Spiritual Understanding

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" Who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him?

In the same way no one knows the thoughts of Yah except the Spirit of Yah. We

have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from Yah, that

we may understand what Yah has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in

words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing

spiritual truths in spiritual words. Man without the Spirit does not accept the

things that come from the Spirit of Yah, for they are foolishness to him, and he

cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. But, Yah has

revealed it to us by his Spirit, the Spirit searches all things, even the deep

things of Yah. "

" We speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age

or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of Yah's

secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that Yah desired for our glory

before time began. "

Understanding--God is supreme knowing. That in man which comprehends is

understanding; it knows and comprehends in wisdom. Its comparisons are not made

in the realm of form, but in the realm of ideas. It knows how to accomplish

things. Spiritual discernment reveals that knowledge and intelligence are

auxiliary to understanding.

There are two ways of getting understanding. One is by following the guidance of

Spirit that dwells within, and the other is to go blindly ahead and learn by

hard experience.

Intellectual understanding of Truth is a tremendous step in advance of sense

consciousness, and its possession brings a temptation to use for selfish ends

the wisdom and power thereby revealed. Spiritual understanding is the quickening

of the Spirit within. Spiritual understanding is the ability of the mind to

apprehend and realize the laws of thought and the relation of ideas one to

another.

Spiritual understanding does not come with being born again anymore than

understanding of life comes with a natural birth. The potential to learn is

there but it takes growth and training. A natural child learns to talk and

understand language as he grows and is in the presence of those using such

skills. Spiritual understanding comes from being in the presence of the Holy

Spirit and allowing Him to teach you spiritual things.

You will need to have a change in the way you think and look at things. Natural

or carnal thinking is enmity against Yah, for Yah is a Spirit, and if you ever

hope to understand Him you must learn to think on His level. When you are born

again you become a new creature with the potential to understand spiritual

things, however, unless you exercise that way of thinking you never become

skilled in it.

The problem is that the religious man needs things they can see and touch,

something their carnal minds can relate to. A spiritual man needs none of these

things for they understand spiritual things are not of the sense realm nor are

they tangible.

First, I want you to know the religious leaders of today are not spiritual. They

are religious and can not bring you to maturity. Religious things are never

spiritual. Yah's people are right where they were shortly after the first Church

Age. They have neither grown spiritually nor advanced in spiritual knowledge.

They still need milk like a baby, and are not able to partake of solid food. We

must go on in order to grow up into the Head.

The difference between baby Christians and a mature son of Yah is in their realm

of thinking. Babies think only about what is around them and how it directly

affects their lives, whereas a mature believer is spiritually minded. That is,

they think on things that can not be seen, but are more real than things that do

appear. Things seen will pass away while unseen spiritual things are eternal.

The purpose of this article is to stimulate you into thinking spiritual

thoughts. " I pray that the eyes of your understanding(heart) might be

enlightened in order that you may know the hope of which he has called you, the

riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great

power for us who believe. "

Other races of people have given us our great civilization, but religious

education came through the Jews. Salvation and spirituality came through YahShua

Messiyah.

When YahShua was about to die upon the cross He said, " It is accomplished " . All

that He had been trying for three and a half years to teach His disciples was

now brought into fulfillment. In the same way, what the early Apostles tried to

teach was accomplished and they died. The foundation teachings were established

and it was time to build upon them. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

Two thousand years later and we are still hearing the same carnal teachings of

the first Church Age.

The Gospels speak to all cultures and to the Church Age:

: Written to reach the religious mind of Israel by stressing the

fulfillment of the laws and the promises.

Mark: Dwells on power and acts of authority that appeal to the Roman mind.

Luke: Appeals to the intellect, showing the Master's deity in great teachings

with proof of His deity, which the Greeks seek after.

: Writes to all, especially the common man with little or no education, for

it remains simple and full of love.

The churches today appeal to all people who love law and promises. The modern

day Markeans seeking power and authority are found in Bible colleges, while the

new eans can be found in religious seminars. Those with Lukean minds go

here and there seeking " a Word of the Master " from ministries who give it to

them for a price. For uneducated eans, a pew, a place to belong and have

fellowship. There is no spiritual growth in any of these endeavors.

The Epistles are letters to the churches and are written to correct error and to

instruct and encourage. found, however, true spiritual teaching was

impossible to relate for the church was carnally minded, like babes needing

milk, not solid food.

You no longer need the Gospels or the Epistles, they were for the Church Age.

The Church Age has closed now and what we need is the Living Word spoken to our

hearts daily by the Spirit.

When you were in school you learned from books and had teachers over you, but

when you graduated, you laid aside the books and did not go to teachers anymore.

Unless you are one of those people who can not cope well outside rigid routine

and who spend most of their life in the school systems, ever learning but never

coming to the knowledge of life, or as the Bible says, " truth " . These are

professional learners, but they are among the most ignorant of all people for

life passes them by while they remain secure in their books and institutions.

Most people begin to live their day to day life in the realm of adulthood and

put into practice the principles learned in school. Walking experimentally in

new knowledge gained by day to day life, not from books or school. The

principles remain as building blocks, but experience is now the way to walk and

they are free from the bounds of rigorous school life.

It is the same with your spiritual life. When you were young you studied the

Bible and listened to teachers. They fed you with the sincere milk of the word.

Graduation time is long past, but we, like professional learners or mentally

underdeveloped children, return to school Sunday after Sunday. You are none the

wiser for your effort, for true growth takes place when you strike out on your

own armed with the principles of Yah. You learn to walk as mature adults, eating

strong meat prepared fresh daily at the Master's table. This is how you learn

Yah's ways. In the Bible you learned " about Him " , in a spiritual life walk you

get to " know Him " and His ways. You are to become intimate with Him, not the

book or some particular teacher, but through the Holy Spirit, our Teacher. Some

have made gods of both, the book and human ministers.

Books were necessary when you were in school to learn the principles of

mathematics, reading, writing and so on. After graduation, you do not violate

those principles, but neither do you order your life by their standards. You

mature and became a business person, sales executive or something else. You left

the books and teachers behind like the toys of youth.

One of the principles of the Bible is that " you need no man to teach you, for

the Spirit Himself, your experiences in Him, will teach you all things " . After

nearly two thousand years you are still in school and your teachers have lost

their spiritual understanding by becoming religious. I will show you the more

perfect way. The things revealed to me by the Spirit, neither by men nor

religious seminars, will help show you how the Spirit teaches. Religious

colleges and seminars teach only religious things and call them spiritual. The

written word describes this as having 'no light' in them.

YahShua taught spiritual things with parables because the people of His day were

not spiritual but carnal minded. Through parables He hoped to enlighten them to

spiritual things. On this side of the cross however, we should not need

parables, carnal or natural things to represent or point to spiritual things. He

has given us the Holy Spirit so spiritual understanding can be ours. However,

YahShua has not changed. He will still use parables or object lessons when His

people are carnally minded.

Since most believers, sad to say, are religious and not spiritual, I will now

take some of the natural things and show you the spiritual meaning of them.

Everything Yah inspired man to build and all natural things are object lessons

for the spiritual man. Most, however, see the objects and get so carried away

with them that they miss the hidden lesson in them.

There is a vast difference between an earthly kingdom and a spiritual kingdom,

earthly things and heavenly things. Man is constantly pulling spiritual things

down to his own carnal minded realm. Man always does things backward! They turn

spiritual things into natural things and natural things into religious things

and miss spiritual things altogether. We are supposed to be allowing the Spirit

of Yah to pull us up into the realms of the spiritual. The carnal or natural is

tangible and spoken of as things that can be acknowledged by the five senses:

see, touch, taste, smell and hear. Spiritual things are intangible and known

only by the Spirit that dwells inside. Things like love, peace, joy and

fellowship with Yah, the Source.