In a recent conversation, I made a profound statement, at
least to me who has a MO (Master of the Obvious)—here it is: it takes faith to be a believer. Although this seems simple
enough on the surface, there are underlying truths that bear mentioning;
specifically, that the cause of faith erosion is “reason,” and it doesn’t have
to be that way. It does take faith to be
a believer but pure reason will lead to faith.
Human reason replaces faith in the religion of mysticism and
metaphysics because it refuses to accept the evidence of faith and the results
that come out of the spirit realm. I
want to point out, and will throughout this article, that having faith gives
people greater power than just those who have reason.
Faith is a concept of bring intangible things into tangible
reality. Pure reason should result in
faith because certain things cannot be explained—by any reason. The fact
remains: those who have and operate faith are more powerful because undeniable
results have come from their operation of this unseen force. The fact remains that those who have and
operate faith are more powerful because undeniable results have come from faith,
which brings things out of an unseen dimension.
You do not have to be a Bible believer to accept this: although Hebrews
11does gives a list of these evidences. William Wallace, Braveheart, demonstrates this
too. Braveheart was brave enough to have
heart—he had faith in himself and in a cause.
We do not even need to bring his belief in God into this at this point,
we are just showing that he had faith and that faith is greater than
reason.
Although this seems academic, the result at the end of the
battle between reason and faith could stand as an explanation that will save
our next generation. Liberal “reason pushers at our colleges and
universities are being paid to push faith (and God) out of the acceptance of
normal. Faith is under seige by reason
and what is being called realism. Faith
is a spiritual power that when possessed, causes someone to be able to bring power from
one realm to this existing one.
Reason-realmers ” cringe when
someone brings up the supernatural. It
is interesting that we accept that American youth are being dumbed down, and
yet at the bottom of the dumb-down barrel is that reason has an explanation for
everything. Baloney!
When true reason is faced with a manifestation of faith, belief
in the supernatural must be attained because evidences come into concretion into
a five-senses realm that cannot be explained.
So actually reason is not antithetical to faith, it is faith’s
underpinning and foundation. If I may be so bold, the lack of supernatural
power in our churches have set us for the assault that is coming upon our
youth. We have “reason-based” children
because we have not taught them faith and the supernatural. This might make you mad, but if you raised a
child without a belief in faith, you raised a victim, faithless—powerless, in response to a very, very, spiritually, mean
world.
The reason that reason is inferior to faith is easily seen
by the realm they are from. Reason comes
out of the human soul and faith comes
from the superior realm—the spirit. The
rationale of the human soul was the
dedication of Manely P. Hall in his acclaimed book on the Secret Teachings of
All Ages. He dedicated his work to the
reason of the human soul. His
conclusions are based in metaphysical reason and not in spiritual faith. He missed the greatest teaching of the
ages—FAITH. Reason comes from and out
of the soul. Yes, it is powerful and
yet, it is weak because reason demands a
physical answer to every action. Okay, this
looks intellectual, but they forget the phenomenal—the spiritual that cannot be
explained by reason. Because faith can bring an intangible to
tangible existence—that reason CANNOT explain, reason is inferior to
faith. Even though reason challenges the
existence of substance coming out of what cannot be seen, the evidences still
remain. Hebrews 12: 2 summarizes this
better than anything I have ever read.
Suffice it to say that faith is more powerful than reason, or for that
fact intellect.
Faith does not come out of the soul; it comes out of the spirit. Again we see the need to teach our youth well. There are three realms of life: spirit and
soul and body. The Bible speaks of these and life evidences the same. Hebrews 4:12 actually says that the spirit
and the soul can be separated and are not the same. Faith comes out of the spirit where there is
power above the soul, which includes reason.
Faith, properly operated, makes a person extremely powerful. When it comes to what you have faith IN will
determine how much power you actually have.
Many good books have been written on the subject of
evidences that cannot be explained
without a spirit realm. Reasonalists say
that knowledge is power. May I amend
that by saying, if you have knowledge of the spirit realm and how to operate
faith, you become more powerful than just knowledge can make you. Mystics deal in the metaphysical power of
alchemy and transferring one substance into another. They call it metaphysical but in reality it
doesn’t work or they would all be named “Midas” and have a muffler shop. What real power constitutes is to bring
something new into existence from nothing that existed before.
Once I ministered healing to a lady and commanded two new
kidneys to grow in her body. It is quite
a story especially this was my Mom’s best friend and the secretary at our local
Methodist church. Cool huh? I did this
and spoke what the spirit told me to speak. I did it by faith—certainly not by
reason.
There are cerebral
Christians that would not belief this. I
know, because this lady and my mother were. So was their whole denomination—of
which I belonged. God bless John Wesley’s
legacy. (May he rest in peace). This
lady, Doris was her name, grew two new kidneys. The evidence that proved that faith generated
the power was the undeniable testimony of this miracle. The lady had two new kidneys.
Interesting, Doris had just recently had one of her kidneys
removed at Duke University. When she did
not need dialysis, they ex-rayed her “supposedly” only left bad kidney because
and saw in the corner of the x-ray another new kidney. You should have seen the look on the medical
professionals faces when she presented an affidavit for them to sign saying the
GOD grew her a new kidney or she was going to sue them for malpractice. She pulled up her shirt and showed them the
scar and the dialysis reports. (To finish the story, being that she was my
mother’s best friend, secretary to the pastor of our local Methodist church and
had the biggest mouth in town, and the church.
She blasted this news all over our town, our church, the church
district, and even the state Methodist conference. It is a great story, but the
point is this: this evidence of faith stupiefied both the medical and religious
systems because faith had delivered them evidence that could not be substantiated by reason or evidence.
Coincidentally, this happened at the the same time that Oral
Roberts had rejoined the Methodist church with the idea to bring the
supernatural back to the Methodists. He
has just preached on this the week before to the whole Methodist leadership in
North Carolina of the power that is in faith.
This miracle also brought some reason-based linear thinkers into a
greater dimension in the persons of the doctors and nurses that grew to believe
in faith. Yes, you have to have faith to
be a believer and nothing helps anymore than seeing something take place that
you cannot explain. It defies reason and estasblishes the spirit realm.
Cpncerning faith, it is one thing to “take” things by
faith, but an entirely another matter to
“make” things happen by faith. This is
the power that reason cannot explain because it is from the spirit deminision. This
becomes especially sensational when I make the next statement: When you receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit, you become dimensionally possible. (Another subject for a different day.)
Yes, you have to have faith to be a believer, but faith is
not antithetical to reason. Reason, among other things, tries to explain things
in the realm of the soul. Yet, faith,
being of the spirit realm, is far powerful and defies physical
explanation. So, yes, faith will build
more faith and pure reason will generate faith when evidences occur that reason
cannot explain.
I believe that eventually everyone will have to accept that
there is a spirit realm; it may take dying to finally prove it to some, but
regardless, there exists instances and examples that stare-down mystics and
even cerebral Christians that defy their “reasonable explanations.” Reason actually becomes faith’s friend when
the reason becomes that the result came out of the spirit realm.
Don’t be dimensionally diminished; have faith. It takes
faith to be a believer.
