My late Pastor, Pamela Sheppard has taught me a lot about spiritual food, and the importance of this in the pathway to change. First, the person should be careful not to eat the wrong type of spiritual food. Unfortunately, demons and fallen angels can pretend to provide spiritual food, however, the food deep down is spoiled, and if eaten, the goal is to try to contaminate one’s soul. Demons and fallen angels can speak through to people and trick those people to send spoiled food that appears good. The Bible makes it clear that the evil wickedness, especially Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light (2nd Corinthians 11:14). So, if you are finding yourself being taught by others that you feel is causing your soul to feel more damaged than before, think you are getting mistreated, there are attempts to cause serious chaos in your life, cascades of bad things happening, it’s time to take a step back and stop yourself from eating the wrong type of food, which is pretend spiritual food.
Yet spiritual food that is provided by the Holy Spirit, encourages people to make a change for the better. Often times, it is a major life change and involves doing something that causes one to do something better for themselves. This could be eating healthier to get healthier health lab results, this could be leaving a dangerous relationship, setting boundaries with unhealthy social dynamics, changing communication styles with serious family hazardous problems, getting a job that is safe for yourself, stop yourself from being verbally or physically harassed. Spiritual food that comes from the Holy Spirit exposes the truth of the changes to be made and gives you a pathway to start on your journey to be free from what has been damaging to you.
There are people in high positions of Christian settings that say they can assist and get a person’s life stabilized, however, they struggle with stabilizing their own life. They influence others to take in spoiled spiritual foods. Professing Christians wanting to do work that is meant to support others to provide success, but unwilling to examine their own faith, can face serious self growth challenges of their own. The ability of growth of those they assist, can be affected. The Bible talks a lot about food symbolically. In John 6, the chapter that talked about Jesus walking on water and healing the sick, he speaks to some disciples “not to work for food that spoils but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.” The chapter continues with, “for on him, God the Father has placed his seal of approval (John 6:27).” There is a lot of food out there that people are claiming to be giving out to those who are listeners that they can instantly have salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by “accepting Jesus to come into their heart”, yet change does not come, perpetual sin continues, loss of identity keeps happening, perversion, sexual immorality keeps spiraling, persistent hatred, continuous anger without control keeps occuring. Crowds stay there and keep taking in this food. There are not a huge amount of people, and leaders not examining these doctrines. These experiences that they believe are spiritual conversions to believe in the Lord, are not often being paused to look at if this was done as a “choice” for a quick fix in their life. When it comes to salvation it is not a choice that a human makes, but a gift given to a person by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The person is led to Godly sorrow of their specific sin, have faith to believe that Jesus Christ of Nazareth died, and physically came back alice again, not just in Spirit. This experience is unforgettable and actually causes life changes forever. The person is a new person. Cleaned, by the Holy Ghost.
Because of the gospel of truth, that includes everything, Jesus brought into the world in human form, as the Son of God, the only human that lived a life without sin, performed miracles, was horribly crucified by religious Pharisees, but he defeated death himself, and is physically alive again. That’s it. As the late but not forgotten Pastor Pamela Sheppard would say, that’s the job of the Pastor. God and the Holy Spirit do the rest. No frills and thrills. With the entire gospel, Faith gets given to a believer, like a product/gift being handed to a person, to believe in Jesus Christ of Nazareth. As John chapter six continues, there is focus on howJesus is the bread of life. Through the true gospel of the Lord, they will not be hungry or thirsty (John 6:35). Jesus is life and eternity. He rose from the dead physically. Those who have genuine faith in him will have eternal life and those physically alive when he returns will be raised also in their bodies (John 6: 40). As the book of John in Chapter 6 continues, there is writings about grumblings from some who were in disbelief. This is similar to those in this day and age who have trouble believing in the gospel of salvation by election from God, via faith in the entire gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, including his physical resurrection. As the chapter continues, the writing says that “many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him; the rest of the twelve disciples stayed” (John 6: 66-67). Jesus prophesized that although there were twelve that he chose, he knew that one would betray him, and that is Judas (John 6:70-71).
So, for those God makes ready, the spiritual food that the Holy Spirit leads a person to have faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and gets them ready for salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth is valuable food, that is lasting, for those that can hold onto this. It takes spiritual power and strength that comes from God, by the grace of the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, for the person to keep this faith and not falter in this.
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