Willingly Submitted.

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'We Communicate with the material world through the body.'  True or false?  True.

'We communicate with the spiritual world through the spirit.'  True or false?  True.

'This communication with the spiritual is not carried on by means of the mind or emotion but through the spirit or its intuitive faculty.'  True or false? True.

'It is easy for us to understand the nature of the communion between God and man if we have seen the operation of our intuition.'  True or false? True.

'In order to worship and fellowship with God man must possess a nature similar to His.' True or False? True.

Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. KJV

If communication with the spiritual world was through our own thoughts and emotions then the spiritual world would be subject to our projecting our own thoughts as spiritual thoughts. We would use our emotions to gauge our spiritual state and our emotions can be influenced in so many ways. Our spirit given to us we are created, just as Adam and Eve were given a spirit upon creation, is enlightened upon our new birth, our spiritual birth in Christ Jesus.

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 

When we are born again - the SPIRIT, the Holy Spirit gives us a new life, a new spiritual life. And still, we cannot use our thoughts and emotions as a way of communicating with the spiritual. There is something more, something that truly didn't exist prior to being born again of the Spirit. The way of communication is opened in the new birth. The spirit's 'intuitive faculty' is our guide, our comforter.

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 

Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

Joh 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

Joh 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

Joh 15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me

Joh 16:7  Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 

Joh 16:8  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment

God is Spirit.

We must WORSHIP God in spirit and truth.

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

Gal 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

Gal 5:26  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 

The fruit of a tree is what?  What good is a fruit tree that produces no fruit? Very little good. The fruit of a tree is its culmination, it is its goal, its purpose, and it is useful, it is productive. Anyone who has ever had a fruit tree (or any plant they want to produce food or flower from) understands how great it is when that plant they’ve tended actually produces the intended fruit. Those who have planted and not had the desired end goal, the fruit of their labor, can also attest to the disappointment that comes when there is no fruit. The result of having the SPIRIT will be love produced in us, it will be joy, peace and longsuffering. Along with those- the possession of the SPIRIT will give us gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.  If we do NOT possess any of these fruits it's a sure bet we either do not possess the SPIRIT (the Spirit is not living in us) or we are deeply immersed in a battle for our eternal lives and have yet to have the Spirit fully rule in us.

The Spirit in us- must rule our lives and we must let Him do so. When we worship our God in spirit and truth we are worshipping Him as the willingly submitted. We worship God in love, in peace, in longsuffering, in gentleness, in goodness, in faith, in meekness, in temperance.

Col 1:27  … Christ in you, the hope of glory

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'There can be no communication between different natures; hence both the unregenerate whose spirit obviously has not been quickened and the regenerate who does not use his spirit to worship are equally unqualified to have genuine fellowship with God. Lofty sentiments and noble feelings do not bring people into spiritual reality nor do they forge personal communion with God.'

Truth.

'Our fellowship with Him is experienced in the deepest place of our entire being, deeper than our thought, feeling and will, even in the intuition of our spirit. A close scrutiny of 1 Corinthians 2.9-3.2 can provide a very clear view of how man communes with God and how man knows the realities of God through the spirit’s intuition.'

1Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 

1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 

1Co 2:11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 

1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 

1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

1Co 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. 

1Co 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 

1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 

1Co 3:1  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 

1Co 3:2  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 

More tomorrow by the grace of God!

All through Jesus Christ our Lord, and Savior, now and forever!!!!!!!

Amen!