Our physical senses are gateways to our hearts, but spiritual eyes and ears allow us to perceive God's truth beyond the physical world. This spiritual insight is crucial for understanding and believing in God's promises. As we mature in our faith, we learn to rely more on what we know in our hearts than what we see with our eyes. This understanding shapes our faith and belief, allowing us to see beyond our natural limitations and into the spiritual realm where God operates. [07:54]
"For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them." (Matthew 13:15, ESV)
Reflection: Consider a recent situation where you relied solely on your physical senses. How might spiritual insight have changed your perspective or actions in that situation?
Day 2: Multidimensional Reality
Science and faith intersect in the concept of multiple dimensions, where God's truth operates beyond the limitations of our physical world. This understanding challenges us to expand our thinking and recognize the limitless possibilities with God. Quantum physics suggests a reality that aligns with biblical truths, highlighting that God operates outside of our known universe, unrestricted by time and space. This challenges us to expand our thinking and recognize that nothing is impossible with God. [15:01]
"By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible." (Hebrews 11:3, ESV)
Reflection: In what area of your life do you need to expand your thinking to recognize the limitless possibilities with God? How can you begin to do that today?
Day 3: Faith Beyond Facts
The facts of our physical world must bow to the higher truth of God's word. Our faith is strengthened when we rely on spiritual understanding rather than our natural senses. This means that even when circumstances seem impossible, we can trust in God's promises and His ability to work beyond what we can see or understand. As we grow in spiritual maturity, we train our senses to discern spiritual realities, enabling us to live in alignment with God's higher purposes. [19:46]
"For we walk by faith, not by sight." (2 Corinthians 5:7, ESV)
Reflection: Identify a fact or situation in your life that seems insurmountable. How can you begin to trust in God's higher truth and promises in this area?
Day 4: Training Spiritual Senses
As we mature in faith, we train our spiritual senses to discern God's reality, allowing us to operate on a higher dimension and influence our circumstances according to His will. This spiritual insight allows us to see beyond our circumstances and believe in God's promises, even when they defy natural logic. By training our spiritual senses, we align ourselves with God's higher purposes and live beyond the limits of our natural world. [32:10]
"But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil." (Hebrews 5:14, ESV)
Reflection: What is one practical step you can take this week to train your spiritual senses and discern God's reality more clearly in your life?
Day 5: Wisdom and Revelation
Spiritual growth requires wisdom and revelation, which elevate us to see from God's perspective. This understanding transforms our faith and empowers us to live beyond the limits of our natural world. By seeking wisdom and revelation, we gain spiritual insight that allows us to see beyond our circumstances and believe in God's promises, even when they defy natural logic. This spiritual insight is crucial for understanding and believing in God's promises. [46:26]
"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints." (Ephesians 1:17-18, ESV)
Reflection: How can you seek God's wisdom and revelation in your daily life? What specific area of your life do you need His perspective on today?
Sermon Summary
In today's exploration of "Multidimensional Faith: Living Beyond the Limits," we delved into the profound intersection of faith, science, and the spiritual dimensions that shape our reality. Reflecting on the times we live in, it's crucial to recognize that we might be on the cusp of significant spiritual events, akin to Olympic sprinters who prepare for years for a brief but pivotal moment. Our preparation as believers is not just for the here and now but for the unfolding of God's ultimate plan.
We explored the concept of multidimensional faith, emphasizing the importance of seeing beyond our natural limitations. Our physical senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell—are confined to the four-dimensional world, which includes time. However, true reality extends beyond these dimensions, into the spiritual realm where God operates. This realm is not bound by the physical laws we know; it is a higher dimension where God's truth prevails over earthly facts.
The Bible teaches us that our eyes and ears are gateways to our hearts, influencing what fills our souls. Yet, we also possess spiritual eyes and ears, which allow us to perceive and understand God's truth beyond the physical world. This understanding is crucial as it shapes our faith and belief. As we mature in our faith, we learn to rely more on what we know in our hearts than what we see with our eyes.
Science, particularly quantum physics, has begun to uncover the existence of multiple dimensions, suggesting a reality that aligns with biblical truths. These discoveries highlight that God operates outside of our known universe, unrestricted by time and space. This understanding challenges us to expand our thinking and recognize that nothing is impossible with God.
To operate on a higher dimension with God, we need wisdom, revelation, and understanding. This spiritual insight allows us to see beyond our circumstances and believe in God's promises, even when they defy natural logic. As we grow in spiritual maturity, we train our senses to discern spiritual realities, enabling us to live in alignment with God's higher purposes.
Key Takeaways
1. Spiritual Vision and Hearing: Our physical senses are gateways to our hearts, but spiritual eyes and ears allow us to perceive God's truth beyond the physical world. This spiritual insight is crucial for understanding and believing in God's promises. [07:54]
2. Multidimensional Reality: Science and faith intersect in the concept of multiple dimensions, where God's truth operates beyond the limitations of our physical world. This understanding challenges us to expand our thinking and recognize the limitless possibilities with God. [15:01]
3. Faith Beyond Facts: The facts of our physical world must bow to the higher truth of God's word. Our faith is strengthened when we rely on spiritual understanding rather than our natural senses. [19:46]
4. Training Spiritual Senses: As we mature in faith, we train our spiritual senses to discern God's reality, allowing us to operate on a higher dimension and influence our circumstances according to His will.[32:10]
5. Wisdom and Revelation: Spiritual growth requires wisdom and revelation, which elevate us to see from God's perspective. This understanding transforms our faith and empowers us to live beyond the limits of our natural world. [46:26] ** [46:26]
The Bible shows us that we have two sets of eyes. The Bible speaks of the importance of guarding our natural eyes because your physical eyes are one of the gateways to your heart or your soul. You can almost say that your eyes, and the other one, by the way, is your ears, eyes and ears. Your eyes and ears are the gateway or they make the deposits into your heart or your soul. [00:07:54](26 seconds)
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So not even always bad things. It might not be that you're looking or listening to something that's wrong, but what if you're looking at or listening to things that are outside of the things of God or the kingdom of God? Like you could be obsessed with watching the news and finding out what's happening and you can disguise it in, well, I'm just into prophecy, so I have to do this and nothing wrong with the news. [00:08:45](24 seconds)
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And one of the first things you learn as you begin to serve God is how important it is and how to differentiate and separate what your eyes are looking at and what the eyes of your heart are beholding or what you know on the inside. And then you'll begin to, as you mature, you rely more on what you know in here than what you're seeing on the outside out here. [00:10:19](23 seconds)
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Science, true understanding, science, physics, math, all should just undergird what God has already said or confirm it. Because if God has created all things, then science is just the study of beginning to understand what God has already done and already created. So we're going to go into that today. [00:03:51](19 seconds)
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And quantum physics says that there is one that they can't quite explain, but as they do the equations, they're seeing 10 dimensions of the reality of existence beyond the physical world. And then there's something that is influencing the 10 dimensional reality that's outside or above the 10 dimensions. [00:12:20](23 seconds)
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Come on, somebody, believers, right? And that's the 11th dimension reality. And we know as we begin to see this, you'll see that God operates outside of everything we know and understand. He is not limited by not just the physical world, but even the multiverse. Come on, it's not just Marvel that has a multiverse. It's true. There is a mathematically proven multidimensional existence that exists all around us at this very moment. [00:12:43](27 seconds)
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So physics is the study of the physical laws of the physical universe. But we're not just talking about a physical universe that we live and operate in. There's a spiritual universe that's a reality. So you have physics and then you have spisics, I guess I would like to call it, which is the spiritual study of the laws of the spiritual universe. [00:19:46](23 seconds)
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And the reason I want you to see this is because you are trained to think that reality is founded or grounded in the physical laws of the universe. And only what you can taste, touch, see, feel, hear, smell, what you can experience is real or true. And I'm here to tell you that really what your five physical senses can experience is actually not the reality, it's a lower level of reality. [00:20:05](29 seconds)
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Because I've said this before, facts must always bow down to the truth. You can have a physical fact, that's the possibility. If a doctor says that's the fact, that's okay, they're not lying. That is the natural physical laws. Because the fact of the laws of the universe says this is the situation and this is the reality. [00:20:49](22 seconds)
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So if you don't like the situation you're in, then you need to be seeking, God, how do I operate on the level that you're at so that I can see from your perspective and so that I can influence this situation according to your will? Let's believe God for his will to be done, even if the natural circumstance says it's the opposite of what God said. [00:33:54](24 seconds)
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So reality, you ready for this? For anyone on any dimension is defined by what one can see, comprehend and believe. Three things. Your reality is limited by the definition, not just the definition as in like the word definition, but the limitations, the borders of the reality are defined by what one can see, comprehend and believe. [00:36:24](30 seconds)
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So Paul is saying, as you mature, you are able to train your senses, not just your natural senses, but your spiritual senses. And you're now training yourself to discern or to see or understand not just the worldliness, the God of this world, but the kingdom of heaven too. And now you're able to recognize spiritual things, good things, things from the kingdom of God. [00:57:57](24 seconds)
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