Christ Revealed in His Own Word #35
How
Our Five Senses Work
Wednesday
Evening, August 7, 1996
Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship
[Jude 1: 24] Unto Him who is able to
keep you from falling... Prayer. . .
[Christ Revealed in His Own Word], ( pp. 23) “And last Sunday when we was going into those cycles about how that the
five senses on the outer realm... That's the inlet, five senses to the body. There's only one way you can get into the
body, that's by those five senses: See, taste, feel, smell, and hear; there's no other way to contact the--the
body. (24) On the inside of that man is a man called
spirit. And he has five senses: Think and thought, and love, and conscience,
and so forth. All right. (25) Now, you can't think with your
body; you think with your mind. And in there is where too many of Christians
only stop. And they can, just like the corn in the field and the weed in the
field, they can be anointed with the same Holy Spirit that the real believer's
anointed with. But down on the inside of that next realm, the third realm, is the soul; and that's predestinated by
God. There's where the real seed-germ lays, is in there. (26) And remember, if I'd take a cocklebur and
cut it open, graft into it the heart of a wheat and put it there, bury it, it
would bring forth a wheat out of the cocklebur, no matter what the outside is,
what the emotions. ]
[53 Super Sense
59-1227E] God gave those senses, but they're given to
you as a gift. And it depends on how
you, what you yield these senses to, will be the way that your life is
controlled: the way you yield those
five senses, you're... What you see, what you hear, what you taste, smell,
or feel, whatever those senses are
yielded to, they will dominate you.
And we are grateful to God that we have the five senses, but by no means was these five senses given
to you to guide you. They were given
to you for earthly contact. But there was
given you the sixth sense, and that sixth sense is--belongs only to the Christian. And you cannot have this sixth sense until you become a Christian,
is the only way that you can ever have any more than the five natural senses
for the natural person. The sixth sense
is better known, to the Christian, as faith. It's the one that governs and guides you, and it is superior to all the other senses. It's a superior to all of the
senses, the other five senses.
[127 Perfect
Strength 61-1119] We're controlled by five senses, and those five senses: see,
taste, feel, smell, and hear is very fine
until they interrupt the sense of faith. Then when they come against
faith... And how do you know which one's right? Because faith will always agree with the Word. And then if your faith is contrary to the Word,
or you think it is, then you haven't got faith. You've got a make-belief. You've got a boast in your senses of some
scholarship that you've learned about, or something. But when you get away from
that and depend completely upon faith, and faith
can only be built upon the Word of God: correct faith.
[58 Super Sense 59-1227E]
The five senses does not control
the sixth sense, but the sixth sense controls the five senses. The super sense
controls the natural senses. And the--the five
senses is see, taste, feel, smell, hear.
And the super sense is something that'll make you believe God's Word, for
that's the only thing it'll speak about. And it'll make you believe for
things that you can't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear, 'cause it'll take God's Word. And it will deliver that Word to
you, and make you walk contrary to any other thing there is but God's Word. By
faith, faith does it.
This evening we
want to examine further these thoughts on the five outer senses and also the
fact that he said, we d not think with these senses but we think with the inner
senses. Although these five outer senses govern and control us we know the
sixth sense which is faith is not controlled by them. So then we have something
in us which is Faith which is more powerful than the other five senses. What I
would like to do tonight is to begin examining these five outer senses and the
five inner senses and I want us to come to the place where we can see the
relationship between these two pairs of five senses. Now remember, he said the inner senses are the ones that we do
our thinking and reasoning with, but then he also said the outer ones govern
and control the inner ones. And yet he also said there is an Inner/inner one
that comes forth from the very soul which controls them all and that comes from
the sixth sense which is Faith. Now also remember that he told us as we read to
you last Sunday that only the Believer can posses this sixth sense.
Christ Revealed in His Own Word #35
Wednesday Evening, August
7, 1996
And so in our
dialogue and examination of how these
senses outer and senses inner and this sixth sense work, we must take into
consideration that we are speaking of only the Believer. I can not speak for
the unbeliever. He is unregenerate in his mind and therefore no more than a
mere brute beast. And this ought to make you young people pay close attention
because if only the Believer may possess a sixth sense which is Faith and also
which is The Holy Spirit then to marry someone other than a real true believer
you will be joining yourself to a mere brute beast just like Eve did with the
serpent back in the beginning. And I hope you all know by now that the source
of every trouble you have in the body and in the spirit is a result of that
false union. And further more, what are the odds that your children won’t be
nothing but brute beasts. And then what sorts of trouble will you have with
them down the road. Now just because you marry a believer does not necessarily
mean that all your children will be believers, and able to posses the Sixth
sense of Faith, but they stand a far better chance of carrying on the Gene of
God life coming from the product of two believers who possess this Gene Life of
God than they would if only one of the parents has it.
But any way,
we’ll try to stay focused on these five senses outer and five senses inner for
the rest of this sermon. Now we know by what Brother Branham said we have five
outer senses and five inner senses. First of al let me state here what these
are.
Body |
Spirit |
Soul |
[ Five Outer Senses ] |
[ Five Inner Senses ] |
[ Choice ] |
1) See |
1) Memory |
Believe or
disbelieve |
2) Taste |
2) Imagination |
|
3) Feel |
3) Reasoning |
|
4) Smell |
4) Conscience |
|
5) Hear |
5) Affection |
|
1) Memory
= the ability to retain or revive in the
mind past thoughts, images, ideas, etc. |
2) Imagination
= the power to
form( conceive or picture ) mental
images of what is not actually present. |
3) Reasoning
= The ability to draw conclusions or
inference from assumed facts. |
4) Conscience
= The moral
sense. Knowledge from within. Inner thoughts and feelings. |
5) Affection
= The emotional state of being, disposition. The prevailing
aspects of our true nature. |
Now that we have the
description of these five Outer and Five Inner senses, I want you to be able to
see how it is that the Outer actually Govern and control the Five Inner senses.
And so with this in mind, let’s look at each of these, but let’s start with the
Outer sense of Sight because after all, brother Branham said, from the
message [Blind Bartimaeus March 30,
1960] “Your eye is the gate to your soul. You can look at it; it almost governs the other senses. You look at it before you
taste it. You look at it before you smell it, and feel it, and so forth. It's usually the eye is the gate to the
soul.” And in [Matt 6:22] we
read, ‘the eye is the lamp to the body” it is what brings light and
understanding to you”
And so with this
in mind let’s begin to learn for ourselves how the sense of sight not only in
can govern the other outer senses, but how it also controls the inner senses as
well. What we want to do is to see for ourselves the correlation between these
senses and how the outer governs even the inner. We really do not have enough time to study how each of the Five
outer senses controls the five inner senses, but if I can establish for you the
control of sight over the inner senses then you can use the same laws and
principals for sight and apply them to the other outer senses as well. Now, Sight,... What is it? Simply put, sight is what wee see. There are
three types of sight. Outer, inner and a
sixth sense which has to do with the soul.
1). We have Physical sight which is visual and one of the five
outer senses.
2). We also possess Intuitive sight which we call Insight
because it has to do with the inner senses which come from the spirit and which
is a mental sight. This Insight is a mental awareness of the inner nature of
things. [1 Cor 2: 11a]
3). We have Spiritual Sight which is Revelatory and is
possessed only within the soul of the Believer who alone has this Spiritual
sight which is also called Faith. This Comes only from God . [Matt 16:17] & [1
Cor 2: 10-13]
Now let’s go to
the Scriptures this evening and see how that Physical Sight ( which is an outer
sense) can have an effect on the inner
senses.
[Genesis 3: 6-7] here we see that
something happened to them and they now knew that they were naked. something
physical happened to them that caused them to see things in a different
perspective than they had seen those things before.
[Deut 6: 6-9] {7}NIV Impress them on your
children. Talk of them when you sit in your home and when you walk along the
road, when you lie down and when you get up.
{7} Amplified And these words which I am commanding you
this day shall be first in your mind heart; then you shall whet and sharpen
them, so to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the
minds and hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise
up.” And so we see that to do so they were to place pictures and
Scriptures and all sorts of things that the children will actually see with their
eyes and when they see with their eyes it will have an influence in their minds
and in their hearts.
So here we see a
positive picture of using and controlling the five senses in a way which will
control and guide the minds of the children and actually bring about an inner
desire in them for the things of God. We see how then that sight can control
the inner senses of...
1) Memory
= the ability to retain or revive in
the mind past thoughts, images, ideas, etc. |
2) Imagination
= the power to
form( conceive or picture ) mental
images of what is not actually present. |
3) Reasoning
= The ability to draw conclusions or
inference from assumed facts. |
4) Conscience
= The moral
sense. Knowledge from within. Inner thoughts and feelings. |
5) Affection
= The emotional state of being, disposition. The prevailing
aspects of our true nature. |
|
Now let’s look to
the scripture for some other illustrations of how sight will control these five
inner senses.
[Numbers 15: 38-40] Here we see that the
sight is used to control our memory so that we do not prostitute ourselves to
other things. NIV “You will have the tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands
of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going
after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. Then you will remember to
obey all my commands and will be
consecrated to your God. “
Here we see God
employing the use of sight to control the heart and minds by charging our
memories with stimulus that in turn causes us to reflect within ourselves what
our journey is all about.
[ Proverbs 17: 24] NIV A discerning man keeps
wisdom in view, but a fools eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
Now so far we
have established that there is a connection between what we see with our eyes
and what we see with our inner man. And we have seen the importance of
controlling our environment in order to place things in our memory so that a
visual stimulus will bring a recall of what those things are all about. That is
why I believe with all my heart that our homes should be filled with reminders
of what this Message is all about, and
reminders of why we are here. If your heart is so filled with Gods Word you
can’t help but see these reminders in every newspaper you read and every
magazine you pick up. We are constantly reminded that this is the end-time and
we are supposed to be ordering ourselves in a manner which will be consecrating
ourselves to this end-time Message.
[ Psalm 50: 23] Now this word
Conversation is a word {derek} which means a course of life. So we see that God
promises that those who actually order their course in Life and set forth their
path to follow Him, those are the ones he will actually show or manifest
Himself to and thus bring salvation to.
[ John 14:21]
Now thus far we have seen that God wants us
to control what we see so that because what we see stimulates the inner senses
of memory and memory stimulates imagination which brings to mind images we have
already seen and this stimulation of imagination then sets the right course for
our reasoning and once reasoning is governed, it then will control our conscience
which is our moral sense and thus governing finally our affections which is the
disposition of our true nature. [Proverbs
4: 20-27]
Now let’s look at
hearing and seeing and se how God uses them to work in the conscience of man
seeing that this is one of the Inner five senses.
[ John 8: 1-9] Notice here that they both
saw and heard what he was saying and thus the inner sense of conscience, moral
right and wrong was stimulated by the 2 of the five outer senses. Notice how
this came about. First they saw, then heard, then their own memories of their
own sins were tweaked by the things Jesus wrote in the sand. Then this
stimulated their imagination and mental images came to them one by one of their
own sin and when this happened it affected their reasoning and they saw what
hypocrites they were because they were every bit as guilty as she but they did
not get caught until Jesus began to reveal in the sand their sin. Once their
Reasoning was changed, it pricked their conscience and this changed their affection
and emotion about this woman. And so you can see how that the outer senses can
bring about complete changes in our behavior. That is why brother Branham said
the outer five senses can govern the actions of the body.
Now what if we
receive the wrong stimulus? What then? It’s just like what we have been
speaking of about our focus. If our focus is off then our course is set in a
wrong direction. So what if the outer senses bring us a wrong stimulus? What
happens? Well, let’s look at what happens to a man whose senses have been
pricked with a wrong stimulus.
[ Proverbs 7: 1-5, 6: 20 - 25] It is her
speech and her looks that lead him to a path of death.
[Job 31: 1] and so we see that Job made
a covenant with his own eyes.
[Ezek 28:17] deceived by his own beauty.
Now what I am
trying to get you to see here is that
you control your spirit by what you see, taste, feel, smell and hear. But as
brother Branham said, you also control your five outer senses by the sixth
sense which is Faith.
[John 7:24] In other words, we should
not just go by what we see physical but we must use that sixth sense to control
our inner sight and be able to discern from the outer sight. Because after all we can see but does that
really mean we understand? [ Mark 8: 17-18] Here Jesus asks the
question. “Is there no connection between your eyes and your
heart(understanding)?”
[Matt 13: 10-17] These people see with their eyes but since
they do not have that sixth sense they do not perceive what is going on. Then in conclusion, what we are looking at
here tonight is that what you see with your eyes can have an influence upon
your other senses as well whether those senses are outer or the inner. So we
should do what we can to create the right influences in our life. And if we
happen to come upon the wrong influences we should allow the Sixth sense to
over-ide the affect that those wrong influences might have upon us.