We had come the day before from Sixt to Trient by Buet. 1. We naturally gravitate toward what we see and feel, and it takes effort to get beyond that. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half-metaphoric personifications of those great spheres of abstract law and order into which the natural world falls apart -- the sky --sphere, the ocean-sphere, the earth-sphere, and the like; just as even now we may speak of the smile of the morning, the kiss of the breeze, or the bite of the cold, without really meaning that these phenomena of nature actually wear a human face. What comes out of you in the crisis? b. This verse contrasts faith and sight. The mouth is the connecting factor between the seen and the unseen. "Science" in many minds is genuinely taking the place of a religion. The truth is that in the metaphysical and religious sphere, articulate reasons are cogent for us only when our inarticulate feelings of reality have already been impressed in favor of the same conclusion. I thanked God that in the course of my life he had taught me to know him, that he sustained my life and took pity both on the insignificant creature and on the sinner that I was. Eph 1:22; Rom 8:37 2. E. You must know that your heart and your mouth are vital elements involved in living by faith, by unseen realities. ), "I was in perfect health: we were on our sixth day of tramping, and in good training. To live by faith, you must be fully persuaded of these unseen realities and then you must speak them out — even in (especially in) the face of contrary evidence from the seen realm. But on two or three occasions he has ordered ways for me very contrary to my ambitions and plans. Having once felt the presence of God’s spirit, I have never lost it again for long. Or, if God pulled the veil back and permitted the unseen to be seen by our eyes, we would see how very real the unseen kingdom is. b. 4. Meanwhile here is the abridged record of another mystical or semi-mystical experience, in a mind evidently framed by nature for ardent piety. It seems to me to show clearly that the feeling of reality may be something more like a sensation than an intellectual operation properly so-called. b. Introduction: As Christians, we are supposed to live and walk by faith. My most assuring evidence of his existence is deeply rooted in that hour of vision, in the memory of that supreme experience, and in the conviction, gained from reading and reflection, that something the same has come to all who have found God. I used never to fail to find it when I turned to it. I Tim 1:17; Heb 11:3 b. I was at Mary’s, and happening to say something of the presence of spirits (of whom, I said, I was often dimly aware), Mr. Putnam entered into an argument with me on spiritual matters. The realities of the negative impacts of sin on people’s lives and the relationships around them. Then came a set of years when sometimes I found it, and then again I would be wholly unable to make connection with it. You already defeated Satan through your Substitute, Jesus, and therefore you are (now, present tense) a victor. So far as religious conceptions were able to touch this reality-feeling, they would be believed in in spite of criticism, even though they might be so vague and remote as to be almost unimaginable, even though they might be such non-entities in point of whatness, as Kant makes the objects of his moral theology to be. I felt also at the same time a strong feeling of superstitious dread, as if something strange and fearful were about to happen." At bottom the expression most apt to render what I felt is this: God was present, though invisible; he fell under no one of my senses, yet my consciousness perceived him.". Such ideas, and others equally abstract, form the background for all our facts, the fountain-head of all the possibilities we conceive of. 1. But, those statements are incorrect. Demons are most likely fallen angels who rebelled against … I talk to him and often get answers. He is entirely without internal visual imagery and cannot represent light or colors to himself, and is positive that his other senses, hearing, etc., were not involved in this false perception. ", Nothing is more common in the pages of religious biography than the way in which seasons of lively and of difficult faith are described as alternating. Heartbreak: The TV personality, 29, and the nightclub mogul, 37, parted ways in October, meaning a planned reveal of Tabitha's wedding dress didn't end up airing on the E4 reality … "I had read," the narrator says, "some twenty minutes or so, was thoroughly absorbed in the book, my mind was perfectly quiet, and for the time being my friends were quite forgotten, when suddenly without a moment’s warning my whole being seemed roused to the highest state of tension or aliveness, and I was aware, with an intenseness not easily imagined by those who had never experienced it, that another being or presence was not only in the room, but quite close to me. The concept of the invisible spiritual realm is something which is difficult for us to grasp. If this were so, we might suppose the senses to waken our attitudes and conduct as they so habitually do, by first exciting this sense of reality; but anything else, any idea, for example, that might similarly excite it, would have that same prerogative of appearing real which objects of sense normally possess. I Cor 3:3 (Amp) b. I was satisfied. This may provoke a smile, but I can only tell you the facts as they occurred to me. . "is worthy to be called a religion"; and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so-called "Civilization," as these things are now organized and admiringly believed in, form the more genuine religions of our time. It is from a man aged forty-nine -- probably thousands of unpretending Christians would write an almost identical account. Eternal doesn’t mean later. Jesus didn’t defeat Satan for Himself. In the Book of Job, for example, the impotence of man and the omnipotence of God is the exclusive burden of its author’s mind. There is a realm beyond what we see — the unseen realm. You have the same life in you that Jesus had when He was on earth. This shows that you too value the mourning person. If we turn to the sanguine onlooker, on the other hand, we find that deliverance is felt as incomplete unless the burden be altogether overcome and the danger forgotten. It remained only a minute or two. . c. Both of these elements are necessary to live by faith — heart persuasion and continual confession. I felt neither fatigue, hunger, nor thirst, and my state of mind was equally healthy. 3. "It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?--deeper than hell; what canst thou know?" "My highest faith in God and truest idea of him were then born in me. I remember many occasions on which at night in bed, I would be unable to get to sleep on account of worry. She relates that she was brought up in entire ignorance of Christian doctrine, but, when in Germany, after being talked to by Christian friends, she read the Bible and prayed, and finally the plan of salvation flashed upon her like a stream of light. My last word will be, ‘I have been dreaming.’" (Pensees d’un Solitaire, p. Faith is the means of realizing spiritual reality, of gaining God’s approval, and of understanding the origin of all that is. It means invisible, immaterial, spiritual. There is an astringent relish about the truth of this conviction which some men can feel, and which for them is as near an approach as can be made to the feeling of religious joy. When we believe His word and speak it out He brings it to pass in our lives (gives us the experience). The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. Such contemplations are expected (and abundantly verify the expectation, as we shall also see) to influence the believer’s subsequent attitude very powerfully for good. The most curious proofs of the existence of such an undifferentiated sense of reality as this are found in experiences of hallucination. b. Jesus already defeated Satan — once for all — through the Cross. Religion Online is designed to assist teachers, scholars and general “seekers” who are interested in exploring religious issues. This impression of presence is impossible to describe. There are times when God seems far off, but this is always my own fault." Sproul More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for … . Of the more habitual and so to speak chronic sense of God’s presence the following sample from Professor Starbuck’s manuscript collection may serve to give an idea. It is not only the Ideas of pure Reason, as Kant styled them, that have this power of making us vitally feel presences that we are impotent articulately to describe. 1. When Jesus hung on the Cross, the Father put our sicknesses on Him and He took them, removed them. D. You must know about the Holy Spirit and how He works. In the first case, which I take from the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, the sense of presence developed in a few moments into a distinctly visualized hallucination, -- but I leave that part of the story out. Such grounds, for rationalism, must consist of four things: (1) definitely statable abstract principles; (2) definite facts of sensation; (3) definite hypotheses based on such facts; and (4) definite inferences logically drawn. John 3:3; 16:13,14; I Cor 2:9-12 b. It seems to me as if I have loved and suffered and that erelong I shall die, in a dream. Whatsoever thus innervated our activity, or "made our flesh creep" -- our senses are what do so oftenest -- might then appear real and present, even though it were but an abstract idea. There is great comfort in the unseen reality. These “unseen things” that sustain us through hardship have a life that is bigger and more permanent than our immediate circumstances. Abstract Beauty, for example, is for Plato a perfectly definite individual being, of which the intellect is aware as of something additional to all the perishing beauties of the earth. They are also from Professor Starbuck’s collection, and their number might be greatly multiplied. It was like the effect of some great orchestra when all the separate notes have melted into one swelling harmony that leaves the listener conscious of nothing save that his soul is being wafted upwards, and almost bursting with its own emotion. b. 2. . Life has become curiously dead and indifferent; and I can now see that my old experience was probably exactly the same thing as the prayers of the orthodox, only I did not call them by that name. This church building will disappear one day. It varies in intensity and clearness according to the personality from whom the writing professes to come. Let me give you an example of this, before I pass to the objects with whose presence religion is more peculiarly concerned. There are all kinds of things that are already true about us because we are in union with Christ. The seen realm is the work of the unseen God who spoke creation into existence with His word. 6. Please observe, however, that I do not yet say that it is better that the subconscious and non-rational should thus hold primacy in the religious realm. 1. Col 2:15 1. But we must now settle our scores more carefully with this whole optimistic way of thinking. God, the Greater One, comes to live in you. We acknowledge what He has already done in us through the new birth. 3. The unseen created the seen, will outlast the seen, and can change the seen. So also in regard to rays and waves and ethers and other synonyms for strange forces, the reality of which is as certain as in their invisibility. In either case they elicit from us a reaction; and the reaction due to things of thought is notoriously in many cases as strong as that due to sensible presences. He did it for you! c. Not seen doesn’t mean not real. God isn’t just talking. He is closer to me than my own breath. The Bible calls Christians new creatures, more than conquerors who always triumph, people who can do all things, whose needs are met. When I am taking Holy Communion at the altar, I try to get with him and generally feel his presence. But in addition to these ideas of the more concrete religious objects, religion is full of abstract objects which prove to have an equal power. (I borrow it, with Professor Flournoy’s permission, from his rich collection of psychological documents. The seen realm is the work of the unseen God who spoke creation into existence with His word. (NEB) b. What we can see, hear, and feel we can take on face value that it is reality. I Thess 5:23. You have an inheritance. B. Such a bar of iron could never give you an outward description of the agencies that had the power of stirring it so strongly; yet of their presence, and of their significance for its life, it would be intensely aware through every fibre of its being. Pierre.). Every born again child of God has the privilege and the right to ask the Holy Spirit to come into Him. What do they mean to the practitioners? d. God has not promised to heal you. It takes time and effort to get to that point. 75. The faith we live by is not an emotion. 1. We must go over these truths from God’s word (meditate on them) until the reality of them dawns on us. When Jesus triumphed over Satan in His resurrection victory you were with Him. And beings they are, beings as real in the realm which they inhabit as the changing things of sense are in the realm of space. You are what God says you are. Take your stand on God’s word and begin to confess what you really are and really have. Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. . The world is immense, constructed on no plan or theory which the intellect of man can grasp. My friend, as it oddly happens, does not interpret these latter experiences theistically, as signifying the presence of God. God has frequently stepped into my affairs very perceptibly, and I feel that he directs many little details all the time. B. de St. It means the depth dimension of the now. And then again I feel as if I could sit beside him, and put my arms around him, kiss him, etc. I did not recognize it by any ordinary sense, and yet there was a horribly unpleasant ‘sensation’ connected with it. b. In reality, most of the children are those that flee from their homes without a thought and cannot retract their actions, either because they have no money or are too frightened to go back. That is because faith and sight are opposites. When the trouble first appeared before me I was dazed, but before long (two or three hours) I could hear distinctly a passage of Scripture: ‘My grace is sufficient for thee.’ Every time my thoughts turned to the trouble I could hear this quotation. Without changing my position, and looking straight at the fire, I knew somehow that my friend A.H. was standing at my left elbow, but so far behind me as to be hidden by the armchair in which I was leaning back. I ran, I stretched forth my arms, I cried aloud, ‘Here, here I am, my Father.’ Oh, happy child, what should I do? 1. a. A lover has notoriously this sense of the continuous being of his idol, even when his attention is addressed to other matters and he no longer represents her features. I defy any of you here fully to account for your persuasion that if a God exist he must be a more cosmic and tragic personage than that Being. Moving my eyes round slightly without otherwise changing my position, the lower portion of one leg became visible, and I instantly recognized the gray-blue material of trousers he often wore, but the stuff appeared semi-transparent, reminding me of tobacco smoke in consistency," (Journal of S.P.R., February, 1895, p. 384. Col 1:12 a. It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough. "Sometimes as I go to church, I sit down, join in the service, and before I go out I feel as if God was with me, right side of me, singing and reading the Psalms with me. But, as we close this lesson, consider these thoughts. This would mean that reality would consist of all these universes, governed by different laws, and only some tiny subset of them would be governed by … We often say things like this — I know the Lord is going to give me victory in this situation. As regards the origin of the Greek gods, we need not at present seek an opinion. John 4:14; 7:37-39; 14:17; 20:22; Acts 1:4 a. b. Okay, here’s one: fix your eyes on this; here it is – every day, every hour you are either inching yourself closer to becoming like Jesus, or you are becoming less like Jesus. Scripture speaks about heaven, hell, angels and … Isa 53:3-5;10 b. (1 Letters of Lowell, i. You must speak of unseen realities in present tense terms because the unseen realm is present tense (now). Danger still hovers in the air about it. . We may now lay it down as certain that in the distinctively religious sphere of experience, many persons (how many we cannot tell) possess the objects of their belief, not in the form of mere conceptions which their intellect accepts as true, but rather in the form of quasi-sensible realities directly apprehended. Any "habitual and regulated admiration," says Professor J.R. Seeley, (In his book [too little read, I fear], Natural Religion, 3rd edition, Boston, 1886, pp. --, "There are times when I seem to stand in his very presence, to talk with him. The first is from a man twenty-seven years old: --, "God is quite real to me. c. You can do what God says you can do. 3. On passing through all the stages of grief, it seems that time has passed like a river under the bridge. Through the new birth, we become part of the unseen realm. Since the “realities” are invisible to our human eyes, we have to have an evident demonstration of them in order to have faith built up in us as to the existence of such unseen realities. The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. That is, unseen divine realities that you can put your eyes on. unseen to live our lives in the light of unseen realities god graciously provides us with the means of seeing the unseen first the bible defines faith as being sure of what we seeing the unseen the biblical definition of faith Oct 28, 2020 Posted By Patricia Cornwell Public Library Other examples will bring this home to one better than abstract description, so I proceed immediately to cite some. I have not yet studied it enough. At all events, something was present with me, and I knew its presence far more surely than I have ever known the presence of any fleshly living creature. So much for our sense of the reality of the religious objects. We shall see later that the absence of definite sensible images is positively insisted on by the mystical authorities in all religions as the sine qua non of a successful orison, or contemplation of the higher divine truths. "The true order of going," he says, in the often quoted passage in his "Banquet," "is to use the beauties of earth as steps along which one mounts upwards for the sake of that other Beauty, going from one to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair actions, and from fair actions to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute Beauty, and at last knows what the essence of Beauty is." Such objects may be present to our senses, or they may be present only to our thought. 1. Through faith we please God. My comrades waited for me ten minutes at the cross of Barine, but I took about twenty-five or thirty minutes to join them, for as well as I can remember, they said that I had kept them back for about half an hour. (Example: "I have had much comfort lately in meditating on the passages which show the personality of the Holy Ghost, and his distinctness from the Father and the Son. . The Holy Spirit is here to do in you and through you all that Christ did for you on the Cross. For the moment nothing but an ineffable joy and exaltation remained. I never before so clearly felt the Spirit of God in me and around me. She appears the more beautiful, the more afflicted she is." For the psychologists the tracing of the organic seat of such a feeling would form a pretty problem -- nothing could be more natural than to connect it with the muscular sense, with the feeling that our muscles were innervating themselves for action. Everything we know is ‘what’ it is by sharing in the nature of one of these abstractions. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two. To be in agreement with God, we must speak of them in present tense terms. Recommended Resource: Unseen Realities: Heaven, Hell, Angels, and Demons by R.C. You must begin to talk and act like what you are. Yet strangely enough they have a definite meaning for our practice. Had he not called me? The idea of God’s reality has never left me for one moment. Learn more. That life is your power. 2. The realities of the benefits of virtue. Located in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The more concrete objects of most men’s religion, the deities whom they worship, are known to them only in idea. But the quantitative mixture and order of these moods vary so much from one age of the world, from one system of thought, and from one individual to another, that you may insist either on the dread and the submission, or on the peace and the freedom as the essence of the matter, and still remain materially within the limits of the truth. 9. Now, at the age of nearly fifty, my power of getting into connection with it has entirely left me; and I have to confess that a great help has gone out of my life. If a person feels the presence of a living God after the fashion shown by my quotations, your critical arguments, be they never so superior, will vainly set themselves to change his faith. As his sense of the real presence of these objects fluctuates, so the believer alternates between warmth and coldness in his faith. c. In other words, we become God inside minded. 26.) The university's name is a pun on the Invisible College, and many aspects of the University are references to Oxford and Cambridge University. That life is your position — a holy, righteous son. The sense of the kind of object to which the surrender is made has much to do with determining the precise complexion of the joy; and the whole phenomenon is more complex than any simple formula allows. The unreasoned and immediate assurance is the deep thing in us, the reasoned argument is but a surface exhibition. The Bible says that the spiritual realm consists of both good—God and the holy angels—and evil—the devil and his demons. ", Here is another document, even more definite in character, which, the writer being a Swiss, I translate from the French original. The throb of emotion was so violent that I could barely tell the boys to pass on and not wait for me. He answers me again and again, often in words so clearly spoken that it seems my outer ear must have carried the tone, but generally in strong mental impressions. Since then I have had direct answers to prayer -- so significant as to be almost like talking with God and hearing his answer. Consequently, what the writer of Hebrews 11:1 is saying is that faith is the equivalent of the “evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” The one who has faith is convinced by this evident demonstration, and for this … It stirred something more at the roots of my being than any ordinary perception. 3. In the Quran it has 6 forms and 3 meanings. The world of spiritual reality is eternal, and will continue to exist long after this physical world, and even this universe, will have van­ished into oblivion. F. You must get your verb tenses straight. I Tim 1:17; Heb 11:3 b. What I felt on these occasions was a temporary loss of my own identity, accompanied by an illumination which revealed to me a deeper significance than I had been wont to attach to life. Before we entered the unseen world, we paid money—good money—trusting there was something worth discovering. b. It has been debated whether that which follows is a definition of what faith is, or in reality a description of what faith does. It is the part that has the prestige undoubtedly, for it has the loquacity, it can challenge you for proofs, and chop logic, and put you down with words. We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life. I felt as if I had been aroused intentionally, and at first thought some one was breaking into the house. The degree to which a Christian believes God’s promises is the degree to which It often happens that an hallucination is imperfectly developed: the person affected will feel a "presence" in the room, definitely localized, facing in one particular way, real in the most emphatic sense of the word, often coming suddenly, and as suddenly gone; and yet neither seen, heard, touched, nor cognized in any of the usual "sensible" ways. It is in this that I find my justification for saying that I have enjoyed communication with God. a. I John 5:11,12; II Pet 1:4 a. In all three instances the certainty that there in outward space there stood something was indescribably stronger than the ordinary certainty of companionship when we are in the close presence of ordinary living people. Stated in the completest possible terms, a man’s religion involves both moods of contraction and moods of expansion of his being. I propose accordingly that we make of religious optimism the theme of the next two lectures. In Hebrews 11:27 Moses endured because he knew by faith the unseen God, “as seeing Him who is unseen.” Faith takes God at His word and pushes on, which in turn opens up the realities of the spiritual world. It is not great sincerity or depth of commitment to the Lord. I then sat down on a stone, unable to stand any longer, and my eyes overflowed with tears. These meetings came unasked and unexpected, and seemed to consist merely in the temporary obliteration of the conventionalities which usually surround and cover my life.... Once it was when from the summit of a high mountain I looked over a gashed and corrugated landscape extending to a long convex of ocean that ascended to the horizon, and again from the same point when I could see nothing beneath me but a boundless expanse of white cloud, on the blown surface of which a few high peaks, including the one I was on, seemed plunging about as if they were dragging their anchors. The memory of an insult may make us angrier than the insult did when we received it. Remember those passages from Emerson which I read at my last lecture. . Our trip to and through this magnificent cave made me think about all unseen realities, especially God and His kingdom. a. When all at once I experienced a feeling, of being raised above myself, I felt the presence of God -- I tell of the thing just as I was conscious of it -- as if his goodness and his power were penetrating me altogether. Sometimes the joy has been primary; sometimes secondary, being the gladness of deliverance from the fear. What ever is in that life is in you now. 3. a. The power of God is not limited to what you can see. Its aim is to develop an extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship. I wish during this hour to call your attention to some of the psychological peculiarities of such an attitude as this, of belief in an object which we cannot see. b. . Mark 10:28; 4:40 b. It is as if a bar of iron, without touch or sight, with no representative faculty whatever, might nevertheless be strongly endowed with an inner capacity for magnetic feeling; and as if, through the various arousals of its magnetism by magnets coming and going in its neighborhood, it might be consciously determined to different attitudes and tendencies. When the unseen God created the seen, He spoke words. 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