When we study the gospels we find out important things about Jesus' dealings with Satan. We find that where Satan is, the finger of God first points and then God pours out the power to bind and to remove the devil, but not without the Sons of God involved. We also discover that if Satans schemes have no known whereabouts, the children have no place to aim. Knowing Satans scheme and whereabouts is important. Much like the fact that even ones desire in prayer to God must have its known recognizable specific identity for the Spirit of the Lord to move a specific direction, and a Kings command must have it's targeted aim so that the decree of HIS POWER will have direction and known purpose. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
Jesus our Lord, he always first found out the demons specific whereabouts and then He said, WHO ARE YOU? to know their identity. Once that was established, then came down the fire of His Power directed by HIS DIRECTED ON PURPOSE AIM and he cast him out with the spiritual weapon of his warfare and destroyed his work. There are spiritual weapons and there are righteous physical weapons we are to use against the manifold schemes and works of the enemy.
Let not the children of God walk as blind for we are called to know even the hidden things of darkness to bind and to uproot their strongholds. Even the scripture over and over again in the book of the gospels and of the Acts REVEALED the IDENTITY OF who those organizations were that stirred up friction against the Son of God and against His SERVANTS (The Chrurch). Ask Paul, he knew exactly who slapped his face and ordered the stripes on his back and the stonings. Satan and demons Paul always cast out, but evil men who are evil flesh themselves often act with INDEPENDENT WILLS OF THEIR OWN against the things of God and his church, and those opposing men used swords and spears and whips and stones and organized movements against Jesus, Paul and the Church, from their kingdoms called the kingdom of men.
Every evil in the world can be traced back to what Satan caused a long time ago, but every evil is not of his hands. Satan tempts but men choose. Billions of men join Satan in hell for their own sins. So likewise, there are a lot of good deeds done in this world, but not every good deed is of Gods Sons hands. A religion of kindness and of good deeds that at the same time spits and mocks at the Name of Jesus Christ and his gospel, is a religion of great good deception wrought in the form of sweet kindness. It's deceiving spirit is subtle and the evil prince of its deceiving power is hard for many to see thru. For it all SEEMED SO SWEET (but it lacked the saving SALT of CHRIST).
Before every rebuke from the Lord He proclaims His aim whether His rebuke be to a person, to a church, or to a city, or to a nation, or to the whole world. When the world becomes to stubborn to listen to His Spirit, which is the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the book of Revelations reveals God moves to the next level of the warfare and mountains fall and men run into the caves. And to God, His targets in that hour He first identifies as His Sons enemies and then the earth itself shakes violently under their feets whereabouts at His Strong Rebuke. Even physical hail comes down upon them at His Spiritual Command. God takes up Arms from His Own Physical Weaponry.
Satan can be in people crying out their demonic venom into the world and Satan can be in the organizations of men who war against the Church and against the Son of God. The natural worlds legal system has its place in the warfare. Let the lawyers for Christ not be asleep or lazy against what these organizations are doing against Christ and this nation. (Those organizations against Christ are not lazy and they are organized by blindness and by the stealth of Satan). Should God not also have His representatives on the earth fighting for His Sons Name, Cause, Light, Ways and Honor with their visible arsenal of human wit, authority, ink, voice, and power?
.......(Note..Going off track just for a second here, but this needs to be said.....Just one dollar from a million believing fighting christians is a million dollars a month to help support those CHRISTIAN Law firms that fight in the courts for the rights of Christ and christians in America. We have at least a hundred million christians in this nation. Just think of the power and the weight Christians could launch for Christ in America if a million Christians gave 10 dollars each a month to the internal and external causes for Christ in this nation?
The enemies of Christ and of our faith are financed highly. That first 30 pieces of silver has drawn great interest in the last days. Financed by the interest gained in those 30 pieces of silver the enemies of Jesus are throwing their weight all over this nation in the courts with all expenses paid by the left to drive out Christ, to silence the use of HIS NAME in public, and prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and they want to snuff out the christian influence in the public arena of America's schools, politics, and government facilities, and operations. They are being SALTY for Satan while convincing the church to just be SWEET FOR CHRIST by the clever and crafty us of a word called TOLERANCE. Shall the Light of the world and the Salt of the earth DO LESS FOR JESUS IN THE NATION FOUNDED ON GOD IN CHRIST AND BIBLICAL CONVICTIONS FOR LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ?
Let us all now become highly engaged and get richly involved in the fight and support those organizations that fight for Christ in the courts of America..People like David Barton and the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) are two organizations proven honorable and worthy of our prayers and financial support in this most important end times atmosphere battle. Let's do it for Jesus, for our children, and for our Nation for blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord...Jesus is Lord. ........Believers, we cannot remain Sweet in this, LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF OUR NATION, even some atheist cry at the course and the rottening they see of the American society. If we do, if we remain just sweet and not SALT we will lose even more ground and more spiritual territory in this nations soil and soul to the enemies of Christ. WE MUST BECOME SALTIER THAN EVER BEFORE.
Now let's get back on the inspiration track...What i am about to say now, do not misinterpret. It is meant for wisdom from insight given, and not for disgrace. Don't run from it at first glance....Here it is, there are 2 of them.
.........First one.....Even Peter backed away from confrontation one time when he should have been standing his gospel ground. He backed away from the stand and from the fight because of FEAR of the confrontation and the Lord rebuked him. (In Peter's action he went from Salt to being Sweet in fear of confrontation and Paul God used to rebuke him sharply).
.........So in the light of that we write now the second one and this remember, do not run from this light at first glance; Here it is....(Sometimes, not always just sometimes, a prayer can be the act of a fear filled coward who uses prayer as a means to not face off his enemy and runs from the works that are really threatening. What do we mean? If David had that kind of heart and was just SWEET, then the enemies of Israel would have taken over Israel with all its women and children and its riches the day the Giant rose up to mock Israel and its God). Remember, do not misinterpret that saying. For prayer is powerful and effective against the spirits for the demons are subject to us IN Jesus Name. But not all the evil going on in this nation and in this world is devils a loose BUT EVIL FLESH AND BLOOD called MEN who themselves are evil by nature. Men stand before God to be judged for their own evils, not Satans. Satans evils must be dealt with thru the authority of the Word of Gods power and Name in prayer and in faith. But the evils of men by both prayer and physical action in formations of response.
The church must not lay down any structure of her authority and power in this nation and in the battle for souls and for Christ. Its all in the arsenal of Salt and of Christ. Because she (The Church) laid down her achieved rule over this territory (over this nation) and did not fight a good fight to maintain the garden entrusted unto her in this land, America was shoveled way to the left where the goats the Lord said shall be gathered. She (the church in America) was told "BE SWEET", and she fell right into the hands of the enemies of Christ. She lost the morality of this nation to dogs and to the thieves and to men who erect businesses made out of sin, and to men who have no honor in whom Satan dwells in stealth attachments.
She (the church) was talked into being SWEET by evil men who plotted with demonic SALT, who had an evil robbing bitter agenda (using Political Correctness and other schemes called TOLERANCE in both bold and stealth counter operations to conquer the soul and conscience of America to turn day into night, and to turn light into the love of darkness, and to exchange THE TRUTH for the Serpent's lies).
They did all this satanic damage to the nation while to many of the Churches Watchman did as Peter did. Peter the Pastor of the Church, fearing the opposition he told the Church to BACK OFF and to be sweet and not salty. For decades now in our time, many pastors have commanded the church to back off as well and just BE SWEET and NOT SALTY and they have added their own drawing back delusion to their compromise. In fear of real confrontation that comes by being pure Salt in Christ, and thru a new look at the splendors of this age, we find many overseers of today's church sending their sheepfold away over and over again Sunday after Sunday promising them loads and loads of the milk and of the honey of this world yet without a cow nor a bee to draw it from. God forgive us all of every sermon or lesson that we've ever taught or preached that in your eyes were clouds without Your Water in them, but were lies or misinterpretations that could not fill, but only frustrate.
We are now seeing the results of the Church just being SWEET & TOLERANT and what it did to this nation called America. Her faith identity, her convictions and creeds, her freedoms, and what she is and what she stands for are now all in question and in a maze of confusion. Even her traditional morals spawned from the bible are treated as by by words of the past. She is so confused she no longer can tell up from down, nor male from female, nor right from wrong, nor what is light from what is of darkness; nor what is of heaven and what is of hell. The nation is drunk with its own shame and mingled delusions of serving God and Mammon.
Like Jesus said, If the Salt of the world loses its saltiness, evil and evil people take over the thrones of power and do so trampling over the salt that lost its seasoning. There is no Salt that exist that is SWEET....And if to you Salt is Sweet you've been deceived....Love me don't judge me did not come from God nor from HIS SON'S SALT...It was brought into the mix misused, spawned by perverted demons in SWEET MEN who love sweet and despise the Salt. These same men of the sweet that depise the SALT say love me don't judge me and such words they cleverly selected to use because of their refusal to heed Gods call to stop this sin and to repent. They even are known to cry, I believe in God and Jesus yet they make up their own rules. Why call me Lord Lord said the Holy One of Israel when you refuse to do what I say. This tolerance being now imposed on the American society has the power to destroy the world and bring to dust the glory of a nation even who once knew God and Light. This that is being imposed on the American society is driven by a powerful demonic force sent to this nation to upend more of her heavenly strength that has been in her from the prayers of her beginnings, and to crack further her moral foundations. Its weight is heavy and strong against America's founding pillars.
And if a father walks into his house and thieves possessed by devils have broken in to steal and to kill and to destroy and men are trying to rape his wife and daughter and the father is just SWEET, then he and his loved ones will be run over. When he walks in and sees that evil going on of men against his wife and daughter, is the weapon of his warfare for that event spiritual or physical? Sweet or Salt, words or action? Or is it time for the man of faith to find him a slingshot with some stones in it turning his love and spiritual faith into physical formations? Christ prayed but he also went and got the hammer and the nails to destroy our enemies that had risen up against us.
Sometimes Salt and the Spirit of Right and of Righteousness is forced to become flesh and physical formations to deal with powers of the darkness and to deal with those under Satan's spell and those who themselves by themselves are evil brute beast who despise authority, who honor not their parents, and who have little respect for life. These are the monsters of the flesh of this present evil world who live and do as their father the devil would depict to steal, kill, terrorize, and to destroy and to take away the peace of a society. Be sweet to them and they will destroy you and society. The devil loves it when people esp., THE CHURCH, TOLERATES him and his ways and push. We must BE SALTY against the monsters and not SWEET, for only in being salty to them have they any hope of change and to be purified and society kept in peace.
He that told us to love one another is He that told us also to NEVER LOSE OUR SALT or we would get run over by evil and by evil men. Tolerance of evil is like the sparing of the rod. God said such comes from HATE not from LOVE and that kind of tolerance God said would spoil the child. Just think what it will do to a society that TOLERATES most every wicked and perverse thing. America is now spoiled and becoming rot because of to much SWEET and to little of CHRIST REAL SALT. This will not change unless the CHURCH GETS REAL WITH GOD FROM THE HEART. The fancy shows want do it. DAY UNTO DAY REAL SALT WILL, but not without the bees stirred up against us tempting us with their sweet.
Many times in this evil world, the Spirit of Righteousness must take up BOTH SWORDS against Satan, His Craft, against his schemes and to topple his works. Do we go to the Doctors for the use of their stainless steel formed weapons against disease? Yes and we bless their weapons that they use against our common enemies of disease. Shall we disarm our doctors and take away their weapons against the evils and against the enemy of disease? The ridiculous wisdom given from Sweet might, but wisdom given from Salt never would. Not until death is swallowed up in victory and not until faith has no trace of doubt.
And, We should never weaken, nor disarm this nations military strength and SALT POWER made for defence and for peace; nor disarm our police officers, nor THIS NATIONS citizens as the SWEET daily contemplate, wish for, and speak of. They are under the spell of SWEETS STRONG DELUSION. For to do so is an act of the deceived who live in a fairy tale called SWEET.
Friends let's face it, we are not living in the days of heaven on earth but in the days of hell on earth and Jesus warned us that it is going to get a whole lot worse before He returns with HIS SALT to make it a whole lot HIS BETTER. Therefore we should not lay down THE SALT our christian authority and power given us in Christ nor any of the weapons of our warfare for peace. Nor should the Lords Salt and Lawyers for Christ and Christianity lay down their SALT power and pens and voices and the christian people their votes against those organizations that seek to take away Christ and religious freedoms in this nation by the ridiculous wisdom and deceptions and lies that come from SWEET.....Sweet caused the decay, Salt preserves and heals..Enough said....Jesus is Lord....To God Be The Glory.......deno.....share freely.
......It is not fitting for any of us to proclaim a message of self perfection or to shout how holy we are. For who are we but dust to dust to utter the holiness cry to ourselves. Only One deserves the Holy Praise and that is the Living God, the Mighty God who thru Jesus Christ made the worlds; who thru Jesus Christ redeemed us unto God by blood, HIS OWN BLOOD that speaks thunderously loud against men boasting of themselves in any form other than in the Cross of Christ and Gods grace bestowed..
What is this arrogance that men speak of self righteousness, there is no one good but God and Holy is His Name. Who are these voices that speak in the valleys that we are without sin and echo from the mountains I see no God. And who are these in the congregation of the redeemed that itch each others ears and click themselves together as like vultures who feed off the dreams and weakness of others but say in their hearts, sit way over there with that other bunch, this seats taken, but before you go from here to there, empty your pockets?
God is sending his fire. God is sending his test. Yes He tries the hearts of his servants and all His people. Angels men are serving unawares. The heart of his people shall be tried and refined as with fire. The true of every heart shall be as the midday Sun that shines without a cloud to hide the true thing that it is. There is no cloak that can hide the truth and no front that can hide the back.The way things really are is that which shall be exposed and clearly defined. Nothing can be hid and nothing by God can be misinterpreted. Everything shall be found as it truly is, and in the judgement's of the church and then the world, the heart shall be the person for to God the person is the heart. What can be hid from men no man can hide from God. Let us all repent for the baptism of fire comes upon the church and let us enjoy the blessing of being washed in the blood of the Lamb for only By His Blood shall our shame be hid and our sin removed from sight and memory.
Let no man therefore henceforth boast of himself about anything of himself. The candle cannot endure the heat of the fire, nor can the proud endure the day that God brings down every high mountain, and raises up every low valley until all is evened out and all the useless chaff gone in the wind....Jesus Is Lord.......deno.....share freely.
How beautiful it is when the Church dwells in unity.....deno
Paul said of the church and its many members, We are God's house, we are God's field. Jesus has a GRACE DESIGN for each HOUSE of HIS. He has a GRACE MASTER BLUEPRINT of what He wants each of His Houses to look like on the outside (Holiness Presented) and what He wants His House to BE LIKE on the INSIDE (Love, Pure & Clean and Disinfected)... But Jesus runs into a major construction problem pretty often. ITS CALLED OUR FREE WILL.
Church, Jesus, He sure needs our cooperation. He has to share this house with another occupant and that is you and me, and you and me have our own totally independent God given us freedoms and wills. Such can sure cause us troubles and GRIEVE THE OWNER when we don't think right and surrender to His Higher Intelligence and to the GREATNESS OF HIS LOVE and POWER. We need to surrender our will to His with the Assurance of His peace and goodwill for us seeing He paid dearly, he paid a great price to save us, to purchase us, to own us and to call us HIS.
I hear this scripture echoing in my hearing right now, Oh that old familiar scripture, HOW CAN TWO WALK or LIVE TOGETHER UNLESS THEY AGREE...? Most of the time they can't, at least not in peace and harmony. It can be like wild cats and dogs in the house. But friends Jesus has such a peace and goodwill grace plan for us that is out of this world in joy and gladness. None of us love ourselves near as much as we are loved by God and Jesus. Therefore who do you think has the best and brightest plan for us? He that knows us better than ourselves and He that loves us most....JESUS and the FATHER.
You stomp your toe and you take off running from the pain trying to escape it. Jesus, they nailed to the Cross and he in his love for us just laid there without uttering one complaint. He wasn't running from the pain BECAUSE HE WAS THERE GOING THRU ALL THAT FOR YOU, for your blessings and benefits. You don't want to endure even a stomped toe size pain for you.
But church, let us take a minute and sober up. WHO IS LORD? WHO CREATED ALL THINGS? WHO IS BOSS? Who bought our house with severe pains and blood, precious blood? Jesus the Greatest Love.
Seeing that He paid such a high price for us, surely we can render unto our OWNER DUE HONOR AND RESPECT and some serious TRUST looking at how HE VALUES US WORTHY OF THE PRICE OF HIS OWN LIFE AND BLOOD. Such a price paid shows us how dear we are to his heart and how he wills us all some serious peace and Goodwill. And why not? After all lets look at some wisdom and light that is shining here from this great price that he paid to purchase us all. Every house Christ bought, Jesus paid the same price for...THE SAME.
Can't we see that He (Jesus our Purchaser) Must REALLY LOVE US GREATLY? Can't we see that He must have a LOVELY BEAUTIFUL GRACE PLAN FOR ALL THE HOMES HE BOUGHT seeing the great price He paid to purchase them all? He paid the same price for all showing His Value of them all is THE SAME.
Everyone is loved by the purchaser equally the same and valued the same. The same HUGE price was paid for them all.The schism's in the church come from our pride and selfish, fleshly exaltations, when we lose sight of that which is patterned after the price of the blood of Christ that equalizes us and gives equal value to every home that the MASTER with His own Blood Purchased.....As Paul wrote, So that there would be NO SCHISMS in the CHURCH (In the Body)...And let no one do anything in the church in human vain fleshly glory, such causes divisions of the wrong kind. He said that is evil and is no way a reflection of the wisdom of God in the Uniting Equalizing Cross of Christ.
Christ own Blood is THE BEAUTY and the GLORY and THE SHINING EQUAL VALUE OF US ALL EQUALIZING ALL THE SAME... Even as Jesus said in John 17:23..Father that they would all BE MADE PERFECT IN ONE and that they would come to really know and see this, that You love them even as you love Me. Even as is an equal term.
Church God loves and esteems us all the same, and the blood of His Son is our equal value and oneness light, wisdom, and calling to love one another as Jesus loves us all the same. To let the devil take us from the blood of Christ price & wisdom by using other comparisons like external skin color, outer looks, wealth status etc. is of evil. Those things and others brings schisms into the church from the world, the flesh, and of the clever devil who is always trying to divide us (GOD'S CHURCH) and the nation.
Those evil dividing schemes are not from the EQUALIZING UNITING Spirit of Christ, nor from what His Purchasing Blood Speaks...It is from human vain glory of people who have fleshly cravings, world appetites, and desire some form of self idolizing in the great congregation of the redeemed. That is what happened to Satan and brought forth his calamity.
Church we are One..Equal to Jesus in Value and every member Equally loved and that is what His Blood speaks and will forever preach....Rich, poor, and all in-between, the blood of Christ is our strength, our equal value, our personal and spiritual self esteem, and uniting equality.....Amen.....Thank you Jesus for Your Word.......deno.....share freely.
A Man in Man.......deno
Jesus said, I speak unto the world about HEAVENLY THINGS and as he spoke such light he brought attention to the fact that all men have a spirit in them, which is the heavenly part of them. All of the human race both male and female have a spirit man residing inside them. Peter called him THE HIDDEN MAN, the hidden man of the heart. (1 Peter 3:4 KJV)
In James 2:26 we read that, no ones body is alive or remains alive without the spirit of that person still residing in that body. When the spirit leaves the body, the flesh man dies, but the spirit man lives on. It is that spirit man (who is the life to the flesh man) that God WHO IS HIMSELF AN ETERNAL SPIRIT, sent His Son to shed his heavenly light upon and to give NEW LIFE unto, NOW IN THIS WORLD, thru faith in Christ blood, death, and resurrection from the dead....Receive Ye Christ.
Thru eye opening study, we can clearly see that the bible is gleaming with the knowledge of the reality of the spirit man and its condition and that the spirit man has its own type of condition and death much like the physical man or our outer man does. The more we become spirit man minded and spirit in man educated, the more the bible in many of its spiritual passages MAKES SENSE.
FOR INSTANCE...In John 5:25 Jesus after speaking to Nicodemus about spirit man reality said these words to others...Truly truly I say unto you, the hour is coming AND NOW IS... (When Christ said AND NOW IS, he was shedding light on immediate right now activity not just futuristic activity and thought). He said, AND NOW IS the time when THE DEAD will hear the voice of the Son of God. In this verse Jesus is talking of the spirit of man, for the time IS Now and NOW IS he said. In this verse Jesus also reveals spiritual death. He said THE DEAD shall hear His voice. There is a dead state of the spirit of man and there is an alive state of the spirit of man. They both are alive in the existing sense, but their nature is different. Angels are holy spirits. Demons are evil spirits. Angels are spirits of life, demons are spirits of sin and death.
Both angel spirits and demon spirits exist and they will exist forever, but they are different in their nature and character and they have two different everlasting destinies (Heaven or Hell). Angels are holy in nature and alive unto God. Demons are evil in nature and dead (Separated) unto God (THAT IS SPIRITUAL DEATH).
Jesus said (of the spirit of man) that the time NOW IS when the dead (men whose spirits are evil and dead and separated from God-which is everyone born into this cursed world of sin and death), those dead spirits of man and inside men shall hear the voice of the Son of God. Those that hear shall be made alive (see Eph 2:1-10). They shall be changed into Christ image and likeness of spirit (Eph 4:24) and character in Spirit and made alive or reconciled and reconnected unto the Spirit unto God. For the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus shall make them free from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2). This is wrought by the power of the recreating Word of God given us in Christ.
The bodies resurrection comes in the future at the end of the age, its time was not in the NOW IS time of Christ. When Jesus said, The hour is coming he was talking about the resurrection of the body in the last day, and when Jesus said and NOW IS, he was referring to the spirit of man and his condition and response unto the voice of the Son of God, the Gospel. He said, the hour is coming and NOW IS when THE DEAD shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live (Be made alive ,John 5:24 & Ephesians 2:1-10)...The DEAD have a great need. They need to be MADE ALIVE AGAIN. They need to be BORN AGAIN (John 3) or come back to NEWNESS OF LIFE. They need eternal pardon and forgiveness and resurrection life that only Jesus can give. He is the ONLY ONE who is of God to us THE RESURRECTION and THE LIFE. All others have not this glory, but are false prophets flooding their deceit and false light into the world to destroy and to deceive. Jesus is the TRUTH.
Spirits, all spirits have a condition much like our flesh man has its state or condition. Good or bad is the condition of mans spirit, and dead or alive is the spirit of every man. One or the other is the condition and state of the spirit. Our physical body is either healthy or not, and its either dead or alive and we can easily recognize those physical conditions. But no man can naturally know the real condition of the spirit within by the physical mans condition or by the physical senses. But his faith, what his heart believes and confesses reveals it to the physical world....What's your name or who are you, Jesus said to the spirit or the person. What they confessed back, by that confession they were known. What we believe and what we confess from our heart is the true identification of the spirit (1 John 4:1-6) and 1 John 5:1-5). What we believe WE SPEAK....And no man can deceive or lie unto God. God knows the truth of and in every man's heart. Jesus knows HIS OWN. (John 6:36-37, John 10:3-5, John 10:vs14, 25-29.
Our five physical senses have not the power to convey to the mind the knowledge of spiritual reality by itself. Though our flesh has its life by the energies of the spirit man inside it, the world of the flesh is blind or ON THE MOST PART SEVERELY NUMB to spiritual presence, realities, spiritual truth and wisdom unless taught it, revealed it, or exposed to it thru Divine or demonic encounters.
On the day of Pentecost, God gifted the church (The Believers) with the greatest DIVINE ENCOUNTER of His Spirit's outpouring INTO THE INSIDE OF THE CHURCH...On the day of Pentecost , Like a RUSHING MIGHTY WIND was their ENCOUNTER EXPERIENCE. They had already had certain measures of the Holy Spirit encounters after Christ resurrection (Luke 24:45 and John 20:22) but the day of Pentecost was going to be the ENCOUNTER of all their encounters. They would experience being endued with POWER FROM ON HIGH. What a glorious GRACE DAY it was AND NOW IS....ASK in Jesus Name (Luke 11:12).
Believe me, they were HIGHLY EXPOSED that day to fuller spiritual realities of God's Sons Spirit and RESURRECTIONS POWER. They even supernaturally spoke in languages of heaven and of earth that they were never trained to know. This was a DIVINE SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTER that was so powerful and even so tangible to the touch and to their five physical senses that it would forever register its glory and reality even upon their natural man's mind as they would remember and contemplate this third and yet the most mighty of them all Baptism in the Holy Ghost experience.
Peter preached that this mentioned Holy Ghost encounter or infilling is for all them that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, SO DID JESUS (John 8:37-39). Sometimes it is like a rushing mighty wind in some, and sometimes it can be like The Lord opens your eyes to understand the scriptures (Luke 24:45), or like the Lord breathes on you and you receive His Spirit (John 20:22). The disciples themselves experienced all THREE of these Holy Spirit measured out outpouring encounters, effects and receivings so saith the full counsel of the word of the Lord. (See Luke 24:45, John 20:22, Acts 2:1-40....We Can To...Even all of them as believers in the blood, death, and resurrection of the Son of God our Savior.
But no man can receive any infilling encounter of the Holy Spirit without first being MADE ALIVE himself in their own spirit, in their spirit man that marks the man (like circumcision) for the promise of the infilling. Remember our text? Jesus said, the time is coming and NOW IS when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those that hear will be made alive. Christ voice heard and believed, is the HEAVENLY Seed of our spirits new born resurrection. We are born again by the imperishable Word of the Lord, the gospel. His Word recreates our spirits making us GODS NEW HOLY INFANT SPIRITS that lives deep inside these mortal bodies, and because we are NOW BORN AGAIN, we are now ready to enter into the promise to be filled with the Mighty Holy Spirit of God.
Right before this verse Jesus revealed what happens when people (in the spirit) really hear the voice of the Son of God and believe. He tells us exactly what takes place and that which takes place does so NOT IN A MAN'S FLESH, but in HIS SPIRIT. John 5:24 Jesus said, Truly Truly I say into you, he who HEARS MY WORDS (My Voice) and BELIEVES I was sent from God, HAS EVERLASTING LIFE and shall not come into condemnation, BUT IS PASSED, PASSED, PASSED (or resurrected) from death unto life (He's a NEW MAN in his spirit man.
This just mentioned above that Jesus spoke of, is the NOW IS RESURRECTION of men's spirits (of the people) who hear HIS VOICE in the gospel and BELIEVE. Those of us who have heard HIS VOICE, we have BELIEVED and responded and He has raised our spirits back up thru the Word of the gospel of HIS POWER, making them New Born Again spirits created in Christ Image in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:22-24).
Our born of God spirit that is CREATED in Christ Jesus is now different from the spirit of the world that is inside the unbelievers of this world. As God's HOLY SPIRIT is totally different in its nature than the devils unclean evil spirit, even so is our spirit that is made NEW in Christ Jesus that much different than the spirit nature of those who are still dead in tresspasses and sins who have not heard or believed the Voice of the Son of God.
The flesh is not ever to be the tell tell of any of this so we do not go to the fleshes senses to understand that which is spirit or spiritual. For that which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit, they are not one and the same. Matter of fact as a christian, our fleshes nature and desires are opposite and opposing and is contrary to our NEW SPIRITS NATURE and our sinful flesh wars against our spirits new holy nature. So in this light we can clearly see why we cannot go to or go by our flesh and it lust and desires and its 5 physical senses to tell us about our spirits NEWNESS and condition in Christ Jesus. We have to learn by Gods Spirit these things. Paul did and he wrote of his revelations and revealings in his letters to the churches. (1 Cor 2:9-16).
In Christ our spirit is a NEW CREATURE created in the love and holy image of the Spirit of God (Thank God-2 Cor 5:17 and Eph 4:23-24). But the spirit nature of those who do not receive Christ, their spirit nature remains and is like the spirit of their father the devil and his eternal destiny is theirs if they do not break free and overcome the darkness of this blind world and be BORN AGAIN themselves in their spirit man. For this reason, Jesus speaking in Spirit and about the spirit of man, said, Unless a man (the spirit man) be born again, he cannot understand nor enter into the kingdom of God.
When this above saying confused people, Jesus said to them, there is flesh and there is spirit, My words are spirit and they are life, the flesh does not profit from them. He said, there is a spirit man and there is a physical man. There is a man in man. Every man has his own spirit man. If your spirit man is not born again, he remains the living dead in his grave, but if He hears My VOICE and believes, I will make him alive. He will be BORN AGAIN (Resurrected and Made New), passed from death unto life (John 5:24). That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not confuse the two as to marvel at My saying..You Must Be Born Again (John 3:16-18).....Amen....deno.....share freely
