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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟴❞𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗧❞ 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (3)“I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,…” Rev. 1:10-11).I did say this before. We are not human beings trying to be spiritual; we are all spiritual beings in a human body! We all have found it so difficult to appreciate Spiritual realities because of the dominance of the flesh. And so we regularly “canalized” the Word of God which is Spirit and life. In other words, we think because the Bible says the Word is Spirit and life, we must therefore “spiritualize” even the things that were meant to be natural! Now let me ask us this question, where do you suppose John was before he was in the Spirit? You may say, “Well, he must have been in the flesh!” But that can’t be true, because the Word says;“But ye are not in the flesh, but ‘in the Spirit,’ if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you,” Rom. 8:9.And the original Greek puts it this way;“As long as the Spirit of God is constantly dwelling, abiding, motivating, and controlling us, we are not in the flesh.”Listen to this. Man is a tripartite being;“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body (flesh) be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,” 1Thes. 5:23.Now your soul is made up of your “mind,” “will,” “intellect,” and “emotions,” (desire of man).Get this right. When Jesus experienced the natural things as being hungry, thirsty, growing weary, and attending the feasts in canal of Galilee, He was simply just being normal as a human being, living out of the soul realm.When He needed a piece of wood to build a table with, He didn’t have to pray, shake, speak in tongues, fall on the floor, and look for a vision for instructions about selecting the right board.That’s why He had a soul— for the plane of natural, everyday living. And it wasn't sin.So to think that maybe you have to pray for every decision you must take in life which are natural things is over spiritualization. You don’t have to pray to dress up, do you?The “flesh” is the realm of sin in my members. It is a lower realm than the soul. If I am on a phone call with my neighbor having a normal discussion maybe on happenings in the Body of Christ, there is nothing wrong with me being in my 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 realm. But if I switch from this normal discussion out of envy and jealousy into insulting a minister or someone in the Body of Christ, I have moved into the 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵.If while chatting with my neighbor, I lie to him or insult him then I am in the flesh! I drive my car in my soul realm, which is natural; but if I swerved sideways to knock someone down by the road side, I have moved into the flesh. And there is something very wrong with walking after the flesh for;“The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like…,” Gal. 5:19-21.So where do you think John was when he "became spirit" on the Island of Patmos? He was in his soul realm, just normal life. But he moved from the soul realm into the spirit realm when he heard the voice speaking to him.Therefore, to become “in the Spirit” is to ascend into a higher realm! Beyond your soul realm as you consciously rise from your soul into His Spirit, from your own mind into His mind, from your own thoughts into His thoughts, from your own will into His will, from your own emotions and desires into those of the Lord Himself.That is how to move and become spirit.To be continued.www.davidogaga.org#TheLordsday_DO ... See MoreSee Less

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