Lesson 3
Introduction
to the Brain Soul Complex
THE REAL YOU - THE SOUL
1. There must be a distinction made between the material
brain process and the 'living soul'.
a. The brain as we have noted is made up of a various
physiochemical components. Balance of those components is crucial for its
proper function.
b. The living soul is a substance, but far different and
more than just its constituent neuro-chemical and
physiochemical elements in the brain.
c. The brain is made of a material substance, while the
soul is made up of a higher electrical energy not yet categorized by the
physicists, and yet a very real substance.
2. The brain with
its 'computer' like function is either the "ruler of the soul" or is
"ruled by the soul" though the function of one's volition.
3. Being a part of
the "body of corruption", ie, containing the sin nature the brain computer has
excellent opportunity to perpetuate on the soul inaccurate and twisted concepts
that may be stored there.
4. Prin: The Brain-computer has a natural tendency to record
and feed out the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and an unnatural tendency in that
it will NOT handle divine viewpoint of its own initiative. (always
twists and distorts)
5. Only the soul
overruling the brain-computer and programming the brain with doctrine, will
ever convert it from a storage bank of the knowledge of good and evil to the
storage banks of doctrine.
- we are given the where with all to make this happen by grace
-
renewing of the mind, building the frame of reference needed
6. And even then
with doctrine stored in the interpretative cortex through the brain-stem, which
is the feeder-stem, the read-out stem, will distort doctrine and give the soul
an inaccurate read-out apart from the ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
- natural and the spiritual paths
7. Under the
ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who indwells the body along with the sin
nature, takes control of the computer and imposes on it or plugs into it a
supernatural circuitry (grace bypass) through which clear and non-contaminated
or distorted doctrine can travel to the analysis center of the soul.
a. For the believer there are two late residents of the
body: (late resident = not present when God created man in His image)
1.
The Sin Nature.
2.
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
b.
The Sin
Nature being part of the genetic engineering of each cell, including the brain,
rules the body in such a way that its trends are all 'naturally' away from the
policy of God. (DVPT)
c.
The indwelling
of the Holy Spirit has no effect on this rule of the Sin Nature except under
conditions of the empowering of the Holy Spirit.
1. The B/HS breaks the power of the sin nature over the
body positionally.
2. The E/HS breaks the power of the sin nature over the
body experientially.
d.
In Eph 5:18 we're given the command to be filled by the Spirit.
1. It is through the fulfillment of this command that
believer realizes the influence and enablement or empowerment to live the CWOL,
to actually reflect the character of Christ in their life.
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pres pass imp. the
pres. is customary; i.e. it is to be an
ongoing condition in life of all Bel's.
2. What this
involves is the setting aside of the ruling power and influence of the sin
nature which is genetically engineered into the brain-stem and brain as well as
every cell of the body.
3. The Holy Spirit
fully influences by plugging in a new spiritual brain-stem ie,
the human spirit.
4. This supernatural circuitry is the means of getting accurate
and lucid doctrine into the analysis center of the soul.
5. For the Unbeliever the Holy Spirit acts as a human
spirit during His pre-salvation convicting ministry and booms the information
of the Gospel into the analysis center automatically at Gospel hearing
6. For the Believer
under the filling or empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit, the sin nature is
neutralized and the information goes automatically through the super natural
bypass, the Human Spirit.
e. The use of the volition to shut down the function of
the ministry, or empowering of the Holy Spirit is described by two words:
quench and grieve.
If
either of these conditions is true than the individual no longer is walking by
the Spirit.
1. Quench is sbe,nnumi and means to restrain in the
sense of stopping the function in question.
a.
This
stands for mechanically using the volition of the soul to restrain the control
of the physical brain-stem by God the Holy Spirit.
b. In Eph 5:18 the
believer is told not to be under the influence of alcohol to the extent of
intoxication, but to be under the influence of the Holy Spirit to the extent of
imitation of God. (vs
5:1) (great
analogy)
c.
Alcohol
in control of the body is a depressant and its symptoms are staggered gait,
blurred or double vision, impaired reflexes, reduced mental functions,
increased pulse rate, a decrease in blood pressure, dilated pupils, flushed skin, drowsiness and stupor.
d.
The
influence of alcohol on the body is
analogous spiritually to the sin nature in rulership of the life where it
dominates the thoughts, choices and actions etc.; all the while the ministry of the Spirit in
the life of the believer is suppressed and distorted.
The result
is the Believer being under the influence, or domination of a totally inferior
way of living.
e. Under
intoxication, the alcohol so saturates the cells of the body that the
coordination of their function is totally interrupted; this is analogous to the
contamination of every cell of the body by the sin nature inherited from Adam
so that the natural function as created by God in the garden is now totally
interrupted.
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Adam, Eve after the fall demonstrated their distorted perception of reality and
reactions; operation fig leaf; tried to hide from God; operation pass
the buck; they also distorted their knowledge of God.
f. The antithetical option open to the Believer is to be
under the control of God the Holy Spirit who also indwells the body.
g.
Under
the control of the Holy-Spirit the now natural trends of the contaminated body
of corruption are set aside, including those in the brain-stem which give
incorrect read-outs to the soul.
h.
These
cells are not 'converted' into 'good' use, because even though the Holy Spirit
is in control, He will not use anything which falls into the category of -R
under which all the body of corruption falls.
i.
Therefore a new spiritual apparatus, the human spirit is given to the
Believer at the new birth, for the specific purpose of serving as the spiritual
circuitry between the old set aside brain-stem and the living soul, the real
you.
j. Therefore
'quench' or 'restrain' means to stop this function of God the Holy Spirit by
deliberate choice to sin or rejection of the will / Word of God.
In
either case, the volition of the soul acts to 'flip' the switch in the B/C
which turns off the ministry of the Holy Spirit and reactivates the sin nature.
This
all occurs when? We choose to stop
walking by the Spirit!
2. When the believer chooses to sin, he chooses to
'restrain' the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
a.
The
result is the anthropopathism of 'grief', ie. God the
Holy Spirit is co-equal and co-eternal with the other members of the Trinity
and none of them have ever been unhappy, much less
grieved.
b.
'Grief'
is the result of a broken relationship whereas 'restrain' describes the act of
the volition to shut the ministry of the HS down,
c.
Grieving
the Holy Spirit therefore simply means that the "living soul's"
relationship with the Holy Spirit is broken, severed, cut off, shut down and
the relationship of the "living soul" is now with the sin nature and
the body of corruption.
9. This supernatural circuitry includes the human spirit
functioning as a
spiritual brain-stem and giving direct, clear and accurate
read-outs of doctrine or divine viewpoint to the soul's analysis center, which
the body of corruption or brain can never do.
10. The brain, as a part of the
body of corruption, can not give accurate read-outs to the soul's analysis
center on any subject including doctrine. This is the reason that the only
accurate interpretation of history, economics, ethics, etc, can be received by
the Believer under the rulership of the Holy Spirit.