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The Nature Of God

Genesis 3:1-7

All five senses were involved in the fall of man. Adam and Eve were spiritual, they lived in obedience, they had dependency on God. They ate from the tree of life, never to die. They had the nature of God. They had spiritual communion with God everyday. Then the temptation came. 1. She heard with her natural ears and believed the lie (deception entered) 2. She probably smelled the fruit and believed that it would be good for food. 3. Then the words were becoming louder and the smells stronger until with her eyes she desired the fruit to the point of disobedience. 4. Then she touched the forbidden fruit (when God said no!) 5. Then she tasted the fruit and gave to her husband. They have now taken on sinful nature, which is the nature of satan. Now they are subject to their five senses for the rest of their lives.

Pray this prayer out loud: I am a spiritual being, I eat from the tree of life, I will not be controlled by my five senses. In Jesus name, Amen.

John 6:58,63

God has redeemed us back to Himself. In His presence in the nature of God. He lives in us. He is the word, and He is life to us. But in this body we are subject through our five senses to sin. We don’t have to, but we do it all of the time. We cannot go by our feelings, it is messing up everything. The world of God is the tree of life. This is how we walk with Him in our natural bodies. We take on His nature through His word.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

When Adam lost God he had to completely depend on his five senses to survive. We are still doing this today. Paul is telling us here to cast down everything that our five senses is telling us. It is sense knowledge based on experiences good or bad. Most of us will not change because we choose to still walk in the nature of our old man instead of the nature of God.

1 Corinthians 2:12-14

If we continue in the nature of our old man we are in direct disobedience to God. This scripture tells us that as believers we have received the wisdom of God through Hid Spirit. So, those who walk in the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit. A carnal man is a believer however he is either immature or disobedient. The natural or carnal man lives by the knowledge that he has learned through his five senses. He can go no further in life than what he has experienced. We cannot trust these opinions or these feelings, especially if we’re not living in the kingdom of God. These five senses will leave us hopeless, hungry, and searching for more. It will leave us empty and never satisfied. This is the nature of satan, not God. We as believers have been given the nature of God and the Holy Spirit is our teacher. Are we listening?

2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith and not by sight. We walk according to our spirit-man not our physical man. Sense-knowledge-faith with the natural man says “when I have it I’ll believe, when my sickness is gone I’ll believe, when I see it I’ll believe.” Sense knowledge has no real faith in God’s word. Sense-knowledge-faith is in human ability.

Ephesians 3:8-20

We did not need to see, feel, or hear. The word of God is our evidence of the truth. It’s our eyes, our food for taste, our ears. It is tangible, so it touches us where no one else can. It even offers a sweet smell to our Lord. We cannot know the love of God or His wisdom or fullness through sense knowledge. Even as Christians we sometimes walk in our five senses missing the fullness of God’s kingdom. You cannot trust your senses!

Romans 12:1-2

Why would God tell us to offer our human bodies as a sacrifice when Christ has already done this for us? It is to destroy our five senses. Our senses are our tutors for our brains. We act on everything that is seen or heard. Everything that we have smelled, tasted, heard, seen, or touched is ruling our lives (or some areas of our lives). Our sense knowledge of things and people are not from the nature or the wisdom of God. Because these (God’s nature and sense knowledge) do not agree.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Christ is our wisdom from God. There is two kinds of wisdom at work in the earth. The wisdom of God and the borrowed wisdom from satan. Sometimes the devil sounds like the word of God If you are listening with your five senses. Which is always selfish-based, and always about you. God’s wisdom is love, the fruits of His Spirit, and is purely motivated. It comes with taking on the nature of God and knowing your weaknesses in your five senses. Your five senses will indulge you, it will lie to you, it will bring you into confusion. It is deceitful, devilish, and full of lust and all the works of the flesh.

The wisdom that we have experienced without Christ has shaped our lives. It has formed our thoughts, our criticisms, our ideals or marriage, or raising children. It has formed our thoughts on the opposite sex. It has formed our thoughts on religion and God, on how to be a Christian or how to not be a Christian. Our five senses has and will play a significant role in our walk with God and the Holy Spirit. Our five senses is a breeding ground for deception and failure, and feeds our vain imaginations.

Forget what you used to know and learn about the nature of God, based on what His word reveals to you. You are a new creature in Christ!

Colossians 3:10

Not a sense knowledge, a God knowledge.

Proverbs 23:7

For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Your five senses will lie to you. You are who God says you are!
 


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