THE LINK: God's Communication System (Part 1)

Hello all of you transmitters and receivers. How's your connection?

The heartbeat of God is to communicate with us. The word for communion, communicate, common (as in have all things common), fellowship...is a word called KOINONIA...that breaks down to sharing life in the Son.

Phase one of the communication process was the creation of the transmitter and receiver. We were created a triune being...spirt, soul, and body (I Thessalonians 5:23). (1) The spirit (pneuma) the core...the heart of who we are...the linking sight with the Holy Spirit. (2) The soul (soo-kay/psyche)...the mind, the volition (free will) and the emotions (3) The body (soma)...flesh, blood, bones, etc. We are known as the temple (naos)...the inner sanctuary of the Holy Spirit. (I Corinthians 6:19,20)

After God created the world and all that is within it...he crowned creation with his masterpiece...man/woman. He had an executive board meeting and declared his next step. "Then God said, Let US make man in OUR image, according to OUR likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every CREEPING thing that CREEPS on the earth. And God created man in His OWN image, in teh image of God He created him; MALE AND FEMALE He created them." (Genesis 1:26-27) NOTE: Notice the authority that God gave man and woman over the CREEPS...that includes serpents that would try to pull them away from who they really are (aka temptation). Genesis 2 fills in some detail on the process of this man/woman creation. "Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed (ruach, rushing violent wind/breath) into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being" (Genesis 2:7 [The 1st CPR) Now the Link Up...the connection had been made. Body...soul...and Spirit were now connected. God...began to SAY things to His new creations...He began to SPEAK...to COMMUNICATE...His thoughts, wishes, and desires.

"Having eyes, do you not see? And having EARS do you not HEAR?" (Mark 8:18) Now that's what I call a set of ears. Of course Jesus was not talking about the things on the side of your head. Hearing takes place deeper...in your heart...the core of who you are...deep in your spirit. The human spirit is called "the lamp of the Lord." Proverbs 20:27 "The spirit of man is the lamb of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of his being." The entrance way for God may be the things on the side of the head. Faith comes via this way.
"So faith comes from HEARING, and HEARING by the Word of Christ." (Romans 10:17) In the natural...the two things on the side of our head (pinna or auricles)...collects the sound...and through a series of changes...goes from the outer ear...to the middle ear...into the inner ear...into the BRAIN...where the sound is decoded. So it is with our spiritual ears. Let him who has ears to hear (the ones on the head)... hear (perceive in your spirit/heart/core of who you are).

The brain represents you MIND...that thang that you thank (think) with. The mind is one of the components of what we are calling our soul. The mind, the free will (volition), and our emotions. Prior to becoming a Christian... depending on what chronological point that you stepped into the stream of Christianity... your mind had been conditioned by experience...good, bad, and ugly. Your thinking had been based on what you have been taught. When God begins to try a linkup...there may be some serious static on the frequency band of your mind...and you may be getting confusing and conflicting signals. To correct this you must...as Bob Dylan sang...CHANGE YOUR WAY OF THINKING. We must RENEW our minds. "I uuuuuurge you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your BODIES a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed (crammed into) to this world, but be transformed (metamorphised...changed like moth to a butterfly) by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." (Romans 12:1,2)

NEXT TIME: Thus far we have seen that: God speaks...we hear...filter what we hear through a renewed mind. Now it is time for what God spoke to drop into the HEART...we SPEAK...and we Do.

Love
Rodo