“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63
The religious mediums that appeal to the natural man, are not that which leads him to see the truth of God. Rather, they are just the substitutes of man’s fancy that supplant the needed search for God’s way.
Satan has adopted religion that appeals to human nature as his means of diverting people from the truth of God. He works to give man an invigorating religious experience that will supersede any and all concerns about seeking unto the truth of God, that lies beyond what appeals to fleshly interests.
Man is not converted to Christ by what he can see, but only that which God reveals unto him. Religion that appeals to the human eye is fleshly, while it takes the quickening by the Holy Spirit to produce that which is of God. While what man sees with his eye may stir his fleshly passions, it is not the same as that which affords real spiritual light.
God uses the preaching of His Word to manifest true spiritual light and understanding to man, 1 Corinthians 1:21. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17. God uses the incorruptible seed of His Word to quicken those who believe, 1 Peter 1:23. And all the while this is working, that which is appealing to the interests of the fleshly man, religiously speaking, will be warring against that which is the working of the Holy Spirit, Galatians 5:17.
What is it that is significant about the gospel, i.e., the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the scriptures, that makes it the power of God unto salvation, to everyone that believeth? (Romans 1:16, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Is it the visible circumstances of the crucifixion event? If so, what about all the other people crucified by this form of punishment administered by the Roman government of that day? Many others suffered he same death experience.
That which made Christ’s death on the cross the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, is that which could not be seen by the physical eye. It was when God laid the guilt of all the sins of all mankind upon Christ, and then He died for our sins only. Thus, when His blood was shed, it was shed for the atonement of the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2.
The gospel truth is only conveyed by the preaching of God’s Word, that reveals that which lies beyond anything that the human eye can see. What the eye sees produces human emotions. What the preaching of God’s Word produces is unto repentance and saving faith that exists by the power of God, not the strength of human passions of the flesh.
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