Spirit of Leadership

THE LOSS OF THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT manifested in the decay of the physical houses in which we live, the culmination of which we call death. THE NATURAL RESULT OF SEPARATION Any time a human rebels against the laws established by the Creator, death is the natural result. To the Creator, death is not ultimately the absence of life (spirit) from the body. True death—spiritual death—is the spirit being detached from its Source of life. Ultimately, what con nected humanity to the Creator was his Spirit in us. When man disobeyed the laws of God, that Spirit departed, making the detachment complete. The result was that we had no direct way of relating to, communicating with, or receiving from the Creator. We lost both the power of the Creator and the consciousness of the spirit of leadership he had given us. Therefore, when Adam cut himself off from the Creator, he was in rebellion against his natural state. A religious term for rebellion is sin . There is no word in Hebrew called “sin.” The word most often translated as sin in English versions of the Old Testament is chatta’ah, which means “an offense, and its penalty.” 27 The offense is basically a rebellion against one’s Source, and the natu ral and inevitable penalty of the offense is death, or sepa ration. If you cut yourself off from your Source, it is you who will suffer, malfunction, and die, not the Source. Moreover, W HAT CONNECTED HUMANITY TO THE C REATOR WAS HIS S PIRIT IN US .

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