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NATURE
By G. W. S. Ware
July 8, 1937
Nature: Natural desires, instincts; appetites; forces, seeking to control." There
definitions of nature do not tell what nature is, just its outcropings. No one can tell
what nature is. Two things man has, he never got himself, his life and nature. God is life
and the source of it, but this does not tell what nature is; but when I say God is life,
and what he is in nature, I tell what nature is. Hence you are your nature, I am mine,
Satan is his. There has been but two falls from nature and cannot be another. No one can
fall from nature the second time. In a nature of sin with Satan, there is nothing lower to
fall into, and it is impossible to fall up to that which is higher; hence, anyone in sin
is fixed. God created man, then created mans spirit in him, Zech. 12:1. God hid
mans spirit in man, and made man a free agent, to keep it or lose it. Man made
choice to fall into sin, which made his nature sinful, like the nature of Satan. Man and
Satan cannot change their natures. God cannot, because there is no right way to change it;
hence, Satan is in his sinful nature forever; but man, while God cannot change his sinful
nature, God has a way through the Lord Jesus Christ, if the man will believe it, to blot
out his sinful nature and spirit, and create man a new spirit (Eph. 2:10) and hide it with
Christ in God (Col. 3:3). And unlike the spirit of man when hid in Adam, the devil cannot
touch it (1 John 5:18). Hence, it is the instinctive nature of a child of God to believe
and teach it, because it is his spiritual nature. Every child of God falls from
"grace", "repentance", "conversion", and everything he does
himself, because his body and mind are not redeemed, as yet, but he fights them to keep
them in subjection, to show his spirit has the nature of God. |
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