Saul: A man who lost control
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The bible tells us that everything we need floursh in life as christians is already given to us.
in him you are complete.
10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over every ruler and authority;
God also tells us something very important about our wholes elves.
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You sitting there are, according to your creator, made up of 3 parts:
A Spirit, A soul and a body.
But these 3 parts are not seperate, they are interconnected. Each one dependant and reacting to the other.
Your body is just that: Its the extraordinary machine of flesh, blood and chemicals.
Your Soul is the seat of your will and your emotions.
Your Spirit is that part o you that percieves God and is led by the Holy Spirit. The bible refers to this as the “inner-man”.
Now, the key to manhood is found there, in your spirit.
But the spirit of man is not seperate from the emotions of man, and especually not seperate from the body of man.
Your body is the vechial of your manhood.
In fcat, your body is what makes you man.
But your body is not just a shell. Its not a skin suit that your spirit wears. Its not an avatar that you simply control.
Your body is the most complicated thing in the known universe, and it is the vechial God has chosen you to use in the manifestation of your life, purpose, ministry, responciblity and manhood.
There is just one problem: If the body is faulty, then all that which the body uses, your soul and spirit, will fail to work properly.
In terms of our 3 fold make up we need to understand the “chain of command”.
Now we are often under the assumption that the chin of command is: Spirit, thn Soul, then the body.
This is simply not true.
This is why Paul said:
15 For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate.
Paul recognises that his spirit, which tells him the right things to do, is not actually in charge.
And he says that his emotions, which tell him what to hate, ar also not actually in charge.
What is in chrage, fundimentally is your body.
We, that is our conscience, is not capible of rational thought if our bodies do not allow it.
You cannot be rationl when you are strving.
You cannot be rational when faced with danger and flooded with adrenalin.
Your body, on its own and without any conscius thought and effort on your part is producing a whole rang of chemicals that govern how you think and how you beahve.
Testosterone - that all imposrtant male hormone will control your personality.
Dopamine that vial nuraltransmitter is vital for your motivation.
Seratonum another nurotrasnmitter is vital for stress managment.
People often over spiritulise things.
Let me give you an example:
8 Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger and dispute.
Ok so a born again persons spirit reads this and wants to be obedient, so they lift their hands - right?
Ok, now what about a person who was born without arms.
They read this same passage and their spirit wants to be obedint, but they cannot do what they want because they dont have arms.
Their body limitations prevent them from doing so. They are not disobedient, they want to, but physically they cannot.
Now, in the exact same way, only less visually obvious: A man, let by the Holy Spirit may want to manifest obedince to God’s word: But as result of bodly limitations find that they just cannot.
Whether you cannot lift your hands because you were born wihout them or whether you cannot be motivated because you were born without sufficinet Dopamine is the exact same situation.
You are dependant on the biological processes of your body working properly.
A chemical imbalance cannot be fixed by willower anymore than will power can grow an arm.
However, a person withou an arm can find a solution: They can get an artificual arm if they choose.
We are very very fortunate to be alive in such a time as this where medcine is so good.
Because right now, there is not a chemical imbalance that cannot be remedied with the help of artificual help.
And we do this all the time.
If you take vitamin C you take it becsue your body does not have enough and you want to prevent getting sick.
In the same way, if your boy does not produce enough testosterone, dopamine, seratonum, GABA the list goes on - You can remedy this by providing these vital chemicals from atrificial sourses.
I had a man who as he got only suffered from ED.e suffered, his wife ufered, his marriage suffered.
A trip to the GP and a script for Testosterone supplimnets solved the problem. Saved his self esteem, saved his marriage.
The point i am making is simple:
To be the best man God created you to be depends on how well your body is working.
thats why Pul said:
27 but I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Paul is simply saying that if his own body is not functioning properly, his body, not satan, not the world, not temptation, but his own body will be the reason for his disqualification.
So what does he do with his body?
He discaplines it. How?
One of the most powerful discoveries about the human brain is just how trainable it is.
Our brains are capible of building completu new nural pathways as we learn new skills.
When somone picks up a musical instrament and slowly learn to lay - that learning process is simnply the brain building new pathways to larn, memorise and organise that instrament.
Unfortintly the brain can also learn bad habits just as quick.
There is a kin of quazi control that we have on our bain.
We cannot control it, but we can shape it.
Its like those trees that people shape, they build shapes around the tree and then as the tree grown it gets shaped by the box.
I cannot directly control how much testosterone, seratonin whatever chemicals my brain produces - but i can control or in Pauls words disciple myself to provide my brain and body with the best oppertunity to work effectivly.
1: Routine
Jesus had a morning routine in prayer.
The watchemn had a routine.
Paul had a routine in the temple.
A routine is our best defence against the chose of life.
A routine will change your brain chemistry making you less stressed, more organised and more ready to face the daily challanges of life.
2: Eat well.
In the bible e have a dramatic illastration of the power of a proper diet.
Daniel ate only vegies
14 So he listened to them in this matter, and put them to the test for ten days.
15 And at the end of ten days their appearance seemed better, and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food.
16 So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.
17 And as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every kind of literature and expertise; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.
One of the reaons you dont eat healhy is because you dont have a routine so you do zewro mewl planning. as a result you eat whatver carbs are cheap and easy.
most of our food today is “death in the pot”.
For your body and brain to work properly it needs the right fuel.
What is the right fuel? Easy: High Protien, low carbohidrate.
Trands fats from “vegitble” oil.
Sugar from high fructose corn syrip.
MSG’s
All these things are microsopic doses of poisons that people eat everyday.
Stop eating sugar.
Stop eating vegitble oil.
Stop eating anything tht says “low fat”. Low fat just a fancy way of saying double suger.
Eat more protien, cut back to minimal carbs.
If you can follow a ketogenic diet all he better. Keytones are special digestive enysimes that increase your brains metabolism, basically making you learn new things quicker.
3: Sleep.
There are healing functions, a kind of self maintance your brin does ONLY when you sleep.
Did you know that your body constantly replaces dea cells everyday, million of new cells each day.
All your cells are capible of self replocating except one: Yoiur brain cels.
You canot make new brain cells, but thank God, you can repair damaged ones - but that only happens when you sleep.
90% of tyour hormoes are produced only when you sleep.
Your muscles repaier themslves only when you sleep.
In fcat, your body extracts a fuil called casien from your food but stores it till you go to sleep nd only then releasis it so that your muscles can repair.
Another reason why diet is important.
the amygdala is a part of your brain that controlls your fear responce. This only activates when you sleep.
no wonder proverbs says:
24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
4: Physical excersise:
The bible tells us clearly and plainly that physical exersise is profitble:
8 for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Your aim should be 3 hours of exersise a week - and try for weight training.
Aerobic training is fine, but anarobic is best.
When you exsersise you delibertly put your body under controlled stress.
You know its controlled but your autonamus body does not.
In respose to this physical stress your body starts producing yet another hormone called endorphines.
Endorphanes are your bodies own personal pain pills.
But they dont just reduce pain, they also hav a significat effect on our stress levels.
2 things: The more you exersise the more endorphin you will have and the more you exersuse the more efficinet your bodyt we become at producing these hormones.
Routine
Nutrition
Sleep
Excersise.
These are 4 things that are totally within your control. You controll these thngs.
And then by extension: These things control everything else.