Friday, December 28, 2018

(12/28/2018) You Will Receive Power?





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 mans 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.

THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

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