Feast: Good, Good, Good Vibrations
#FT23-03B
Bill Onisick
Given 02-Oct-23; 33 minutes
description: Our entire universe, including our own physical bodies, is composed of waves of energy traveling on a wide electromagnetic spectrum. Quantum physicists call this unexplained connectivity of everything by some hidden energy field the phenomenon of Quantum entanglement. In reality, it was Almighty God that supplied the hidden energy that connects all things (Genesis 1:1-3). Human being, created in God's image have an invisible spirit , giving them the ability to think and discern, motivated by both instincts and intellect, ( Job 32: 8 , Proverbs 20:27) giving them dominion over all the rest of the creatures of the earth. The source of our power over other created beings is our mind. Every human has a spirit in us, constituting an invisible force that enables us to think and be motivated, influenced, and encouraged by other spirits around us. Our spirit and our words can motivate, influence , encourage or discourage others. Negative thoughts can poison our nervous system, influencing chemical and physical reactions. Conversely, positive thoughts ( Good Vibrations) bolster the nervous system ( Proverbs 15:4; 16:24; 17:22) Reading 1 Corinthians 2:9-12 provides an exhalating alternative viewpoint to endure the negative vibrations of Satan's culture of depression , currently in ascendancy. Satan's invisible spirit is a negative energy permeating this world, influencing negative thoughts in humans. Only through God's Holy Spirit can we overcome our human spirit that has been influenced by Satan's spirit here on earth. Through our calling and relationship with Jesus Christ we become spiritually renewed 'day by day.'
transcript:
As we begin today, I want you to just take a moment and think. Think about the fact that everything in this universe is energy, even objects that appear to be still are, in fact, vibrating and oscillating at various frequencies. Each of us is a living energy field with our body made up of energy producing particles that are in constant motion.
Now, for those of us with speaking assignments, we might be vibrating just a bit more but make no mistake, we are all in constant motion. Our heartbeats, breathing cycles, brain waves, our circadian rhythms are just a few of the many examples. Our entire universe, in fact, is composed of waves of energy traveling on a wide electromagnetic spectrum. It starts with the lowest energy, these are the longest wavelengths of radio waves, and it goes all the way to the highest energy, shortest wavelengths which ends with gamma rays. So radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, x-rays, and gamma rays, all of these things are just energy.
It is really fascinating when you think about it. Our visible light is just a small spectrum of energy. It ranges from 380 to 750 nanometers, if you were curious. But in the end, it is all just different wavelengths, different frequencies of energy. Everything is energy and all energy is interconnected. Ronny [Graham] gave a great message on this last Feast actually, about how the universe is connected and all of the various stars and constellations. It is just amazing as you start to think about it.
And now countless studies are being replicated that are proving out how our cells instantly communicate, even over long distances, without any network connectivity. So one of these simple experiments that they do is they take a Petri dish and they take a batch of algae cells. One dish, batch of algae cells, and then they separate them into two separate dishes. They leave the one there, they take the other one miles and miles away and then they start to do some things to the cells over here in the home base, right? We will call that A. So they take that and they maybe induce some energy and those cells start to spin this way. You know what happens to the cells miles and miles apart? The exact same moment in time, they start spinning the exact same way.
This has scientists literally baffled; like, they are in a tizzy about this because it actually is now destroying Einstein's theory of special relativity. They have come up with a really smart name around this that they use, the quantum physicists. (I am in my bow tie today, but I do not feel smart enough to talk about this. I will say that.) But they call this the "phenomena of quantum entanglement."
I have a much simpler term. I call it God.
Turn with me to Genesis 1 as we explore a hidden energy that really connects all things.
Genesis 1:1-3 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
God's Holy Spirit can be described simply as the mind and creative power of the Almighty God. Now note here in these scriptures, it was not God Himself that was hovering over the face of the waters. No. It tells us God created everything through His powerful Spirit. It was through the thought processes that emerged from God's mind that He thought and His Spirit made it.
Over a chapter now to Genesis 2, verse 7. But after God created the beasts of the field, He said in,
Genesis 1:26 "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion. . . . over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Now, the Hebrew word translated breath here is Strong's 5397, nishma, meaning vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect, soul, or spirit. It is the same word translated as spirit in Proverbs 20:27, "The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of the heart."
God created us in His image, but that image is much more than just a mere physical likeness we see here. When God knelt down and breathed into man, He was not just breathing in life. He had already given all the animals life. He gave a gift that sets humans apart from all other animals. Humans have an invisible spirit in our minds with the ability to think, design, discern, and be motivated by both instincts and intellect. And we can tie this to Job 32:8, "But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding."
So God created us in His image with the ability to think. And as He breathed into Adam, He infused a spirit of man and with it the gift of intelligence to rule over all other physically created things. And that human spirit gives us a consciousness, an intellect, emotions, fears, passion, and creativity. It is this spirit in our mind that provides a unique ability to comprehend and understand.
Now, we have never seen this spirit, it is invisible. But it is powerful gift. It is a gift of hidden energy and we use it every day to think, to reason, to make plans. And the source of our power over all created things is indeed in our mind. Every human has a spirit that is an invisible force that enables us to think, enables us to be motivated, to be influenced, and encouraged by other spirits around us. And our spirit and our words have the ability to motivate, to influence, encourage, and/or discourage others. (Richard touched on this just briefly on the opening night.)
Please turn with me to I Corinthians 2. Have you ever walked in a room where you could just feel the negative vibe? Maybe there was some big argument that just concluded. You did not hear the words spoken, but there is a hidden energy, a tension, a negativity in the air and we can just feel it. We can feel that that energy is there. And if we allow it, it can actually influence us. It is a spirit. Our thoughts produce energy waves and different types of thoughts emit different vibrational frequencies. Our minds are basically just like a radio tower that is constantly emitting these signals that are going out. They cannot be seen, but the cells within us and within others are receiving them.
Our brain is a massive interconnected highway of literally billions of neurons, trillions upon trillions of connections, generating electric fields. Each and every thought—each and every thought—right now, brings an electrochemical reaction in our bodies. Our thoughts generate electromagnetic pulses that create emotions. Those emotions fuel our attitudes and ultimately our actions and reactions. When we are anxious or we are worried about something, we often respond subconsciously. We might withdraw or we might even go on the attack, to defend.
Negative thoughts signal our brain to drive both a chemical and physical reaction, like a faster heart rate, right? Maybe tense muscles. Meanwhile, get this, those negative thoughts trigger the release of chemicals that produce more negative thoughts and actually creates more physical reactions. And over time, we have heard about the negative impacts of stress, this has been proven through numerous studies how our anxiety will take a toll on our physical health. Well, they are now proving that negative or positive thoughts are contagious both within ourselves and within others.
So if something or someone creates a negative feeling in us, that negative feeling grows and it feeds on itself and it becomes stronger and stronger and stronger over time. People with a negative energy are judgmental, dissatisfied, victimized, constantly complaining, always looking for perhaps that other shoe to drop. When we are around people with that negative energy, we feel it, right? We become a bit, like, insecure and unhappy and tense. We may not even feel it at first, but it happens. We could jot down Proverbs 15:4, "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit."
People with a positive energy, on the other hand, tend to be very present. They live in the present in their lives. They are focused on gratitude, thankfulness, empathy, optimism, and enthusiasm. When we are around these people, we feel happy, relaxed, and we feed off of those good vibrations. (An old Beach Boys song. I date myself, but we are at the beach.) We could jot down Proverbs 16:24 and 17:22, "Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones." "A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones."
Now like all sources of energy, we are indeed entangled with everyone and everything in this fully electric universe that we live in. The invisible spirits all around us are constantly influencing us. In I Chronicles, 21:1, we read that Satan provoked or influenced David to number Israel and do the census that God did not want done. How did he do it? The same way that Satan influenced Adam and Eve to sin—with his evil negative spirit, the negative spirit that planted a seed of doubt. It was negativity that Satan planted in Eve's mind, in Adam's mind, to not believe God's promise. He got them thinking that God could not possibly love them so much if He withheld that one tree. Negativity is Satan's seeds that he plants in each and every one of us.
Our words have the invisible power to encode our thoughts and motivate and inspire or defile and depress. Our words are powerful.
I Corinthians 2:9-12 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love [agapeo] Him." But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
So we read here that each person has a spirit, which is our heart or mind; we could think of it that way. It allows us to think, it allows us to understand. Now, our human spirit was designed to communicate with God. But when Adam and Eve sinned, there was a divide between the human spirit and God's Spirit. It was not a physical death, brethren. It was a spiritual divide which created a failure to communicate between the human mind and the God mind. It is a spiritual divide between God's powerful energy and ours.
Over the Ephesians 2. Now, Paul describes the carnal mind indeed as being spiritually dead and disconnected from God. It is not until we respond to our calling faithfully that we repent and that we develop our relationship with Jesus Christ, that we get God's Holy Spirit, and we can become renewed day by day, he tells us.
Ephesians 2:1-2 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
A source of sin is spirit, the spirit of this world, the spirit of the prince of the power of the air. Satan's invisible spirit is a negative energy that permeates this world and influences evil thoughts in humans. He uses this invisible spirit in his fiery darts, these invisible thoughts that he puts in us that are powerful because these thoughts he plants will sink into our mind and they motivate us to sin—just like they did David, just like they did Adam and Eve.
Our human spirit, our mind has been corrupted by the spirit in this world to become carnal and selfish. Our mind is the battleground between God's Holy Spirit, His positive Holy Spirit, and Satan's negative spirit.
Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy because of His great love [agape] with which He loved [agapeoed] us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).
Paul goes on to explain that we are fellow citizens. We are in the household of God built on the chief cornerstone of Jesus Christ. In verse 22 he says, we are built together for what? A dwelling place of God in the Spirit. And if we read verse 18, we would see, "For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father."
Now we can tie this to the Galatians 5, verses 16 and 17 where Paul tells us,
Galatians 5:16-17 Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts [wars] against the Spirit, and the Spirit [of God wars] against the [evil spirit of our] flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
This is the battle of our mind, the battle of the spirits in our minds. We could tie this nicely to I John 4:4 as well, "[We] are of God, . . . because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." God's powerful, positive Spirit and energy is infinitely stronger than Satan's. But we have to tap into it. In many regards our mind is a spiritual bank account. Over the course of our lifetime, we deposit many things into this account, many things that we want to remember. Periodically we withdraw these memories and we will put them the use.
But just like a physical bank account, we can only withdraw what we deposit. If our spiritual memory banks are filled up with negatives that is all we have to withdraw. We are all likely to take pretty good care of our physical bank accounts and our money. We are very protective of who has access to them. But I wonder, have we become a bit careless with our spiritual bank accounts? Are we allowing Satan perhaps to make deposits of evil thoughts that create a negative spiritual return on investment?
Let us flip to Philippians. These are some of my favorite scriptures.
Philippians 4:4-6 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Jesus tells us repeatedly to not worry, to trust that God is the Lord who will provide. And Paul is telling us here how to make spiritual investments that will generate a positive return. Prayer, gratitude, thankfulness for God's faithful promises, generate in us a positive, peaceful energy that will guard our hearts and minds. He says,
Philippians 4:7-9 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true [think of this list here], whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you have learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
Paul admonishes us to meditate or think on these things, positive things, things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, good report, praiseworthy.
The word Paul uses here translated meditate in verse 8 is Strong's 3049, logizomai, meaning to take inventory, conclude, count, reason, think. And now tying back to that spiritual bank account analogy, this really fits, brethren. This Greek word captures the concept of a ledger or a bookkeeper, and just as the accountant sums up credits and debits, our life in the end is one big ledger with a series of positive and negative deposits. But we have to consciously choose what we allow to be deposited in our spiritual bank accounts for this is our source of spiritual energy. It is very easy for God's people to become too engaged in this world's news, social media, and conspiracy theories. Boy, we love our conspiracy theories and we spend a lot of energy on them.
But we need to think very carefully here about what is the spiritual return on investment for these negative thoughts, right? What are they? We are thinking evil! We are thinking about people that are doing evil. What is the return? How is that helping us become more Godlike? We can tie this nicely to Colossians 3, verses 1 and 2.
Colossians 3:1-2 . . . seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things here on earth.
But let us turn back to Hebrews 11 as we continue to examine this word, logizoma, because we could tie this back to the offertory message just a few days back. How did Abraham build the faith to raise a knife, to not withhold his only son?
Hebrews 11:17-18 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be called," concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
Now, that word translated concluding there is the same underlying Greek word, Strong's 3049, logizomai, meaning to take inventory, to conclude, to count, to reason, and to think deeply. How did Abraham become that complete and whole burnt offering withholding nothing back from God? He took a full inventory, brethren, of God's promises and he took a full inventory of God's demonstrated faithfulness. And he thought on these things, he added all this up in his mind, he added up all of the innumerable spiritual credits he had placed there over his entire life, spiritual credits of God's all powerful Spirit, God's awesome creation, God's promises, and His faithfulness. And with all of that added up, he concluded, it says, logizomai, that God was able to resurrect Isaac. And so Abraham was able to act in faith.
Over to James 2. We will just pick up one scripture.
James 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God.
So Abraham believed God, he acted in faith. We read, it was accounted. Same Greek word here, logizomai, but this time it is not Abraham doing the accounting, is it? It is God who is doing the accounting. God responded to Abraham's belief, trust, and faith. Abraham's works of faith to sacrifice His only son connected him with the energy source, with the God being that would later become Jesus Christ and walk here on earth. He became the friend of God, and God accounted it, and He imputed Jesus Christ's righteousness on Abraham.
Over to Romans 4.
Romans 4:20-25 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore "it was accounted to Him for righteousness." Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised up because of our justification.
Verse 22, I am sure you guessed it, accounted, logizomai. Just as Abraham thought, meditated, ruminated on all these things, he thought deeply about the promises God had made and he believed God, he trusted that He is the Lord that provides, and in faith he held nothing back. And it was accounted, imputed to Him for righteousness.
But we see in verses 23 and 24, brethren, this was not recorded for Abraham. This was not written for his sake alone, that God accounted his faith and imputed His righteousness on him. God's righteousness will be imputed, same word here, logizomai, on us as we too think on these things, meditate, and conclude on the truth and promises that God has made known to us. We must trust that He is the Lord and that He provides, knowing that He provided the sacrifice of His Son as that complete burn offering for our sins.
And as we think on these things, we conclude that God is faithful in the promises that He has given to us. And we too can become friends with God and that we too can have it accounted, imputed, to us for righteousness. As we renew our human spirit by controlling our mind and walking in God's Spirit, we receive more and more of His positive energy. His powerful Spirit that enables us to become less like human and more like God. And as we inculcate His Spirit, it replaces our carnality, our carnal spirit, and we can thereby radiate that positive energy that impacts both us and all of those around us.
Over the Galatians 3 as we start to wind down.
Galatians 3:6-7 Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Therefore know that only those who are of [the] faith are sons of Abraham.
Accounted, you guessed it, logizomai.
Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Please turn with me for one final scripture to I Corinthians 13. As we conclude we are just going to pick up the very end here of verse 5. In I Corinthians 13, we know that Paul is talking about God's powerful agape Spirit here.
I Corinthians 13:5 [agape] thinks no evil.
Thinks is the same Greek word here, to account or conclude, logizomai. As we combine this with the Greek word for no, here (we have looked at this before) it means never, ever, ever. God's powerful Spirit of agape never, ever, thinks evil. Full stop. Meditate on that. The Amplified translates it as, "does not take an account for any wrong endured." And when we think on these things, as Paul has told us, just like Abraham concluded, we put on the mind of Jesus Christ. We simply do not have time to account evil against anyone else.
How much negative energy have we allowed Satan to plant in our spiritual bank accounts as we think about the evil in this world? We know that it exists, right? But our transformed minds must think on these things. We cannot allow Satan to deposit evil thoughts into our spiritual bank accounts. In Zachariah 8, verse 17 we read,
Zechariah 8:17 Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; . . . for these things I hate, says the Lord.
Brethren again, everything in this universe is a connected energy. Only through God's powerful energy of His Holy Spirit can we overcome our human carnal spirit that has been influenced through Satan's negativity, his evil spirit here on earth. Through our calling, our faithful response, our repentance, and our relationship with Jesus Christ, we can become spiritually renewed day by day, Paul says.
We are called to be energized and connected to God by the indwelling of His powerful Holy Spirit. And we can become connected to that Vine that openly, actively, and freely flows God's powerful energy, His Spirit of power and agape. That Spirit can fill us, empower us to go back to Him and out to each other.
But this requires a constant choice on our part. We must think no evil. We must discipline our mind to think on these things, as Paul says, things up there, not things down here. And we must walk in God's Spirit of agape that thinks no evil.
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