WHAT ABOUT SIN? - 2

“THE SPIRIT – MIND SHIFT”

We shall continue from our last bible verse…

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and DEATH BY SIN; and so DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, for that ALL HAVE SINNED” Romans 5:12

You know, what happened to the configuration of Adam when he committed the sin, was that all of God’s endowment departed from him. Adam became sold to the rulership of sin and death. Now when we say that sin and earth became rulers of the man, we mean that man was controlled and dominated by them. No one could STOP sinning, no one could STOP DYING. Everyone became enslaved by them.

Now let us get this straight; that man is a spirit, has a soul and lives in a body. Man is spirit, soul and body. Man is not just spirit, man is not just soul, man is not just a body. Recall that in the book of Genesis, the bible records that God breathe into the nostrils of a molded body, and as a result the body became a living soul. So in that scenario, we could see how man came to be – that the spirit entered the body, and the result of this was a soul – this is LIFE. It then implies that when the spirit and body separates, the souls ceases to exist – this is DEATH.

Now watch this; the real man is the soul. The soul is actually the central faculty of every man. The spirit and the body are not directly connected except through the soul of man. However, the spirit of man receives impulses from the Godhead and then through the soul rules the man. Now, when man sinned, the spirit of man was disconnected from God.

I want you to get it…

Before the fall, inside the spirit part of Adam = Adam’s spirit was joined to the Holy Spirit. By our analogy in the previous paragraph, it means the spirit faculty of Adam was a full being before the fall. Since we said SPIRIT + BODY = SOUL (humanity), then in the spirit faculty of Adam, the HOLY SPIRIT + ADAM’S SPIRIT = SPIRIT (the Divine). That is to say, before the fall, Adam was perfect and completely divine in his spirit.

This is like saying that the spirit of Adam is a complete spiritual being on its own. See it clearly…

Adam’s Spirit (HOLY SPIRIT + MAN’S SPIRIT) + Adam’s Body = Adam’s Soul

So Adam’s Spirit was loaded and was the steering of Adam. That was the headquarters of the whole being of Adam. As a result of this, the soul and the body of Adam were subject to his Spirit.

However, when Adam fell in the transgression, it caused the spirit faculty of Adam to collapse, and then the Holy Spirit was separated from the Spirit of Adam. This was when God’s warning to Adam came to pass – Adam died.

Remember how we explained death…

SPIRIT joins BODY = life

SPIRIT leaves BODY = death

Similarly in the spirit-faculty of Adam ….

HOLY SPIRIT joins ADAM’S SPIRIT = life (Spirituality)

HOLY SPIRIT leaves ADAM’S SPIRIT = death (Carnality)

So when sin entered into man, Man became CARNAL AND BECAME RULED BY HIS SENSES. Since man could not receive from God anymore, he followed the dictates of his senses, feelings, emotions, brain and mind. All these are factions in the soul of the man. And therefore the seat of power in the man was shifted from the SPIRIT to the SOUL.

Therefore, sin disorganized the configuration of man contradicting the design of God. All what we call evil and sin today is a result of this calamity. The evil and atrocities people commit today is due to their MIND-DRIVEN life. Sin killed (made dormant) the spirit of man and occupy the soul. Now, in the soul is where we have the mind. The mind is just like the headquarters of the soul. So sin erected its throne in the mind of the man.

Now, all through the scriptures, it is clear that evil is rooted in the mind of man. Sometimes the word “heart” is being interchanged for “mind”. But we know that the human heart is just an organ that pumps blood throughout the body, therefore the word “heart” as used in the Holy Scriptures especially in areas related to sin and evil cannot be the blood-pumping organ but the mind of the man.

Solomon said “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life”

When God wanted to destroy the earth with flood, the bible says “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth…”

Also Jesus said in the book of Matthew that “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies”

Looking at this critically, we see that the consequence of sin in man is very terrible. All of man’s life is now being controlled by THE MIND that is being occupied by SIN.

That is just the reason why the fallen man has no life in him. The nature of sin is his nature. He can never be freed from sinning.