The Spirit Should Rule

The Spirit Should Rule

When God created man, He planned that man’s spirit should be the dominant reigning force. Sin dethroned the spirit and made the body or mind dominant. Humanity is divided between those whose minds rule the body and spirit and those whose bodies rule the mind and spirit.

Among the great leaders in the educational, financial and social world, the mind is dominant. Among another large portion in our land, the physical is dominant.
A generation ago we taught the boy and girl that they must keep their body under or it would destroy them.
Today, in our high schools, the physical has gained the ascendancy. Christianity would restore the spirit to the place of dominance if it had the opportunity. Man must have food for his spiritual nature. Man’s spiritual nature must be exercised, developed, and cultured until it gains the ascendancy over the intellectual and physical.

When this becomes a reality, man shrinks from lawlessness. This awakening of man’s spiritual nature gives us our moral consciousness; it develops in us a responsibility toward our fellow man.

For a man to be educated mentally is to be one-third educated; to be educated physically and mentally is to be two-thirds educated; but to be educated mentally, physically, and spiritually is a well-rounded education.

The Why of Bolshevism

To leave out the spiritual and magnify the mental makes man an anarchist – an unbalanced, ungoverned, and dangerous force in the world. Take the supernatural out of Christianity and its flavour is gone; the element that makes it attractive to youth is eliminated.

Christianity must have a living God in it – One Who rules and demands a certain sacrifice, for religion without self-denial will fail. Through all the ages, it has been a battle of the supernatural versus the intellectual. The God of miracles is the God of the human, and when you eliminate the miraculous, you take away the attractive element of Christianity.

The Wonderful Name of Jesus – E. W Kenyon
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