glory. This can be examined another time in a Science & God's Word Series)
Back to the issue at hand:
But in this modern world, the word Christian is often used to describe or tag someone who identifies or is tagged with Christianity as their religion. So, it is not everyone who is identified as or called a Christian that has their human spirit regenerated and in connection with the living God through faith in Christ. But they may just know a lot about the bible by reading and studying it or listening to preaching and teachings about the bible without actually having that spiritual connection with God.
THE PHYSICAL
Thirdly and this is what even so many true Christians with regenerated human spirits who do a lot of spiritual activities and constantly hear and confess the word of God overlook or gloss over - the presentation or dedication of the physical body to God.
Romans 12.1 - "I appeal to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship." AMP
Dedicating one’s body to God involves
1. Sexually – a lot of Christians take the liberty to have sex outside marriage or even when married, with person(s) not their spouse – not just as a mistake or weakness they sincerely want to deal with but willfully. Some would hide the misconducts as much as they can or openly defend such as acceptable. Anyone who points it out as wrong can become a target they want to deal with and/or silence them.
A person who is truly struggling with a weakness wouldn’t be out to penalise those who want to expose or stop such sexual misconducts. They would want to put themselves in check by exploring ways to overcome the weakness.
Do you know sexual control is not even just about morality? Anybody who really desires to know God and does know the living God would certainly discover that whatever God has asked humans not to do is not about controlling or limiting/denying humans pleasure. But God’s commandments or instructions are always for the good, the well-being of humans, far beyond what people know or understand. Sexual intercourse touches the blood! People must be careful with whatever touches the blood. So the act of sex is not just physical, it is deeply spiritual. The desperation for sex such that some people use all sorts of means, even animalistic approaches to get it, is actually the DESPERATION FOR THE VICTIM'S BLOOD. The human blood in which is the human spirit whether regenerated or not is Satan, the devil's target. By polluting the blood, the human spirit which came directly from.God can be affected. Recall that it is the human.spiriit made in.God's image that sets humans apart from.animals and makes humans superior to Satan and all of God's creations seen and unseen.
It is possible for a person to have spiritual and/or mental problems as well as physical problems as a result of their sexual activities. This will be unpacked sometime later in one of the Science and God’s Word Series.
2. The blood can also be touched through Food, drinks, medications and whatever is ingested.
Galatians 5:1 there is freedom or liberty in Christ but not realising we are in a fallen world system and not operating with a regenerated human spirit in connection with God will make people including Christians unable to detect what is wrong . Not using the wisdom of God to deal with such generally gets people including Christians into constantly taking what can make them lose control of themselves
3.Any other means by which the blood is touched through inhalation, direct infusions, skin etc. Through such, things that were never intended by the Creator to get into the blood gets. If they stay inside, they keep causing affront to the human spirit that gives life to the blood – Leviticus 17: 14. They also affect the mind and body even if initially seemingly good, they would likely cause adverse effcts later as long as they do not leave that body.
Even though the human spirit of a Christian is regenerated (born again) and therefore connected to God, willfully doing things that corrupt the blood can affect the spiritual connection to God’s Spirit. What can then happen? A Christian can then be controlled by the devil. So a Christian should not only stay spiritually healthy but also ‘soulically’ (i.e. enrich mind with the truth of God’s word, discipline the emotions and align the human will to God’s will) and physically.
Be mindful of what goes into your body especially into the blood because those wrrong things especially if they accumulate will challenge your spiritual and ‘soulical’ health. They can mess with the mind, the emotions and even indirectly weaken your human spirit. What affects the mind, will and emotions and body/blood of a true Christian also affects a non-Christians though. But while there is the possibility of miracles to overcome the problems that may arise for a Christian, spiritual sensitivity should make the Christian know when things are going wrong and seek God’s wisdom in addressing them rather than constantly seeking miracles.
There are people whose spirits have been regenerated but at some point allowed themselves to get carried away into willfully doing wrong acts. There are those who may also deny the existence of God and those who practice a faith or religion that allow them to do animalistic things, even harming other people willfully.
There are people who would willfully (not in self-defence) allow animalistic tendencies to propel them into acts which can harm others. So measures need to be taken to check this. There is need to explore these in-depth as laws or societal norms or values in many places gloss over such animalistic tendencies. To tackle the animalistic behaviour in humans, you need to have insight into what is happening beyond what is seen or heard in the physical realm.
To be continued
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