Christ Revealed 36

Christ Revealed in His Own Word #36

The Five Inner Senses

Sunday Morning, August 11, 1996

Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship

Wednesday night we again spoke from [Christ Revealed in His Own Word], ( pp. 23) “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.

And we basically focused on another thought where brother Branham said in the message [Super Sense PP 53] “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] 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] 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.

So then we as Believers have something in us, a sixth sense called Faith which is more powerful than the other five senses put together. Wednesday night we began examining these five outer senses and the five inner senses and the relationship between these two pairs of five senses. He said the inner senses are the ones that we do our thinking and reasoning, but the outer ones govern and control the inner ones.

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.

Wednesday night we took these 5 outer and 5 inner senses and showed how they tie together. we also showed how it is that the outer will actually govern the inner. we looked at sight as our first example and we saw that in each realm of our being, in the body, spirit and Soul we have a form of sight.

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]

We examined the Scriptures to see how Physical Sight ( which is an outer sense) affected the inner senses.

In [Genesis 3: 6-7] We saw that something physical happened to them and they knew 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.

[Neh 8:8] The word here for sense is insight. They received insight for the day and hour by their reading from the Word of God. That’s how our insight is built up on nothing less than Jesus Christ and righteousness.

[ Psalm 111: 10] A good understanding, a good insight

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.

We also examined this in light of receiving wrong or perverted stimulus and the effect it has upon the being as well. We read from the book of Proverbs about the young man who becomes trapped by the evil woman who lures him into a trap of adultery by her speech and good looks.

[Job 31: 1] and so we see that Job made a covenant with his own eyes.

Now what I am trying to help you to understand is that you control your spirit by what you see, taste, feel, smell and hear. But you control your five outer senses by the sixth sense which is Faith. You create the right atmosphere for your sight, and hearing and all the other senses.

[Hebrews 5: 14] Strong meat belongs only to those who are able to exercise their senses. we should learn to exercise our senses in order to properly utilize them in knowing and understanding the day and hour that we live in.

[Matt 16: 1-4]

[Luke 12:54-56]

[ 2 Cor 4: 18] We look not to the things which are seen but the things which are not seen. It then is a matter of Focus. What are we focused into?

[ Phil 4:8] Think on these things? Eternal things.

[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-ride the affect that those wrong influences might have upon us. If you will remember, a few years ago we took a series on the Message Look that Brother Branham preached right after he preached the Seven Seals. In this Message he said the following,....

E-12 LOOK 63-0428 Now, we are going to try this morning to take just four letters in a word, "Look," for a subject, and to deal with it a little while as the Lord will lead us to do.. Look, l-double o-k, look, the word, really, ... When you hear the word it's usually somebody trying to get you to see what they are looking at. They say to you, "Look." Like going down the road you--someone might see a certain scene and they'd say, "Look," and then express what it is. It's at the mountain, at the--at the--the cactus, or whatever they're looking at. But the first thing to get your attention is, "Look." Now, everybody is looking today. Everybody is looking for something, and looking for something to happen. We know that the world is constantly watching the skies, the radar and the screens that we have up around the world. Everything is looking. The church, is looking for more members. But the Bride is looking for the coming of her Lord. We're all looking. It depends on what the voice is trying to tell you to look for. Some of us are saying, "Look for this." And if it's a church, we're saying we want so many more this year, members. That's all right. But the voice that I'm trying to say to you this morning is like the writer of this epistle, we believe to be Paul, which is saying, "looking for the coming of Jesus Christ the second time," looking for Him. In order to do it, you've got to see something before you can tell somebody else to look at what you're seeing. Noah had an experience of this. By faith he saw the coming of a flood, a great rain that was going to cover the earth and wash off the earth, the rededication again to God, the filth of the world that the people had got in, in that day. And it had to all be washed off to start again. I just finished a series of services on the last seven seals, and finding that in this sixth seal that there is a great interruption in nature. The moon, the stars, the earth belches forth. The church is purged; Israel is purged; and everything is purged under that seventh seal so that the millennium can start in. There has to be a cleansing first. And that's what the church today... And what I want to point to you, that we need a cleansing. Before anything can begin from God we've got to have a purging. And when we look and see things that is now, under the present conditions existing the way they are, we can see that we've got to have something to happen before God can continue His program, and a purging. But to we who look for Christ the second time, it's a ensign that He's soon coming. We see something fixing to happen. And depends on what you're looking at.

And so this is what I am trying to get across to us by focusing in on these things that Brother Branham brought to our attention. we see with our eyes but do we really see what is happening. We know by these studies that our body has sight through the eyes, and our spirit has sight threw what is called insight, and we saw many scriptures in this mini series so far that show that insight comes in the Spiritual realm from the things we see in the natural realm. But we also know that our Soul has a Spiritual sight also called Faith. We do not get that from what we see with our eyes but what we see by Faith. By what we see in the Word of God and then as we receive this Spiritual Sight it actually takes control of our insight and our physical sight and begins to focus all our sight on one thing and one thing only and that is what God has promised for us in this hour. [John 9:10-11] How were his eyes opened? He washed first!

[ Heb 9:28b] “And unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” And so we see that we must be looking for Him if He is to appear to us and bring with it salvation. Brother Branham said before the second Coming can take place there must be a purging take place first. We find this in [2 John 3: 1-3] We see Him in the Appearing which is not a visible Coming, but a Spiritual one, and we begin to purge ourselves. And how do we do this?[Ps 119:9][Num 19:20][ Eph 5:26][Heb 10:22]