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Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
The Natural Man vs. the Soulish Man
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Air Date: 07 22 21
Their deeds will not allow them to return to their God. Hosea 5:4
We have observed from the Genesis account of the Fall that when our enemy comes along in the form of a serpent, he does not attack the spirit with his temptations—he attacks the soul. Along came the serpent, and he attacked the soul and severed the spirit from God’s Spirit. Fortunately, the new birth cuts off the devil’s impact on the soul and renews the spirit’s relationship with the Spirit of God.
If the soul responds to temptation, something negative happens and Satan has succeeded in cutting off our direct contact with God. That is the essence of the result of the Fall. Paul follows this train of thought, making reference to trespasses and sins “in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). Who is the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience? Satan. And he works as a spirit in the area of the soul.
In the Fall man’s soul became infected with rebellion. The result of this infection in every succeeding generation was that mankind no longer needed to be tempted from the outside. Rather an inner force of rebellion was latent in their souls. This is why the new birth is necessary.
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