It was the Apostle Paul that wrote a letter to the area of Philippi in Eastern Macedonian region of Greece while being imprisoned. This section of scripture below is a continuous thought. But for studying, I will comment on it bit by bit.
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, fulfill my joy, that you think the same way, by maintaining the same love, being united in spirit, thinking on one purpose, doing nothing from selfish ambition or vain glory, but with humility of mind regarding one another as more important than yourselves, not merely looking out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
The first four verse is one sentence. Encouragement in Yahusha Hamashia, consolation of love, fellowship of the Spirit, affection and compassion are all parts of the fellowship of the spirit. It's more than learning like mindedness, it's like the spiritual five senses. Five senses of the flesh are touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. Without these, you would be in a state of total sensory deprivation. Therefore without encouragement, consolation, fellowship, affection and compassion, you are in a spiritual sensory deprivation.
Paul would be filled with joy if the area of Philippi would think the same way about Yahusha Hamashia's way of thinking. He then requested one purpose, avoiding selfish actions and to look out for others interest along with their own. With this thought, we can understand spiritual five senses.
Giving Encouragement in Yahusha Hamashia is a to say touching another Believer's Spirit, you then can perceive their Spirit's properties like their Gifts of the Spirit and the Fruit of the Spirit.
Consolation of love is like tasting growth in love, tasting faith, hope and mercy. If you have completely lost your sense of taste, which can significantly impact your eating experience, potentially leading to reduced appetite, nutritional deficiencies, and a lack of enjoyment from food due to the inability to perceive flavors properly. It's like the same thing spiritually. If you cannot taste love, faith hope and mercy, you are spiritually anorexic.
Fellowship of the Spirit is like Spiritual Hearing. The lose of hearing impacts your ability to communicate with others. It places you in isolation and can lead to cognitive decline. Those who manipulate fellowship for selfish interests is an attack on other Believers. These victims will drop out or become more involved with the Holy Spirit in isolation.
Affection is the warmth and fondness toward others. This would be similar to thermal cameras, a way of seeing in the dark. Spiritual thermal imaging allows us to see spiritually. Spiritual insight and discernment is related to spiritual thermal imaging.
Compassion is what started this blog. The only physical sense left is smell.
I quote, "The sense of smell plays a vital role in finding food, discriminating it from toxic substances, and appreciating its flavor"
Compassion, I quote, "the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another's suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering."
A spiritual sense of smell is the ability to understand a situation before tasting or touching it. Did you ever hear somebody say, it smells hot?
Have this way of thinking in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although existing in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a slave, by being made in the likeness of men.
Paul requested the area of Phillippi to have the same thought as Yahusha Hamashia had. We are not to think ourselves equal to Yahuah. Yahusha was existing in the form of Elohiym and still didn't consider himself equal to the Father in Heaven. By existing in a form of Yahuah Elohiym, you are not a biological son, you are a dimension from Yahuah Elohiym. By emptying Himself, He took on the Virgin Mary's 23 chromosomes to become the seed of a woman to fulfill the first prophecy written in Genesis. Adam received a Y chromosome from Yahuah Elohiym. It was a dimension of Yahuah Elohiym that became the second Adam and also the source of Adam's Y chromosome. Our Elohiym became in the likeness of a servant of Elohiym. As in John 3:16, only begotten son is monogenēs huios in Greek. In other words, a one of a kind matured male son. Huios is also used in Matthew 1:23.
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
I underlined child and son. The Greek word for child here is only referring to pregnancy. It's a feminine noun. Son is referring to a fully mature son. The question is, how can a young virgin woman give birth to a fully mature man? Paul explained it in his letter to Philippi.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Yahuah of Hosts became a male human, growing from a baby into a man. He became obedient to Death, He wasn't born under the authority of Death. Humans are ignorant of who Yahusha really is. But at His return to Earth, this verse will be fulfilled. People who know Yahusha for who He really is, exalt Him and bow to Yahusha Hamashia already.
People must be born again to receive spiritual five senses to truly understand who Yahusha Hamashia is.
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Paul called for working out our salvation with fear and trembling. In other words, don't take Salvation lightly. Yahuah Elohiym works from within us to make us new and to carry out His desires. Part of this spiritual rebuild, we are given new abilities. We are given the Holy Spirit and the Gifts of the Spirit. We need our Ten senses to serve Yahuah Elohiym.
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, so that you will be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to boast because I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
When somebody grumbles about what they are doing, their heart is not in it. These people will become in disagreement with those who assign the work if it's spiritual or in the workplace. If you have compassion for what you are doing for Yahuah Elohiym, you have tasted wisdom, the understanding of what Yahuah Elohiym desires.
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. And you also, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
The Apostle Paul was always in danger to be killed because of the government of Rome. This continued in some form for others throughout the Inquisition. What Paul was saying, his death would be worth it if the people in the Philippi area kept the Faith.
Another look at the five spiritual senses;
1. Giving Encouragement is to touch spiritually.
2. Consolation of love is tasting spiritually.
3. Fellowship of the Spirit is hearing spiritually.
4. Affection is the ability of spiritual sight.
5. Compassion is the ability to smell spiritually.
Questions:
1. Are these spiritual senses found outside of the Bible,?
Yes. When a man and a woman fall in love, they are filled with encouragement, consolation, fellowship, affection and compassion. This is the fiscal form of a spiritual thing.
2. Is there a spiritual dark counterpart to spiritual five senses?
Yes, they would be the antonyms like hindering, torture, hostility, hardhearted and callousness. A person like this would want to watch people suffer in Hell.
3. Someone with encouragement, consolation, fellowship, affection and compassion, what would they want to see?
There is not anything enticing physically they would want to see. It's the inner being that makes their heart jump when sensing spiritual beauty.
Sometimes what I call the spiritual five senses are said to be perception through feelings, intuition, or a deep knowing. Cultural background, and personal practices cloud our understanding of Yahuah Elohiym's Spiritual dimension. But prayers and listening to His Voice will guide us through fellowship with Yahuah Elohiym.
The question is, what is the non-physical aspects of believing Yahusha Hamashia as our Master and Savior?
If we could see the Holy Spirit, She would be to spiritually beautiful for human eyes to look at. As for Yahusha, there are records of how He looked physically. Christians are seen as disproportionately flavoring only Yahusha Hamashia called Jesus Christ. Muslims have Mohamed and Buddhist believe in Buddha. Nirvana is seen as state that someone can attain by enlightenment, a state where individual desires and sufferings goes away. But self enlightenment is like a pain reliever for a corrupted world that spins towards destruction. As Believers in Yahusha, we favor Him because His sacrifice and the Holy Spirit recreated our Spirit. With that, a way to sense the Spiritual side of things. After Satan scammed Earth away from Adam and Eve, this Universe needs to be turned back into the nothing where it came from. We are promised a New Universe. Those who are not corrupted shall enter. You need more than a spiritual pain reliever. You need Yahuah Elohiym, the Deity made up of a Masculine Father figure where He is the Spiritual Light that everything revolves around, a representative of the Father figure who is also the Father figure and Spiritual Mother figure, the Spirit that came out of the Father figure's side as a help for Himself.
Do Believers in Yahusha prefer only Him? Yes they do. To explore other religions as equals is like a young woman flirting with other guys while being engaged to the one she had loved.
As in young love, there are people (friends and family) who try to manipulate situations they have no business with. They cross boundaries of relationships for self satisfaction. Relationships that may have been beautiful are now trashed because the spiritual fire senses have been hurt intentionally by friendly fire. But there is hope. Yahuah Elohiym can restore the Spiritual that has been lost. As for broken relationships, some roots may have never matured enough for it to live out it's life. To say if you only had more sense at the time is really saying you needed the Spiritual five senses along with the physical senses. It would be better not to be able to smell than not to have compassion. It would be better not to see than not to have affection.
