We are glad you could join us today for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. This program is dedicated to teach you how to put the Word of God to work so that it will make a positive difference in the everyday circumstances of your life. And now, here’s Charles Capps.
Well, God wants us to be sensitive to the Spirit of God, and He is telling us how to receive of the Spirit of God. I have good news for you. God reveals things to the human spirit.
And when you learn and train the human spirit to hear the voice of the Spirit of God, then God will direct you, and you will no longer have to walk in darkness in making decisions. Isn’t that good news? Praise God.
The Apostle Paul has laid it out very plainly here in I Corinthians, the second chapter, in verse 12, that we’ve received the Spirit which is of God, that we might receive the things which are freely given to us of God. Now, let me go back again to Genesis, because this is one of the keys to understanding the Bible, is understanding what happened in the first three chapters of Genesis. God had created him a man, and created humanity, and put him here on earth.
Adam and Eve, and here they are. They’re hearing from God. They walked and talked with God in the cool of the day.
Spirit communicated with their spirit, see? Now, Adam sinned, and he broke that fellowship with God. God told him, the day that you eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of blessing and calamity, in dying you shall die.
In other words, he died instantly spiritually, and he started dying physically then. Now, the thing that we need to realize is that, when we talk about spiritual death, we’re not talking about spirit ceasing to exist. See, when you talk about somebody’s spirit being dead, people say, well, it doesn’t exist.
Oh yeah, the spirit of man always exists. But let’s put it over in the natural. See, Jesus always did this.
He never did separate the natural from the spiritual totally. He always brought the two together to teach great truths. Now, if someone had a radio in here, and someone came with a tape recorder, and they’re gonna record the service, you know, and they said, well, my battery’s dead.
So they get over here, and they find the battery in this radio and take it out and put it in that tape recorder. Somebody come along and pick that radio up, and they turn the thing on, and they slap it around a little bit. They can’t even get a sound out of it.
They say, well, this thing’s dead. It didn’t cease to exist, did it? It’s still there.
Well, you don’t bury it just because it’s dead, do you? What do you do? Well, you take it and see what’s wrong with it.
You take it to the fellow that works on it, and he opens it up. He said, well, the only problem is it don’t have any batteries in it. Everything’s still work in order.
Everything’s just good as new. It just don’t have any power charge in it. That’s what happened to Adam.
When he sinned, he lost the power charge of the Holy Spirit out of the human spirit, see? And he became spiritually dead. God had to deal with him on a physical level.
Had to teach him how to clothe and to feed himself. When he was in the garden there, he had everything needed, but God had to teach him these things. Now, he lost the Holy Spirit when he sinned.
His human spirit went dead on him. It was not communicating and receiving like it should from God. Now see, that radio, everything about it’s all right, and all of the radio stations still going through here, all kinds of voices going through this air here this morning.
And if you got a receiver and tune it in, you can pick them up. Most of them you wouldn’t want to hear, but you can pick them up. Same way with God.
God is always speaking to us, but if we don’t have the power charge in the receiver, you’re not gonna get anything. It’s the human spirit that God uses to enlighten you. Now that’s the reception center of all that God gives.
See, we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. So anything that God gives us must come and be received into the human spirit first. Now you need to see this because this is why many people never been able to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost because they’re looking to receive some kind of feeling or something.
See, it must be received into the spirit first. You believe you receive, then you act like it. Well, I didn’t feel anything.
Well, it didn’t say anything about feeling things. He said, he that asketh, receiveth. He that seeketh, findeth, to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
Now that’s positive, isn’t it? And I said, yeah, but I didn’t feel anything. Well, the feelings may come later.
But you see, you receive the Holy Spirit into the human spirit. Then it’ll manifest himself. He’ll manifest himself.
Same way with divine healing. That’s why a lot of people cannot understand divine healing. They say, well, I’ll believe it when I feel it.
Somebody said, well, I believe it if I can see it. Well, some of those same people see it and say, I see it and don’t believe it. Seeing is not believing, but believing is seeing.
Are you listening? You can see some things in your spirit and believe it that you can’t see. So even physical healing, divine healing, comes through the human spirit first, must be received into the human spirit, then it’s manifest in the physical body.
That’s the reason that times that people, you know, be prayed for and they go away feeling to see if they still hurt. Some people, if they don’t get a manifestation the first five seconds, they didn’t get it. That’s why God has to do some things quickly sometimes, because some people can’t believe God but five seconds without getting a manifestation.
If they don’t get the manifestation five seconds, why, they didn’t get it. But you see, we have to take some things by faith sometimes. Had a man come into prayer line one time, ministered to him by the laying on of hands, he had a chronic back problem for 20 years.
And he told me this before he left the church. He said, you know, from the time you laid hands on me, he said, I hurt worse for 20 minutes. And because he had said under the teaching of how to resist the devil, he said, I said, no, in the name of Jesus, thank God, I believe I’ve received the healing.
Well, he believed he received something he didn’t feel. He didn’t feel healed. But he said, the word says they’ll lay hands on the sick and they’ll recover.
He laid his hands on me and thank God, I believe I recovered. But he hurt worse. He hurt worse.
Now you see, he’s going by what his spirit tells him and not what his physical senses are telling him. Now before the service was over, which was 30, 40 minutes later, then the pain totally left. He was totally healed.
Talked to him three months later, said never had another problem with that back problem. 20 years, chronic back problem. See, we’ve received the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
He received that healing into his spirit first. And then it manifest itself in his physical body. See, that’s actually the way that the miraculous conception took place.
God sent an angel with God’s word. The angel came and appeared to Mary and said, Thou shalt conceive and bear a child. She said, How?
Seeing I know not a man. And he told her, the Holy Ghost shall overshadow thee. She said, Be it unto me according to thy word.
What did she do? She received the word of God. She didn’t go by feeling.
She didn’t go by sight. She went by the word of God. Be it unto me according to the word.
She received the word into the human spirit and it manifested itself in her physical body. The embryo that was in Mary’s womb was nothing more than God’s word. It was the word of God and it took flesh upon itself.
It was an act of the God kind of faith. So divine healing, salvation comes the same way. You gotta receive God’s word concerning salvation into the human spirit first.
If you don’t receive the word into your spirit, you won’t act on it. That’s where the action comes from, from the heart of the spirit of man. So this is why that we have received the spirit, which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Now notice the Apostle Paul goes on here in verse 13, says, which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for their foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Now you see, what we need to realize is the fact that the Apostle Paul has given us insight that the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God.
Now Adam, with his power charge, which was the Holy Spirit gone out of the human spirit, he couldn’t receive the things of the Spirit of God, because they were foolishness to him. Now Adam was a spirit-led man until he sinned, and then the power charge left his spirit, which was the Holy Spirit, and left him to be carnally led by his five physical senses. But thank God the Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5, 17, that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
Old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new. Now he’s talking about all things in the spirit man, see, have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
In other words, he’s talking about the rebirth of the human spirit. What happened is when man is born again, the power charge of the Holy Spirit is inserted back into the human spirit. Now that didn’t mean he got baptized in the Holy Ghost.
That meant that a measure of the Holy Spirit was put back into the human spirit, recreated the human spirit, and he became alive toward God. And then God was able to minister to him. God’s spirit could bear witness with his spirit that he was a child of God.
Now, the reason that a lost person feels lost is because that power charge is gone. There’s an emptiness there. There is no witness of God’s spirit.
There is a witness of the spirit of the enemy that those two spirits are communicating together, and it brings torment and pain and trouble in problems of life. But God’s spirit bears witness with our spirit when we’re born again. So the reborn human spirit is put back in the likeness of God as it was in the beginning.
Isn’t that good news? Praise God forevermore. God bless you.
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Did you know that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord? In Proverbs, it tells us, the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. Now, we don’t understand that.
We don’t use candles for light today. But in those days, he was saying, the spirit of man is the lamp that God uses to enlighten you. Or we would say, the human spirit is the light bulb that God uses to enlighten you.
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