The Spiritual Realm (Part 1)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.  For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
~Paul, the Apostle

What is the spiritual realm?

First, we have to understand what it truly means to be "spiritual."  It means one thing:  to follow the Spirit of God from within.  Only those who accept Jesus as Lord have the Spirit in them.  Only they can know and follow Him.  Only they are truly spiritual.

The falsely spiritual follow evil spirits.  Their spirits yield in passivity to demonic spirits.  They are, in a sense, "spiritual," but not in the truest and ultimate sense.  They live in a spiritual realm, a realm of darkness, a realm without God.  But the truly spiritual live in union with the Spirit.  These two realms are at war:  the realm of God's Spirit vs the realm of Satan's spirits.

But what is the spiritual realm, for those who follow God's Spirit or Satan's spirit?

The spiritual realm is the state of existence in which we perceive with our intuitions 

the presence and power of God, or the presence and power of Satan.  

It is the state where we know intuitively the thoughts of God or the thoughts of Satan.   

As it is written, "Those who live in accordance with the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.  Those who live in accordance with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh." 

This is how you distinguish the natural person and carnal person from the Spiritual person:  listen to their words.  As Jesus said, "From the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks." As it is written in the book of Hebrews, the heart is composed of our thoughts and intentions.  And what is in our hearts, or on our minds, inevitably comes out of our mouths.

• The natural person's mindset is physical, and thus he or she focuses on and talks about physical things.
• The carnal person's mindset should be spiritual, but it is instead natural, and like the natural person.
• The spiritual person's mindset is on the Spirit, focused on spiritual things, or the thoughts of the Spirit.

Which are you?  Natural, carnal, or spiritual?
What is your mindset, your habitual focus?
What are you thinking and talking about most of the time?
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