Part 14 of 15 - Our Spirit Now Is Spontaneously Alive

This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called Two Kinds Of Knowledge.

God’s life is inborn, spontaneous, innate, natural, instinctive, inherent, intrinsic, and intuitive. Our spirit is now alive according as our automatic, new nature. We are free to live by the “unspoken yes” of our Father. We are free to live, as our spirit permits us.

Life always flows spontaneously, or it’s not life. A tree lacking the flow of sap is dead. A human body without the blood flowing is a dead body. Likewise, Christ is now our only life; He flows in us spontaneously, automatically.

We must ultimately learn to know and not question this living, inner, intuitive sense that we have by His indwelling. Just as the inner sense of restraint is a function of His life – so is wellness of spirit.

His life’s intuitive leading may in fact at times be contrary to the logic of our mind; after all, it’s of a life that’s deeper than our mind – its Christ alive in us. It’s the impulse of Him within our spirit. We have an anointing of His life that abides within us, by which we know and which teaches us and is the truth (read 1John 2:20, 27). We simply abide in His living unspoken yes by abiding in accord with (staying obedient to) His life flowing in us (Rom 8:4).

I recall the time when the Lord intuitively moved in me to go against my old sense of control and caution – He told me to leave my own successful business and take what naturally appeared to be an unpromising job. Little did I know that it would lead me to become President and part-owner of that corporation; not only giving me financial reward, but also permitting me to travel the world and share the gospel as He has led me. His ways are not ours.

God’s Spoken “No” Is Always Available

Under this new found liberty in Christ we simply love God our Father and His indwelling Son; we freely live according to our love relationship with Him.

Yet, God’s “No” however, is faithful as a spoken NO! He speaks NO to us first by the inner sense of His life attempting to restrain or suppress us from within. We are free to live according to the freedom we have in our spirit, so long as He does not restrain us by His spoken NO. But, we are not free to do as we will. Christ’s “unspoken yes” within us automatic by a sense of wellness, or “okayness,” a normalcy; but His NO, is known to us by a sense of distress within. We all must come to know and heed His spoken No within. How often I’ve ridden roughshod over His NO only to suffer the consequences of my choices. Even this failing though is part of “learning Christ” (Eph. 4:20). The only Christ you can come to learn or know is the Christ who lives within you.  

His Unspoken “Yes”

Allegorically, our awareness of His unspoken yes within is much the same as when we are physically healthy, we are not conscious of any restraint in our body, we simply move spontaneously; but when we are ill or injured we feel a limiting sense of discomfort or restraint in body. Likewise, God’s unspoken yes is most often without a conscious sense; but His spoken No is known to us by a consciousness (Gk. suneidesis – meaning, a co-perception) of a sense within – perhaps a feeling of heaviness, a knot in our gut, or simply a inner restraint whereby we just know that we should not …”. Ours then, is to obey this living Word (Christ) speaking within us, whose will is best for us. 

1 John 2:20 But ye have an unction (anointing) from the Holy One (Christ in you), and ye know all things.

1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in (union with) him.