Living by the Law of the Spirit

Sharp contrast exists between human principles and Kingdom principles. By human principles, the way to have more with you is to save, keep or withhold. But by Kingdom spiritual principles, to have more is to give what you have. That's why Bible says it is more blessed to give than to receive. Jesus also said,"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it"Luke 9:24. "How is it possible for me to have more by giving out the little I even have? Doesn't that look stupid or absurd?" That's the question pondered by human reasoning. Again, the world says seeing is believing, but the law of the Spirit says believing is seeing:"For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?"-Romans 8:24, "For we work by faith and not by sight"-2Cor.5:7.
Why do we have to live by the law of the Spirit? The Scripture makes us understand that we as Christians were re-born by the incorruptible seed which is the word of God:"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever"-1 Peter 1:23. This implies that we have a new DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which belongs to heavenly species. We now have the genes of God. And so, we can no longer operate by Human principles or Human laws. We can no longer operate by Human biological instructions. Human living organisms naturally follow the Human species DNA biological instructions. That is why Human beings give birth to Human beings. But now that a man is reborn by God's word (which is Jesus Christ), it simply means he has a new DNA, God's DNA, and so, such man is to now live by the Spirit's DNA biological instructions. For God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit.
Let's consider this: Gal. 4:31 says we, as Christians, are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. The bondwoman, according to Gal.4, is the natural man whose offsprings are born after the flesh, but the freewoman is he whose offsprings are born after the Spirit. In other words, we are the children of the Spirit of God who should live by the laws of the Spirit. How to enjoy God and fulfill our purpose on earth is to live by the laws of the Spirit which appears totally opposite to human laws or principles. In a sense, you are not to always try to check the sanity or truism of what you hear from God or see in His word concerning your finances, marriage, business, carrer, ministry and other aspects of your living by considering the immediate environmental or human laws at work. By environmental laws, Naaman's leprosy could not have been healed in muddy River Jordan. By human laws, Saul the Tarsus would not have become the first among the Apostles of Christ. His position would rather have been a case of "the last shall be the last". But by the laws of the Spirit, "the last shall be the first, and the first shall be the last".
Understand this that you have a new DNA which follows the biological instructions of your new parent the Holy Spirit, having been born again. When you do this, you won't doubt whatever you hear in your inside by the Spirit and what you see in God's word, and you will become lighter to cast all your trust in the Lord, in the midst of conflicting laws of man or nature, because you know you are of and operating in another world, heaven on earth.

-Pastor Michael Seyi Babalola.