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family which included my Aunt, who devo- object of such humble devotion.
tionally prayed everyday but to idols. She
died with that belief. Was she not seeking By nature man is a worshipper. Animals
for God? The Bible says, “THERE IS NONE don’t have these faculties, only man. Be-
WHO SEEKS FOR GOD.” cause man has spirit he will worship an-
ything. Aborigines in Australia worship
When I studied my Bible, I found out that crocodiles. Also, the Egyptians in the Old
man by nature is a religious being. Religi- Testament they worshiped crocodiles,
osity is built-in, in the innermost being of frogs, flies, cows, anything. The New Age
a man. Why? Man has a spirit that is why. Movements worships nature, the “moth-
One of the functions of the spirit is to wor- er earth”. Man by nature worships idols
ship. When God created man, he was dif- made of wood, stone, gold, silver, any-
ferent from the animals, God formed man thing. Even though how sincere they may
from the dust of the ground and breathed be in worshiping, the Bible says, “they are
into his nostrils the breath of life, which is not seeking God”.
the spirit and man became a living soul.
(Genesis 2:7) Our soul will live forever. It You don’t need to teach a fish to swim. You
will not die. don’t need to teach a butterfly to fly. In like
manner, you don’t need to teach a man
MAN IS COMPOSED OF SPIRIT SOUL AND to worship. It’s innate, built-in or inherent
BODY: in a man’s spirit to worship anything. Do
they seek for God? No! (ROMANS 3:11)
(1 THESSALONIANS 5:23) “May your spir- “THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD.”
it, soul and body be kept blameless at the By nature man is a worshipper because of
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (HE- the spirit in him. He is susceptible to wor-
BREWS 4:12) “For the Word of God is liv- ship anything he sees in his eyes which he
ing and active and sharper than any two assumed to have spiritual power.
edged sword and piercing as far as the di-
vision of soul and spirit…” An atheist says there is no God. An atheist
doesn’t believe God so he is not religious,
WHAT IS SOUL AND WHAT IS SPIRIT? that is what they say. No! There is no such
thing as an atheist. An atheist unknow-
SOUL IS COMPOSING OF OUR: ingly worships himself. That’s the reason
● INTELLECT--- The ability to think, to why they don’t want the name of God
learn and to reason. mentioned anywhere especially in public
● WILL--- The power to choose. places, they are jealous because they as-
● EMOTION--- Any strong feeling, as of sumed to be gods themselves. They say,
joy, sorrow, hate or love “I am the captain and the master of my
soul.”
SPIRIT HAS THREE FUNCTIONS:
● CONSCIENCE--- The faculty of recogniz- The Bible says no one seeks for God. How
ing the distinction between right and about the apostles were they not seek-
wrong in regard to one’s own conduct, ing God? (JOHN 15:16), Jesus said to his
causing remorse. disciples, “You did not choose me, but I
● INTUITION--- The faculty of knowing chose you.” (JOHN 6:44), Jesus said, “No
without the use of rational process. Some- one can come to me, unless the Father
thing you perceive that you cannot explain who sent me draws him…” A man will say,
through your mind. “So then, why waste our time in preaching
● WORSHIP--- The reverend love and al- the gospel when it is God himself draws
legiance accorded to deity, idol or sacred men to Jesus anyway?” Number one rea-
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