<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-14-2 Decisions are made in the mind, the head. There's where Satan meets you. And the decisions are, because that God made a man that way. Now, I have... If you was looking on my note here, a little map drawed out. I had it here not long ago on--used on the board.
The human being is made up just like a grain of wheat. It's a seed, and the human being is a seed. Physically you're the seed of your father and mother, and the life come from the father, the pulp come from the mother. So the two together, the egg and the--the blood comes together, and in the blood cell is life, and in there it begins to develop making the--the child.

L-14-4 Now, any seed has a shell on the outside; the inside is pulp, and inside of the pulp is the germ of life. Well, that's the way we're made. We are body, soul, and spirit. The outside, the body, the shell, the inside of that (the conscience and so forth) is the soul, and the inside the soul is the spirit. And the spirit governs all the other.

L-14-5 Now, if you'll set down when you get home and draw three little rings, you'll find out that the outside body has five senses it's contacted by, and that is see, taste, feel, smell, hear; that's the five senses that control the human body. Inside of the body is a soul, and that soul is controlled by imaginations, conscience, memory, reasons, and affections; that's the thing that controls the soul. But the spirit, it's only has one sense--the spirit. Oh, let's get it! The spirit has one sense, and that sense is--either dominates it, is faith or doubt. That's exactly. And there's only one avenue to it, that's free moral agency. You can accept doubt or you can accept faith, either one you want to work on.
Therefore, Satan begin at the principal part to cause the spirit of man to doubt God's Word. God begin at the principal part to lay His Word in that spirit. There you are, that's what does it.

L-15-2 If this church right now could be put together and knitted together with such, that every person would be in one accord, with not one shadow of doubt anywhere, there would not be a feeble person in our midst in another five minutes; there would not be nobody here desiring the Holy Ghost, but what would receive It. If you could just get that certain thing fixed.

L-15-3 Now, there's where the battle begins--right in your mind, whether you will... Now, you remember, it's not Christian Science now, mind over matter; that hasn't... The mind accepts the Life which is the Word of God, and there brings the Life. Just your thought doesn't do it, but the Word of God brought in the channel of your thought. See? It's not the thought, as Christian Science make it, mind over matter. No. That isn't it. But your mind accepts it and grasp it. What is your mind controlled by? Your spirit; and your spirit catches the Word of God, and that's the thing that's got Life in it. It brings Life into you.
Oh, brother, when that takes place, when Life comes down that channel into you, the Word of God is manifested in you. "If ye abide in Me and My words abide in you, then ask what you will and it'll be done for you."

L-15-5 Then what does that do? From the middle of the heart, which is the soul, from there goes forth, feeding every channel. The trouble of it is we're standing in here with a lot of doubt trying to accept what's out there. You've got to stop that and come down that channel with the true Word of God, and then it goes out, itself, automatically. It's what's on the inside. That's the thing that counts, is the inside. Satan's approach is from the inside.

L-15-6 Now, you say, "I don't steal; I don't drink; I don't do these things." That has nothing to do with it (See?); it's the inside. No matter how good you are, how moral you are, how truthful you are, those things are respected, but Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again..." See? There's got to be something happen inside. If you don't, that's artificial put-on, for down in your heart you desire to do it anyhow.


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