Praise the Lord Friends and
thanks for your prayers,
Remember last week we started a topic on Instinct and Intelligence, well
we are back there again to finish what we
started. We were left hanging with the following
question:
If we can then override instinct by
not sinning, can we then control our destiny
since instinct is defeated?
But first let me give you a little update.
Remember sheila, the African accountant from
Uganda who recieves our newsletter. The same
lady, who after reading one of our books (The
Voice..) from our website decided to get baptise
in Jesus name. The Lord let me to contact this
apostolic church in Uganda, Pastor Arlon and Darline Royer, and
they were glad to get Sheila buried in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is a
letter from them with a picture of sheila:
Dear Brother
Oneil,
Good news!
We met with Sheila on Friday, which was a
special-called holiday to provide for Census
taking.
Bro. Royer led her through the Scriptures
regarding what it means to be "born again" in
biblical terms. She showed great interest as he
led her through the Scriptures on repentance,
water baptism, and receiving the Holy Ghost. At
the conclusion she assured us that she will get
baptized. She said that she will begin coming to
the Wednesday night Bible study at our Central
Church. We introduced her to our assistant
pastor who will be on hand to baptize her
whenever she is ready to take the step. We trust
she will have been baptized by the time we
return from our Stateside trip. Our assistant is
a university graduate and quite able to
communicate with her on her level of
thinking.
Sheila is a lovely young lady with a
sharp mind, and she does manifest a sincere
desire to obey God's Word. I am attaching a
photo I took of her following our visit and
Bible study with her. The car is hers and
reflects that she is doing well. Here's the
picture of sheila. [Behind here is the
development of the Apostolic church and school
in Uganda. Please pray for the work in
Africa]
Sheila wrote me this morning and said she
will be getting baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ on Wednesday. I'm too overjoyed to
talk any more about it.
Now back to the scheduled lesson
on "Instinct and Intelligence"!
If we can then override instinct by
not sinning, can we then control our destiny
since instinct is defeated?
We were made with instinct,
but given intelligence by the same creator.
After studying the Old Testament, I realized
that God spoke our purpose and built us with it
and it must come to pass, like how you
instinctively eat. Before Samson was born it was
told to his father by an angel what Samson would
ultimately do to the Philistines. That was
actually accomplished exclusively in his death.
But all through his life and nearing his death
he had no idea what God was doing and how it was
God’s will for him to be capture to destroy the
Philistine. Probably then he wouldn’t have asked
for his life; knowing that it wasn’t his fault.
But rather, all that he went through was planned
by the Lord, as the writer of his autobiography
finally concluded in Judges. I then get to
understand that the intelligence is given to us
so that we may realize what he is doing. Paul
could have given up in Jail, being humiliated as
the guru of Apostles; just like Samson. But he
had a relationship with God and knew purpose and
he assuredly sang praises to God. Then the bible
said at midnight… and you know the
rest.
That's why Jesus told the
disciples “you are no longer servants but
friends, because a servant does not know what
the master does.” Even better we are now sons -
having the ability to participate in the action!
(So much for Sir Hamilton quote!) Same purpose
that will come to pass, however, your
participation can generate variations. Same
tree, but you can either use an axe, chain saw
or knife to cut it down. This causes us to
praise God even more and make us accountable to
purpose. What a sense of peace and meaningful
living when you know where you came from, why
you’re here, where you’re going? Though
ignorance won’t stop purpose, knowing and
involving in its process is worth living for.
Paul accomplished this and could have said that
he finished his course he ran the race.
Use of instinct and
intelligence...
When I was in my native country three years
ago and the police were fighting against the
gunmen, I noticed that the gunmen would use a
child or woman to shield them. He is playing
upon the instinct of the police. Not only are
they trained to not hurt innocent civilians, but
the gunmen know that instinctively the police
wouldn't hurt a harmless child. Not that they
couldn't, because Hollywood has made some super
cops on television that are above and below the
law and every cop in town wants to be like them.
Luckily that civilian wasn't harmed. We can gain
from this as well.
Look at this, "And the God of Israel stirred
up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the
spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and
he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and
the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and
brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara,
and to the river Gozan, unto this day"(1 Chro.
5:26). Here is another astonishing one, "And
Jehozadak went [into captivity], when the LORD
carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar" (I Chro 6:15). God was the one
who led these evil kings to fight and even
capture his people. We have already seen where
God is the one who does both evil and good in us
instinctively. But ponder this; these evil kings
have it set in their minds that it was of their
own military ingenuity that got them the
victory. Way from the truth! Similarly, these
devils that plague us, because of the word, have
no idea that they are doing it instinctively and
if by instinct they have no real power. Just
this morning I was reading Ezekiel 1-3 and how
the seraphim moved and went, they were like
machines instinctively following the spirit of
the Lord wherever he went. Even the bible said
their spirit was in the wheel which followed the
spirit of the Lord, they have no choice but to
follow the Lord. From the Seraphim, cherubim to
the archangels to the living creatures on earth
are made with instinct.
We as sons of God are higher than devils
(fallen angels) because though we are driven by
instinct, we can control it through God's
spirit. Paul writes, "But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance [self-control]: against such there is
no law" (Gal 5:22-23). Devils have no real
power, because if they did, they would realize
that they cannot fight against God and win. So
when your 'so-called' human enemies trouble you,
it's not them. The devil is using their built in
instinct to get at you. Control your instinct to
retaliate and be the bigger person. You have
real power if you can control instinct - in
actuality moving God's hand.
Advantages of
Instinct and intelligence…
God uses instinct for his
purpose and he can precisely know what will
happen in any given situation. We can do the
same thing. For instance, when devils and all
evil come upon us and God commands us not to
fear, he knows that he instinctively place it in
these devils to react to its victims fear. Not
only that, but they cannot do you any harm
unless God instinctively put it there. No wonder
he asked, “And forgettest the LORD thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid
the foundations of the earth; hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and
where is the fury of the oppressor?” He is the
master of instinct and can manipulate it either
way. In other words, they can’t do evil in and
of themselves, God has to instinctively put it
there. So if he takes it away, how can such a
one do evil. And if he puts evil, how can such a
one do good.
Even the coming one world
government and New World Order cannot be
accomplished without God’s doing. Even though
these leaders’ (both humans and spirit) heart
are set on evil to bring about the anti-Christ
and do all sort of spiritual whoredoms, they
lack the spiritual intelligence, will and power
to do it. They might be diabolically clever, but
they fail to realize that it’s ultimately God
who controls the affairs of men, even though he
doesn’t seems to be physically involved. The
LORD use the prophet Zephaniah to speak of them,
he said, “Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the
LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey:
for my determination is to gather the nations,
that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon
them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger:
for all the earth shall be devoured with the
fire of my jealousy” (Zep 3:8).
And that’s why I believe the
happenings of Sept 11 was allowed by God,
because God outrighly said, “I form the light,
and create darkness: I make peace, and create
evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Isaiah
45:7) and he clarifies the Sept 11 issue by
saying, “shall there be evil in a city, and the
LORD hath not done it?” (Amos 3:6)
You as saints are privilege
to know this, like David found out himself. He
was such a willing participant in the will of
God that anything he did (good or bad) and God
was to intervene he often said, "If it seemeth
right unto you do it". That’s why God loved
David. Because he wanted the will of God to be
done even if he is to be punished or die. I
still can’t understand it, how could he be such
a willing participant in the will of God if he
wasn’t blessed with the intelligence we sons of
God have through the Holy Spirit. He accepted
the fact that God is sovereign and can do all
things. After he saw how God put him up, tore
him down and put him up again for a few times
too, he didn’t murmur or complain; he didn’t
say, “what kind of God is this, what is he
doing?” He just went along with the plan. That’s
why even before this dispensation of Grace, God
revealed unto him about instinct and
intelligence and he could have concluded,
“Then went king David in,
and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I,
O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast
brought me hitherto? And this was yet a small
thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast
spoken also of thy servant's house for a great
while to come. And is this the manner of man, O
Lord GOD? And what can David say more unto thee?
for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. For thy
word's sake, and according to thine own heart,
hast thou done all these great things, to make
thy servant know them. Wherefore thou art great,
O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither
is there any God beside thee, according to all
that we have heard with our ears” (2 Sam
7:18-21).
Before I again leave with
Elder Herrol Saddler's sermon, which deals with
a few areas of what you’ve just read, let me say
this: Given that God is in control and he knows
all things why do you as a Pastor/leader fret
about losing your congregation/position to a
talented Bro. /Sis that the Lord is using? Don’t
you know that this is sickening to God? It
breeds distrust. Tell me which man can take away
what God gave to you and which man can keep what
God didn’t give. This shows great insecurity and
lack of trust in God, bad example. How dare you
fret over your so-called enemies when God
controls the affairs of our heart? Why do you,
being a wife, falsely accuse your saved husband
of adultery because he was out late witnessing?
Can your fretting and inquisitive accusation
change anything? If God doesn’t keep the man he
cannot be kept, it is better to go on your knees
and ask God to keep your spouse. Why do you as a
teen, think God cannot cause you not to have
unwed sex, who is the one who gave you those
instinctive desires in the first place? Why do
we limit God, can he not do everything? Is there
anything too hard for him? The God I know is
great and greatly to be praised a hundred times
over!!!
Part 3 continues next week
with some shocking revelations.
Click here to listen "Sin is the Cause" by Elder
Herrol Sadler
Grace be unto
you,
Oneil
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