The Spiritual Realm (Part 3)

The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for,“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”  But we have the mind of Christ.~Paul the Apostle

THE SPIRITUAL PERSON

If you trust and obey the Lord Jesus, the Spirit of God is in you, leading you.  You are a spiritual person, existing in the spiritual realm.  Your spirit, in union with the Holy Spirit, perceives intuitively the spiritual atmosphere, wherever you go.  You sense God's leading, and you sense Satan opposing God's leading. You perceive what is going on with the natural and carnal person, but you are not subject to the judgment of those who are natural and carnal.  As God Himself cannot be known by them, neither can you, as Jesus said,

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

You are Spirit born, beyond the comprehension of natural men and women.

Understand this.  Understand that you can only deeply connect to others in the Spirit.  This is your cross.  You must take it up daily.  If you follow the Spirit of Christ, you will be rejected by the natural and carnal person, just as Christ was rejected by natural and carnal people.  Listen to what Jesus said in a situation that took place in His life while on earth:

 
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”

He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”  Matthew 12:46-50 NIV

Jesus knew that only those who had the same allegiance to God the Father as He did were truly connected and related to Him.  This is true for you, if you are a spiritual person.

If you are not, you can become spiritual right now.  This is how.

• Turn from following yourself to following the Spirit.
• Realize that only those who follow the Spirit are your true friends and companions.

You follow the Spirit by following your renewed conscience.  When you were born again, you received a new spirit, who testifies with God's Spirit that you are a child of God, as Paul said.  Your conscience resides in your spirit.  Before you were born again, your conscience had only one trustworthy function:  conviction.  The Spirit's conviction led you to salvation.  Now that you are saved, your conscience is connected to the Spirit;  the law of God is in you, in agreement with the scriptures.  Paul said these words about the conscience:

I have hope in God that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense towards God and man.  Acts 24:15-16 

As you grow in maintaining a clear conscience, you will receive greater and deeper revelations in your intuition.  Your conscience only gives you a "red light/green light" kind of experience with God.  In the earlier stages of being spiritual, you present situations to God in prayer, and you either feel peace or you don't feel peace about whatever you are asking Him to do.  You learn to follow the peace of God, and thus grow in maturity.  What will begin to happen in your intuition is that God's Spirit will initiate revelation.  It won't be simply you bringing things to God for His approval or disapproval.  God's Spirit will lead you to do something very clear and specific.  If you choose to follow Him, you will experience Him leading you, and the revelations will grow.  You will go from revelation to conversation, from intuition to communion.

So the three stages of the spiritual realm for the spiritual person are:

1.Conscience

2. Intuition

3. Communion

If you are a spiritual person, the Spirit longs to lead you.  Follow Him.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Until then,

May you follow the Spirit of Christ in all things.