you so that you can fulfill the purposes of God for your life. Revelation is normally an unveiling of the hidden Christ who lives in you but it can also be an unveiling of any other hidden matter. However, revelation is never complete until you see God exalted and glorified in the matter. If you fail in your relationships the revelation knowledge that you obtain will puff you up and you will not grow into a fountain of worship to God and an anointed substance for others, which is not the image of Christ.
Because of Adam’s transgression all of his offspring, unredeemed men, are dead to God spirit, soul and body. Unredeemed men are confined to the prison of the natural realm and cannot observe God who lives in the liberty of the realm of Spirit. So the realities of the Spirit are foolishness to carnal men for they are not able to see, understand or experience it. How can the dead understand the Living, or what does death and life have in common? Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand (Matthew 13:13).
Though natural man knows God from the witness of creation, he did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful but became futile in his thoughts. The natural man cannot help but to be foolish and arrogant because he is conceived in sin and shaped in unrighteousness and iniquity. He is born blind and unless he becomes born of the Spirit he will remain blind until he dies in his sin.
The carnal man is blind to his own place in creation. Having chosen the destructive way of independence from God, he does not understand that he is pulling the entire creation down with him. It is in this evil and destructive independent state of heart that he