The Reign of Spiritual Death Begins The Dominion of Satans will over Adams began the moment Adam obeyed his voice. What a horrible awakening it is to man . . . Satans nature breathed into his spirit. Ephesians 2:4. He is now, by nature, a child of wrath. Genesis 3:8-13. He no longer responds to the call of God. Their fellowship has been broken. Man responds to the call of his new master, Satan. Genesis 3:22,24. He is an outlaw, an outcast from the garden, with no legal ground of approach to God. Genesis 3:24, So He drove out the man, and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of a sword which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life. We have not realized the significance of this act on the part of God. It would have been an unthinkable crime for the Nature of God and the nature of Satan to have been united in one individual, so Adam must not have access now to the Tree of Life. We cannot imagine the kind of being which would have resulted from this union. It is enough to know that it would have made Redemption an impossibility. Genesis 4:8. Spiritual Death now becomes a hideous reality to Adam. His first son murders his second, lying about it afterwards. The two characteristics of Satan are manifested in the life of man. He is a murderer and a liar. Adam is made to feel with keenness the effect of his treason. He has not only sinned against God, but also against the human race yet unborn. Genesis 4:26. A little grandchild is born into the family and Adam names him Enosh. Enosh means mortal, frail, death-doomed, or Satan-ruled. He names the first grandchild in memorys bitter regret of his sin. Genesis 3:17-19. At the rising of each sun, perfect beauty had gladdened mans eyes; now he lifts them to devastation manifested everywhere. Worms, briars and thorns abound. The Iron Will of Spiritual Death has breathed hatred into the nature of the animal kingdom. To the ears of Adam come discordant cries of malice and suffering; while before his eyes the carcasses of animals and insects lie rotting in the sun. Adam himself grovels under the Iron Will of Satan. He finds that his nature is no longer in fellowship with God. He has lost love; his rest, joy and peace are gone. Spiritual Death and the Birth of Reason Spiritual Death caused man to cease walking in the realm of his spirit. Hitherto man had walked in the Spirit realm with his Creator. His spirit had dominated and ruled. It had been the Faith Realm, the realm of Omnipotent power where faith spoke words into being and substance. Romans 4:17. It was the realm of Him who called the things that are not, as though they were. Adam had walked as the under-ruler of the One who had framed the worlds out of the things which are not, by faith in His Word (Hebrews 11:3). Now that mans union with God is severed, mans ability is severed from Gods ability. Mans word is severed from Gods Word. Man has fallen from the realm of Gods ability into the realm of human ability. In this realm he is dependent upon his own resources. The resources of man are limited to his mind and his body. The mind can derive its knowledge only through the senses of mans physical body. The five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell become the doors and windows of his mind. Man forms his conception of the world and himself by means of these senses. He orders his life by what he sees, hears, feels, tastes and smells. The senses bring the material to the mind, and reason draws its own conclusions from the material of sensation. Faith has died, the supernatural is lost, and Reason is born. Romans 8:1-11 gives an exposition of the natural man in his walk and life ordered by the senses of his physical body. Romans 8:6, The mind of the flesh is enmity against God. The mind of the flesh is composed of the deductions made from the material of sensation which the mind receives from the physical senses. In other words, Reason, the product of mans senses, has always been enmity toward the knowledge of God, Faith, or any act that is above the realm of human ability. Civilization becomes a cultivation of the arts which please the senses. Regardless of how high mans aims may be, he cannot rise above the level of his senses. The walk in the spirit is lost. The cry of the spirit remains unanswered. At the dawn of human history, reason gains the supremacy. The Bible in the Light of Our Redemption
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