Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Language of the Spirit

The Word of God (the Bible, the one you have and look at) is the Language of the Spirit realm. Jesus said in John 6:63, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life.

God's Word is spiritual language. God's Spirit is the only One who understands this language. Many can read this language, and actually know it, BUT they can't understand it.

The only way a man can understand the language of the Spirit, is by having the Spirit of God dwelling in his heart. Jesus said, "unless a man is born again, he can not see the Kingdom of God"
(John 3:3). That word "see" means to know, be aware, behold, consider, look on, be sure, and to understand what you are looking at. You can physically see something, but not know what you are looking at or seeing. Have you ever heard the expression, "that just dawned on me?" That comes from someone who just had their eyes opened to see something they had never seen before even though they have looked at it many times before (this is God's revelation to man. God reveals Himself through His Word). Or have you ever heard someone say, " I've looked at that scripture for years, but I never saw what I saw today?". They just had their eyes opened beyond what they could physically see to understanding the language of the Spirit.

There is a language for the natural realm as well. It's the one that man is most familiar with. The natural language is understood by our physical senses. The knowledge and understanding of natural language come from man, whereas the knowledge and understanding of the spiritual language come from God.

Spiritual language sounds like a foreign language to the natural man. He can hear it and see it, but he doesn't understand it (Matt 13:14-16, please read this) and may even think it sounds foolish. The Spirit of God said through the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor 1:18, "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing (the natural, unborn again man), BUT to us (us born again ones who understand the language of the Spirit) who are being saved, it is the power of God."

The natural man can not understand the spiritual language. The Holy Spirit says, "but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Cor 2:14)

Now the problem for the natural man to understand God goes beyond the ungodly or unborn again man. It's made it's way into the church (the body of Christ) as well. The Holy Spirit calls them Carnal Christians. They are born again men and women who don't understand the language of the Spirit, because they prefer to stay with the language they understand and are familiar with, the natural language. They don't want to learn the new language of the Spirit. They won't do what the Holy Spirit tells them to do. They won't renew their minds with the Word of God so that they can understand the Spiritual language and begin to think like Jesus thinks (Phil 2:5)

The Apostle Paul said (under the influence of the Holy Spirit), "I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but as to carnal, as babes in Christ . You can't receive what I want to give you
because you are still carnal." (1 Cor 3:1-3)

This is God's voice to the church today; There are too many within the church that don't know the Spiritual Language and the main problem with that is, that God can not speak to His people the way He wants to, because they choose to remain carnal.

One major problem with so many carnal Christians in the church is their condemnation of those who understand the Spiritual Language, speak it, and live their lives according to it. The carnal Christian finds himself at odds with the spiritual Christian and he will fight him every step of the way. Of course the carnal Christian is really not fighting against his spiritual brother, he is fighting against God, and trust me when I say, the carnal Christian will not win this fight, but he can hinder the church in many ways (who does this sound like I am describing? What power or influence is leading the carnal Christian?).

This is why we have so many denominations, splits, factions, cults and whatever. All of which are being led by the spirit of Antichrist to do his work, and to hurt God in every way he can.
(2 Tim 2:23-26 now read this, and really focus on verse 26 until it becomes loud and clear to you)

This is serious business. It's the responsibility of every born again man and woman to learn and understand the language of the Spirit, so that when you hear God speaking His Word to you like,
"by His stripes you WERE healed" (1 Pet 2:24), you will see yourself healed, just like God sees you, instead of seeing yourself sick like your natural man is telling you that you are. Now if that statement I just made riles you up and sounds foolish and stupid, then you've just told on yourself that you are carnal, that you don't understand the language of the Spirit, and that you are not willing to think like God thinks.

It's time to grow up Church. It's time to think and talk like God our Father and Jesus our Lord, Savior and Brother. It's time to learn the language of the Spirit. When you do then the above statement I made will sound normal and right, and you'll walk in that Truth, and the Truth (of the Spiritual Language) will set you free and if it's Healing that you need, then you'll receive it.

It's time to learn a new language. Jesus' Spirit said it was reasonable for you to do this (Rom 12:1) and more than that, the Church is commanded by Jesus to do it for he said so in
John 13:34 and then He said in John 14:21, "He who has My Commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me and in verse 23 Jesus continues and says, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him".

Is that promise from Jesus enough to get you to take the time to learn a new language? God's language. The language of the Spirit.

I pray you heed the voice of the Lord today and do what He has shown you. If not, then I would ask you to extend grace to those who speak a language that you don't understand. The Church will be a better place if you can do that.

Now go start talking like God. He is more than willing to show you how!!

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