Holy Spirit
Dear Heavenly Father, Most High, Teach us how to pray. Teach us the truth
in all things so we can get out of the deceptions. We want to learn from You,
not man. Father give us discernment so we can know what is of You and what
isn't. Help us to learn who you are. Reveal Yourself to us and transform
us so we can become more like you.
Thank you Father, we love you. We praise your Name and seek to serve You and
only You.
In Yahshuah's Name, Amen."
I believe that human beings are
eternal creatures. That we have a spirit that will exist forever. Each person's
eternal
destiny depends on what he believes and how he lives his life on this earth,
now, before he dies. Just as I teach in the parachute, after death there is no
changing travel plans. If your spirit goes to hell, it may well stay in hell for
eternity.
There is no absolute definition of what Jesus means in Mathew
25:46, when
he tells us in the same sentence, that the righteous will have life
eternal and if you don’t choose that door your other option is everlasting
punishment;
“ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into
life eternal.” The question becomes: will
hell be a permanent annihilation as some interpret Rev 20:14 to say or will it
really be everlasting punishing torment for eternity????
Do you want to wait until you die to find out? The
parachutes are free
and hell is real.
One
of the strongest reasons for a Christian to believe in hell
is that Jesus Himself believed in it, and taught about it strongly,
clearly, and frequently. Jesus Himself talks about Hell over 70 of the 162 times
it is mentioned in the New Testament. And
he isn;t referring to just "in the ground". Look at Mark
9:43-49
43)
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter
life maimed than with two hands to go to hell,
to the unquenchable fire. 45) And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it
is better for you to enter life lame than with
two feet to be thrown into hell. 47) And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it
out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom
of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, 48) where their
worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 49) That's some serious
warning. Cutting off a hand or a foot or plucking out an eye is serious
punishment
but according to Jesus is nothing compared to what you will suffer if you allow
yourself to go to hell.
From
those who have been to hell and have returned to tell about it, hell is a place
of constant agony, unbearable heat, great stench, darkness, and ugly demons of
all shapes and sizes whose job it is to torment the occupants. Hell is set aside
for all of those who reject Jesus Christ.
There are only three
eternal destinies, one for each of the three distinct categories of men:
1) the unrighteous,
unjust and filthy; 2) the saved or righteous; and 3) the Holy.
One of the concepts Irina and I have
always struggled with is the difference between just being saved and being
Christ's bride, a saved saint - a Holy one - to live in the kingdom of
heaven. All saved people will NOT be going to the Kingdom of Heaven
in the sky. The Holy ones go to the kingdom of heaven at death, the
righteous don't go to hell but will inhabit the new earth when heaven is brought
down to earth and will be ruled over by the saints. In John
6:47 Jesus says “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
has the faith can't help but show it by his/her actions.
Logically, eternal salvation is provided for man solely by God's
grace through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. Man is saved through
faith alone in Christ alone, independant of his works, but good works are a
necessary result of true faith; like doing the rest and worship
thing on Sabbath, keeping the ten commandments as well as you can, treating
your fellow man with respect , helping him whenever you
can, forgiving his faults against you, in fact having NO forgiveness
issues, witnessing your faith to others, and being baptized by full immersion
are all part of being born again.
Mathew 13 covers the parable of the wheat and the tares. When Jesus comes for us He separates the wheat from the tares and burns the tares; in other words, causes the first death to the unrighteous, the filthy. But is all the wheat of the same bundle becomes the question? The wheat in this parable describes the Holy ones, the saints. In the wedding feast of Mathew 22 there are five groups of people spoken of. The King who held the feast, (God), his son who was the groom (Jesus) the bride (the saints who believed in the salvation of Jesus and did the will of the Father per Mathew 7:21- the Holy ones), the guests who wore white garments (these are the righteous who may have believed in Jesus but did not do the will of the Father, and those people who never knew Jesus but did what was right according to their society), and finally the one's who came without wedding garments and were cast out into the streets; the unrighteous, the filthy, those people that thought they could get to heaven without Jesus on their own. We can't get to heaven on our own. We need the parachute of Jesus. Do you want to settle for just not going to hell as a guest? Or do you want to enjoy the privileges and splendor of Heaven as a saint, a Holy one? You choose your destiny by how you live your life on earth before you die.
Because
of man's sin, going back to the original sin of Adam and Eve, he is under the
sentence of death, but this
death is not eternal. There is a day appointed when all who have died as a guest
depicted in Mathew 22 will be raised
and will face their Creator to be judged according to their deeds. Only the
saints, the bride, the holy ones, will escape
this judgment.
Those who reject the true gospel after hearing it
and those who lived in such a way as to ruin other people's lives
to satisfy their own cravings, will be judged worthy of a second and eternal
death in what the Bible calls the Lake of
Fire. These are the unrighteous, the Unjust and the Filthy. It includes the
liars, and thieves, and fornicators, and adulterers, and murderers. And
again, the question becomes; will this be
a permanent annihilation as some interpret Rev 20:14 to say or will it really be
everlasting punishing torment for eternity????
If you believe as I do that your spirit is eternal and cannot die, ever, the
issue becomes pretty serious. Do you want to wait until you die to
find out? The
parachutes are
free
and hell is real,
it exists today, it has occupants under torment today, it takes on new occupants
every day.
Did
you know
that if you do not belong to Jesus Christ you belong to Satan, by
default? You don't have to be a card carrying Satanist to serve Satan. You don't
have to be a murderer, drunkard or drug addict, either. But you’ve already
broken all of God’s ten commandments and all you have to do is ignore Jesus
Christ; or fail to have a relationship with
Him and call upon Him to be your savior. He
isn’t big on lip service. If you
don't have Jesus in your life and in your heart today, you are deceived and hell
bound--you are a child of hell, a child of the devil.
Others, who never had the opportunity to hear the
true gospel and yet consistently lived according to the dictates of
their conscience will not be found worthy of a second death. These, the
Righteous, will have paid for their sins by their
first death, and will enjoy a second life in an eternal kingdom on the new earth
under the rulership of our Messiah and
His faithful followers, who are the Holy.
And there are others who may well have committed
deeds worthy of the second death, but were convicted of their
sinful condition by the Holy Spirit and received faith and changed their lives
when they heard the Good News of
Yahshua, the Son of God. They obeyed the gospel with the
result that their sins were paid for by Messiah's
death on the cross on their behalf. Thus they no longer lived for themselves,
but for Him, and as His bondservants,
they share His eternal destiny — to rule and reign over the Righteous in the
nations of the eternal age.
Many churches teach that man is comprised of body and soul. And the word soul is
to mean “a living person”, not a person’s spirit. They don’t teach that
man has a spirit. I believe that teaching is wrong. It is one reason you never
see healings or miracles in those churches.
Genesis 2:7 says: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. There is one passage where breathe of life means soul.
But the Bible has many
more passages in which spirit is differentiated from soul. In John 3, Nicodemus
comes to Jesus
at night to converse with Him about His miracles. Nicodemus knows
there’s a power going on he is not a part of.
John
3:5-7
– Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of
water and the Spirit [pneuma] he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit [pneuma]
is spirit [pneuma]. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born
again.’"
Nicodemus
couldn’t understand what he meant by that. Jesus was speaking of something
beyond soul and breathe of life.
I
am firmly convinced that we are made up of body, soul, and spirit - a trichotomy;
just as God is a trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Our body is only elements of the earth. Dust to dust. Our soul is not our spirit
and our spirit is not just our breathe of life.
Our
soul is our mind with which we think, our psyche, our emotions with which we act
or respond, our will with which we decide - it constitutes our personality, our
individual self. The soul communicates with the body to tell the body how to
move and what to do. But our spirit
communicates with our soul to tell it what is right and what is wrong. It is our
spirit that is capable of communicating with God.
John
4:24 says God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in
truth.
Jesus
, God's son, came to earth in human carnate form, but God the Father has no
earthly form, He is spirit only. When the Bible says we are made in the image of
God, it is not bodily form it is talking about, it is in spirit. It is why we
need to be born again, so the spirit that is in us that is dead at birth from
Adam and Eve's sin, can become alive again so we can commune with God. We
can only commune with God in spirit since God is spirit.
If
we explain the Bible in its most basic meaning, it is this: man sinned and
experienced spiritual death. Since then we have all been born dead in our sins,
separated from God, and in need of a Savior. Jesus paid the price for our sin
with his crucifixion and death on the cross and offers us life and a
relationship with God. When we come to faith, our dead spirit is regenerated and
is now able to commune with God’s Spirit. Our dead spirit is born again of the
Spirit, and we have eternal life as a present possession. The new birth is not
merely a metaphor; it is the essence of salvation and is central to the Gospel
message. If we interpret our spirit to be mere "breath", we have
destroyed the reality of a new birth and spiritual life. To say that our
"breath" is born again is contrary to what the Bible teaches and is
destructive to our understanding of what it means to be saved.
Get it right folks – God’s love has not
dispelled God’s mercy and grace! The epitome of God’s love is –His mercy
and grace through the blood of Christ toward all believing, repentant,
confessing, immersed sinners who have fallen short of His glory! And as harsh as
it may sound, the truth is – the destiny of the born-again sinner is heaven
and the destiny of sinners who are not born-again is hell, Matthew
7:13-14!
Jesus performed miracles because God’s Holy Spirit was inside of Him.
It was God performing the healings and the resurrections and the casting out of
demons through the holy spirit that was indwelt in Jesus. WE can have that same
power.
When Jesus left his disciples and ascended into heaven He told them he would
send them a replacement, a helper.
John 14:16-18 says
And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever; Even the Spirit
of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with
you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Shortly after Jesus ascended into heaven on about the fiftieth day after
passover, the
Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles including a group of about 120 people
and began the process of revealing his plan of salvation for mankind.
This event
is kept as a celebration yet today as one of God’s Holy Annual Feast Days
called Pentecost. This event changed their lives and it changed our lives. Our
power, according to Mark 16:18, to heal the sick, and cast out demons, and
resurrect the dead comes from this comforter, the Holy
Spirit.
Did you know dead people are resurrected and given new life by Jesus today? Google search Apostle David Hogan ministries. He has established several hundred churches and one of the requirements for a person to pastor one of those churches is that he had to have done a resurrection. Jesus has done many resurrections of dead people through Apostle David Hogan. I have witnessed many healings here in Jesus name where I live in Mexico. The group I work with, FireMexico.org does healings here, with many documentations. I have seen the blind given their site back, I have seen cancer tumors be removed, I have seen kidney stones be removed, I have seen backs healed, I have seen a paraplegic get up out of his wheelchair, I have seen a parkinson's disease man who could hardly move along with his walker give up his walker and walk around. I have seen some amazing things here. It is all done by Jesus through the holy spirit. God is pouring out His spirit today in revival healings all over the world to bring people to Jesus and get them saved. I will be teaching Pastor Enock how to heal as I learn how to heal. Besides having faith, it is a subject that requires knowledge.
From
the beginning God intended that man's spirit, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, should
control man’s being through the soul. Whenever the holy spirit instructs us
concerning God's will, he does so through our spirit. This instruction is passed
to the soul, our mind, which in turns instructs the body to obey the command.
According
to God's design, the human spirit is the highest and most important part of
man's constitution. We can only have an intimate relationship with God
through our spirit. Affiliations that only teach body and soul, and soul as
breathe of life, leave out the possibility of true fellowship with God, which
has to come through our human spirit. The Bible says in Ecclesiastises 12:7 that
the believer's spirit goes to be with the Lord at death. The unbeliever's
spirit is dead to God and the things of God because it is separated from the
life of God and God's spirit; Ephesians 4:18 and Ephesians 2: 1-3.
When a person is saved, he is born again from above by God's Holy Spirit, John
3:1-8 By this experience the believer's spirit becomes alive to God
and the things of God because God's spirit now indwells his spirit in us.
According to Numbers 16:22 and Hebrews 12:9, God, being spirit, created the human spirit
so
there could be fellowship between God and man. Spirit can only fellowship
and communicate with spirit. This fact is the foundation for Jesus' statement in
John 4: 23-24, that the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and
in truth.
And it goes deeper than that. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is God the Holy Spirit taking up permanent residence in our lives (John 14:17; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; 1 John 4:4). The sealing of the Holy Spirit is God marking us as His permanent possession (Ephesians 1:13-14). Baptism in the Holy Spirit is related to these but at the same time, it is separate from them. John the Baptist tells us that Jesus would come to baptize in the spirit and fire. In Acts 1:5 Jesus tells us that John baptized with water, and that was for salvation, to be saved from the fires of hell. But baptism with the holy spirit would be forthcoming. That event occurred shortly following His ascension which we call Pentecost.
The
Baptism of the Holy Spirit places a believer into permanent union with
Christ and with other believers in the Body of Christ.
(1 Corinthians 12:13 and Romans 6:1-4 are the central passages in the Bible
where we find this doctrine). 1 Corinthians 12:13 states, "For we were all
baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free-and
we were all given the one Spirit to drink."
Baptism in the Holy Spirit does two things. First, it identifies us spiritually with the death and resurrection of Christ, uniting us with Him. Secondly, baptism in the Holy Spirit joins us to the body of Christ, and identifies us as united with other believers. Baptism in the Holy Spirit means we are risen with Him to newness of life (Romans 6:4), and that we should exercise our spiritual gifts to keep the body of Christ functioning properly as stated in 1 Corinthians 12:13. Experiencing baptism in the Holy Spirit serves as an element to keep unity of the church (Ephesians 4:5). Being identified with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection-through baptism in the Holy Spirit-establishes the basis for realizing our separation from the power of indwelling sin and our walk in newness of life (Romans 6:1-10, Colossians 2:12).
How
do you get baptised in the holy spirit? To
receive the Holy Spirit, just ask then obey the Holy Spirit’s leading.
Luke 11:13, "And if even sinful persons like yourselves give children
what they need, don’t you realize that your heavenly Father will do at least
as much, and give the Holy Spirit to those who ask for Him?" Acts 5:32,NIV
says, "We are witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God
has given to those who obey Him."
There
are nine gifts of the holy spirit covered in 1Corinthians 12:8-10 ; the gifts of
wisdom,
knowledge, faith, healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits,
speaking in tongues, and interpretation of tongues. People do not normally
receive all nine gifts, but each person will be given several. Just because you do not have the gift of speaking in tongues
does not mean you have not been baptized in the holy spirit. Be thankful for
those gifts you did receive and pray to God to receive others you want to be
entrusted to work with also.
Having received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit when we came to Jesus, we are no longer controlled by our sinful nature, but by the spirit, if the spirit of God truly lives within us. And per Romans 8:9, if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. May we always walk in the spirit.
God's Spirit is both powerful and practical. It is powerful for it comes from God; it is a part of Him. God, through the One who became Jesus Christ, created the universe through His great Spirit of power (Hebrews 1:1-3). The Holy Spirit is God's divine Spirit of power (Acts 1:8).
God's Spirit is also practical. Through the Holy Spirit, human beings can live in a more productive and fruitful way.
So just what does the Holy Spirit do for us and in us?
• It is the medium by which God comes to dwell in us (Ephesians 2:22; Isaiah 57:15)
• It helps us grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).
• It gives love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).
• It gives us wisdom (James 1:5).
• It gives us God's peace, gentleness and willingness to yield to the needs of others, fills us with His mercy, helps us act godly toward others, teaches us to be impartial and helps us avoid hypocrisy (James 3:17).
• It helps us overcome our sinful nature (Romans 6:13).
• It helps us resist and overcome Satan (James 4:7).
• It is the "earnest" or down payment of eternal life residing in us (Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 5:5; 1 John 5:11).
• It makes us immediately recognizable to Christ (2 Timothy 2:19).
• It helps us in our weakness and helps us pray effectively (Romans 8:26).
• It helps us to love God above all and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves (Matthew 22:37-40).
• It reassures us that we are the very children of God (1 John 3:2).
• It guarantees that one day we will be glorified children of God even as Christ is (Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 1 John 3:2).
Also see Pentecost