witness4jesus
04-17-2003, 11:31 AM
I have been listening to this sermon off of Brother
Rutledge's preaching site, and it is awesome!
The whole point of the message is that this
world that we see is only shadow, and that
the spiritual world that is beyond our 5 senses,
that world we taste through the Holy Ghost, is
the real world, the substance.
Paul said, we see through a glass darkly, and
we know that there is a realm in the Spirit that we
need to be connected to, in touch with. Elisha's
servant, as Brother Jones pointed out in this
sermon, did not see the spiritual forces that were
there to fight with them, yet they were very real,
and very powerful.
So often we think of things in the spirit, spiritual
things as being unsubstantial, and yet we know
that they are more substantial than the material
things that are seen. We speak of VISIONS as
if they were something imaginary, instead of something
that is SEEN. What is vision, but things that are seen?
When Adam and his wife left the garden, they entered
another world outside of it, and yet, as Brother Jones
points out, they knew there was a world where everything
was good, and where the Spirit of God walked. Paradise.
I heard a message preached once, called "A Glimpse
of Eternity". It was very much about seeing beyond
the veil, seeing beyond this flesh and blood experience
to the eternity that awaits us.
Struggling with things in this life, sometimes it is hard
to see through to that real world. But its that world
I want to touch and feel today, and know that God
is walking with me, even through the fiery trials.
sis pam
Rutledge's preaching site, and it is awesome!
The whole point of the message is that this
world that we see is only shadow, and that
the spiritual world that is beyond our 5 senses,
that world we taste through the Holy Ghost, is
the real world, the substance.
Paul said, we see through a glass darkly, and
we know that there is a realm in the Spirit that we
need to be connected to, in touch with. Elisha's
servant, as Brother Jones pointed out in this
sermon, did not see the spiritual forces that were
there to fight with them, yet they were very real,
and very powerful.
So often we think of things in the spirit, spiritual
things as being unsubstantial, and yet we know
that they are more substantial than the material
things that are seen. We speak of VISIONS as
if they were something imaginary, instead of something
that is SEEN. What is vision, but things that are seen?
When Adam and his wife left the garden, they entered
another world outside of it, and yet, as Brother Jones
points out, they knew there was a world where everything
was good, and where the Spirit of God walked. Paradise.
I heard a message preached once, called "A Glimpse
of Eternity". It was very much about seeing beyond
the veil, seeing beyond this flesh and blood experience
to the eternity that awaits us.
Struggling with things in this life, sometimes it is hard
to see through to that real world. But its that world
I want to touch and feel today, and know that God
is walking with me, even through the fiery trials.
sis pam