If Christianity is going to regain the respect and influence it once had, it must get back to its supernatural heritage. There, no one would even attempt to match its skill, its power, its transparency, its purity, its love, and its greatness. The attributes and faculties of the Spirit of God were made available to us again on the Day of Pentecost, and Pentecost has not ended. It is we who have traded Pentecost for the flesh and the senses—for living in the natural. We have followed after the way of Esau, who sold his birthright to satisfy his belly. When his belly was empty again and Esau realized that he was still hungry and no longer had his birthright, he sought after it with tears but could not recover it. If we, however, sincerely desire to recover our supernatural birthright we have to get back to Pentecost, not in the fragmented state as we have made it today, but in its true form. Pentecost is not just about song and dance, cars, and houses. It is about the supernatural manifestations of God, working through the redeemed that comprise Christianity and the New Testament Church . Unlike Esau, who could not recover his birthright, we can recover ours because we are in a better covenant relationship than Esau was. Further, we have an Advocate in the Heavens, Who is sitting at the right hand of God making intercession for us.

About 58 A. D. the Church at Galatia was losing its influence because it had lost the divine connection that made it progressive and desirable. Its trainers and promoters—the apostles—had to identify why it was losing its power and influence, and recommend the proper course for its recovery. The apostle Paul addresses the problem:

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
--Galatians 3:1–5

Paul’s diagnosis was that they had moved from living in the supernatural dimension to living in the natural dimension. He chided them as being foolish for allowing themselves to be deceived to the point of living as one under an evil spell—bewitched. His inference was that no one in their right mind, having started off in the supernatural dimension with its superior way of life, would give it up for a life in the secular dimension. To the reader who might not be able to relate to living in the supernatural dimension, let me help you to understand what it is, and why God purposed that His children should live in the supernatural dimension more than they should live in the natural dimension. If God intended for man to live more in the natural dimension than in the spiritual dimension, He would have created the flesh as the dominant personality. The order of man’s being—body, soul, and spirit came about as a result of the fall of man, when Adam and Eve sinned and lost the spiritual connection and relationship they had with God. Thereafter, they had to rely on their natural senses as they now had only their natural environment to relate to. This resulted in the reversal of order from spirit, soul, and body, to body, soul, and spirit, and the body then acted as the dominant personality. This order continued until Jesus Christ came and redeemed mankind from sin and reestablished God’s original order of spirit, soul, and body through the new spiritual rebirth. In this new birth experience, anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as their Savior and makes Him Lord of their life is redeemed from sin and restored into a spiritual union with God, through Christ and the Holy Spirit.