The human being is such an amazing thing -- where the God, who art Spirit, meets the human being -- who is both physical and a spirit. This is a Miracle -- when the spiritual meets the physical.
Through something physical, God uses to achieve something spiritual. God likes people to express the spiritual through our physical body. God wants the whole of us to worship, the inwards to be expressed in the outwards. It is an offense to God if we worship Him physically only. Or spiritually only. He wants both.
The western world thinks man is physical and tries to satisfy that in all ways -- food, clothes, luxury, pleasure, gratification,
The eastern world thinks man is spiritual and tries to satisfy that in all ways -- emphasis on morality and good ethics, zen buddism, meditation, connection with spirits through mediums, superstition
But in both the eastern and the western, having their respective emphasis, if you try to satisfy only your body, or only your soul, you will realise that you are greatly dissatisfied, and O, how you thirst!
Then you come to the conclusion that was put forth from some guy called Jesus from somewhere in Israel - the middle/ centre of the earth - the meeting point of the east and the west, the meeting point of the spiritual and the physical -- and He said ---
Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4)
In context:
Detuteronomy 8:3
Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Matthew 3:16-4:7
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'[b]"
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'[d]"
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In each of the texts above, there presents the physical and the spiritual meet. Where Manna is the honey-biscuit tasting physical food that came down by the word of the Spiritual God from heaven as His people was hungry and had nothing physical to eat, which, when the sun grew hot, it melted away. Where a physical act has a spiritual meaning that if Jesus' spiritual soul wants bread that he should physically tell the stones to become bread, and the soul telling would result in a physical stone becoming physically edible bread, or that by throwing himself down the temple to physically proof he is God, that Jesus said He would be as the incarnated God be putting the Trinity God who art Spirit to the test spiritually.
A physical act has a spiritual implication.
And a spiritual act has a physical implication.
It's a two way road.
Water beads
Through something physical, God uses to achieve something spiritual. God likes people to express the spiritual through our physical body. God wants the whole of us to worship, the inwards to be expressed in the outwards. It is an offense to God if we worship Him physically only. Or spiritually only. He wants both.
The western world thinks man is physical and tries to satisfy that in all ways -- food, clothes, luxury, pleasure, gratification,
The eastern world thinks man is spiritual and tries to satisfy that in all ways -- emphasis on morality and good ethics, zen buddism, meditation, connection with spirits through mediums, superstition
But in both the eastern and the western, having their respective emphasis, if you try to satisfy only your body, or only your soul, you will realise that you are greatly dissatisfied, and O, how you thirst!
Then you come to the conclusion that was put forth from some guy called Jesus from somewhere in Israel - the middle/ centre of the earth - the meeting point of the east and the west, the meeting point of the spiritual and the physical -- and He said ---
Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4)
In context:
Detuteronomy 8:3
Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Matthew 3:16-4:7
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'[b]"
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
"'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'[c]"
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'[c]"
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In each of the texts above, there presents the physical and the spiritual meet. Where Manna is the honey-biscuit tasting physical food that came down by the word of the Spiritual God from heaven as His people was hungry and had nothing physical to eat, which, when the sun grew hot, it melted away. Where a physical act has a spiritual meaning that if Jesus' spiritual soul wants bread that he should physically tell the stones to become bread, and the soul telling would result in a physical stone becoming physically edible bread, or that by throwing himself down the temple to physically proof he is God, that Jesus said He would be as the incarnated God be putting the Trinity God who art Spirit to the test spiritually.
A physical act has a spiritual implication.
And a spiritual act has a physical implication.
It's a two way road.
Water beads
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