Understanding the Sabbath
Today’s Focus: The Power and Purpose of Division
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:14-16; Hebrews 4:12
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Division is very important for the Body of Christ. Hebrews 4:12 says that one of the five-fold responsibilities is dividing the soul from the spirit. Division is necessary and good for the son of God. The sons of God need the Spirit to stand alone so that they can hear the voice of God clearly. Let me show you.
1 Corinthians 2:14: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.
Remember in Hebrews 4:12 it says the Word of God is also a discerner. So the sons of God are to be lead by the Spirit and the Spirit of God discerns for them the things and secrets of God and the Earth. Now this is important to understand because the way we discern the things in the Earth is from the soul and so we tend to live by the systems or ways of this world and not by the wisdom, knowledge, understanding, counsel and power of the Lord. Great example, let’s say you have a disease and you have gone to doctor after doctor with no success. However, God tells you to go to a river and wash in it seven times and then you shall be healed. Now who will you listen to? To listen to God requires faith and it requires you to look beyond the soul into the Spirit and receive the truth of your healing and get your soul to blindly follow your spirit.
More important how we interact with people is important that we have this division of the soul and spirit. When we see people through the eyes of the soul we only come up with our interpretation and when we make judgments about them, it is solely on our interpretation. It is based on our fleshly viewpoint. However, when we allow the Word of God to divide the soul from the spirit we then can get a viewpoint from Heaven and we know longer see them from the eyes of our flesh and make rash judgments but we now see them the way God sees them and when God speaks a word about them, then the Word that God speaks through you is not a unjust judgment because God’s judgments are just. However, it is truth because God is giving you revelation and truth about the person. Look at this scripture:
2 Corinthians 6:16: Wherefore henceforth know we no man AFTER THE FLESH: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, YET NOW HENCEFORTH KNOW WE HIM NO MORE.
So we are not to view people through the eyes of the soul but through the eyes of the Spirit. This is how ministry should be done form the spiritual mind, who is the Mind of Christ. With all of that said how we respond in the earth tells us who we are being lead by and the words we speak into the earth either bring life or death.
In the next message we will look at the principal of sowing in the Earth.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
