As my congregation has heard me say many times, “The Bible is not hard to understand, just sometimes hard to believe.” It’s hard to believe because our rational minds are conditioned to explain everything we see, hear, and experience through a naturalistic filter. The Bible teaches something different altogether. There is the natural world but also the supernatural world. There is the physical realm but also the spiritual realm. There is the realm we can see, as well as the unseen realm, and the two intersect on a daily basis. This is why the apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12, “We do not
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