Continuing on from the last post in the area of the soul, something interesting was said by the King of Sodom to Abraham after he came back from defeating the 5 Kings. He said, 'you can keep all the booty, the spoils of war, just give me the people'. Abraham replied that he wouldn't keep as much as a sandal strap from him. If you remember what was said about Satan in the Garden of Eden, 'you will feed on dust for the rest of your life', What does that mean? Well man is made from the dust of the earth and that is what Satan feeds on. The spoils of war are temporal but the souls of men are eternal and that is what Satan feeds on, he is only interested in souls and whenever we say that a soul has been lost, we are saying that it speaks of a person who has no control over their emotions, has no will power and has lost their mind. Hell we are told is like a bottomless pit where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. It means that a lost soul will experience a continual sense of falling and never reaching the bottom. In a place of extreme heat a soul will experience extreme cold (hence the gnashing) a bit like having the flu, burning up and at the same time shivering, that should make a believer out of anyone!!
In This next diagram are the functions associated with the body:
In this next diagram the 'conscience' is the area between the spirit & the soul.
The 'flesh' is the area between the soul & the body.
Without the word of God then our conscience is our guide, but our conscience can be seared. Freud taught that you can still the voice of your conscience if you repeatedly do something against your conscience and have no sense of shame. In the time of Jeremiah we read (6:15) ‘are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush’. We are living in an age where anything goes
and very view even bat an eyelid at the things we see today. Are we getting
like the Israelites in the time of Jeremiah and have lost the ability to blush
at things that would or should cause us to ‘blush’ and turn our eyes away?
You could do something and it would seem right, I could do the same thing and it would seem wrong, so it's another way of saying that one man's meet is another man's poison. The word of God is meant to be ' a lamp to our feet and a light to our path', it's God's word that is to be our guide.
In the area of the body you have the 'flesh' of man with it's natural driving forces. If these forces are out of order then
- Instead of self preservation suicidal tendencies will prevail.
- Eating & drinking disorders will affect the appetites
- Promiscuity, homosexuality, pornography etc. will replace normal sexual desires
- Hoarding and wanting more than we need will replace being content with our needs
- The occult works through the flesh, golden calves, tarot cards, palm reading, tea leaf reading, divination, necromancing, TM, etc. are all a result of worshipping false gods.
The 1st chapter of Romans gives us a picture of what happens when we abandon our worship of the one true God and it's a picture of a society like the one we are living in right now.
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