Tuesday, August 28, 2007
No flesh will glory in His sight: Part two
Welcome back dear reader,
In part one we began to teach about the life of faith in the Holy Spirit. Before you read this second part, please go back to part one on the previous blog and read part one so part two will be able to make sense to you!
The Holy Spirit is a person and much more. He is the life that flows from the vine (Jesus Christ) to the branches, (every believer in Christ). He is the life source of faith, because He communicates it’s very purpose and power in us to “will and do” the Father’s good pleasure. He brings the voice of God to us and in us. He quickens the very things of God to our Spirit enabling us to do all God desires by FAITH! To walk by Faith REQUIRES us to WALK IN THE SPIRIT! Listen to God’s word on this topic:
(Rom 8:1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after he flesh but after the Spirit.
(Rom 8:4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk no after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(Gal 5:16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
(Gal 5:25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Why does the Lord require us to walk in the Holy Spirit or walk by faith? SO THAT NO FLESH CAN GLORY IN HIS SIGHT! So important is His Glory that in Genesis 11:1-8, when man kind had a plan to make a “ tower to reach into heaven, to make a name for themselves. The Lord came down to stop them by confounding their language. The reason is found in verse 6, “that nothing they imagined they would not be able to do.”
Ability is not man-kinds problem, taking God's glory is! Lucifer, the chief angel of worship tried to lift his heart above God and take His glory and launched a rebellion against God. It did not work for him, and it did not work at Babel when man lifted his heart above God either. It will not work now or forever!
God gave us His own creative ability to express ourselves by or we would never have the beautiful art, music, entertainment we have today, (godly kind of course). Mozart, Leonardo Devince, Thomas Kincade, and others have shown us the creative beauty God has put in us.
However; this beauty was never intended to be APART from God and His Glory! It was never given for us to glory as if we were the creator of things and not God. Our life comes from God, or breath, our strength, our gifting and talents are all on loan from God. When we are in right relationship with God through salvation, we will give GOD THE GLORY HE DESERVES.
We do this by acknowledging Him in all our ways. If we paint well, we glorify Him. If we sing will, we glorify Him. If we succeed in anything we NEVER take the credit or the GLORY, but we give it all to God who is the very source of that success.
This is the reason God has not chosen many noble, or wise in this world.But he has chosen the weak, feeble, lowly, and things which are not as though they are. The only reason to chose the weak and lowly, and feeble is that He alone should RECEIVE THE GLORY! He wants to be known for WHO HE IS! God is not arrogant and does not need a pat on the back. Those who walk by faith in Him alone want to Glorify Him as their CREATOR because it is RIGHTEOUS to do so!
Those who recognize their inabilities and weakness are far more likely to honor God and glorify Him for all that they our and all they have. THEY WILL GIVE HIM ALL THE GLORY! That is why God chose a Gideon, Abraham, David, Peter, Steven and others to show His might power and strength. That which the world would despise God would use to show His love and power and what a “true life of faith” really is.
Steven was such a man as we readh Acts chapter 6. The Apostles were getting to busy trying to distribute food to the widows and orphans that they would have to neglect the Word of God and Prayer if a solution was not found. So it came to them to select 7 men to do the job of giving out food. So they chose seven, one being Steven who was a man “full of faith, and full of the Holy Spirit.”
Beloved, Steven was such a man filled with both. Why was he chosen? I believe he was chosen to show us why a “true life of faith” was needed to even distribute food. For in the distribution of food he was able to “hear the Holy Spirit’s voice” and work great signs and wonders in the midst of the people as a deacon! (Acts 6:8) “And Steven full of FAITH AND POWER, did great miracles and wonders amongst the people.”
His life was so full of faith and the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit Himself used him to preach to the religious leaders about the Holy Spirit Himself. “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY SPIRIT, as your Fathers did, so do you.”
Could this rebuke be spoken to our generation as well? Can we as Christians continue to try to live this Christian life in the flesh? The church tried this in Galatia and the Apostle Paul had to rebuke them by saying, “who has bewitched you and cast a spell over you. You started this life IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, why are you trying to reach perfection dependant upon the flesh.” (Gal. 3:3)
The choice for our generation is this, are we are going to live a life of “ the true faith of God" or not? Are we are going to learn how to“walk by faith and not by sight?” Will we be a people whose faith will please God? Will we learn how to walk in the Holy Spirit and live in Him as the scripture tells us we must? Or are we going to continue to be like the church in Galatia? Remember Beloved, the mind of the flesh which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death. (Rom. 8:6)
I encourage each reader to re-read this series. Let the Holy Spirit quicken in you the divine ingredients necessary to live a life of "the true faith of God" and walk in it. It is going to be an absolute necessity to walk in the “God-Kind of faith” to make it in the days that are to come. In this time of terrorism, murders, natural disasters, wars and rumors of war, we will not be able to survive with out the “living faith of God.” We will not be able to survive without a life lived in the Holy Spirit and His life being lived in us.
We must come to the Lord now while we still have time to develop this intimate relationship with Him. The Holy Spirit has been given to us so we can live every moment of our life led by Him as our constant GUIDE. He will show us what to do, where to go, what to speak, and even show us the things to come. (Mathew chapter 10, John chapters 14 and 16)
We must press on to know the Lord as He wants to be known, so we can do His will and know His ways. The Holy Spirit is living in us to show us the way we are to walk, so we will be ready and not overtaken. His mission in these last days is to prepare a people ready for the coming of the Lord, and that day not overtake us like a thief in the night. (1st Thes:5:2) Today beloved, if you hear His voice, harden not your heart! “When the son of man returns will he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).
In part one we began to teach about the life of faith in the Holy Spirit. Before you read this second part, please go back to part one on the previous blog and read part one so part two will be able to make sense to you!
The Holy Spirit is a person and much more. He is the life that flows from the vine (Jesus Christ) to the branches, (every believer in Christ). He is the life source of faith, because He communicates it’s very purpose and power in us to “will and do” the Father’s good pleasure. He brings the voice of God to us and in us. He quickens the very things of God to our Spirit enabling us to do all God desires by FAITH! To walk by Faith REQUIRES us to WALK IN THE SPIRIT! Listen to God’s word on this topic:
(Rom 8:1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after he flesh but after the Spirit.
(Rom 8:4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk no after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(Gal 5:16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
(Gal 5:25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Why does the Lord require us to walk in the Holy Spirit or walk by faith? SO THAT NO FLESH CAN GLORY IN HIS SIGHT! So important is His Glory that in Genesis 11:1-8, when man kind had a plan to make a “ tower to reach into heaven, to make a name for themselves. The Lord came down to stop them by confounding their language. The reason is found in verse 6, “that nothing they imagined they would not be able to do.”
Ability is not man-kinds problem, taking God's glory is! Lucifer, the chief angel of worship tried to lift his heart above God and take His glory and launched a rebellion against God. It did not work for him, and it did not work at Babel when man lifted his heart above God either. It will not work now or forever!
God gave us His own creative ability to express ourselves by or we would never have the beautiful art, music, entertainment we have today, (godly kind of course). Mozart, Leonardo Devince, Thomas Kincade, and others have shown us the creative beauty God has put in us.
However; this beauty was never intended to be APART from God and His Glory! It was never given for us to glory as if we were the creator of things and not God. Our life comes from God, or breath, our strength, our gifting and talents are all on loan from God. When we are in right relationship with God through salvation, we will give GOD THE GLORY HE DESERVES.
We do this by acknowledging Him in all our ways. If we paint well, we glorify Him. If we sing will, we glorify Him. If we succeed in anything we NEVER take the credit or the GLORY, but we give it all to God who is the very source of that success.
This is the reason God has not chosen many noble, or wise in this world.But he has chosen the weak, feeble, lowly, and things which are not as though they are. The only reason to chose the weak and lowly, and feeble is that He alone should RECEIVE THE GLORY! He wants to be known for WHO HE IS! God is not arrogant and does not need a pat on the back. Those who walk by faith in Him alone want to Glorify Him as their CREATOR because it is RIGHTEOUS to do so!
Those who recognize their inabilities and weakness are far more likely to honor God and glorify Him for all that they our and all they have. THEY WILL GIVE HIM ALL THE GLORY! That is why God chose a Gideon, Abraham, David, Peter, Steven and others to show His might power and strength. That which the world would despise God would use to show His love and power and what a “true life of faith” really is.
Steven was such a man as we readh Acts chapter 6. The Apostles were getting to busy trying to distribute food to the widows and orphans that they would have to neglect the Word of God and Prayer if a solution was not found. So it came to them to select 7 men to do the job of giving out food. So they chose seven, one being Steven who was a man “full of faith, and full of the Holy Spirit.”
Beloved, Steven was such a man filled with both. Why was he chosen? I believe he was chosen to show us why a “true life of faith” was needed to even distribute food. For in the distribution of food he was able to “hear the Holy Spirit’s voice” and work great signs and wonders in the midst of the people as a deacon! (Acts 6:8) “And Steven full of FAITH AND POWER, did great miracles and wonders amongst the people.”
His life was so full of faith and the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit Himself used him to preach to the religious leaders about the Holy Spirit Himself. “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY SPIRIT, as your Fathers did, so do you.”
Could this rebuke be spoken to our generation as well? Can we as Christians continue to try to live this Christian life in the flesh? The church tried this in Galatia and the Apostle Paul had to rebuke them by saying, “who has bewitched you and cast a spell over you. You started this life IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, why are you trying to reach perfection dependant upon the flesh.” (Gal. 3:3)
The choice for our generation is this, are we are going to live a life of “ the true faith of God" or not? Are we are going to learn how to“walk by faith and not by sight?” Will we be a people whose faith will please God? Will we learn how to walk in the Holy Spirit and live in Him as the scripture tells us we must? Or are we going to continue to be like the church in Galatia? Remember Beloved, the mind of the flesh which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death. (Rom. 8:6)
I encourage each reader to re-read this series. Let the Holy Spirit quicken in you the divine ingredients necessary to live a life of "the true faith of God" and walk in it. It is going to be an absolute necessity to walk in the “God-Kind of faith” to make it in the days that are to come. In this time of terrorism, murders, natural disasters, wars and rumors of war, we will not be able to survive with out the “living faith of God.” We will not be able to survive without a life lived in the Holy Spirit and His life being lived in us.
We must come to the Lord now while we still have time to develop this intimate relationship with Him. The Holy Spirit has been given to us so we can live every moment of our life led by Him as our constant GUIDE. He will show us what to do, where to go, what to speak, and even show us the things to come. (Mathew chapter 10, John chapters 14 and 16)
We must press on to know the Lord as He wants to be known, so we can do His will and know His ways. The Holy Spirit is living in us to show us the way we are to walk, so we will be ready and not overtaken. His mission in these last days is to prepare a people ready for the coming of the Lord, and that day not overtake us like a thief in the night. (1st Thes:5:2) Today beloved, if you hear His voice, harden not your heart! “When the son of man returns will he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).
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No flesh shall glory in His sight: Part One
Beloved reader due to the length of this teaching I am breaking it into two parts so you can take your time and meditate on the teaching. My prayer is that God has birthed a new understanding of what the God-Kind of faith is and the ingredients necessary to activate that faith in your life. The bible tell us that the “just shall live by faith“, (Hab. 2:4) and that “we walk by faith and not by sight.” ( 2nd Cor. 5:7) Faith is essential to the full life Jesus came to give us, and give us abundantly. Remember beloved, “that without faith it is impossible to please God!” (Heb. 11:6)
As we finish this teaching of the God-Kind of faith we must understand that God, as I have written in every lesson, has given to “every man” a measure of faith, or none of us could be saved. The bible tells us that we are “saved by grace through FAITH, “it is NOT OF OURSELVES, but a GIFT FROM GOD!” (Eph. 2:8) We have learned that God has not given us faith to just obtain “stuff”, but to walk in the invisible realm of the Kingdom of God. He has given us faith to see that which is not, to believe His word above everything else we see in the natural. Faith gives us the ability to receive on earth that which is heaven.
Faith is the only way we can walk by! Faith is a walk with God. It is intimate fellowship in and with the Holy Spirit who leads us and guides us into all things. Faith allows us to hear God’s word, and for that word to become our daily bread to live and walk by. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom. 10:17) Faith has its roots in an intimate relationship with God Himself speaking to us through the Holy Spirit. It is a dependence upon God revealing or manifesting Himself, His will, and His words to us and in us. He does this as we meditate in His word, spend time in prayer, by having a devotional life, and more. His desire is to fellowship with us 24/7, 365 days a year if we will dare believe Him.
Enoch was such a man and his testimony of faith is that “he walked in continuous fellowship with God for 365 years. He was, and then He was not, because God took him.” (Gen 5:22-23) This man of God loved God so much that every moment of his life, He was in fellowship and communion with God. BELOVED THIS IS FAITH! THIS IS WHAT IS MEANT TO WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT! This intimacy with God is what releases and activates the Faith of God in us and allows us to do the very works Jesus said we can do,even the greater works. 365 years is allegorical for a lifetime. God loved this man so much, he took Him straight into heaven without tasting death! This is what a true walk of faith is! It is a lifetime of intimacy and relationship with God. This relationship allows you to hear his voice continually in which you can walk in His ways and not your own.
Oh, what a better life God has in store for us as believers than just going to church twice a week and doing some sort of ministry. Through a walk of faith we “become” a ministry instead of doing one! The work that we accomplish is the Lord working in and through us, our personal work is to stay in continual fellowship with Him to hear his voice and obey. Remember Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Mat. 4:4) In our text verse we understand the reason why a life of true faith is needed. We are not to live a life walking in the flesh or in the wisdom of our human mind, but we are to live a life with the mind of the Holy Spirit. Let us read our text scripture:
1Co 1:25- 29, " Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men. For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; And the low things of the world, and the things without honor, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are: So that no flesh might have glory before God."
Do hear the reason, Beloved? Verse 29 says, “SO THAT NO FLESH MIGHTY GLORY IN HIS SIGHT!” What a powerful statement concerning the “Faith of God.” The Lord is under no obligation to honor our words, only His own words spoken under the power of the Holy Spirit. Some of the problem of the 80’s faith movement is that it became the “name it and claim it Gospel.” Some took the faith teaching to extremes. Some of the movements teachers taught, we could actually command God to do what He says in His word because we say so. A result of the faith movement was the growth of much pride and arrogance, and a looking down upon those who didn’t have their revelation.
Another by-product was an isolationist mentality that only “word of faith” people could minister to each other, so many other parts of the Body were not accepted because of they didn’t have the “revelation” of what faith was. God has corrected much of the excesses some of the teachers taught about faith, and some of the influential leaders of the movement have even repented for some of the extremes the faith teaching brought. Yet with all that said, the revelation of what faith was so valuable to so many people. As I mentioned in an earlier article, many who were in poverty could now believe God could prosper them, and they would not have to live on welfare the rest of their life. They began to believe that God could provide their daily bread and prosper them even as their soul prospered. This was a first step for many to come out of slavery into the liberty of the Lord.
But true and living faith has nothing to do with meeting our every day needs. Matter of fact Jesus said, “that we are not to worry about what we are going to eat or drink.” He said, “don’t worry about what you wear or where you are going to live.” Why? “Because you are of more value than the birds of the air and lily of the valley, and your Heavenly Father already knows that you have these needs!” (Mat.6:25-34) Our faith must grow beyond believing God to take care of us, matter of fact true living faith already knows that fact and is secure in it. Why is this important? Because knowing this fact in the depth of your being is the only way you can be about the business of the Lord. Mathew 6:33 says, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and it’s righteousness, and ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU!” Beloved a walk by faith has to go beyond “our daily necessities and our needs” to understanding the HEART OF GOD AND HIS NEEDS.
Faith becomes alive and active in us when we KNOW what God desires for our lives, families and those around us. Faith becomes active when we lose the right to our lives, and we understand that God Himself has taken the responsibility to provide for as we obey His every word. That is why faith requires HEARING, and HEARING by the Word of God. It is the ability to hear God‘s voice that enables us to do His will and purpose. Hearing God’s voice daily and allowing Him to quicken His very words in us empowers us by faith to accomplish what is “impossible for man.” Peter heard the word from Jesus in the boat, “ Come” and Peter got out of the boat and walked upon the water. His faith came by hearing and hearing a word from Jesus and he did the impossible. He learned how to walk by faith.
Beloved this is essential, without a life of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit we can NEVER WALK BY FAITH! WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO DO IT! At best, we will try to do His will in our understanding. We will read a few verses of scripture and try to go out to do it, but it will be in the power of the flesh and not the quickened WORD that came by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the most important person on the face of the earth. He is the most important person that came to live in your body, He calls His temple. The bible tells us, “know ye not, ye are the temple of the Holy Spirit.”(1 Cor. 6:19) We know God is one, but manifests as three persons, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yet it does not say, ye are the temple of the Father, or of Jesus, though they can not be separated. It says we are the “temple of the Holy Spirit.” Why?
Because He is the promise of the Father that was to come to lead, teach and guide us and live in us.(Luke 24:29) He is the One who has come to empower us in the God-Kind of faith to obey God’s commands, every last one of them.(Acts 1:8, “and you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be a witness!”) Beloved without Him, we can do nothing! Our next teaching will continue this thought. Please go to the next blog to continue this teaching.
As we finish this teaching of the God-Kind of faith we must understand that God, as I have written in every lesson, has given to “every man” a measure of faith, or none of us could be saved. The bible tells us that we are “saved by grace through FAITH, “it is NOT OF OURSELVES, but a GIFT FROM GOD!” (Eph. 2:8) We have learned that God has not given us faith to just obtain “stuff”, but to walk in the invisible realm of the Kingdom of God. He has given us faith to see that which is not, to believe His word above everything else we see in the natural. Faith gives us the ability to receive on earth that which is heaven.
Faith is the only way we can walk by! Faith is a walk with God. It is intimate fellowship in and with the Holy Spirit who leads us and guides us into all things. Faith allows us to hear God’s word, and for that word to become our daily bread to live and walk by. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom. 10:17) Faith has its roots in an intimate relationship with God Himself speaking to us through the Holy Spirit. It is a dependence upon God revealing or manifesting Himself, His will, and His words to us and in us. He does this as we meditate in His word, spend time in prayer, by having a devotional life, and more. His desire is to fellowship with us 24/7, 365 days a year if we will dare believe Him.
Enoch was such a man and his testimony of faith is that “he walked in continuous fellowship with God for 365 years. He was, and then He was not, because God took him.” (Gen 5:22-23) This man of God loved God so much that every moment of his life, He was in fellowship and communion with God. BELOVED THIS IS FAITH! THIS IS WHAT IS MEANT TO WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT! This intimacy with God is what releases and activates the Faith of God in us and allows us to do the very works Jesus said we can do,even the greater works. 365 years is allegorical for a lifetime. God loved this man so much, he took Him straight into heaven without tasting death! This is what a true walk of faith is! It is a lifetime of intimacy and relationship with God. This relationship allows you to hear his voice continually in which you can walk in His ways and not your own.
Oh, what a better life God has in store for us as believers than just going to church twice a week and doing some sort of ministry. Through a walk of faith we “become” a ministry instead of doing one! The work that we accomplish is the Lord working in and through us, our personal work is to stay in continual fellowship with Him to hear his voice and obey. Remember Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Mat. 4:4) In our text verse we understand the reason why a life of true faith is needed. We are not to live a life walking in the flesh or in the wisdom of our human mind, but we are to live a life with the mind of the Holy Spirit. Let us read our text scripture:
1Co 1:25- 29, " Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men. For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; And the low things of the world, and the things without honor, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are: So that no flesh might have glory before God."
Do hear the reason, Beloved? Verse 29 says, “SO THAT NO FLESH MIGHTY GLORY IN HIS SIGHT!” What a powerful statement concerning the “Faith of God.” The Lord is under no obligation to honor our words, only His own words spoken under the power of the Holy Spirit. Some of the problem of the 80’s faith movement is that it became the “name it and claim it Gospel.” Some took the faith teaching to extremes. Some of the movements teachers taught, we could actually command God to do what He says in His word because we say so. A result of the faith movement was the growth of much pride and arrogance, and a looking down upon those who didn’t have their revelation.
Another by-product was an isolationist mentality that only “word of faith” people could minister to each other, so many other parts of the Body were not accepted because of they didn’t have the “revelation” of what faith was. God has corrected much of the excesses some of the teachers taught about faith, and some of the influential leaders of the movement have even repented for some of the extremes the faith teaching brought. Yet with all that said, the revelation of what faith was so valuable to so many people. As I mentioned in an earlier article, many who were in poverty could now believe God could prosper them, and they would not have to live on welfare the rest of their life. They began to believe that God could provide their daily bread and prosper them even as their soul prospered. This was a first step for many to come out of slavery into the liberty of the Lord.
But true and living faith has nothing to do with meeting our every day needs. Matter of fact Jesus said, “that we are not to worry about what we are going to eat or drink.” He said, “don’t worry about what you wear or where you are going to live.” Why? “Because you are of more value than the birds of the air and lily of the valley, and your Heavenly Father already knows that you have these needs!” (Mat.6:25-34) Our faith must grow beyond believing God to take care of us, matter of fact true living faith already knows that fact and is secure in it. Why is this important? Because knowing this fact in the depth of your being is the only way you can be about the business of the Lord. Mathew 6:33 says, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and it’s righteousness, and ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU!” Beloved a walk by faith has to go beyond “our daily necessities and our needs” to understanding the HEART OF GOD AND HIS NEEDS.
Faith becomes alive and active in us when we KNOW what God desires for our lives, families and those around us. Faith becomes active when we lose the right to our lives, and we understand that God Himself has taken the responsibility to provide for as we obey His every word. That is why faith requires HEARING, and HEARING by the Word of God. It is the ability to hear God‘s voice that enables us to do His will and purpose. Hearing God’s voice daily and allowing Him to quicken His very words in us empowers us by faith to accomplish what is “impossible for man.” Peter heard the word from Jesus in the boat, “ Come” and Peter got out of the boat and walked upon the water. His faith came by hearing and hearing a word from Jesus and he did the impossible. He learned how to walk by faith.
Beloved this is essential, without a life of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit we can NEVER WALK BY FAITH! WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO DO IT! At best, we will try to do His will in our understanding. We will read a few verses of scripture and try to go out to do it, but it will be in the power of the flesh and not the quickened WORD that came by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the most important person on the face of the earth. He is the most important person that came to live in your body, He calls His temple. The bible tells us, “know ye not, ye are the temple of the Holy Spirit.”(1 Cor. 6:19) We know God is one, but manifests as three persons, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yet it does not say, ye are the temple of the Father, or of Jesus, though they can not be separated. It says we are the “temple of the Holy Spirit.” Why?
Because He is the promise of the Father that was to come to lead, teach and guide us and live in us.(Luke 24:29) He is the One who has come to empower us in the God-Kind of faith to obey God’s commands, every last one of them.(Acts 1:8, “and you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be a witness!”) Beloved without Him, we can do nothing! Our next teaching will continue this thought. Please go to the next blog to continue this teaching.
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