“…I want to do
what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t….I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).
“…Who
will free me
from this life that is dominated by SIN? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus
Christ our Lord (the WORD OF GOD)…” (Romans
7:14-25 NLT). “…if the
Son (Jesus Christ, the indwelling Holy Spirit)…shall make you FREE, ye shall be FREE
indeed.” (John 8:36 KJV).
“... Knowing
this, that our old man is
crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin...” (Romans 6:6 KJV).
“... I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me...” (Galatians
2:20 KJV).
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CRAVINGS
and APPETITES are empowered by DESIRES or something the body of flesh longs
for, lusts after, has a passion for, yearns, or has an unnatural hunger for.
What
is a CRAVING? A craving is a POWERFUL and sometime “out of control” desire for
something or someone.
What
is an APPETITE? An appetite is the DESIRE to EAT or CONSUME something. An
APPETITE to consume something is stimulated when something APPEALS to one’s
DESIRES or CRAVINGS and they can POWERFULLY motivate a person’s BEHAVIOR to DO
what is necessary to SATISFY its demands.
The body of flesh
and the FIVE SENSES were created to SERVE the SOUL and help them engage,
interact, and experience hunger and appetite in a way that regulates their
ENERGY INTAKE for METABOLIC purposes.
HUNGER
was meant to be a PHYSICAL need for food to nourish the body of flesh and keep
it energized and healthy. APPETITE was originally created to provide an healthy
DESIRE for FOOD, through one or more of the FIVE SENSES, and motivate behavior
necessary to go get it.
HUNGER
and APPETITE were created “GOOD” and were meant to work together to help KEEP
the body of flesh properly fueled and healthy for the SOUL’S usage.
HUNGER
was a God-given need for food and
APPETITE was the God-given desire
for food. When “…God saw everything he had made……and, [said] …
it was VERY GOOD…”
(Genesis 1:31 KJV).
The
healthy “desire” for food (appetite) was meant to motive healthy behavior to
consume food (hunger) necessary to maintain a healthy body of flesh (need).
God
created GOOD and HEALTHY food for them. “...I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat...it was VERY GOOD...” (Genesis
1:29, 31a KJV).
The
DESIRE for food comes THROUGH one or more of the FIVE SENSES. For example, the
SOUL engages in EATING when it SMELLS certain foods and/or SEES certain foods.
The
DESIRE for food, when the body of flesh SMELLS or SEES certain FOODS can become
a CONDITIONED response that motivates behavior.
A CONDITIONED
response is LEARNED through associations between something in the environment
and natural responses to hunger and appetite.
The
smell of certain foods or the sight of certain foods is associated or paired
with “natural” hunger and appetite in order to motivate behavior necessary to satisfy the need to consume
something.
The
presentation of healthy FOOD was meant to naturally trigger a healthy hunger
and appetite to motivate the appropriate behavior to seek after necessary
nourishment for the body of flesh.
However,
the world is under the power of the EVIL
ONE, and the EVIL ONE’s presentation of UNHEALTHY FOODS is meant to
unnaturally trigger unhealthy hungers and appetites to motivate inappropriate
behavior to seek after food NOT necessary for the body of flesh .
The SMELL
of certain, unhealthy foods and the SIGHT of certain, unhealthy foods NOW
motivate behavior to satisfy those unnatural hungers and appetites.
For
example, after years of learning, engagement, exposure, and indulgence, the
SMELL and SIGHT of certain UNHEALTHY foods begin to TRIGGER unnatural hunger
and appetite that will motivate the behavior to GO after it!
The
CONDITIONED response to the smell and sight of certain UNHEALTHY FOODS become
established and strengthen over years and years of engagement and can easily
trigger unhealthy hunger and appetite patterns to motivate unnatural behaviors
to seek after those foods.
The
original God-given and natural HUNGER and APPETITE totally disappears and
becomes dysfunctional. The learned HUNGER and APPETITE, in the world under the power of the EVIL ONE, becomes the FAMILIAR
and CONDITIONED response to the SMELL and SIGHT of certain FOODS.
HUNGER
and APPETITE linked together will MOTIVATE a person’s behavior to TAKE ACTION
necessary to SATISFY the NEED (real or conditioned) for FOOD.
It is
HUNGER and APPETITE that the EVIL ONE perverts and uses to MOTIVATE sinful
behavior and influence one to TAKE ACTION to SATISFY the NEED, whatever IT IS.
UNDER
the POWER of the EVIL ONE, HUNGER is PERVERTED to satisfy the PHYSICAL body of
flesh and its MANY sinful CRAVINGS. APPETITE is also PERVERTED to DESIRE to
CONSUME the MANY sinful CRAVINGS using one or more of the FIVE SENSES.
When UNDER the power of the EVIL ONE, the
body of flesh engages in consuming many things in the natural world by SMELLING
them, or SEEING them, TASTING them, HEARING about them, or TOUCHING them.
While the body is
ENGAGED, or INTERACTING or EXPERIENCING the consumption of sinful things within
the natural world, through the FIVE SENSES, the SOUL is learning something
about what they are doing.
Whatever the SOUL is
learning, through the body of flesh and one or more of the FIVE SENSES, it
SENDS that INFORMATION to the heart (brain), to inform the thoughts in order to
direct or motivate their behavior.
God created the heart
(brain) to be the information center to help the soul observe, perceive, learn,
experience, and make decisions about HIS CREATED WORLD.
INITIALLY, the body of
flesh, through the FIVE SENSES, helped the SOUL engage, interact, and experience
God’s “GOOD” created world. For example, SIGHT
helped with visual learning. HEARING helped with
associating different sounds. TASTE helped with
learning to discriminate one preferable thing from another. SMELL helped by providing memories. TOUCH helped with experimental learning.
In the BEGINNING ALL of
mankind’s FIVE SENSES were influenced by GOD’S GOOD CREATED WORLD. “….God saw every thing he had made… [he said], it was VERY GOOD…”
(Genesis 1:31 KJV).
AFTER
THE FALL, the body of flesh, through the FIVE SENSES,
continued to help the SOUL engage, interact, and experience the natural world,
but NOW it was UNDER the power of the
EVIL ONE. SIGHT “STILL” helped with visual
learning. HEARING “STILL” helped with associating different
sounds. TASTE “STILL” helped with learning to
discriminate one preferable thing from another. SMELL
“STILL” helped by providing memories. TOUCH “STILL” helped
with experimental learning.
The
original God-given body of flesh and its
healthy FIVE SENSES totally disappears by becoming dysfunctional. What the body
of flesh and its five senses learn, in
the world under the power of the EVIL ONE, becomes the FAMILIAR and
CONDITIONED responses to the natural world.
NOW all of mankind’s
FIVE SENSES are influenced by A WORLD under the POWER of the EVIL ONE. “...We know … that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one”
(1 John 5:19 RSV). “…Know ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom
ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
(Romans 6:16 KJV).
The body of flesh and its FIVE SENSES (now perverted
and dysfunctional) become CONTROLLED by the EVIL ONE. The EVIL ONE is able to
continue to control the behavior of the
redeemed - long after the body of flesh is dead and crucified - through the
COGNITIVE affect HE has LEFT within the heart and MIND.
The
redeemed STILL blame the body of flesh, which is crucified and doesn’t
recognize they are being controlled, manipulated, and forced to continue to do
things they don’t want to do, because the EVIL ONE is influencing their
BEHAVIOR through the untransformed MIND. The
untransformed MIND has been CONDITIONED to response to the EVIL ONE’s dictates.
Nobody likes to be controlled, manipulated, or forced to do something, so the EVIL ONE, through their “own” untransformed MINDS, influences the redeemed to fall prey to his tactics and make them think its them.
Nobody likes to be controlled, manipulated, or forced to do something, so the EVIL ONE, through their “own” untransformed MINDS, influences the redeemed to fall prey to his tactics and make them think its them.
The
untransformed MIND has been brainwashed by the EVIL one. The EVIL ONE used
WORLDLY and CARNAL influences every minute, second, hour, day, week, and year
to gain, sustain, or maintain control of mankind by dictating their beliefs,
attitudes, personalities, identities, and by conditioning behavior.
The
EVIL ONE changes and conditions mankind’s behavior in order to totally
eradicate any image or likeness of God, the
Holy Spirit.
Everything,
in the world and UNDER the power of the EVIL ONE is used to PERSUADE and REFORM
mankind’s THINKING or MINDSET toward SIN.
This
persuasion can be OVERT or COVERT. But, nevertheless, EVERYTHING “IN” the world
is designed to educate, affect, influence, and condition mankind toward a
CARNAL mindset.
This
PERSUASION is what is called BRAINWASHING, where EVERYTHING in the WORLD,
combined together, is meant to SEVERELY influence the WAY mankind THINKS.
This
BRAINWASHING is DONE without mankind’s consent and without the permission of
mankind’s human will. “...We know … that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one”
(1 John 5:19 RSV).
The
EVIL ONE’S brainwashing techniques INVADE every fiber of mankind’s THINKING and
proves the WHOLE WORLD is UNDER his EVIL power. “... the whole world lies
under the power of
the evil one” (1 John 5:19 RSV).
EVERYTHING
in the world and under the EVIL ONE’s power is designed to ISOLATE mankind from
God’s TRUTH to ensure they ONLY follow after HIM and his EVIL WAYS.
The
reason the EVIL ONE isolates mankind from God’s TRUTH is to REMAIN in COMPLETE
CONTROL over HIS or HER SOUL. The EVIL ONE wants to CONTROL everything that the
SOUL does, through the body of flesh and its dictates (perverted FIVE SENSES).
This
CONTROL includes what and how they eat, how they love, how they engage with the
opposite or same sex, how they interact with other people, their appetites, their
orientations, their choices, or how they experience all aspects of life.
The
EVIL ONE uses the natural WORLD to systematically KILL, STEAL, and DESTROY
mankind’s original identity as a “LIVING SOUL” until he or she doesn’t even
remember or care that they were once a “LIVING SOUL.”
The
EVIL ONE replaces their original identity with HIS evil set of VALUES that will
guide their behavior toward sin. The EVIL ONE also establishes another identity
for mankind, which comes through the sinful nature, and is CHRONICALLY
influenced or conditioned by the EVIL ONE’S carnal environments.
The
EVIL ONE’S brainwashing is DONE through MIND conditioning and CONTROL which is
a POWERFUL and effective WAY to GAIN influence over the lost soul.
When a
person BECOMES a NEW CREATION in Christ, it DESTROYS the EVIL ONE’s
brainwashing process and the OLD identity through the body of flesh and it dictates
(perverted FIVE SENSES) is OVER.
However,
in order to STOP being affected and influenced by the OLD IDENTITY a redeemed
person CHOOSES to renew their MINDS, which ERADICATES the brainwashing process from
the HEART and MIND DONE by the EVIL ONE.
In
psychological terms the conditioned responses influenced by the EVIL ONE can be
extinguished when they are NO LONGER reinforced.
When
HUNGER and APPETITE is no longer motivated by the SMELLS of unhealthy food or
the SIGHT of unhealthy food they can be restored to health and wholeness.
The EVIL ONE uses the FIVE SENSES of mankind, like the serpent did
Eve in the garden, to gain control OVER the SOUL. The FIVE SENSES are powerful
SOURCES to motivate BEHAVIOR. “…The woman [became] ... convinced
(THROUGH SOUND) [to eat from the tree, anyway]... She saw (SIGHT) that the tree
was beautiful and its fruit looked (SIGHT) delicious (TASTE), and she wanted (LUST of the EYES and FLESH)
the wisdom (PRIDE of LIFE) it would give her. So she took (TOUCH) some of the fruit and ate it (TASTE)...”
(Genesis 3:1-7 NLT). “….She [choose to take] ... some of the
fruit and [eat] ... IT. Then she gave some
to her husband, who was with her, and HE ATE IT, too …” (Genesis 3:1-7 NLT).
One or
more of the FIVE SENSES motivated Eve to BEHAVE in the WAY the serpent WANTED
her to. Eve DID exactly what the SERPENT wanted her to DO by ENTICING and
MANIPULATING one or more of her FIVE SENSES.
The EVIL
ONE (the serpent) ENTICED, DECEIVED, MANIPULATED, INFLUENCED, and CONNED the
women through one or more of Eve’s FIVE SENSES. He tricked her into DOING exactly
what he WANTED her TO DO. The EVIL ONE understands the body of flesh and its FIVE SENSES were NOT created to FOLLOW AFTER
GOD; it never could and it never would. “... the sinful nature ... never did obey (follow after) God’s laws, and it never will. (FOLLOW AFTER GOD’S HOLY
LAW)...” (Romans 8:5-7 NLT).
The
EVIL ONE ALSO knew the SOUL would have NO POWER over the body of flesh WITHOUT the
indwelling Holy Spirit. “…Apart from [the Holy Spirit]… [mankind cannot]... do nothing [they
cannot have power over the body of flesh]…” (John
15:5 NIV).
The
EVIL ONE knew he could use the body of flesh to engage one or more of the FIVE
SENSES and manipulate EVE into “eating
the apple” by using her human will. “…The woman [became] ... convinced
(THROUGH SOUND) [to eat from the tree]... She saw (SIGHT) that the tree was
beautiful and its fruit looked (SIGHT) delicious (TASTE), and she wanted (LUST of the FLESH) the
wisdom (PRIDE of LIFE) it would give her. So
she took (TOUCH) some of the fruit and ate it (TASTE)...”
(Genesis 3:1-7 NLT). “….She [choose to take] ... some of the
fruit and [eat] IT (the information put into heart, informed her mind, which
directed her behavior) ... Then she gave some to her husband,
who was with her, and HE ATE IT, too …” (Genesis 3:1-7 NLT).
The
EVIL ONE used Eve’s body of flesh and its FIVE SENSES to gain control
of her MIND and thus her behavior. God, the
Holy Spirit, GAVE mankind (Adam and Eve) one HOLY instruction: “…of every tree of the garden THOU MAYEST FREELY
EAT: But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou SHALT NOT EAT of
it; for in THE
DAY THAT THOU EATEST thereof THOU SHALT SURELY DIE…”
(Genesis 2:16-17 KJV).
The
EVIL ONE’S manipulation and DECEIT was intentional, because he KNEW, without the indwelling Holy Spirit, he
could take POWER of the natural world from Adam and Eve. “...God blessed them and said to them, “...Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it ...RULE OVER (have dominion over).... Then God said, “I give you
every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole
earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be
yours for food ...And it was so...” (Genesis 1:28-31 KJV). “….Apart
from [the indwelling Holy Spirit]…YOU CAN DO NOTHING…” (John 15:5 NIV).
When Adam and Eve FOLLOWED AFTER the EVIL ONE through the body of flesh and its FIVE SENSES, they became HIS SERVANTS and everything they
had became his. “…Know
ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or
of obedience unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16 KJV). “...the whole world lies under
the power of the evil one” (1
John 5:19 RSV).
A
slave owns nothing, because EVERYTHING they have belongs to their DICTATOR and
he USES all their possessions as he pleases.
The
EVIL ONE’s techniques are always DECEITFUL; he is a LIAR. He has used his lies upon
mankind from the beginning by entangling the body of flesh and
its FIVE SENSES into a “yoke of bondage.”
Now ALL OF MANKIND HAS BECOME BRAINWASHED
and CONDITIONED by
“HIS” lies, HIS WORLDLY INFLUENCES. and HIS SINFUL BEHAVIORS. “…He
was a murderer from
the beginning (he KILLED the relationship between God and mankind) … for
he is a liar and the father of lies… (The EVIL ONE lied in order
to separate mankind from God)…”
(John 8:44 NASB).
Let’s
take a LOOK:
GOD SAID: “…of every tree of the garden THOU MAYEST FREELY
EAT: But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou SHALT NOT EAT of
it; for in THE
DAY THAT THOU EATEST thereof THOU SHALT SURELY DIE…”
(Genesis 2:16-17 KJV).
The EVIL ONE “lied” and SAID: “…ye shall not surely die.…”
(Genesis 3:4-5 KJV). HE LIED, BECAUSE THEY DIED SPIRITUALLY, IMMEDIATELY!
THE WOMAN WAS CONVINCED BY THE
EVIL ONE:
“…The woman [became] ... convinced (THROUGH SOUND) [to eat from the tree,
anyway]... She saw (SIGHT) that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked
(SIGHT) delicious (TASTE), and she
wanted (LUST of the EYES and FLESH) the wisdom (PRIDE of LIFE) it would
give her. So she took (TOUCH) some of
the fruit and ate it (TASTE)...” (Genesis 3:1-7 NLT).
Mankind
was LEFT with the body of flesh and was demoted to servanthood under the power
of the EVIL ONE. The indwelling Holy
Spirit of LOVE, GOODNESS, POWER, PEACE, and HOLINESS departed from the
SOUL. “…[Their]...
INIQUITIES (sin) ....separated (divided them)... [from
their] God…” (Isaiah 59:2 KJV). . “…Know
ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey (follow after), his servants ye are to whom ye obey (follow
after); whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
(Romans 6:16 KJV). “...the whole world lies under
the power of the evil one” (1
John 5:19 RSV).
PAY ATTENTION: The body of flesh is DEAD and CRUCIFIED, but the
COGNITIVE AFFECT, it had, upon the HEART and MIND is NOT!
Here
are some suggestions in order to remove and STOP the evil one’s brainwashing
influence:
1. The redeemed CHOOSES to follow God’s instruction about renewing their hearts and minds in order to REMOVE and STOP the continual brainwashing influence of the EVIL ONE. “… Be transformed by the renewing of your mind….” (Romans 12:2 KJV).
2. The redeemed CHOOSES to follow God’s instruction about fellowshipping in order to surround themselves with like-minded people. “...And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near...” (Hebrews 10:25 NLT). “... Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching...” (Hebrews 10:25 KJV).
3. The redeemed chooses to follow God’s instructions by trusting and depending upon the indwelling Holy Spirit to empower them to walk and live in their new freedom. “…God ...does the work IN AND THROUGH all of us who are his… (1 Corinthians 12:4-11 NLT).
4. The redeemed chooses to follow God’s instructions to pray and spend time (abide) with God, the Holy Spirit. “…abide in me, and I in you…” (John 15:4 KJV). GOD IS, “.. A Light of revelation...” (LUKE 2:32 NASB). “...that they might know [have intimate, revelation knowledge of] thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ...” (John 17:3 KJV).
5. The redeemed choose to follow God’s instructions by becoming aware of their new identity as a NEW CREATIONS in Christ. “…Therefore if any man (woman) be in Christ, he (she) is a NEW creature …” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV). “...For in him we live, and move, and have our being (identity); as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring...” (Acts 17:28 KJV).
6. The redeemed choose to follow God’s instructions to transform, conform, and become renewed in their mind. God knew long after, the body of flesh is DEAD and CRUCIFIED, it would be necessary, for the redeemed, to process through ridding themselves of the influences the old nature had upon the HEART and MIND. “…Be transformed by the renewing of your mind….” (Romans 12:2 KJV). “…be conformed to the image of his Son…” (ROMANS 8:29 KJV). “…the will of God (his heart’s desire, his choice, what he wants, etc.), [is]…your SANCTIFICATION …” (1 Thessalonians 4:3 NASB). “ ... in the PROCESS of TIME “IT” CAME TO PASS…” (Genesis 4:3 KJV).
1. The redeemed CHOOSES to follow God’s instruction about renewing their hearts and minds in order to REMOVE and STOP the continual brainwashing influence of the EVIL ONE. “… Be transformed by the renewing of your mind….” (Romans 12:2 KJV).
2. The redeemed CHOOSES to follow God’s instruction about fellowshipping in order to surround themselves with like-minded people. “...And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near...” (Hebrews 10:25 NLT). “... Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching...” (Hebrews 10:25 KJV).
3. The redeemed chooses to follow God’s instructions by trusting and depending upon the indwelling Holy Spirit to empower them to walk and live in their new freedom. “…God ...does the work IN AND THROUGH all of us who are his… (1 Corinthians 12:4-11 NLT).
4. The redeemed chooses to follow God’s instructions to pray and spend time (abide) with God, the Holy Spirit. “…abide in me, and I in you…” (John 15:4 KJV). GOD IS, “.. A Light of revelation...” (LUKE 2:32 NASB). “...that they might know [have intimate, revelation knowledge of] thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ...” (John 17:3 KJV).
5. The redeemed choose to follow God’s instructions by becoming aware of their new identity as a NEW CREATIONS in Christ. “…Therefore if any man (woman) be in Christ, he (she) is a NEW creature …” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV). “...For in him we live, and move, and have our being (identity); as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring...” (Acts 17:28 KJV).
6. The redeemed choose to follow God’s instructions to transform, conform, and become renewed in their mind. God knew long after, the body of flesh is DEAD and CRUCIFIED, it would be necessary, for the redeemed, to process through ridding themselves of the influences the old nature had upon the HEART and MIND. “…Be transformed by the renewing of your mind….” (Romans 12:2 KJV). “…be conformed to the image of his Son…” (ROMANS 8:29 KJV). “…the will of God (his heart’s desire, his choice, what he wants, etc.), [is]…your SANCTIFICATION …” (1 Thessalonians 4:3 NASB). “ ... in the PROCESS of TIME “IT” CAME TO PASS…” (Genesis 4:3 KJV).
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