Today,
reply is on the character and nature of the power sinners receive
through rebirth as followers of Jesus Christ. While mankind as a
carnal and mortal being is fearfully and wonderfully made, only the
Creator is immortal. As a result from the operations of sin,
mankind, the angels, and other created beings and living creatures
relating to one another through natural laws and mechanical process
now must be joined to divinity through inseparable aspects of the
divine fullness. The benefits, gifts and tools provided by GOD
through the Holy Spirit are themselves spirit in makeup and
substance, therefore, sinners must endure continuous change and
growth to achieve full conformity to the endowment from GOD that is
to serve as their own spirit. Believers must regularly think and
speak of power in a manner that acknowledges the Holy Spirit. Rather
than focus on worldly career achievements, competition, and
self-promotion, focus is to be on unseen, yet, active elements for
discovery, growth, sacred
knowledge,
and unselfish service. Included are balance, completeness,
consistency, maturity, and stability. The writer in the “Yahoo!
Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID
“Racket” (Level 7 with 25,594 points, a member since November 14,
2015) posted the following:
How can one receive power from God?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the
world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we
the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure. (1st John 3: 1-3, King
James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Offering Yourself To Christ? (12/27/2018);
Discovering The Holy Spirit (12/23/2018); Anything We Ask For?
(09/12/2018); Hope That Is True (02/20/2017); Awe? (08/09/2015);
Power Against Sin? (04/12/2015); Ruling With Christ? (02/12/2015)
“Racket”,
among Christians, the promises of GOD to sinners who seek new life
through Jesus Christ include the declaration that believers will
receive power. Many mistakenly expect greater intellectual and
physical strength, political and social influence, or occult and
supernatural abilities (e.g., magic, mind-reading,
shape-shifting, sorcery). Such persons are seeking power to continue
and endure within the world, the man-made system for exchange,
interaction and survival on the earth. However, the power bestowed
by GOD is for the transformation of finite consciousness and
self-will (willpower) within created beings and living creatures so
they are enabled to exist as living companions to GOD who is immortal
and incorruptible. While performing sacred events (we say,
miracles), signs and wonders that draw the hearts and minds of the
living to Christ is an important work of the Holy Spirit, that
believers are sealed and established for the coming of Jesus to
harvest the earth (we say, the Advent; the Rapture; the Second
Coming) is more primary. Developing believers are to fulfill eternal
purpose, and therefore receive a fresh endowment of life
essence (breath; spirit; word) from the makeup of divinity.
Included are inseparable aspects of the divine fullness (i.e., the
Creator; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) such as
faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness
without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Just as a believer must be given power that allows them to accept
accountability and fulfill duty; there must be power to maintain
commitment, practice discernment (i.e., recognizing and responding to
spirit content from the makeup of GOD appearing within events,
oneself, other persons, holy writings, etc.); and display
Christ-likeness, the image of GOD. Consider again the following that
uses language from the Bible:
1.
2nd Timothy 1: 7, King James Version (KJV): 7 For God
hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.
2.
John 6: 63, KJV: 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are
spirit, and they are life.
3.
Hebrews 4: 12, KJV: 12 For the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
4.
John 4: 23-24, KJV: 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the
true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for
the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit:
and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth.
5.
1st Corinthians 2: 12-14, KJV: 12 Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man’s
wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 6. 1st Corinthians 12: 3,
KJV: 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by
the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can
say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.) Even so, I trust
this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
Washington,
DC
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