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Do You Have Any Mis-Conceptions?

"Mis-conception" is a term we use to describe the result of a mental process: taking into our mind wrong information or "mis-information" and believing it. Some common childhood misconceptions:

  1. the moon is made out of green cheese
  2. Santa Claus is a real man that lives at the North Pole
  3. there is a tooth fairy and an Easter Bunny
  4. the boogey man might get you
  5. the stork delivers babies
  6. "...and they both lived happily ever after"

An Analogy:

Just as the sperm of a man enters into the womb of a woman and mixes with the egg (when contraceptives are not used or effective) to conceive an offspring, so also words, ideas, and messages from those around us enter into our minds and mix with our faith (unless discernment identifies them as wrong or evil and keeps them out) and a concept or misconception is produced. Babies and little children have no discernment to filter the ideas of those that speak to them and deliver messages of love and/or messages of hate, words of truth or lying, deceiving words. Children grow up "double-minded" or having a mixture of right and wrong ideas in their minds. As we are able, God attempts to teach us to discern the good thoughts and feelings from the bad ones so we can cast the bad ones out.

Spirit Realm Conception

Now let's look at the scriptures and see how the word "conceived" is also used to refer to part of a mental process.

Isa.59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

In this scripture, it is words being conceived. Since it is words being conceived, and words are spirit, then the conceiving is also spirit realm. Thus these words were not already in the heart (mind), but had to come from an outside source and be placed into the mind for the conceiving to take place.

Jer.49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

Here, it is a purpose being conceived. A purpose is made of words or thoughts, which are spirit. Thus, proving this to be a spirit realm conceiving taking place within the mind. In order for a purpose (words) to be conceived, the words had to come by way of an outside source and be placed within the mind. We are not born with words or purposes within our mind. They are taught to us, starting with the ABC's.

Job15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Psa.7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Isa.59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

It is stated here, they conceived mischief. Mischief is not something tangible but is made up of words. Thus mischief is spirit realm (words) and the conceiving is spirit realm. Thus, mischief is words that one has to have placed in the mind from an outside source. When these words are mixed with faith and thought upon, they are conceived within the mind and thus, bring forth mischief.

Isa.33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

This in no way could be applied in the natural. No physical woman could conceive physical chaff. This must be applied spirit realm within the mind. The chaff (Jer.23:28) is symbolic of false words or untruth. When an outside source plants the false words or untruth (chaff) within the mind and they are mixed with faith, then conception takes place and chaff is conceived.

Hos.2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

This scripture is symbolic. The woman mentioned here is symbolic, for she is married to God. God was not married to a physical woman. This then being spirit realm, proves also the conceiving is spirit realm and the children (= offspring = thoughts produced) are spirit realm. The context of these scriptures also show this to be on the evil side, for the mother is playing the harlot. The mother is holy spirit within the minds of men and women of Israel. Their minds are the womb. The false doctrines and ideas they took in were not God's seeds, but evil, strange seeds. This produced in their minds, not God's offspring (thoughts), but Satan's offspring (1Jo.3:12). Thus the holy spirit within their minds conceived false seeds (words) and brought forth children ( = offspring = evil thoughts) to Satan, instead of holy spirit children ( = offspring = good thoughts) to God.

Psa.51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

The same understanding applies here with King David. His spiritual Father was God, his spiritual mother was the holy spirit in his mind that should have been intercoursing with God's seeds (laws). When David looked on Bathsheba, he was enticed by an adulterous thought. Instead of blocking the thought with God's true seeds (Thou shalt not commit adultery! Thou shalt not covet!), the holy spirit in his mind played the harlot and conceived the adulterous thought and it brought forth sin in his mind which he acted out physically in laying with her. This was not the end of it. His holy spirit was enticed with another evil thought to have her husband killed. Instead of fighting it off with God's true seeds (Thou shalt not kill! Thou shalt not steal!) his holy spirit also conceived with this evil idea and produced another sin in his mind which he then acted on physically. These are the two sins David is pleading to God to cover with mercy.

Act.5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

The thing that was conceived in Ananias' heart (mind) was a lie. A lie is made up of words or thoughts. Since the thing (lie) is spirit realm, then the conceiving is also spirit realm, thus showing this lie (words or thoughts) was not already in Ananias' mind, but had to come from an outside source and be placed into his mind. In verse, 3 Peter had said, Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the holy ghost? This shows the source of the evil seeds being Satan. Instead of fighting Satan off with God's true seeds (Thou shalt not bear false witness! Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain!), Ananias took in Satan's seeds and they conceived and brought forth sin (a transgression of God's law).

Jam.1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

This scripture states, it is lust that is conceived. Lust is desire and is spirit realm, so the conception is also spirit realm. It is when the wrong words are conceived within ones mind that sin occurs, then death (Eph.2:1; 1Ti.5:6). For words to be conceived, they have to come from an outside source and be placed into the mind. We have a visible picture (Rom.1:20) that God has given to understand this. A woman cannot become pregnant until a seed from an outside source is placed into her womb and the seed unites with the egg and she conceives. The egg does not distinguish between a husband's sperm and a rapist's or an adulterer's sperm. This same picture holds true in the spirit realm. One cannot become pregnant with sin until a seed (word- Luk.8:11) from an outside source is placed into the womb of the mind and is conceived. We are all born with God-given desires (lusts) for food, drink, love, understanding, etc. Without the discernment to know good from evil, our lust can be enticed by many different seeds. We have all conceived sin in this way while we were growing up. It is then conclusive to say, lust itself is not evil, but simply means desire; and sin is not already in us when we're born, but has to be conceived.


Sin is conceived by these three steps:

    1. When one has God-given lusts (desires).
    2. This lust is enticed (tempted - drawn away from God - Jam.1:14) by an outside source (something evil).
    3. The wrong, enticing words or impressions (Col.2:4) conceive with the lust in one's mind and sin is brought forth

The above scriptures show us that words, thoughts or ideas have to be placed into one's mind from an outside source and then have to conceive to produce after their kind. If it was a sinful thought in someone else that gets sown to us, it will bring forth after its own kind. This proves we are not born with sin already in us, but evil enters into our minds and sin is conceived. Since evil (sin) enters into our minds, it can also be cast out of our minds. This is what the New Testament promises--We can be completely free from sin (Rom.6:22; Col.2:13). This is done by conceiving God's true words in the womb of our mind forming a "Christ child" (Col.1:27; Luk.1:35; Gal.4:19). As the old man is discerned and cast out, the new man can grow in our minds unto a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (Eph.4:13; 22-24).

    
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