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Romans 8:6-14
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Galatians 1:11-12
For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:10-16
Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except his spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually. The spiritual person (One Gifted By YHVH with the HOLY SPIRIT), however, can evaluate everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
A new revelation just appeared to me inspired from a post on FaceBook.
Many people know about investing in stocks and bonds. They know about investing in venture capitals. But had you given any thought to investing in other people. This is the real challenge and it comes with no guarantees.
Jesus started out His earthly ministry by investing in about 70 souls who became his disciples but only twelve became his faithful followers and were invested with even more of Christ (Himself) and was appointed by Christ as His chosen apostles and one of them was the devil. (John 15)
I have been personally practicing the divine principle and charge of investing in the soul and spiritual development of others for a long time. I know that it will not always pay off and the harvest may not come in my earthly lifetime.
Jesus warns us that, “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies; it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” (John 12:24) And in addition to that bit of spiritual Truth, it is God who gives the increase to all divine investments and He does so in due season.
Investing into the lives of others isn’t cheap, comfortable or convenient. Nevertheless, those of us who are filled with The Spirit of Christ are encouraged and compelled to invest ourselves, our gifts, knowledge, experience, wisdom and strength into the lives of those who are seeking the Kingdom of God. In so doing, we imitate Christ.
By spending significant time with a willing person and teaching them through life-living examples as well of the taught anointed Word of God, we impact them and initiate a notable change and growth in their lives.
As in the case of Christ Jesus and His investment into the lives of His Apostle, He turned ordinary fisherman and tax collectors into outspoken and bold emissaries for the Kingdom of God and founders of His One True Church. Their transformation was so significant that the devil took notice. (Matthew 16:17-19)
Divine transformation is from Heaven and is not found in any earthly discipline or power. It cannot be attributed to one’s education, intelligence, wealth or Power. It is solely found in Christ. It is The Anointing that makes the difference and the devil knows it. In many cases, the power of Christ is almost always first perceived by the enemy.
“When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.” ~ Acts 4:13
If we invest Jesus Christ into the lives of others and entrust that investment to the Father’s care, then there should be some evidence of our investment in the lives of those whom we have invested in. Their faith becomes stronger. Their resolve becomes more steadfast and unmovable and their witness becomes more mature and bold.
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1 Thessalonians 5:17-24 (CJB)
17 Pray regularly. 18 In everything give thanks, for this is what God wants from you who are united with the Messiah Yeshua.
19 Don’t quench the Spirit, 20 don’t despise inspired messages. 21 But do test everything — hold onto what is good, 22 but keep away from every form of evil.
23 May the God of shalom make you completely holy — may your entire spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. 24 The one calling you is faithful, and he will do it.
If you have the assurance of being saved in accordance with God’s Commands, then protect your gift – The Holy Spirit. Be thankful in all things, even serious illnesses, trials and death. Thankfulness honors God and imitates Christ.
Don’t allow the spark of divinity that was deposited in you by God to be extinguished through evil communications, immoral relationships and the rejection and despising of messages delivered to you by His servants through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Stay out of sin and be devoted to Holiness with your entire being even as our Savior was devoted to obeying the Father in all things and keeping the Father’s Commandments.
Jealously protect the anointing and the anointing will jealously seal you for the day of redemption.
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I think that some of us need to remember and others of us need to be informed that the Bible, as we know it today, did not exist in the original Church of Jesus Christ founded by His Apostles.
The One True Body of Believers – the Ekklesia – were totally dependent upon the Power, Revelation and Demonstration of God’s Holy Spirit through the Words of Christ’s Apostles with whom He built His Church (Ekklesia).
The Apostles of Christ would refer to The Holy Scriptures (The Torah / Pentateuch) at times to confirm, affirm and proclaim the fulfillment of the promises of God in Christ Jesus our LORD and Savior. Christ himself often proclaimed that the Holy Scriptures were fulfilled in Him and that The Holy Spirit would reveal all divinely hidden Knowledge and Truth.
Jesus said that “the Helper – the Holy Spirit – whom the Father will send in His name, He will teach us all things, and bring to our remembrance all that He said to us.” (John 14:26)
“The Holy Spirit does the teaching – not the Bible. Text books are sometimes necessary for information but a teacher is required for revelation” (Bishop O.W. Prince)
“But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.” (John 16:13)
Jesus promises us that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth and he assures us that we can trust what the Holy Spirit speaks because what the Holy Spirit speaks is revelation directly from The Holy Father and not from sinful man.
God’s Truth Cannot Simply Be Obtained, Cataloged, Inventoried or Archived by way of Human Intellect, Human Wisdom or Philosophical/Theological Disciplines.
God’s Saving Power, Wisdom, knowledge and Understanding cannot be contained within the pages of a book or a collection of books. God is simply too much God for that. (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Without the Revelation Power of The Holy Spirit of Christ, the Bible is just another book of information.
1 Corinthians 1:20
“Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 3:19-20
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”; and again, “THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.”
Jesus is recorded as having said that The Father purposely hid the mysteries of Heaven and The Kingdom of God from the wise and learned of this world and chose only to reveal them to those who have become His little children. (Matthew 11:25)
Now don’t misunderstand me. I believe that Holy Scripture is contained within the Bible but biblical literary history reveals that over 600 books of Holy Scripture was also omitted from the Bible by unconverted men with evil or political motives and agendas. And even today, many groups are re-writing the pages of the Bible so as to support their human philosophical views of faith and salvation. They subtly and brilliantly try to make God’s Word agree with their theologies and philosophies. Because of this, everyone is confused and at odds with each other. There are just too many versions of theOne Saving Truth for anyone to tell which is real and which is false. Without the discerning power of God’s Holy Spirit, we are confused and lost (1 Corinthians 14:33).
Furthermore, reading the Holy Bible doesn’t make us saved saint. If that were the case, I would have been saved the very first that time I read the whole Bible. If that were true, then only those who could read would be saved. If reading the Bible and studying Holy Scriptures alone could save then every Hebrew, Jew, Israelite, Rabbi, Scribe, Pharisee, Bible student and every literate human being would be saved and those who were illiterate (unable to read) would be lost. If the Bible was the complete saving work of God, then Christ’s Crucifixion was not necessary. Reading and studying The Bible is all that would be necessary for salvation and rebirth. Salvation would be a human intellectual endeavor of self-improvement and self-salvation. But God forbid such blasphemy.
Thank God that eternal salvation comes only through theBlood of Christ. The Holy Bible, or rather, the Holy Scriptures contained within its pages, can lead one to the giver of Eternal Life and point one in the direction of genuine salvation but it never claims to be the source of Salvation or to be God.
The “Bible” is not to be worship as if it were God or trusted as if it were a sources of divine revelation and salvation, but it is a tool that can be used by God to reveal His Truth to us through His Holy Spirit – especially to those have been gifted with His Holy Spirit.
Remember that Jesus told Peter that, “Flesh and blood did not reveal who He is and that the divine revelation of who He is was not learned through any human means, but The Father who is in heaven revealed it. And that it would be upon such powers of revelation that He would establish His Ekkesia (Church). (Matthew 16:16-18)
The prudent and repentful should want to know how to receive His Holy Spirit (The Divine Teacher Revelator).
Many have searched the scriptures looking for eternal life (John 5:39) but the scriptures testify of Christ and Christ testifies of God the Father who promises to send the Holy Teacher, Guide and Comforter to those who have obeyed His Commandments regarding entering His eternal Kingdom (John 3:3-7 and Acts 2:38). This is why I stress the importance of having a genuine man of God who is anointed by God with His Holy Spirit to guide and teach us in the things of God.
“Without the Holy Spirit of God, a Pastor-Preacher is just another paid public speaker spouting philosophies and theological rhetoric and social assumptions out of his won imagination. He is like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, signifying nothing.”
Don’t make the assumption that the Bible is the literal and infallible Word of GOD. CHRIST JESUS IS THE INFALLIBLE LIVING WORD OF GOD (JOHN 1).
God said that He would send the comforter to lead us into all truth. He never said that He would send the Bible to lead us into all truth. The Bible is an incomplete collection of Holy Scriptures. And because much of the original language and text of Holy Scripture was either lost or persecuted out of existence, what remains is subject to interpretation. And the only interpretation that can be trusted is the Holy Spirit of God – the original writer of sacred text. The Holy Spirit searches and reveals the deep things of God.
But man has tried to usurp this divine Law and principle through theological studies. Man has placed his intellectual prowess above the revealing Power of the Holy Spirit. Thus we have Doctors of Divinity and other academia credentialed experts preaching what their intellect has revealed instead of what God’s Holy Spirit has spoken.
Because of man’s reliance upon his on understanding and thoughts about God, we now have the Presbyterian thought, the Catholic thought, the Methodist thought and the Non-Denominational thought and many others distinctions of thought.
Ezekiel 13 says that they are preaching out of their own imaginations…prophesying out of their own thoughts and that TheLORD is against them.
WOW!!!
Now if you are interested in knowing the truth and entering the Kingdom of God, The Holy Scriptures point the way but we have to obey what is commanded in the Holy Scriptures in order to begin to see what God is saying.
Jesus said to Nicodemus, “unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see (understand, comprehend, and grasp hold of) the Kingdom of God… unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Unless we are born of water baptism in the name of Christ Jesus and indwelt with His Holy Spirit we cannot enter Heaven.
“We Must Be Born Again!”
Everyone needs to know that Eternal Life is not found in the Bible but in Christ Jesus our LORD.
Everyone needs to know that reading the Bible may be good religion but Faith comes by hearing the Word of Christ (The Anointed One of God) and salvation comes from obeying His Living Word.
On the day of Pentecost when Peter spoke to the multitude in Acts 2, He didn’t have a Bible, but he had the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit gave directions for salvation that day and everyday since. He said…
“Turn from sin, (Repent) return to God, and each of you be immersed in water–Baptized in the authority of Yeshua the Messiah for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit of God)! For the promise is for you, for your children, and for those far away — as many as Adonaiour God may call!”
This was the Holy Spirit speaking through the Apostle Peter to all of us today. He spoke these commands as from God Himself without there ever having been a Bible or a Torah to quote from. These instructions and commands had not previously been documented anywhere else. They were not yet canonized as Holy Scripture. But because they were spoken by the Holy Spirit, they carried the Power of God Himself – the power of Life eternal and they cannot be changed.
Now many years later, letters and books were collected that later became known as the Bible and in the Bible are Holy Scriptures written by The Holy Spirit. And regardless of how many translations, mistranslations and interpretations that man may produce of this holy work, Only Its Author can reveal what He really means in His Word.
The Holy Spirit of God is the One that we need to listen to in order to uncover the mysteries of the Bible and discover True salvation and eternal Faith in God (Romans 10:17).
This is what the listeners of Acts 2:41 did without the benefit of a Bible and 3,000 souls were added to the ekklesia that day.
Everyone needs to know that when it comes to knowing the Bible, knowing its Author is better.
The Holy Spirit is Essential and MANDATORY FOR SALVATION!
I assure you that I stand deathly afraid of saying the wrong thing about God and His Holy Spirit.
I must trust and obey the Holy Spirit in all areas of my life – for I am in utter ignorance without the revelation, knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the Holy Spirit.
I hold the written Word of God as Sacred and Holy but due to Satan’s deceptions and man’s corruption of the written Word, I then must depend on the author of the written Word to tell me What His Word means. I dare not trust my own feeble and sinful intellect, imagination or understanding.
Now Don’t Get It Twisted!
I love the Bible but I love its Author More.
All glory and honor belongs to God the Father in the name of Christ our Lord.
May The Holy Spirit Reveal God’s Saving Truth To You and All Who Read This Commentary.
Amen.
Where in the Bible does the Holy Ghost explode? Since when does the Holy Ghost party!? Why are we so disrespectful and irreverent toward the Holy Spirit of God as to say that there is a “Holy Ghost Explosion” or that there is a “Holy Ghost Party?”
This may sound good from a worldly perspective but it is not of God. (Deuteronomy 12:31)
The devil has deceived us once again into perverting and blaspheming the Holy Spirit of God – calling and crediting what is not of God’s Spirit with the attributes and qualities of being the Spirit of God.
Dancing, yelling, hollering, crying and falling out on the floor and other excited displays of animated human emotions were not recognized by Christ or His Apostles as manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
The initial manifestation of the Holy Spirit and proof of God’s acceptance of us as His children is the speaking in tongues. The Holy Scriptures makes no exception to this and therefore we shouldn’t either.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS INTELLIGENT AND DOESN’T ACT LIKE A FOOL.
Please See the Following Page for a completed study on the Holy Ghost.
Please click on the picture above to open the lesson on how to receive the genuine Holy Spirit of God.
“Rediscovering YHVH'S Authentic Ekklesia" 