A STUDY IN FAITH

 Chapter The Eleventh 

A STUDY IN FAITH 

One cannot grow in Righteousness. He may grow in Righteousness Consciousness, but he already is the Righteousness of God in Christ. 

One cannot grow in sonship. One may grow in sonship consciousness and learn to enjoy his privileges and rights in the family. 

We can grow in Grace. Grace is the first fruits of love. Grace is love bearing fruit. 

"I am the vine; you are the branches." The vine is love, the fruits are grace. 

We are the grace of God unveiled. We are sons of God, and as such we grow in fruit bearing. 

We increase in usefulness. We can grow in gentleness, in tenderness. In the beauty of the Master. We may grow in love. 

Our love at first has little selfish streaks through it. It is marred again and again, but we keep studying the Word, keep fellowshipping with the Master, keep walking in love until by and by love gains the absolute supremacy in our lives, so that we only do love things, say love words. 

We are growing in love, We steadily move on up in our growth until we actually believe in love. We believe that love is the solution of every problem in life. We believe that love is better than force, better than going to law, better than the whip, better than argument, better than fighting. 

We believe that the love way is the sure way, the success way. 

When Jesus said, "I am the way," He meant He was the love way. This new way is the best way. We grow in knowledge of our Father and of our rights, of the finished work of Christ: 

Then we take wisdom to use this knowledge. We do not grow in wisdom, for Jesus has been made unto us wisdom. 

We grow in the ability to use knowledge wisely.

You cannot grow in Redemption. You may grow in the knowledge of what that Redemption means. 

You may grow in fellowship. You may grow in faith. Your fellowship will be measured by your personal sharing with the Master and with one another the riches of His grace. 

Faith is a tender plant. It cannot stand the harsh winds of Sense Knowledge. It cannot be crowded out of its seat and out of its place without suffering. 

lt must be fed continually upon the Word of God and upon our acting on that Word 

Simply reading the Word, meditating on the Word, will not build faith. It will build a capacity for faith, but faith is only built when that Word becomes a part of our daily use, our daily conduct-a part of our daily speech. 

As faith grows, Satan's dominion over us wanes. Circumstances are less formidable. Fear is destroyed. As your faith grows, you begin to possess your rights in Christ. You begin to take what belongs to you. 

At first, you take the things over that you have merely hoped for before. You have hoped for money, now by faith you have it. 

A second thing, you begin to enjoy what you formerly "mentally assented" to. 

You have said, "Yes, by Ilis stripes I am healed, but I am sick." You have agreed with the Word, but vou have not acted upon it ..you have merely assented to it. Now you have reached the place where you no longer hope for it, but you look up and say, "Father, I thank Thee that I am what you say I am.' 

What you have mentally assented to, you now possess. 

Believing is possessing. What you assented to for years, you now enjoy. Faith grows in the atmosphere of confession of the Word. 

We are not speaking of confession of sin. It is our confession of what we are in Christ, what Christ is in us, and what the Word is in our lips. 

The Word in your lips becomes a living thing, just as the Word in Jesus' lips could rule the sea, the winds and the waves (even the fish in the sea), so His Word now in your lips will take the place of Christ on earth.

There is a sick one. The Word in your lips now will take the place of Jesus. If Jesus were here, He would say, "Son, you are healed." You say, "Son, by His stripes you are healed." You are using His Word. That is your confession, that His Word now has become the healer in your lips 

There is another one who is held in bondage by Satan. You remember what He said,"They that believe shall cast out demons." Fearlessly you speak the Word, "Satan, in Jesus' Name leave this person. Go off into the abyss where you belong." 

You are quoting the very words of Christ. Your lips become the pulpit of Jesus Christ. 

Faith grows with this confession. Faith is no greater than your confession. 

Everytime you break the silence caused by fear with an open confession of the integrity of the Word, and you act on the Word, you destroy the very roots of fear and unbelief in your life. 

Fear and unbelief grow with confession, the same as faith grows with it. You confess that you are sick, and unbelief grows in you. 

If you confess that you have been prayed for and have not received your healing, you are confessing that Satan had made the Word of God ineffective 

And we know. "that nothing is impossible to the Word of God" in our lips. That is a literal translation of Luke 1:37, "No Word from God is void of power." 

  It makes no difference what the environment is, what the association, the limitations, the mental attitude of folk; here is the Word that liveth and abideth, the Word that cannot be broken, the Word that said, "Let there be" and there was, and the sun, moon and stars leaped into being. 

The Word has not lost its ability. Its ability is measured by its Author's ability. 

His Word is full of creative ability now. He lives in His Word. His Word has given life to creation; to man, and to the animal and vegetable creation. 

"In Him was life (that was the Word) and that life has become the light of men." John 1:4. 

You understand that faith, in the sense we are using the Word, is letting the Word of God function through you. It is the Word of God doing business. 

Matthew 19:26 "And nothing is impossible to Godl." 

Mark 9:23 "All things are possible to him that believeth." 

There has come the union of man with God. God's ability has been linked with man's inability and has swallowed it up. His very weakness is God's opportunity, "When I am weak, then am I strong." 

"Nothing shall be impossible unto you." God is speaking in person to you. Just as food rejuvenates the body: so the Word rejuvenates faith in our spirits. 

When will we ever learn that He and His Word are one. He is the surety of the New Covenant. He watches over His Word. He lives in His Word. His ability is in His Word. 

It is Jesus speaking through your lips when you use the Word. Let us think of the vine for a moment again. You are the branch, the miracle bearing part of the vine. 

You and the vine are one. 

You are the miracle part of the body of Christ. The fruit grows on the branches. Love fruit, healing fruit, grow on the branch. 

We are sharers with Him and the bearers of His fruit. 

Your fruit bearing is the measure of your confession. Your confession determines your faith life, so hold fast to your confession in the face of all opposition. They cannot conquer you. You are the unconquerable one. 

Remember that your lips give expression to your faith. Your words are your faith. You say,"I believe; I have." Then you thank Him for it. 

You do not need to see or hear or feel. The Word is your evidence. 

He says you are, and because He says you are, you are. 

WHAT I CONFESS, I POSSESS 

It took me a long time to see this truth. After I saw it and thought I understood it, I still could not act upon it. 

Christianity is called "the great confession." The law of that confession is that I confess I have a thing before I consciously possess it. 

Romans 10:9-10 giveş vou the law for entering the household of faith. "Becausc if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Tesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thv heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt he saved: for with the heart man believeth unte righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." 

You sce, with the heart man believes that Jesus is his Righteous-nes, and with his lips he makes a confession of his salvation. 

You notice that confessiom of the lips comes before God acts upon our spirits and recreates them. 

I say, "Jesus died for my sins according to scripture, and I now acknowledge Him as my Lord," and I know that the instant I acknowledge Him as my Lord I havc Eternal Life. 

1 cannot have Eternal Life until I confess that I have it. I confess that I have salvation before God acts and recreates me. The same thing is true in regard to healing. I confess that "By his stripes I am healed," and the disease is still in my body. 

I say, "Surely He has borne my sicknesses and carried my pains and I have come to appreciate Him as the one who was stricken, smitten of God with my diseases, and now I know that by His stripes I am healed." (Literal translation.) 

I make the confession that "by His stripes l am healed"; the disease and its symptoms may not leave my body at once, but I hold fast to my confession. 

I know that what He has said He is able to make good. 

I know that I am healed because He said I was healed, and it makes no difference what the symptoms may be in my body, I laugh at them, and in the Name of Jesus I command the author of disease to leave my body. 

He is defeated, and I am a victor. 

I have learned this law, that when I boldly confess, then, and then only, do I possess. 

I make my lips do their work. I give the Word its place. God has spoken, and I side with the Word. 

If I side with the disease and the pain, there is no healing for me. But I take sides with the Word, and I repudiate the disease and sickness. 

My confessioym gives me possession. 

I want vyou to note this fact. Faith is governed by our confession. If I say I have been prayed for and l am waiting now for God to o heal me. I have repudiated my healing.

M confession should be this: the Word declares that I am healed, and I thank the Father for it, and I praise Him for it because it is a truth.

You remember Philippians 4 :6 -7 "In nothing be anxious; but in every thing by praver and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be madle known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard vour hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus." 

Why must prayer be made with thanksgiving? That means that I know the thing is done. I asked for it and now I have it, so I thank the Father for it. 

The seventh verse says, "And the peace of God which passeth all understanding will fill my heart." 

I am not worrying any longer. I have it. I am not going to get the money I need...I have it. It is just as real as though it were in my pocket. I am not going to get my healing...I have my healing because I have His Word, and my heart is filled with rapture. 

Your confession solves the problem. 

A wrong confession hinders the Spirit's work in vour body. A neutral confession is unbelief. It is just as bad as a negative confession. 

It is the positive, clear cut confession that wins. "I know in whom I have believed." 

''I know that no word from God is void of power or fulfillment." "I know that He watches over His word to make it good." 

These are the confessions of a victor. 

I want you to notice several facts about the relation of confession to faith. 

Your confession is your faith. If it be a neutral confession, you have neutral faith. If it is a negative confession, it is unbelief dominating your spirit.

Unbelief grows with a negative confession. A confession of failure puts failure on the throne. If I confess weakness, weakness dominates me. If I confess my sickness, I am held in bondage by it. 

These negative confessions are acknowledgments of Satan's do-minion over God's tabernacle. 

Your spirit always responds to your confession. 

Faith is not a product of the reasoning faculties, but of the recreated spirit. 

When you were Born Again, you received the nature of the Father God. That nature grows in you with vour acting on the Word, and your confession of the Father's perfect dominion in your body, and it causes your spirit to grow in grace and ability. 

You remember that your confession is your present attitude toward the Father. 

In some special testing that may come to you, vour confession is either in the realm of faith or in the realm of unbelief. Your confession either honors the Father or Satan...either gives Satan or the Word dominance in your lifc. 

Now you can see the value of holding fast to your confession. Your confession either makes you a conqueror, or it defeats vou. You rise or fall to the level of your confession. 

Learn to hold fast to your confession in the hard places. John 8:36, "If the Son has made you free you are free indeed." The Son has made you free, now stand fast in that liberty. 

Gal. 5:1 is of vital importance to every believer."For freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore." 

The time to make your confession is when Satan attacks you. You feel the pain coming in your body, You repudiate it. You Command it to leave in the Name of Jesus. 

Romans 8:31-37 "If God is for us, who is against us?" Your Father is for you. 

Disease cannot conquer you, nor can the author of disease. Circumstances cannot master you, because the Father and Jesus are greater than any circumstances. 

You have learned that in whatsoever circumstance or condition you are, to rejoice in your continual victory. 

Chinese Christian's church in China (the heavenly man,Yun)

 don't you open the iron door?" He told brother Sue. Sue looked at him with eyes of fire and said three words, "You must escape." 

   The next morning, May 5th, 1997, at just before 8:00, the busiest time of day in the prison, when every guard was at his post, Yun shuffled out of his cell on legs that had been black and useless for 6 weeks, carrying a piece of toilet paper around his waist on which he had written scripture verses from the Gospel of John and First Peter. 

He reached the first locked iron gate. 

At that exact moment, another Christian prisoner named Mushing was being let back in from sweeping the courtyard and the gate swung open. Yun walked through it. The guard escorting Mushing turned his back to answer a ringing telephone. 

Yun picked up a broom leaning against the wall so he would appear to belong there and walked down the stairs. At the second floor, a guard sat at his desk,  staring directly at the corridor. Yun walked past him. The guard's eyes were open. He looked straight at Yun. He said nothing. He saw nothing. God had blinded his eyes. The first floor gate, normally the most heavily guarded of all, was standing open. There was no one at it. 

Yun walked through it and into the courtyard. 30 armed guards were in that courtyard. Not one of them said a word. 

 He walked past every one of them. He walked through the main gate of the Jung Joe number one maximum security prison which was also inexplicably standing open. He stepped out onto the street. He hailed a taxi. When he finally started cycling through the streets of Jung Joe on a bicycle borrowed from a Christian family, racing to a safe house while the entire city's security apparatus was being mobilized to find him. He suddenly noticed something remarkable. The pain was gone. His legs worked. He was cycling. Mushing later told investigators that when Yun passed him on the third floor, he was walking normally. The prison authorities concluded in their investigation that no human being inside the facility had helped Yun in any way. They were right. 

It was entirely the hand of God. The man they called the was healed and gone, and China would never hold him again. That same morning, Deliing held in a separate location, received a vision of Yun sitting before her, free and joyful, telling her to call a meeting. She caught a bus to Chuzhou and went on pure spiritual instinct to the home of a Christian leader she knew. 

 She arrived hours before Yun did. When he walked in the door and found his wife already there, already knowing he was free, they held each other and sang together from Psalm 126. When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. They had dreamed, and now they were awake. Yun spent months hiding in various safe houses across China, always one step ahead of the most comprehensive manhunt the  Police Special Branch (PSB) had ever launched for a Christian leader. The Lord began speaking clearly. It was time to leave China. Time to carry the fire of the Chinese house churches to the nations of the world. But Yun had no passport, no legal identity, and a criminal record that would guarantee arrest the moment he applied for travel documents. A Christian businessman felt God prompt him to give Yun his own passport. When they examined it, the problem was immediately apparent. The man in the photograph was balding, wore glasses, and looked nothing at all like Yun. He was also significantly older. 

On September 28th, 1997, Yun stood in a queue at Beijing airport carrying a passport that belonged to someone else whose photograph looked nothing like him, heading for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. The night before, he had stayed up in prayer, and the Lord had whispered to him one instruction. When you enter the customs hall, say only what I instruct you to say. The customs officer took the passport, looked at the photograph, looked at Yun, and started to laugh. He held the passport up to   show the other officers. They all laughed. He took Yun into a side room and said repeatedly, "This isn't you. It looks nothing like you." Other passengers in the queue grew impatient and complained. The officer asked Yun to step aside. Yun said nothing. Every time the officer spoke, Yun simply looked at him with calm, steady eyes and said nothing. He prayed silently and waited. 

 And then the officer stamped the passport and said, "Go." There is no rational explanation for what happened next. At the X-ray machine, an officer watched Yun with clear suspicion while speaking into a walkie-talkie and then said nothing. On the aircraft, as the wheels lifted off the ground of the nation that had tried to destroy him for 23 years, Yun could not contain himself. 

 He began singing out loud to the astonishment of every passenger around him, songs of praise to the King who had set him free. 

Years later, a Finnish businessman would tell Yun something that made the hairs stand up on every arm in the room. That businessman worked for a telecommunication security company that had installed state-of-the-art voice recognition software at Chinese border points, including Beijing airport. The system used hidden microphones to match passenger voices against a database of wanted criminals. 

Yun's voice captured on so many recordings of illegal sermons over the years was certainly in that database. If he had spoken a single word, if he had said "I understand" or "one moment" or even "thank you" to that customs officer, the computer would have identified him instantly and he would have been taken away. The Lord had told him to say only what He was instructed to say. He had been instructed to say nothing. So Yun said nothing. And the voice recognition system listened for him and found only silence. 

Yun arrived in Germany and began a new kind of ministry. Carrying the story of the Chinese church to a sleeping western church that had largely forgotten what fire felt like. He traveled with his Scandinavian friend and translator to churches across Europe and North America. And what he found there sometimes broke his heart in a different way than prison had. He saw buildings full of silver and gold, carpets and sound systems and comfortable chairs and congregations that could barely stay awake. He sat in meetings where a thousand church leaders fell on the floor laughing after a comfortable word about God's love. And he remembered his friends dying in labor camps. And he wept not for himself but for the Western church's distance from the cross. He said to them directly and without apology, "You don't need more buildings. You don't need more programs. You need the Word of God that cuts like a sword, and you need the obedience to do what it says." When revival came to China, it resulted in thousands of evangelists sent out to the darkest corners of the nation. When God moves, you move. 

But Yun also encountered in the West something that shocked him more than any electric batten ever had. He discovered that Christians could persecute other Christians with words. A journalist he had never met, quoting an unnamed source published an article accusing Yun of fabricating his entire story, the fast, the prison escape, the smashed legs, all of it lies, the article said. It accused him of being a Judas who had betrayed fellow leaders to the authorities. Yun, the man who had refused to say a single incriminating word through years of torture, who had written his determination not to be a Judas in his own blood on the wall of a prison cell. This man was now being called a Judas by someone who had never met him in a widely circulated Christian publication. He said later that this new kind of persecution was no easier than the physical kind, just different. But he forgave from the bottom of his heart. 

 And within days, signed statements from Brother Su and other Cinnim fellowship elders poured out of China confirming every detail of Yun's story, silencing the accusation. 

Meanwhile, his family Deliing and the children had been making their own extraordinary journey. After Yun left China in 1997, they spent nearly 2 years in Myanmar waiting for paperwork to bring them to Germany. When the time finally came to leave, Yun received a warning dream from God.   Trouble awaited him at customs checkpoint. Deliing urged him to leave his falsified Burmese ID card with her. He ignored her. He ignored the dream. He walked into the customs hall at Yangon airport and was immediately arrested. He spent 7 months in a Myanmar prison where conditions made his Chinese prisons look comfortable. 100 men to a cell.  Prisoners with sentences of 350 years. Sentenced across multiple reincarnations in a Buddhist system that had given up on the concept of redemption. A plague swept through the prison, killing men every night, worms visibly moving under the surface of young skin. He lay unconscious for 5 days. He received a 7-year sentence and told the judge with a steady voice, "'Thank you, your honor,  for granting me a 7-year visa to remain in your country." But even there, God sent him. Five young Chinese men from Singapore and Taiwan serving sentences of life plus 50 to 100 years for drug smuggling had heard there was a Chinese Christian pastor in the prison and feigned illnesses to be sent to the hospital where Yun was recovering. They ran to him and he baptized them one by one under a bathroom tap, four of them at once, while a guard stood in the doorway, too stunned to say anything. 12 prisoners in total came to Christ. Men who had nothing left to lose, gave everything they had to Jesus Christ. And the transformation in that cell was so radical that even the guards noticed. 

 And then on September 18th, 2001, 7 months and 7 days into a 7-year sentence, the German embassy secured Yun's release. He landed in Frankfurt the next morning. On the flight from Bangkok, a fellow passenger handed him several newspapers. He looked at photographs of an aircraft flying into a tall building in New York. He had been sealed away from all news in a Myanmar prison. And so it was on an airplane somewhere over Asia on September 19th, 2001 that the heavenly man learned that the world had been changed forever one week before on September 11th. 

On the morning of September 19th, 2001, a man walked through the arrivals hall of Frankfurt airport. He had no possessions of any significance. He had no home of his own, no savings, nothing. But the clothes on his body, and a Bible he had memorized. He had been beaten with electric batons more times than he could count. He had been thrown into septic tanks and had worms crawl out of his skin. He had stood before judges and been sentenced across three separate prison terms to a combined total of more than 13 years. He had survived 74 days without food or water in a Chinese maximum security cell, sustained by nothing but the Presence of GOD. He had walked out of a throughout locked iron gates, past 30 armed guards in the most dramatic prison escape anyone in that facility had ever seen. 

Yun stepped out of the arrivals hall and found his wife Deling and Isaac and Yelin and more than a dozen German believers and Reinhard Bonnke the evangelist God had used to bring millions of souls in Africa to Jesus Christ, all there to welcome him. And this man, this broken, scarred, extraordinary vessel of God, went home to his small apartment, knelt with his family on the floor and worshiped. 

Yun often said in the years that followed as he carried the back to Jerusalem vision to churches around the world. That the worst suffering he ever endured was not the electric batons or the smashed legs or the 74-day fast. It was the visits from his family while he was in prison. 

It was the image of his son Isaac wearing the same clothes at every visit because the family had no money to buy new ones, shoes with holes in them, looking at the floor and saying, 41:26 "Daddy," the teacher told the class, "My father is a dirty criminal who deserves to be in prison." It was holding his children through the iron bars while a guard pulled them away, saying, "If you really loved your children, you wouldn't be here." He said it because he wanted people to understand something. The way of the cross is not a metaphor. It is not a song lyric or a decorative element in a church building. It is the actual literal costly surrender of everything comfortable and safe and familiar on the altar of obedience to God. It costs everything and it produces everything. 

 Because the man whose father was once dying of cancer in a mud house in a village of 600 farmers, the man whose mother had forgotten most of what she knew of Jesus after years of spiritual isolation. The man who prayed a 100 days on his knees on a stone for a Bible. 

 That man became by the sovereign grace of God. The authorized representative of the house church movement that by the year 2000 contained 58 million believers in China alone. That movement forged in fire and blood and prison cells and frozen fish ponds, produced a vision to send 100,000 missionaries from China through the Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu worlds all the way back to Jerusalem before the return of Jesus Christ. He was not a seminary graduate. He was not a theologian. He was barely educated. He  was a farmer's son from Nanyang County who knelt on a stone and cried out for a Bible. And the God of heaven heard him. 

There is one final image worth leaving with you. In the autumn of 1999, years before his escape from China, Yun stood at a grave site in Bergen, Norway, looking at an empty, unmarked lot where the grave of Marie Monsen had been.   Marie Monsen (in Chinese: 孟慕貞 or 孟瑪麗; born 1878 in Sandviken, Norway - 1962) was an evangelical Lutheran Norwegian missionary active in North and Central China between 1901 and 1932.

The Norwegian woman who had carried revival fıre into hıs province oT Hunan nearly a century earlier had been left with no headstone. Her grave had been forgotten. 

Yun stood there, a man who had been tortured in prisons that woman had never seen. a leader of a church that had grown from nothing into tens of millions because of the seed she had planted. And he felt something rise inside him. He turned to the Norwegian believers with him and told them plainly, "This woman  of God must be honored. You have 2 years to build a headstone. If you fail, I will send brothers from China, men who learned stone cutting in prison labor camps where they were sent for preaching the gospel, to build it themselves." 

On September 1st, 2001, exactly 100 years to the day since Marie Monsen first set foot in China, more than 300 Norwegian Christians gathered at that Bergen graveyard. A new headstone was unveiled,  paid for by the contributions of many churches and believers. It bore her name, her photograph, her Chinese name, and the dates of her ministry. And in the Chinese house churches, when the believers heard the news, they thanked God and wept. The seeds planted in tears are always always harvested in joy. 

This is the story of brother Yun, the heavenly man. Not because he was superhuman, but because he served a supernatural God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The God who opens iron gates. The God who heals shattered legs. The God who sustains a man for 74 days on nothing but the bread  of his presence. The God who hears a teenage boy praying on a stone in the dark and sends his word wrapped in bread. He is still that God. And the question he asked a generation of house church warriors in the caves of Hunan, he asks you now, will you go? 

If the story of brother Yun stirred something in your soul today, then you are exactly the kind of person this channel exists for. There are hundreds more stories like this one. men and women across the centuries who believed God so completely that they walked through fire and came out shining. And every single one of them is waiting to be told right here. If this story moved you, encouraged you, or reminded you of who your God truly is, please take your time, share thisstory with someone whose faith needs a spark today. Every share is a seed. You never know whose life might be set on fire for Christ because you passed this along. Stay with us. The best stories are still to come.

In scripture, believers often point to thousands of promises from God. One common count says there are more than 7,000. 

 Yet, many of us still wake up not knowing what to do next. Why is that? 

Because knowing God has promises is not the same as learning how to pour out our whole heart before him and wait for his direction. The Lord promises guidance to those who trust him, acknowledge him, and seek him. Proverbs 3: verses 5-6 says, "'Trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and He shall direct thy paths." 

 And Psalm 32:8 gives this beautiful assurance.  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. 

 So today let us learn the holy secret of telling God everything. Not a polished prayer. Not a rushed prayer. Not a ....( Click here to read on )

SOME STUDIES IN THE RECREATED SPIRIT

 Chapter The Ninth 

SOME STUDIES IN THE RECREATED SPIRIT 

There must be a new appraach to the study of psychology. The teaching of Professor James of Harvard on the subconscious mind has made profound impression upon the minds of the students in this subject. 

Here is a quotation from Professor James, copied from "The Psychology of Orthodoxy," by E. L. House, (page 62.) 

"It (the subconșcious mind) is the abode of everything that is latent, the reservoir of everything that passes unrecorded or unobserved. It contains, for example, such things as all our momentarily inactive memories, and it harbors the springs of all our obscurely motivated passions, impulses, likes, dislikes, and prejudices; our intentions, hypotheses, fancies, superstitions, persuasions, convictions, and in general all our non-rational operations come from it. 

It is the source of our dreams, and apparently they may return to it. In it arise whatever mystical experience we may have, and our automatism, sensory or motor; our life in hypnotic and hypnoidal conditions, if we are subject to such conditions; our delusions, fancies, ideas, and hysterical accidents, if we are hysteric subjects; our supra-normal cognitions, if such there be, and if we are telepathic subjects. 

   "It is also the fountain head of much that feeds our religion In persons deep in the religious life, as we have abundantly seen - and this is my conclusion - the door into this region seems unusually wide open; at any rate, experiences making their entrance through that door have had emphatic influence in shaping religious history." 

   In the above quotation you notice they are unable to locate the subconscious mind, or tell what it is. They give it credit for doing things that only the human spirit can do. But they do not know that man is a spirit. 

     Dr. House states that the subconscious mind is greater by far than the conscious mind. He tells us the part that it plays in man. He tells us that it is the store house for memory. 

He quotes this scripture, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Here he comes very close to the real truth of the subject. We know that all the knowledge that has been gained down through the ages has come to us through our five senses (apart from Revelation Knowledge.) 

All students are conscious of the limitations of Şense Knowledge. Careful students recognize that there is a spiritualas well as a mental and a physical man. Few have realized that the spirit is the real man. 

They do not understand that when God created man He created him in His own image and likeness. 

"God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and reality." That is a striking statement, but it fits into the picture perfectly. 

Man has a mind that receives all of its impulses from the five senses. The mind has no creative ability. It cannot invent. It can experiment, as in chemistry, but it cannot develop anything that its senses have not already brought to it. 

The imagination can only build pictures out of the material the five senses have brought to it. 

The natural human mind has no creative element in it. 

The thing that first acquainted me with the limitations of Sense Knowledge was the fact that none of the heathen nations have ever needed a patent law or a copyright law. 

I knew that the people of India, Japan and China had as fine an intellect as any of the Anglo-Saxon races. I knew that the old Greek minds were on the same plane, if not above the modern natural man. 

I knew that the Arabic, and all of the vast armies of peoples in the East, have fine intellects. 

Why have they never created anything? 

Why were there never any inventorS or great scientists among them? 

They have produced Metaphysicians and Philosophers, but they have never produced a creative or an inventive personality. 

Then I saw this fact, the mechanical Renaissance started after Germany began to receive Eternal Life.

It spread into the Scandinavian Peninsula when they received Eternal Life. 

It gripped England, and she began to create and invent following the receiving of Eternal Life 

I noticed another thing, that the countries governed by State Churches, where there are no Non-Conformists, show little creative ability. 

For example, Spain, Northern Ireland, Portugal and Italy were far behind England, Germany, and the Scandinavian Peninsula. 

This awakened me. Slowly the truth began to dawn upon my consciousness. 

There had been no creative ability until Christianity had been introduced. 

This Eternal Life did something to the converts. 

Did it do something with their mind? No. The mind is not recreated, but is still subjected to the senses. 

I then began to study about the recreated human spirit 

As you know, the part of man that receives Eternal Life in the New Birth, is the human spirit. He possesses the same mind he had before he was Born Again. 

In Romans 12:1-2 a suggestion is made, "I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship." 

I asked, "Apostle Paul, why do you want the human body presented as a living sacrifice?" The answer was, "Because it is the home of the fve senses." 

The five senses have been the tutors of the brain. The brain has no way of acquiring knowledge but through these senses. We have discovered that the brain has no creative function or ability. It can grasp the messages of the senses, correlate and classify them. It can arrange this knowledge so that it can and will be utilized to advantage. 

WISDOM 

The most startling thing that we discovered was that the brain cannot give wisdom. The five senses cannot give wisdom.

   We know that wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to advantage. From whence did this ability come? 

Then I saw that the recreated human spirit has access to wisdom and certain kinds of ability that the natural human spirit does not have. 

I saw that love is a product of the recreated human spirit. It was hard for me to realize that the natural human heart cannot produce a love similar to the love of the recreated human spirit. 

I saw that what we call natural human love is born of selfishness. Natural man is governed almost entirely by selfishness. His ambitions are born largely of selfshness. 

Then the question arose, "Why is it that the recreated human spirit has a new kind of love?" 

The answer was obvious. God recreated the human spirit by imparting His own nature to it. The recreated man has God's nature and ability. 

Then I understood 1 Corinthians 1:30, "Christ is made unto us wisdom from God." 

I saw that the key note of apostle Paul's prayer in Ephesians and Colossians was that we might have wisdom. 

I discovered that there are two kinds of wisdom. There is the wisdom that Satan gives to man; it is a cunning, subtle, devilish type of wisdom. We see it in the world today, manifesting itself in lving, deceit, and crooked dealing. 

No heathen country has God's wisdom or ability. 

Satan is a liar and the father of lies. When he gives to man his ability, it will be a deceptive, dishonest ability. 

Only in the recreated human spirit do we find God's wisdom and ability. 

WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY? 

It is a recreated spirit gaining the ascendancy over the reasoning faculties and ruling the whole man. 

The recreated spirit has been made anew with the Love Nature of the Father. 

Jesus said, "I am come that ye may have life, and have it abundantly." That Life is the Nature of the Father.

A man is recreated by receiving God's nature into his spirit, which makes him a New Creation and gives him a new self. The old self was selfish, but this new self is Love-ruled. 

This new life is like Jesus. It is the substance and nature of Jesus. It is Love's dominion over man. The Holy Spirit comes into the man's body and brings in more Love. 

Romans 5:5 "For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit." 

When the Holy Spirit comes in, He brings the Ability of the Father and Son and builds them into us. Their very sufficiency, their strength and wisdom is built into us. 

He opens the Word and makes it a living thing to us. He reveals its depths and beauty, its riches and its grace. 

He has taken the great Substitutionary fact out of "theology" and made it a living reality in my spirit. My renewed mind is actually feasting on the fruitage of that Finished Work in my own spirit. 

The Holy Spirit now is doing the thing that Jesus promised He would do. He is guiding my spirit and my reasoning faculties into the realm of the Reality of the New Creation, and of my union with Christ. 

I begin to understand something of the reality of the Finished Work of the Master. My spirit catches gleams of the significance of the fact that He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. He entered into His rest, and I am invited to sit with Him in the place of rest. I am invited to rest in His rest. Whata wonderful fellowship this is. 

Now I can see what it can mean to have my spirit in such close communion and fellowship with Him, so identifed with Him in this Love life, that I lose my consciousness of the past. I live only in the consciousness of my present, my new relationship with Him. 

Out of this new and wonderful relationship, faith begins to grow. 

Faith is not a product of the reasoning faculties. 

Sense Knowledge cannot produce faith, except what is known as Sense Knowledge Faith...faith in the things that the eye can see, the ear can hear, or we can feel or taste or smell. That is natural faith. That is the only kind of faith world folks have.

We have the new kind of Faith, the faith that Counts things that are not as though they were, and they come into being. We have the Faith that says, I have what I do not see, but I know that it is mine, and I possess it without seeing it .

This recreated human spirit that fellowships with perfect Love and with the Author and Finisher of Faith, becomes unconscious of the need of Faith or of having Faith. 

Just as Love becomes unconscious of Love, only conscious of the object of its Love, just so this New Creation has breathed into it the quiet confidence of the Creator. He has abandoned himself to Love, and out of Love has sprung his Living Faith. 

He begins to act Love, to do Love, and confess Love, and Faith's mighty ability becomes a conscious reality. 

Here are a few scriptures that may help us see the realities of this mighty thing... this New Creation thing. 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (I want to read a new translation) "For though we walk in the realm of the senses, we do not war according to the senses, (for the weapons of our warfare are not the senses, but are mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); casting down sense reasoning and every high thing that would exalt itself against the Word of God. and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." 

When the recreated spirit takes the throne in us and begins to dictate to the reasoning faculties, then there is a chance for the Word to really gain the ascendancy in us. 

When we learn to cast down sense reasoning, that dominates all of those about us, and we stand there squarely by the Word regardless of criticism, regardless of the attitude of others, then we know that the Word is the Father speaking to us now. 

Here is another great Scripture, "Ephesians 3: verses 19 and20. This Scripture I have given to you several times in this book. I will let Him speak to us again through it. "And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge (that is sense knowledge), that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God." 

Really, that means to be filled with the fulness of the Father. 

That does stagger sense knowledge reasoning, doesn't it? That the Father would talk about our being filled in our spirits with Himself.

His fulness is made up of Love, the Master's Love; Wisdom that only a few of us have ever participated in; and of Grace that can put up with the most unruly and ungodly; Strength that makes us omnipotent in our spiritual life. 

To be filled with His fulness beggars description! It means to be overwhelmed with God. 

You remember in Ephesians 5:18. He said, "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is riot, but be drunk (or filled) in your spirit. 

He would have us drunk with Himself, just overwhelmed with Himself. To be drunk with Love! To be drunk with Grace and with all the sweet attributes of the Father, Himself! 

Well, that is ours. We may be filled with the very fulness, the completeness of the Father. 

Do you wonder how it can be done? Let me read you Ephesians 3:20, "Now unto HIM that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think, according to the ability of GOD that is at work within us." (Literal translation.) 

The heart almost stops. 

Can this be true, that the One who raised Jesus from the dead has come into these bodies of ours and brought into us the Ability that was exercised in that mighty miracle of the resurrection of Jesus? 

It is true, He has come in! He has come in with His ability, His wisdom, His love and grace. 

You remember I called your attention to Romans 5:5, how He shed abroad in our hearts the Holy Spirit. 

The One who brings Love into us has come in and He has brought in that fulness of Love. 

He has brought in what is told us in John 1:16, "OE His fulness have we all received, and grace upon grace." 

This is ours. We can never be cheap and small again, can we? We will never go back to the beggarly resources of sense knowledge. We will never go back to the shallow teachings of mere men. 

How shallow psychology looks now. It is the fruitage of sense knowledge. 

The religions of natural men are empty, sounding brass, and clanging cymbals. 

We have found reality at last.

The mysticism of sense knowledge once held us enthralled, but one breath from Him has driven the mists away, and we stand in the fulness of His marvelous Grace. 

We are New Creations now. We are living in the realm of God. 

I know a Scripture that fits into this description of the New Creation, it is Weymouth's translation of Romans 5:17 (3rd edition), "For if, through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overfowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one individual, Jesus Christ." 

That is not after death, it is NOW. 

We reign as kings in this new realm of Life, and we bow to the sovereignty of Love. 

Spiritual death has held us in bondage through many years, but at last spiritual death has been Swallowed up in Life (Eternal Life, the nature of the Father), and now we take our place in the new realm and reign as the Sons of God. 

We reign as kings. We are not common any more. We no longer walk as mere men. We don't act as mere men. When we go into the Throne Room to present our needs before the Father, we go in as Sons.We have Love's ability to stand in His presence without any sense of inferiority. 

His great Grace has made us New Creations, and He has made us out of Himself. God the Father, through the Word, and by the Spirit's power, has recreated us. We are the products of Love We have Love's ability, we have Love's strength. We can do the work of Love. 

From today, I want you who read this book to look upon yourselves and to think of yourselves as the Sons of Love. 

Stand in front of the mirror and say to the man or woman you see reflected there,"You are now a New Creation, a partaker of the very nature of the Father. You have received the Father's overflowing Grace, and the gift of Righteousness, and now you reign as a king in this new realm of life." 

You have become a Master where once you served as a slave; an overcomer where the forces of the Evil One once dominated. 

You are now "in the Beloved." You are as near the heart of the Father as Jesus was in His earth walk.

SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN OUR SPIRITS

 Chapter The Seventh 

SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN OUR SPIRITS 

We have come to know that spiritual things are as real as material things. 

LOVE is as real as the building in which you live, and sometimes more real than material substance. 

When we realize the reality of spiritual things, so that we will take account of them, plan on them as we do on material things, life will cease to be excursions in the dark. 

COURAGE is a spiritual force. It is born of the spirit. It is not associated in any way with our reasoning faculties. 

Reason cannot understand courage which can face defeat and still rise from the mat fighting. 

You have heard of the fighting heart, that is a fighting spirit, a conquering spirit, a dominating spirit that cannot be whipped or defeated. 

Reason says, "It is all over, you might just as well throw in the sponge." Sense knowledge has given up the fight altogether. but you are just beginning. Your spirit has taken the count again and again, but it keeps on fighting. It cannot be whipped. 

I remember in the early days of my life when everything was going dead wrong. Death would have been a sweet escape, but I could not die, and I could not be whipped. 

At times I wanted to be whipped, would rather have been than not. If I could have been defeated and bloated out with the wreckage that I saw on the stream of life, I would have been glad, but I could not give up. 

Somehow or other, it seemed utterly impossible to conceive of being defeated. I must succeed. 

My tired brain, my worn-out body cried for rest, but that something inside refused to give way to the desire of the senses. 

That is in every man if he will only cultivate it.

You see, courage is a spiritual reality that rises above circumstances, rises above Sense Knowledge facts, and dominates. 

FAITH is another great spiritual force. It is not born of Sense Knowledge. It is nursed in the bosom of the spirit. 

it embraces failure and breathes victory into it. It uses the defeat of this morning, and the failures of yesterday, to build a foundation on which the super-structure of Success stands 

Faith is the creative force in the human spirit. Bolstered by wisdom, it cannot fail 

THE WILL TO WIN is a spiritual force. It is the dominating general in the council of your spirit nature. 

It rallies the weak and tired body. It drives the exhausted senses in the council of vour spirit nature. 

It builds sinews into the Senses. It stands invincible in the heart of man: the will to win, the wwill to conquer. 

JOY is a spiritual thing. Joy is not happiness. Happiness belongs to the Senses, You are happrif things are beautiful and satisfactory to the mind and to the bodv; but joy Aourishes, flls the soul with laughter and song when every heautiful thing is destroved and every pleasing flower has lost its fragrance. Joy fills the whole being with heaven's own music. 

HOPE is of the spirit. Hope seems to spring out of the dead embers of a thousand failures, lifts its petals and its beautiful Mower into the sunlight. 

It is filled with fragrance and laughter. 

Hope does not belong to the Senses. Sense Knowledge never produced a single member of the Hope family 

WISDOM is not a product of knowledge, schools, teachers or libraries. Wisdom springs forth in all its beauty from the human spirit. 

Wisclom is the cunning artificer, the creator of every beautiful thing, the inventor of every labor saving device. It has taken the commonplace and made it luxuriant with beauty. 

ENDUIRANCE is that quality that makes certain types of men outstanding in the world's history, They plod on month after month, year after year, with a sturdy self-reliance that thrills.

They bear the burdens of hundreds. Pain and disease may wrack their bodies, but they cannot be conquered. 

This is one of God's richest endowments of the spirit. 

FAITHFULNESS stands out in the business marts of the world. How we see it in the nurses in our hospitals. But in no other place does it grow so luxuriantly as in the home, in the heart of the wife and mother. 

Through all the testings, the trials, the heartaches, the sufferings of life, it reigns a victor; faithfulness, a mighty force that makes the character strong. 

NEGATIVE FORCES 

We have dealt with the positive forces or qualities of the spirit, but there are other forces detrimental to our spiritual development and growth. 

I would not have believed at one time that hate, the hideous, monstrous thing, that deformed, unnatural thing, should be a child of the human spirit. 

I have long associated the children of the spirit with love, joy, peace, and the many other beautiful flowers which have grown out of that soil. Then I was compelled to acknowledge that hate sprang from the same source. 

Hatred, is devastating nations. It is dwarfing beautiful spirits. Men and women who never hated, now are filled with it. 

It is poisoning the blood streams of their bodies. It is poisoning everything beautiful in their bodies. 

Hate is a devilish thing inspired of hell. It will produce a plague like the fu that followed the first world war. 

It should never be given place in anyone's spirit. I would never allow it to gain the ascendancy in my life. It is a poisonous, noxious weed. 

Another bitter enemy to which the spirit gives birth is fear. 

What a deadly enemy to success. It dwarfs our thinking. It devastates faith. It fills the whole life with a spiritual paralysis. 

One can conquer it by knowing that he is tied up with God, and that the adversary has no power to rule his life. 

Fear is a child of ignorance on the part of a son or daughter of God.

If you know what your abilities are, and you know that your enemy has been conquered, as you know that two and two make four, and that two quarters make a half, then you can face the thing that gave birth to fear and laugh in its face. 

You are a conqueror, but as long as ignorance holds sway, that ignorance is darkness and you haven't any light in your life to dispel the darkness. Consequently, you are living in the darkness of ignorance and that darkness is a fearful thing. 

When you know that the Son has made you free, and the things that you feared have stopped being a destructive force, then you arise and go down life's pathway singing your song of victory. 

They cannot fll you with doubt and fear, for you know Him whom you have believed, and you are resting in His grace.

 Another hideous, monstrous thing is unbelief, doubt. It is a hydra-headed enemy. It often comes in disguise, but the keen spirit-ruled one will recognize it. 

Doubt and unbelief are born of the same parentage as fear. Unbelief is a product of ignorance of the Word. 

The man who doubts that there is a God is living in the darkness of Sense Knowledge. He does not know the limitations of Sense Knowledge. Consequently, he accepts its verdict without a question, and the verdict is wrong. It is not based upon facts. Know the truth and the truth shall set you free. 

When you know the limitations of Sense Knowledge and how deceptive it is at times, it will put you on your guard. 

Had Charles Darwin known the limitations of Sense Knowledge, he would never have written the book, The Evolution , that has destroyed faith in millions of lives. 

Darwin had nothing but five Sense evidence. He did not give place to the spirit in his reckoning. He was only half a man in his mental development. The most vital part of him, his spirit, was covered in absolute darkness. 

The way to destroy unbelief is to become acquainted with the great Father God and with loving Jesus Christ , His Son. 

This comes to us first, through the Book called the Bible, which is a Revelation from the heart of God to the heart of man.

Another bitter enemy that is born, not of the reason, but of the spirit is despair. 

Despair chokes hope, faith, and love out of the heart. It makes destruction seem a pleasure, and a thing to be desired. 

It has driven every suicidle to his fatal end. It hounds the foot-steps of the multitudes who are "hitch-hiking" through life. Despair has whipped them. 

I wondered if anyone had the heroism to face despair and conquer it, then I found that one look into the face of Him who met despair and conquered it could conquer it for me. 

THE SPIRIT OF JESUS 

For a long time I could only see the physical aspects of the Substitutionary Sacrifice of Jesus 

As we see the disciples in the Four Gospels, we see that they only had Sense Knowledge. They saw the Man, they heard His voice, they felt His hands, they witnessed His miracles. Then they saw the arrest, the trial. and the crucifixion. Not one of them saw beyond the veil of the human body that shrouded the struggle of the spirit. 

One day I saw that it was not His physical death that dealt with the sin problem, but it was His spiritual death. 

His spirit became a partaker of the thing that separated man from God. 

I saw that He died twice on the cross. The moment that He was made sin His spirit passed under the dominion of death. Hours later, He died physically. 

"Him who knew no sin, God made to become sin; that we might become the righteousness of God in him." 

It was His spirit that was made sin. It is our spirits that are made Righteous. It is our spirits that are recreated. It was the spiritual suffering of Jesus that paid the awful price for our sin. 

I did not want to accept these things I am telling you, and for a long timeI rejected them. I refused to allow my mind to accept these facts, but now I have come to see them. They have become a part of my consciousness. 

First, it was the spirit of Jesus that was made sin with our sin. He was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted with our sin. It was not His body, but His spirit. 

Then I saw that it was His spirit that experienced, or "tasted death for every man." It was nọt a physical thing. It was not a mental thing. It was a spiritual reality. 

Then I went farther, and I saw that He suffered in His spirit. It was not the suffering of His mind, or the suffering of His body that paid the penalty of our transgressions; it was the suffering of His spirit. (For better understanding, go read "The Father and His Family.") 

His spirit, that had been made sin, was under judgment, suffering what humanity would suffer spiritually. 

Then I saw that when He had paid the price, had satisfied the claims of Justice, He was justified in spirit, made alive in spirit, and was made righteous in spirit; that which He had lost on the cross was restored to Him. 

He had lost His ability to stand in the Father's presence, and He cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' 

His spirit, which had been made sin, and had suffered the penalty that belonged to the human race, was Justified, made Righteous. 

Next, He was made alive in spirit. They could no longer hold Him after He had satisfied the claims of Justice for the human race. The spirit that had been made sin was recreated. He was made the head of a New Creation, "the first born out of death." 

It was a spiritual death and a spiritual birth. It was not physical or mental. This is the reason that the senses (or Sense Knowledge) have declared that the Substitutionary Sacrifice is unreasonable to the five senses, but it is the most logical and natural thing to the human spirit. Revelation Knowledge triumphs over Sense Knowledge.

When He was made alive in spirit, the whole church (in the mind of Justice) was made alive. 

When He was recreated, we were recreated in Christ. Philippians 2:10, states that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. This verse emphasizes the authority and reverence due to Lord Jesus Christ. Then in that recreation, He meets our adversary, Satan, and conquers him, strips him of his authority, defeats him in open combat, and takes from him the armor of which he had robbed Adam in the Garden of Eden. 

Then Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. That resurrection is more than physical, psychological, or metaphysical. It is an absolute reality; physically, mentally and spiritually. 

He was resurrected, taken out of the realm of death into the realm of life. 

It is no wonder that apostle Paul, by the Spirit, tells us in Romans 5:17, "For if, by the trespass of the one, death seized the sovereignty through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus Christ, our Lord." (Weymouth version) 

That translation throws upon the screen of our spirits the reality of the substitutionary work of the Man of Galilee. 

You see, by the same token Isaiah declares, in Isaiah 53:45, "Surely He hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our diseases; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." 

It was all spiritual. Then healing of the physical body must be wrought through the spirit. 

Spiritually, GOD laid upon Him , Jesus Christ, HIS Son, the diseases of the human race. Those diseases were not physical; they were spiritual. Just as sin is a spiritual thing, sickness is a spiritual thing manifested in the physical. 

Those diseases were laid upon the spirit of the Son of God. He bore them away, and by His stripes we are healed. When He was made well in spirit, we were made well. 

When He was made Righteous, we were made Righteous. 

When He conquered the adversary, we conquered the adversary in Him. Here lies the secret of absolute success. 

Jesus Christ conquered the adversary on our behalf. If He did, then we today are conquerors; because, by His victory over the adversary, we won our victory. 

THE FRUIT OF TIIE SPIRIT 

When apostle Paul gives to us his introduction to the great spiritual realities as recorded in l Corinthians 1:30, he says, "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." 

He puts wisdom first. The same thing holds true in speaking of the gifts of the spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:7-8. "But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same spirit." 

Wisdom is placed first here, showing that in the mind of the Father, wisdom holds the foremost place 

Now you can understand clearly the previous statement that it is not a problem of knowledge, but it is a problem of wisdom which knows how to use wisely the knowledge that has been gained. 

In Galatians 5:22 we have this great passage, "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith fulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law." This is not the fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the fruit of the recreated spirit. 

See the 16th verse, "Walk by the spirit, and ye shall not fulfll the lust of the fesh (or the desires of the senses). 

"For the senses are struggling against your spirit, and your spirit is struggling against your senses, for these are contrary the one to the other, that ye may not do the things that ye would. But if ye are led by the spirit, (your own recreated spirit, not the Holy Spirit) ye are not under law." 

Then He shows the works of the five Senses. It is a striking fact that we have always thought of these two passages as the work of the Holy Spirit, but they are not. 

The first fruitage of this recreated spirit is love .

It goes on down through the list of nine marvelous fruits that the spirit bears in its daily contacts with man. Ahead of all these He has placed wisdom to use knowledge, to use love, and to make love a blessing to the world; wisdom to control joy, and wisdom to witness of the peace of God that passeth all understanding. 

It is of the first importance that we recognize that wisdom, and all these other fruits of the recreated life, are the products of our own human spirit. 

As we keep in the closest fellowship with the Word, these great realities shine forth in our lives. 

Chapter The Eighth 

THE CREATIVE ABILITY OF THE RECREATED SPIRIT 

We know that non-Christian people are not creative. We know another fact, creative minds have come from families where there has been Eternal Life. The natural man can copy and imitate, but he has no ability to create a new thing. 

When I learned that creative ability is in the recreated human spirit, I then saw the solution to the human problem. We know the Jesus kind of love does not come from the natural human heart. 

"We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death." 1 John 3:14. This is spiritual death. 

This is a startling quotation. We know that we have Eternal Life because we love the brethren. 

In the next verse we read,"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." 

Here is another illuminating statement. This new kind of love springs from the nature of God.., this God-nature is the thing that recreated us. 

Now you can see that just as love springs from the recreated heart, so wisdom comes from the recreated heart. Wisdom is the ability to utilize the forces of nature. 

No one will deny the fact that heathen countries have never been able to utilize the chemicals, minerals and gasses or any of the other natural resources with which the earth is filled. Only those who have New Creation ancestry have ability to use these things. 

Now you can understand that all creative ability is God's ability. God has imparted this ability to the spirit of man. ( Read on here ) 

DEVELOPING YOUR SPIRIT LIFE

 Chapter The Sixth 

DEVELOPING YOUR SPIRIT LIFE 

We know that wisdom comes from the human spirit, and that God's impartation of wisdom does not come direct to the intellect, but through the human spirit to the intellect. 

Millions of dollars have been spent in developing the human body, and hundreds of millions have been spent in developing the human mind; but the real man, which is the spirit, has been utterly neglected. 

We had thought that the only way to develop it was through religion; but when we realize that the great forces of humanity are spiritual, and that they all emanate from the spirit, then it becomes vitally important that this part of man be seriously considered. 

Jesus promised cooperation with our spirits after He had settled the sin problem and sat down at the right hand of the Father. 

John 14:16-17 is His promises, "And I will make request of the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, even the Spirit of Truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: ye know Him; for He abideth with you, and shall be in you." 

This Spirit of truth is the Holy Spirit, and He was to come and take Jesus' place after He had finished His Redemptive work 

It is almost an unknown fact that the Holy Spirit does not communicate knowledge to the intellect, except in rare cases where one is so dense spiritually that He must communicate with the senses. 

All the knowledge that natural man has, has come through the five senses. It may be necessary that the Spirit come to man's level (his senses) in order to deal with him. 

John 16:13 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide vou into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak." 

This promise was not only for the special revelation that God gave to us through the Apostle Paul, but it is for every believer. 

He is to guide us into the reality of the Redemptive work of Christ. All that Christ wrought in His Şubstitution was wrought in His Spirit. It was His Spirit that was made sin. It was His Spirit that suffered the torments of judgment on the behalf of humanity. 

It was His Spirit that was declared righteous. He was made alive in His Spirit. 

It was His Spirit Resurrection rather than His physical Resurrection that has given to humanity its Redemption. 

Man is so tied up with Sense Knowledge that he has only seen the physical suffering of Christ on the cross, and His physical Resurrection. 

It was something infinitely beyond that. It was His Spirit that was suffering for our spirits. 

It was His Spirit that was made Righteous for our spirits. It was His Spirit that was recreated for the recreation of our spirits. 

Until we know this in our spirit, there will be no great development of faith, neither will we come into the real true knowledge of our rights and privileges as sons and daughters of Living GOD. 

There can be no development of the human spirit until it receives Eternal Life, in other words, until it is recreated. 

We know this, because there had never been a great inventor, chemist, or scientist in any nation, until that nation received Eternal Life. 

This, in itself, is a staggering fact. Thinking men would be mightily moved if they knew this truth. 

The Holy Spirit recreates us through the Word. He imparts to us the nature of the Father, and with this impartation comes the new kind of Wisdom. Christ is made unto us Wisdom. This is accomplished when we are recreated. 

It is God's wisdom that is imparted to us in His nature, just as His love is imparted to us in His nature. 

I have come to believe, as I have studied the subject of the spirit, that when God imparts to us His nature, there comes with it all of the attributes of Himself. They are undeveloped, but they are there lying latent in our human spirits.

There is faith that will link us up with God. There is love that will make us God-like. There is stability that will make us as stable as God; and all the other wonderful attributes that have challenged us in the man Jesus Christ, can be reproduced in us, as we walk in the light with Him. 

It is necessary that we grasp the significance of the finished work of Christ; for in His finished work is the recreation of the spirit, and a revelation of the vast possibilities of entering into a fellowship with God, such as man has never yet been conscious of. 

Here are some facts connected with this New Creation, some of the new things that come to man through the recreation of his spirit. 

2 Corinthians 5:21 "Him who knew no sin, God made to become sin; that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ." 

It was the Spirit of Christ that was made sin. It is the spirit of man that is righteous with His Righteousness 

This new Righteousness that is imparted to the human spirit gives to the human spirit a sense of freedom and liberty with God that man has not had since the fall by the first Adam. 

It takes away from man's spirit the sin consciousness that has held him in slavery through the ages. 

Sin consciousness is not of the reasoning faculties. It does not come to us through the fve senses. Sin consciousness, or conviction of sin, comes from the human spirit. It comes because the natural human spirit is not in fellowship with God. 

The New Birth has recreatedl this human spirit and imparted to it the Righteousness and nature of God so that it can fellowship with God on terms of absolute equality. 

No religion in the world has ever dealt with the human spirit. All Religions have heen connected with the five Senses. 

This is something that makes Christianity stand out utterly distinct from other religions. 

John 5:24 "He that heareth My Word, and believeth HIM that sent ME, has eternal life." This is a new kind of life: it does not come to the reasoning faculties. but only to the human spirit. This life is God's nature. 

Romans 5:5 declares that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

The real person in us is also called "the hidden man of the heart." The spirit is the real man. The body is not the real man, it is merely the home in which the spirit lives. The mind is not the real man, because the mind can be destroyed by destroying the senses. The real man is the "hidden man of the heart," or the "hidden spirit."

The heart is used figuratively for our spirit. This new kind of love, Agape, is poured into the human spirit by the Holy Spirit. It comes with the New Birth, when one begins to fellowship with the Father. 

'This new kind of love is not a thing of reason. It is a thing of the spirit consciousness .

1 Corinthians 1:30 "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption." 

Just as He was made Righteousness unto us, just as He was made Redemption unto us, just as He was made Sanctification unto us, He has been made Wisdom unto us. 

Just as He was made health and healing to us, so He is made unto us Wisdom. 

That wisdom is from God.  Apostle James tells us, if any man lacks wisdom, he is to ask of God. Apostle James is writing to the babes in Christ, the undeveloped ones. 

While apostle Paul, here in his Revelation, is speaking to the full-grown believer, one who has come into his inheritance. 

One of the most vital things for us to understand is that we have been made the Righteousness of God in Christ. Not only has Christ been made unto us Righteousness, but we have been made the Righteousness of God in Him. 

That Righteousness lets us into the very throne room where we can associate with the Father on terms of fellowship; where we can sit at the table, as it were, and feast on the riches of His grace. Hebrews 4:14-16. 

It brings us into the place where, instead of asking for wisdom, we recognize that He has heen made wisdom unto us. We simply thank Him for the wisdom, and then act, knowing that the wisdom will be there to guide the action. 

Wisdom sits at the head of the government. You may have all kinds of knowledge, but if you have no ability to use that knowIedge, it is worthless. 

You have gathered up the knowledge of His will, of His purpose and plan for you in the Word. After having done that, you thank Him for the ability to use that knowledge.

Jesus told the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they re-ceived power from on high. That word "power" means ability. They were to receive ability to use the Name with its mighty, supernatural power. 

They were to have wisdom or ability to witness of all they had seen, and of the death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus. 

The Spirit cane accurding to the promise, and they received the ability. The worid was startled by the incoming of a new force, a new life, into the human consciousness. 

The new born Church immediately became a mighty institution in the Tewish country. Then it spread throughout the Roman Empire. 

It was the ability of God given to uneducated men to under-stand something of what happened from the time that Christ died on the cross until Hesat down on the throne at the right hand of the Father. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passeel away; behold, they are become new. But all these things are of God, who reconçiled us to him-self througl Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation.' 

Here we get God's newman. He is a new spirit. He is a recreated spirit. This mind is then renewed by this incoming life as he meditates in the Word. 

His body is rejuvenated, healed of its dliseases, so that the entire man stands complere before the Father. 

The most deeply spiritual men and women I know are people who have given much time to meditation. You cannot develop spiritual wisdom without meditation. 

Joshua 1:8 "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditarte thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." ( or, you will be able to deal wisely in the things of life.) 

Take time to meditate in the Word. Shut yourself in alone with your own spirit where the clamor of the world is shut out. 

If you are ambitious to do something worthwhile, I  would suggest  that you take ten or filteen minutes daily for meditation.. learn to do it. In other words, begin the development of your own spirit. 

You may develop any gift that you wish to. The most important gift that God has given to you is the spirit. It is the clevelopment of this spirit that is going to mean more to your life than any other one thing. 

The great majority of men do not think. They live in the realm of the five Senses. The Senses have limitations. Your spirii has practically no limitations. 

You can develop spirit life until you dominate circumstances. Your spirit cn come into vital union with Deity, become a partaker of the divine nature. That spirit, with God's nature in it, can fellowship on terms of absolute equality with God Himself. 

Do you see your limitless possibilities? 

Lord Jesus Christ brings us into contact with spiritual things, not mental things. Spiritual things are as real as physical things. Your spirit can come to the point where the things in His Word will become as real to you, and Jesus Christ will become as real to you as any loved one. 

You can sce the necessity of your taking time to meditate, to get quiet with the Lord. You must take time to sit with His Word and let the Spirit unveil His Word to your spirit. 

If you will, you will know Him in reality. 

HOW TO  DEVELOP THE RECREATED SPIRIT 

I think that I have found the answer to the problem of how the recreated human spirit can be developed. 

The thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians has the answer to it. 

The last clause of the 12th chapter of 1 Corinthians is also striking in this connection. He says."But I show you a more excellent way," and then he proceeds to tell us the new kind of love way. This is the love that Jesus Christ brought to the world. 

He compares it with linguistic ability, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal." 

How greatly we have appreciated linguistie abilities, and yet, with one stroke he has shown us how empty it all is without love. 

Next, he tells us, "If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." 

Here he is showing us how empty  five sense knowledge achievements and gifts are without Agape. 

The next verse takes us still further into the picture, "And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.' 

These pictures are of natural man in his highest development in comparison with Agape. 

How humble and lowly is this choicest of all gifts."It suffers long and is kind." It wears the garments of apparent weakness . "It envieth not, it is never proud, it never behaves itself unseemly," (in quarreling and nagging and the divorce court) "love seeketh not its own. "

The biggest struggle of natural man is to get something, and he is not so careful how he gets it, or from whom he gets it. 

"It is not provoked," it does not lose its temper easily. 

"It does not take account of evil, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth." 

Notice the seventh verse, "Beareth all things, believeth all things." "Beareth all things," might be translated, "covereth all things." It does not repeat the unseemly things that are said in scandal, but covers them up. 

Love acts contrary to every law of the five senses. 

"Believeth all things," that is, all things of the Father. The Word is acted upon with simplicity and unconscious faith. 

"Hopeth all things," you see, believing is now, and hope is future. If we believe all things of the Word, we face the future with quiet rest. 

"Endureth all things." What endurance was manifested in the Master! How He endured the scoffing and slandering of those who crucified Him! 

But the last sentence thrills one, "Love never faileth." 

We cannot depend upon our senses for they may fail us. Our eyes may be injured, and our sense of sight is gone. Our sense of hearing or feeling may be destroyed. Agape is not like that, for it springs from the recreated spirit, the "hidden man of the heart." 

It is that "hidden man," that unseen man, that has the Divine life. 

In Galatians we have the contrast of Agape and the senses. The fruits of the senses are recorded in Galatians 5:16, and the fruits of the recreated spirit are recorded in the twenty-second and twenty-third verses. 

The senses have always been a traitor to the spirit. They are ever seeking their own. They are hungry, and yet they are never satisfied. They are always seeking and never finding that for which they seek. 

Solomon said a wise thing in Ecclesiastes when he said, "The eyes are never satisfied, nor the ears filled with hearing." 

Jesus Christ said, "I am the way, the truth and the life." He is God's love way. He is the only way of life, and the only way to the Father, 

He is love's way. He lived it in His earth walk, and He imparted to us His nature so that we might live this love life. 

In Ephesians 5:1, we are told that as children of love, we are to walk the love life way and bear the fruits of love. 

Now we can understand how we are to develop our spirits; it is done by walking in love, and meditating in love. 

We have come to know that the recreated human spirit is the fountain out of which love and faith, peace and joy, and all of the other beautiful products that belong to the love life, spring. 

Faith is nọt a product of the reasoning faculties, it is a product of the spirit. 

Now we can understand this fact, that to develop this recreated spirit, it is necessary that we practice love and walk by faith. We must feed on the "Bread of Heaven." "For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." 

Jesus Christ put it in a new way, "Except one eat my body and drink my blood." The body of Christ was the Word made flesh. We must feed upon the living Word. Blood is life, so we are to drink deeply of the life that Ilc wrought. 

He said, "I am come that ye might have life and have it abundantly." It is that abundance of life that makes us overflow with love. 

I have never desired anything more than I have desired to know how to develop the recreated human spirit. I believe I have some suggestions that will teach us how to use wisdom, how to appropriate it in Christ, and how to make it our own, teach us how to walk in love so that our conduct will be Jesus-like. 

THE LOVE WALK 

If we could learn to walk in love and make it the business of our lives, we would solve many problems of human relationship which we thought were impossible. 

Jesus lived in love. He lived in the realm of love. He spoke love. Hlis words were love filled. His acts and deeds grew out of love. He could not help healing the sick. Love drove Him. He Could not help feeding the multitudes. Love compelled Him .

If we could have our spirits developed in love like that, then we could livc like the Master; we could maintain a real, beautiful fellowship with the Father, with the Word, and with one another. 

John 14:16-17, Jesus promised He would send a comforter, the Holy Spirit. "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may he with you forever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him: for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.' 

This "Comforter" whom He calls the "Spirit of truth," or "reality," is to guide us into all truth or reality. He is to take the things of Jesus and the Father and unveil them to us. That is what our hearts are craving 

He is not going to guide us into Sense Knowledge, but into Revelation Knowledge. He is going to take those wonderful truths of the Pauline Revelation and make them a reality to us. In order to do this, it will be necessary that we have quiet hours, a little while each day set apart for meditation on the Word of God. 

Joshua 1:8 "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." 

That was for Israel under the Law, under the First Covenant. 

Under the New Covenant, we are to let the Word of Christ dwell in us richly; we are to abide in the Word and the Word is to abide in us. This will lead us into the prayer life, into prayer conquests. 

Philippians. 4:6-7 offers another suggestion. "In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus." 

In nothing are we to allow anxiety to govern us; but in everything by prayer and supplication, along with thanksgiving, make our requests kn,own to the Father. Then we leave them there, and He declares that His peace will come (like a garrison of soldiers into a turbulent country) and quiet us. 

In the 5th verse, He tells us the things we are to think about. Read it over carefully. 

"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." 

We cannot feed on scandal, on nonsense, on stories that are unseemly, and expect to develop in grace. The Spirit will not help us to do that. There must be times when we can sit quietly with the Lord and the Word, and meditate upon it until the Word absorbs us, and we absorb the Word; until the Word is built into our mental processes, as well as our spirit lives, until it absolutely governs our thinking. 

Do you see what that implies? The renewing of our minds. The average believer's mind is not renewed. 

Romans 12:2 "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God which is your spiritual worship. And be not fashioned according to this age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of GOD. "

How is that transformation going to take place? By the renewing of our minds. How does that come? By meditation in the Word. By practicing the Word. By letting the Holy Spirit's leadership, day and night, every moment. 

Col. 3:10 "And have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of HIM that created Him." 

Our minds are renewed after the image of Him that created us. That means the Jesus image is going to be reproduced in us, until after a while it will be no more we that live, but Christ living in us. Or as apostle Paul gives us in Galatians 4:19. "until Christ be formed in you. 

It is possible to build the very Jesus life into us with the Word. The Word never becomes part of our lives until we act it. 

Share your heart life with Him as you would with a lover, a roommate, a husband or wife, until you speak 🗣️ out, "It is no ionger I that live, but Christ liveth in me," until the Vine Life becomes consciously your life. 

Ephesians 3:19-21, "And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God." God's fulness takes us over, dominates us. His fulness of love, of grace, of wisdom, of healing and ability, has displaced all the weaknesscs and failures that exist in our lives. 

Jesus Christ has come on the scene to take over our lives. He is able to do "Exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think." 

He does it acording to the ability. His ability, that is at work within us. 

    THE  FAITH  WALK 

Before the fall in the Garden of Eden, man, Adam and Eve,  had perfect fellowship with GOD. He lived in the realm of the spirit, but when he committed High Treason, he was driven from the Presence ol GOD, he became dependent upon his five senses for his proteetion and life. 

His spirit became the slave of his five senses. Hovever, for many generations you can see the spirit's influence upon the mind. This is seen in the architecture before and alter the great food. 

They have uncovered  five cities built one upon the other in Mesopotamia. And the last one discovered, which was evidently built before the great flood. shows the finest type of architecture.

Anthropology proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the farther back we go in Babylonia and Egypt, the higher is the state of civilization. 

When the five senses gained the suprermacy, man lost all real knowledge of spiritual things 

Senses absolutely controlled man at the time of the first Covenant with Abraham. Abraham was evidently the only one of his era who had any spiritual discernment. Hle believed God's Word in the face of the testinony of his senses. 

Abraham's faith is the true type of the faith of a believer today. When Jesus came, all men lived in the realm of the five senses. If you will read carefully the four Gospels you will notice that they had only Sense Knowledge faith. They believed what they could see, hear and feel. Their spirit had no place in their daily life. 

Until the believer recognizes the two kinds of faith he will never be able to enjoy his privileges in Christ. 

You remember Thomas as the outstanding exponent of Sense Knowledge faith. After the Resurrection, before he met Jesus, he said to those who had seen the Risen One, "I will not believe until I can put my finger into the wounds in His hands and my hand into His side." John 20:25. 

Jesus suddenly appeared to him and said, "Thomas, reach hither thy fingers, and see my hands, and reach hither thy hand and put it into my side, and be not faithless but believing. 

Thomas fell at His feet and cried, "My Lord, and My God." Jesus said. "Because thou hast seen hast thou believed?" 

In this marginal rendering that I have given you there are tears mixed with reproof. Can't you hear the pathos in Jesus' voice when He said, "Having seen, hast thou believed?" 

Oh, it is so hard for the Sense Knowledge folk to believe! Everywhere they are struggling and praying and crying for faith, but faith does not come that way. 

Faith comes by getting acquainted with the FATHER GOD through the Word. Not in studying the Word alone, but by actually living the Word; doing the Word; practising the Word, and letting the Word live in us.

In John 6, the multitude said, "Show us a sign that we may believe." Jesus said, "This generation seeketh a sign." 

That generation did not seek a sign any more than our generation does. Let any man be advertised to speak who has spectacular manifestations, and he will fill the house. Why? Because this generation does not believe the Word, but it does believe in signs and wonders, something that thrills the five senses. 

On the day of Pentecost a new era began. We call it the Dispensation of the Holy Spirit. That is only half the truth. It is the Dispensation of the recreated human spirit. 

The part of man that is recreated is his spirit. The sense-ruled mind is renewed by the Holy Spirit through the Word, so that the renewed mind can have fellowship with the recreated human spirit. 

The cultivation of our spirits comes through our giving this spirit right of way in our daily walk. 

You remember that Jesus said, quoting from Deuteronomy, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out from the mouth of God." Man here is referring to mankind. 

God's Word is inspired by the Holy Spirit, and it is the food of the recreated human spirit. As we meditate in the Word, and become doers of the Word, our spirits slowly but surely gain the ascendancy over our sense-ruled mind. 

You remember that in the sixth chapter of Romans, the Spirit says, "Iet not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the desires thereof." Romans 6:12-13. 

Sin reigns in the senses. There is nothing wrong with the physical body, the wrongness lies in the senses gaining control of our bodies and causing us to do the things we should not do. 

Our spirits are brought into subjection to the senses when the members of our bodies (governed by the senses) gain control. 

Your conscience is the voice of your human spirit, or the recreated spirit. As the spirit is educated in the Word, the conscience (or voice) becomes more and more authoritative. 

I have come to believe that if one fellowships with the Word, under the illumination of the Holy Spirit, that after a bit the human spirit can become a perfect guide. What we have called the "hunch" is simply our spirit speaking to us. 

The mind of the spirit is in fellowship with God. T'he Word is the food and life of the spirit. If we walk in love, the spirit has perfeet freedom to guide us. 

You understand that faith and love both come from the recreated human spirit. Faith grows as we practise love. 

As we practise love the FATHER GOD becomes more and more real to us. The Word becomes more and more precious. Its hidden assets are revealed to us. 

1 Corinthians 2:12 declares,"But we received not the spirit of the world (that is the spirit of the natural man) but the spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that are freely given is of God." 

Our spirits, that have received their life from God, are able to know the things of God: while the natural minds, dominated by the senses, are unable to know the things that are freely given to us in the Redemptive work of Christ. 

The natural man cannot understand the expression "in Christ" or what it means, but the God-taught. recreated spirit grasps it with eager joy. 

We can see now that the greatest need of the present day church is the renewing of the minds of the believers, and of the education and development of the recreated spirit. 

The average Christian today is carnal, or sense ruled. They are babes in Christ. They walk after the manner of men, or the senses. They have never learned the way of love. 

They are full of talk, but they are not doers of the Word. Their wisdom is the wisdom of natural men. They are ever striving, but never arriving. 

There is only one way to help these people, and that is to teach them how to take their place in Christ, to become doers of the Word, and not hearers only.

Acts of the Holy Spirit in the early apostles as recorded in the book of Acts. Chapter 2:38  Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Peter had the revelation of the commission given in Matthew 28:19. Peter never believe nor taught the Trinity doctrine. 

Respected reader, if you have not be water baptisted by immesion and take the name of Lord Jesus Christ, then you must obey what apostle Peter declared in Acts 2:38. If you only received baptism in the name of Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, you have to be water baptized the correct way as Acts 2: 38.