Born Again_Gestation Mystery Solved!

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Hi R____,

When God told Adam, “Dying you shall die,” God was not speaking about anything physical. It was all spiritual. Adam was created of the dust of the ground and was counting down the number of breaths he had before he ever ate of the tree. When God said “Dying you shall die, He was telling us that Adam began dying spiritually when he ate of the tree. Before that happened, Adam simply had not yet done the inevitable, that which flesh and blood is created as, to sin.
The life Adam had before he ate of the fruit of the tree was the same life of the woman in this verse of scripture:

1Ti 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

The whole message is missed unless we compare spiritual things with spiritual. That is the only way the holy spirit teaches.

1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

We cannot understand spiritual truths by comparing physical things with spiritual. We must see the physical things with spiritual eyes and compare that spiritual understanding with spiritual truths revealed in the New Testament or we will miss the point of scripture.
That is where what you have written here comes in. I think you know that if I saw anything wrong with this I would say so, but I don’t. The invisible things really are understood by the things that are made, but it is simply not in us of ourselves to realize that the physical is only demonstrating the spiritual and that we must compare spiritual things with spiritual things if we are to have any hope of understanding what Christ meant by telling us plainly that “man must live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
That too, cannot be understood if you take any part of that statement as being understood in the physical realm. There are many “words that proceed out of the mouth of God” which we do not live by physically, but there is not one word which “proceeds out of the mouth of God” which is not lived spiritually.
We may not commit physical adultery, but we are all guilty of spiritual adultery. We may not commit physical murder, but we are all spiritual murderers, etc. This is what we see when we compare spiritual things with spiritual.

Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1Jn 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

But adultery and murder are of the spirit, “in his heart,” before it is ever accomplished physically.
Now God has shown you that if we are indeed true to this principle of comparing spiritual things with spiritual, we must think that way about the first as well as the second birth. As you put it at the very top of this e- mail, “born again from A to Z.,” and I am sure that you are saying that it is spiritual from A to Z, both the first birth and the second birth are spiritual, both the gestation and the birth are spiritual.
I simply cannot see anything here contrary to the mind of Christ, and I thank you for sharing this with me once again.
This is the best thing I have ever read which gives spiritual expression to the fact that there is a physical gestation, and yet recognizes the fact that it is all spoken of in scripture from a spiritual perspective concerning both births.
The only thing I might change is that first line. Instead of ‘Born again from A to Z” I might change that to ‘Comparing Spiritual With Spiritual From A to Z..’
Your brother in Christ,
Mike

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