To suppress the manifestation of the divine life in us, the ruler of this world baits us into compliance with things that are of lesser value than the realities we could enjoy in the higher realm. In the life of many prophets and apostles of old, we see the manifestations of the higher life in various kinds, such as when Paul was called a “god” by his Maltese shipmates after shaking off a poisonous viper that had bitten him. They waited to observe the natural progression of the poison, but they realized the things that happened to them when bitten by such snakes did not happen to Paul. This is the life of God that is domiciled in every believer’s spirit and it would manifest once we purposefully choose the divine over the carnal.