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. 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. Faith involves action. . 1. ), He indwells your spirit. We must go over these truths from God’s word (meditate on them) until the reality of them dawns on us. Luke 11:13 2. Since that time no discussion that I have heard of the proofs of God’s existence has been able to shake my faith. Augustus Hare: Memorials, i. Eph 1:3–You now have access to, are hooked up with, are a possessor of all the resources of the unseen kingdom. Did he not love me? One may indeed be entirely without them; probably more than one of you here present is without them in any marked degree; but if you do have them, and have them at all strongly, the probability is that you cannot help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief. You have the same life in you that Jesus had when He was on earth. They give its "nature," as we call it, to every special thing. As I was speaking, the whole system rose up before me like a vague destiny looming from the Abyss. All our attitudes, moral, practical, or emotional, as well as religious, are due to the ‘objects’ of our consciousness, the things which we believe to exist, whether really or ideally, along with ourselves. "I have several times within the past few years felt the so-called ‘consciousness of a presence.’ The experiences which I have in mind are clearly distinguishable from another kind of experience which I have had very frequently, and which I fancy many persons would also call the ‘consciousness of a presence.’ But the difference for me between the two sets of experience is as great as the difference between feeling a slight warmth originating I know not where, and standing in the midst of a conflagration with all the ordinary senses alert. a. If it is some one whom I love, I feel it immediately, before any writing has come. There was, as I recall it, no sudden change of thought or of belief, except that my early crude conception had, as it were, burst into flower. I spoke of the convincingness of these feelings of reality, and I must dwell a moment longer on that point. Material and supernatural realities are either fully continuous or have a bazillion contact points. John 4:14; 7:37-39; 14:17; 20:22; Acts 1:4 a. ), Professor Flournoy of Geneva gives me the following testimony of a friend of his, a lady, who has the gift of automatic or involuntary writing: --, "Whenever I practice automatic writing, what makes me feel that it is not due to a subconscious self is the feeling I always have of a foreign presence, external to my body. I Thess 5:23. E. You must know that your heart and your mouth are vital elements involved in living by faith, by unseen realities. Probably every religious person has the recollection of particular crises in which a directer vision of the truth, a direct perception, perhaps, of a living God’s existence, swept in and overwhelmed the languor of the more ordinary belief. Not at all. 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.". The presence was that of the figure of a gray-bearded man dressed in a pepper and salt suit, squeezing himself under the crack of the door and moving across the floor of the room towards a sofa. Not one. 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. In James Russell Lowell’s correspondence there is a brief memorandum of an experience of this kind: --, "I had a revelation last Friday evening. It is the unseen things that give meaning to the things which are seen. 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. Located in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. D. You must know about the Holy Spirit and how He works. 1. But on two or three occasions he has ordered ways for me very contrary to my ambitions and plans. As time, space, and the ether soak through all things, so (we feel) do abstract and essential goodness, beauty, strength, significance, justice, soak through all things good, strong, significant, and just. unseen meaning: 1. not seen or not able to be seen: 2. not seen or not able to be seen: 3. not seen or not able…. . "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." Introduction: As Christians, we are supposed to live and walk by faith. and hereupon the visual hallucination came. These things, he said, are properly not objects of knowledge at all. Certainly the unhesitating and unreasoning way in which we feel that we must inflict our civilization upon ‘lower’ races, by means of Hotchkiss guns, etc., reminds one of nothing so much as of the early spirit of Islam spreading its religion by the sword. a. Heb 11:1–The theme of the chapter is faith. You can respond to evil with good. When Jesus was on earth, He brought unseen power on the scene by speaking. He gives us His word which tells us about unseen realties. These “unseen things” that sustain us through hardship have a life that is bigger and more permanent than our immediate circumstances. 1. John 3:3; 16:13,14; I Cor 2:9-12 b. Then, indeed, our intuitions and our reason work together, and great world-ruling systems, like that of the Buddhist or of the Catholic philosophy, may grow up. 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. I know I’ll defeat Satan in this situation. That life made you a literal, actual son or daughter of God. Such onlookers give us definitions that seem to the sombre minds of whom we have just been speaking to leave out all the solemnity that makes religious peace so different from merely animal joys. 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. The something seemed close to me, and intensely more real than any ordinary perception. This shows that you too value the mourning person. b. It refers, then, to such things as belief in God, the physical resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the hereafter, and so forth—things which Islam … . The feeling had something of the quality of a very large tearing vital pain spreading chiefly over the chest, but within the organism -- and yet the feeling was not pain so much as abhorrence. I confine myself to simply pointing out that they do so hold it as a matter of fact. A blank was there instead of It: I couldn’t find anything. He didn’t have to! In this lesson, we want to continue to talk about key things you must know about reality (as revealed in the Bible) if you are going to walk by faith. 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. Jesus said that those who are born of the Spirit (new birth) also need to be indwelled by the Holy Spirit. It is sometimes so definitely characterized that I could point to its exact position. 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. What we can see, hear, and feel we can take on face value that it is reality. 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. Eph 1:22; Rom 8:37 2. The first is from a man twenty-seven years old: --, "God is quite real to me. It is an important concept in Islam, encompassing "not only the realm of the divine, including angels, paradise, and hell, but also future events, which only God know". Col 1:13; Luke 17:20,21 a. II Cor 5:6–If you could step out of your body right now, you would see that realm and your connection to it. This may provoke a smile, but I can only tell you the facts as they occurred to me. a. ", Another statement (none the less valuable psychologically for being so decidedly childish) is that of a boy of seventeen: --. Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. 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 don’t think I ever doubted the existence of God, or had him drop out of my consciousness. God functions in both parts of this one real existence. You are now healed. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is sometimes called the faith hall of fame because it lists numerous OT saints commended by God for their faith. The memory of an insult may make us angrier than the insult did when we received it. So, don’t miss that today. 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. 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. I John 5:11,12; II Pet 1:4 a. What do they mean to the practitioners? It has been debated whether that which follows is a definition of what faith is, or in reality a description of what faith does. Whenever I had any trouble, especially when I had conflict with other people, either domestically or in the way of business, or when I was depressed in spirits or anxious about affairs, I now recognize that I used to fall back for support upon this curious relation I felt myself to be in to this fundamental cosmical It. Remember those passages from Emerson which I read at my last lecture. Heb 6:12;11:6; I John 5:4 2. Yet strangely enough they have a definite meaning for our practice. I Pet 2:24 c. When you were born again, healing went into effect in you, vitally. 1. John 11:39; Mark 4:38; Indian and gun story 2. In my last lecture I quoted to you the ultra-radical opinion of Mr. Havelock Ellis, that laughter of any sort may be considered a religious exercise, for it bears witness to the soul’s emancipation. ), "I was in perfect health: we were on our sixth day of tramping, and in good training. 3. 2. You must learn to see yourself from that stand point. But with such vague conjectures we have no concern at present, for our interest lies with the faculty rather than with its organic seat. a. . The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual’s past experience directly serves as a model. Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the light. He is in you to bring the life of God in your spirit into your mind and body in fullness. I then sat down on a stone, unable to stand any longer, and my eyes overflowed with tears. B. 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 … Before we entered the unseen world, we paid money—good money—trusting there was something worth discovering. It takes time and effort to get to that point. It means the depth dimension of the now. The blind subject of this quasi-hallucination is an exceptionally intelligent reporter. b. c. Both of these elements are necessary to live by faith — heart persuasion and continual confession. But it would clearly not have been unnatural to interpret them as a revelation of the deity’s existence. When Jesus hung on the Cross, the Father put our sicknesses on Him and He took them, removed them. 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. 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. To live by faith means to live your life based on unseen realities which have been revealed to us in the Bible. (Example: "Nature is always so interesting, under whatever aspect she shows herself, that when it rains, I seem to see a beautiful woman weeping. He has promised to make His word good in your body — make the unseen seen. ( Symposium, Jowett, 1871, i. The realities of the benefits of virtue. . 3. So much for our sense of the reality of the religious objects. LIVING BY UNSEEN REALITIES --PT II Living By Unseen Realities Living By Unseen realities II God's Faithfulnss How Unseen Realities Work The Now Kingdom Two Kinds Of Knowledge Invisble Realities Mysteres Revealed 1. Yet it may upon occasion do so; and the same correspondent informs me that at more than one other conjuncture he had the sense of presence developed with equal intensity and abruptness, only then it was filled with a quality of joy. One cannot forget the loss but comes to terms with reality. I could give hundreds of instances, in school matters, social problems, financial difficulties, etc. ." Lie low, rather, lie low; for you are in the hands of a living God. All sorts of higher abstractions bring with them the same kind of impalpable appeal. Besides, I had wept uninterruptedly for several minutes, my eyes were swollen, and I did not wish my companions to see me. c. Now, we must speak out unseen realities. When you were born again, the life and nature of God came into you. Does this mean that they these chariots do not exist? The whole universe of concrete objects, as we know them, swims, not only for such a transcendentalist writer, but for all of us, in a wider and higher universe of abstract ideas, that lend it its significance. "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. My last word will be, ‘I have been dreaming.’" (Pensees d’un Solitaire, p. The ancients described this combo as the 'seen and unseen'. It was deep calling unto deep,- the deep that my own struggle had opened up within being answered by the unfathomable deep without, reaching beyond the stars. For me this Reality was not the pure Unknowable of Spencer’s philosophy, for although I had ceased my childish prayers to God, and never prayed to It in a formal manner, yet my more recent experience shows me to have been in a relation to It which practically was the same thing as prayer. The unseen armies of God provide hope. If we are going to experience all that God has provided for us, the unseen must be as real to us as the seen. An intimate friend of mine, one of the keenest intellects I know, has had several experiences of this sort. The power of God is not limited to what you can see. Then, slowly, the ecstasy left my heart; that is, I felt that God had withdrawn the communion which he had granted, and I was able to walk on, but very slowly, so strongly was I still possessed by the interior emotion. I think it well to add that in this ecstasy of mine God had neither form, color, odor, nor taste; moreover, that the feeling of his presence was accompanied with no determinate localization. We are frequently more ashamed of our blunders afterwards than we were at the moment of making them; and in general our whole higher prudential and moral life is based on the fact that material sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than ideas of remoter facts. Grieve with the person who is bereaved. 26.) c. In other words, we become God inside minded. b. And then again I feel as if I could sit beside him, and put my arms around him, kiss him, etc. 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. 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